We Columbia University students urge you to listen to our voices

Please, listen to us – not political figures, radical fringes and misguided media Columbia College Student Council GAZA casualties, live statistics On Tuesday night, we watched in horror as hundreds of riot police flooded our beloved campus and brutalized our classmates. The next day, students awoke with swollen faces, bruised wrists and lacerations – all… Read More We Columbia University students urge you to listen to our voices

Israeli precision-guided munition likely killed group of children playing foosball in Gaza

GAZA casualties, live statistics Rest in peace little one. I weep for your parents but you rest in peace An undated photo of Shahed Awda Talla. Obtained by CNN The last time Mona Awda Talla saw her daughter Shahed alive, she was leaving the house to go buy her some cake, wearing pink pants. The 10-year-old… Read More Israeli precision-guided munition likely killed group of children playing foosball in Gaza

I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged

When police attacked student protesters, a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York. Natasha Lennard A LONE TRASH CAN lay on its side at the intersection of W. 139th St and Amsterdam Ave in Harlem, in front of the gates of the City College of New York.… Read More I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on Protests for 15 Years. This Police Overreaction Was Unhinged

The Battle for Attention

How do we hold on to what matters in a distracted age? By Nathan Heller In a subway train not long ago, I had the familiar, unsettling experience of standing behind a fellow-passenger and watching everything that she was doing on her phone. It was a crowded car, rush hour, with the dim but unwarm lighting… Read More The Battle for Attention

India Has Seen At Least 134 Violations of Free Speech in 2024: Free Speech Collective

“Free speech in India has sunk into a perilous abyss and steadily falling press freedom indices underscore the dangers of crossing a line that is becoming increasingly contentious,” the collective said in its report. The first four months of 2024 in India have already seen at least 134 instances of free speech violations, with journalists,… Read More India Has Seen At Least 134 Violations of Free Speech in 2024: Free Speech Collective

Large police presence at UCLA as protests disrupt colleges nationwide

NB: US police are armed to the teeth with Army castoffs from failed wars overseas, and are now waging war on America’s young. There are also vicious right-wing vigilantes in action,: peaceful protestors for Gaza in UCLA were attacked by masked men yesterday, There’s an ongoing civil war in the USA, in case we haven’t… Read More Large police presence at UCLA as protests disrupt colleges nationwide

Road to serfdom

Telling the poor to settle for five kilos of ration and allowing cronies to grab five airports make every other form of inequality worse. It will turn India into an insufferably unjust society… We did not see this vulgar level of inequality even during British rule. They reported that 1% of our population corners 22%… Read More Road to serfdom

Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for ‘support’ of women’s rights

NB: The Saudi regime and its brutal leadership believes advocacy for women’s equality to be equivalent to terrorism. The regime is a crucial ally of the USA and UK; and we do not find any instances of attempts at so-called ‘regime change’ being promoted over there by the (ha ha) ‘Free World’. PS – the… Read More Saudi Arabia activist sentenced to 11 years in prison for ‘support’ of women’s rights