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America’s Longest War Drags On In Afghanistan
by James Cogan
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More than 15 years after the US launched its war in Afghanistan, the insurgency against the US-backed government in Kabul and its puppet masters in Washington is gaining the ascendancy. The conflict is by far the longest war in which the United States has ever been involved.
Cults of Old Age: The Passing of Emma Morano
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
Morano’s death caused the usual springs to come into play: diet was discussed; forms of lifestyle were considered; anti-aging mechanisms were poured over and devoured. The modern class of wizardry – nutritionists – were eager to make their views felt. The life-style blogosphere lit up with starry-eyed wonder.
Life in a ‘Degrowth’ Economy, And Why You Might Actually Enjoy It
by Samuel Alexander
Actions at the personal and household levels will never be enough, on their own, to achieve a steady-state economy. We need to create new, post-capitalist structures and systems that promote, rather than inhibit, the simpler way of life. These wider changes will never emerge, however, until we have a culture that demands them. So first and foremost, the revolution that is needed is a revolution in consciousness.
Setting An Example
by Sally Dugman
Yes, I’m trying to be positive. Yet it’s hard – quite the effort — as I watch the gradual demise of my nonhuman friends as more and more disappear year by year in my neighborhood and elsewhere located: Earth enters sixth mass extinction; scientists blame humans – NY Daily …. Over time, more and more people take, take and take more and more of the world for ourselves. Meanwhile my animal friends show a good way to live simply without endless wants and presumed needs. They set a worthwhile example for us all!
Paintings Without Frames, Living Without Games
by Annapurna Tosca Sriramarcel
When I first viewed parietal art, the cave painting drawings on walls and ceilings struck me viscerally. The prehistoric products of wildly creative imagination ran through my blood and bones… as if they had been inside of me for tens of thousands of years. That was when I was in my twenties, in the sixties in Europe.
Thirty years later I had an epiphany respecting the artwork. One of my children asked me why the paintings had no frames around them. [Pause.] I couldn’t sleep for a week.
When Daesh Is Defeated: Who Will Fill The Intellectual Vacuum In The Arab World?
by Dr Ramzy Baroud
Even when Daesh is defeated on the ground, its ideology will not disappear; it will simply mutate, for Daesh is itself a mutation of various other extremist ideologies. Neither the Westernized Arab intellectual, nor the co-opted local one is capable of filling the empty space at the moment, leaving room for more chaos that can only by filled by opportunistic extremism.
Israel Celebrates 50 Years As Occupier
by Jonathan Cook
It is past time to recognise that Israel has established an apartheid regime and one that serves as a vehicle for incremental ethnic cleansing. If there are to be talks, ending that outrage must be their first task.
Making Microfinance Work For People
by Moin Qazi
Microfinance NGOs also play an important part in empowering the poor through values formation ,capacity-building and trainings in literacy, health, , leadership, social awareness and education self-reliance, market intervention, , which help improve a person’s total well-being that is essential in owning and managing an enterprise
An Open Letter From A Kashmiri Student To The People Of India
by Imran Khan
Our voice needs no reinterpretation. Your only favour to us can be a humane listening and empathy. Like all the people of the world we too want to live in peace, with dignity and freedom in our own land. For God sake leave us alone.
Minorities And Dissenters Under Intimidation And Deep Stress In South Asia: The lynching of Mashal Khan
by Vidya Bhushan Rawat
It was April 13th when a group of students at the Abdul Wali Khan University of Mardan, in Pakistan had come to the department of journalism, looking for two students Mashal Khan and Abdullah for committing blasphemy against Islam. The teacher Prof Ziaullah tried to protect his students but failed in front of the surging crowd which was baying for the blood of the two. Despite police and administration, Mashal was allowed to die in the savagery that was unleashed by the religious thugs masquerading as students. Rather than taking action against the criminal goons, the university administration ordered in very dubious way, investigation into the blasphemy charges against Mashal, literally after his death.
Talk Bhima or Bhim, Walk Manu
by Subhash Gatade
For close watchers of the education scenario in this country it is abundantly clear that while Ambedkar said, ‘Educate, Agitate, Organise’,” the present regime is “is instead practising the mantra of ‘exclude, alienate, oppress’.” Whatever might be the claims of the BJP and its cheerleaders, it is evident that ‘Dronamindset’ is in full play and doors of better educational institutions are being closed for ‘Eklavyas’ and ‘Shambuks’ of today’s times.
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