Ahmad Farhad was pushed into vehicle hours after posting about threats from country’s spy agency, says Syeda Urooj Zainab Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad The wife of a Pakistani poet and journalist who was abducted from outside his house last week has accused the country’s spy agency of responsibility, saying it acted because of his activism.… Read More Pakistani poet was abducted because of human rights activism, says wife
Thousands of students face severe consequences for protesting Gaza violence. Alan Macleod investigates the powerful financial and ideological ties to Israel driving the harsh responses from America’s top universities. By Alan MacLeod / MintPress News America’s universities are on fire. A protest movement against the violence in Gaza and U.S. colleges’ complicity in them has swept… Read More How Billionaires Silenced US Campus Protests
Sharp rise in number of people facing a crisis in freedom of speech, while authors particularly alarmed by deterioration in India under Narendra Modi Half the world’s population cannot freely speak their mind according to a new report on freedom of expression. In its annual report, the advocate group Article 19 found the number of people… Read More More than half the world cannot speak freely, report finds
How can the left escape burnout? Hannah Proctor; Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat SAM ADLER-BELL the left can sometimes become “more attached to its impossibility than to its potential fruitfulness, a Left that is most at home dwelling not in hopefulness but in its own marginality and failure, a Left that is thus caught… Read More Between Victory and Defeat
UK court approves Assange extradition appeal Washington, D.C., May 20, 2024—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the U.K. High Court’s Monday decision to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to appeal his extradition case. “We are heartened that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be allowed to appeal his extradition to the United States,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg,… Read More UK court approves Assange extradition appeal / Why Julian Assange’s fate matters
In a major development, the Supreme Court on Wednesday (May 15) declared as illegal NewsClick founder and Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha’s arrest by the Delhi police and his remand in a case under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act 1967. The Court noted that a copy of the remand application was not provided to Purkayastha or his… Read More Prabir Purkayastha’s Arrest & Remand Illegal: Supreme Court Orders NewsClick Editor’s Release / Bhima Koregaon: Gautam Navlakha gets bail as SC lifts stay on Bombay HC order
Osita Nwanevu The student left is the most reliably correct constituency in America. Over the past 60 years, it has passed every great moral test American foreign policy has forced upon the public, including the Vietnam war, the question of relations with apartheid South Africa, and the Iraq war. Student activists were at the heart… Read More US students, once again, have led the way. Now we must all stand up for Palestinians
Reverberations of America’s campus protests are felt in a remote rural area in the middle of a jungle in the heart of an island nation at the cusp of Southasia and the Indian Ocean. ‘A country may believe it wins something by killing people but can anything be as valuable as human life? POSTCARD FROM… Read More From rural Sri Lanka, solidarity for Gaza and American students protesting for Palestine
Commemorates the 78th Anniversary of the NAKBA of 1948, when over 7.5 lac Palestinians were driven from their homes and villages by violence and terror ************************ GAZA casualties, live statistics United Nations Documentation on the Origins and Evolution of the Palestine Problem The Crisis of Ideology The west’s complete contempt for the lives of Palestinians will… Read More Indo-Palestine Solidarity Network
Will Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s walk out of Tihar Central Jail prove to be as historic as Babu Jagjivan Ram and H N Bahuguna’s walk away from Indira Gandhi’s Congress after she lifted the Emergency and announced elections? That day, February 3, 1977, a strong signal went out that Indira Gandhi could be defeated. Bharat… Read More Straws in the Wind: Kejriwal’s bail and Modi’s meltdown
