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Farmers’ Protest in India Reignites: A Struggle for the Future of Food and Agriculture
In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that were intended to ‘liberalise’ the agriculture sector. Now, in 2024, farmers are again protesting. The underlying issues and the facilitation of the neoliberal corporatisation of farming that sparked the previous protest remain and have not been resolved. The […]
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Genocidal DNA: Depravity, Evil and Cowardice in the “West” as well
(L) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Photo: via President Biden Twitter Page) Western moral cowardice feeds this war as much as the arms flown or shipped into Israel by the US in a continuous cycle. Everything that needs to be said has been said. Some of the worst crimes since 1945 are being committed […]
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A Word Like Peace Is Faster Than the Bullet of War
Erik Bulatov (USSR), Horizon, 1971–72. On 26 January, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) announced the start of a massive military exercise called Steadfast Defender 2024 that will continue until the end of May. Over 90,000 troops from NATO countries (and one partner country, Sweden), including fifty naval groups and more than eighty air platforms, […]
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Imagining a Literary Society
The post Imagining a Literary Society first appeared on Dissident Voice.
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Anti-Imperialism in the US Today
Fidel Castro, who the world recognizes as a historic anti-imperialist figure, repeatedly warned that the main danger to humanity is US imperialism: “There is an enemy that can be called universal, an enemy whose attitude and whose actions…threaten the whole world, bully the whole world, that universal enemy is Yankee imperialism.” He fought to build […]
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They’re Lying about Alexei Navalny “Putin’s Enemy”
Was Alexei Navalny really Putin’s main opponent? Was he poisoned by the Russian government who then killed him in prison? Was he even popular in Russia? Well, no to all of those things and we show you what the West will not tell you while they mourn their favorite media darling. The post They’re Lying […]
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Here Come the Steroid Games
To attribute weighty moral codes to athletes has always been a silly pastime of the judging classes and flesh admiring voyeurs. But sporting bodies, in a manner similar to the clergy, demand something called the level playing field. Fairness and fair play imply that sports people will follow various principles and rules in competition. They […]
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Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions
The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all? This is a sequel to a January 15 article titled “Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another ‘Lehman Moment’?”, discussing the threat of […]
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67 Countries Banned This Toxic Product but the EPA Says: “Go for it!”
Sixty-seven (67) countries have banned paraquat, a toxic chemical used to control weeds that was discovered in the 1950s subsequently widely used throughout the world in agriculture. Despite a deadly toxic reputation, it’s still used throughout America. Moreover, it’s a cheap effective product used as a common pesticide by third-world countries that do not proactively […]
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