Mainstream, July 20, 2024

Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, July 20, 2024 Farmers’ Movement and Save Constitution Campaign Impact Haryana General Election Results 2024 in Big Way | Mahabir Jaglan Bypoll results encouraging but . . .| J P Gadkari The Impacts of Development on People | S.G.Vombatkere An Honest Bicycle | T. Vijayendra Samvidhan Hatya Diwas: A Political Manoeuvre by the… Read More Mainstream, July 20, 2024

NATO/US Complicity in the Relentless Israeli Genocide of Gaza

By Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright / World BEYOND War As Israel continued its relentless genocide on steroids of Palestinians in Gaza with over 140 killed in the past weekend, imprisonment without charges of thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank and destruction of the hospitals, universities, schools (8 UNRWA schools bombed in the past 10 days),… Read More NATO/US Complicity in the Relentless Israeli Genocide of Gaza

Fierce anti-government protests in Bangladesh, 39 dead; thousands injured

Incensed crowd facing riot police set BTV building on fire as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas NB: What is needed now is international democratic solidarity, across frontiers, age, language and religion. Solidarity for justice, peace, and renewed communication. Stand up for the embattled students of Bangladesh. In 1971, General Yahya Khan sent tanks… Read More Fierce anti-government protests in Bangladesh, 39 dead; thousands injured

Burning Books and The Nazification of Literature

Heinrich Heine, arguably one of the most famous of German authors, had prophetically announced that wherever they burn books, they will one day burn humans. Pramod K. Nayar German cultural production, as is well known, in the decades leading to Nazidom set about creating a ‘national’ culture by destroying Jewish, communist, humanist and other artwork,… Read More Burning Books and The Nazification of Literature

Chris Hedges: Statement on Attempted Trump Assassination

Chris Hedges The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian right have built cult followings of their own. These Christian fascists embraced magical thinking, attacked their enemies as agents of Satan… Read More Chris Hedges: Statement on Attempted Trump Assassination

EXIT GOD, ENTER MADNESS: Nadeem Paracha on religious extremism in Pakistan (2012)

First posted July 06, 2012 As one distraught friend of mine once prayed: ‘May Allah save Islam from Pakistan.’ The self-claimed ‘bastion of Islam’ has gradually mutated into becoming a bastion of deluded messiahs and mindless, violent ranting machines to whom anything, from incoherent malangs to the reopening of Nato supply routes, are conspiracies against Islam. On… Read More EXIT GOD, ENTER MADNESS: Nadeem Paracha on religious extremism in Pakistan (2012)