2023

The barbaric violence inflicted on Palestinians recently in the Gaza Strip by Israel is unimaginable. The Gaza Health Ministry said that more than 9,400 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza so far, including more than 3,900 Palestinian children. Thomas White, who travelled “the length and breadth of Gaza in the last few weeks” described the place as a “scene of death and destruction.” He said that no place is safe now, and people fear for their lives, their future, and their ability to feed (…)

Today, when war in some part of the world or the other has become a constant and we are researching space medicines, we take this opportunity to discuss two greats in war and medicine, the two Alexanders. One is the Macedonian king, conqueror of the West’s then-known world, Alexander III (21 July 356 BC – 11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great. The other is the Scottish microbiologist, Sir Alexander Fleming (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955). What is the connection one might (…)

November 8, 2011
Relations with Israel and Palestine along two independent tracks may not be tenable amid the current crisis, but India hasn’t stopped trying.
India has a long history of relations with both Israel and Palestine, informed by its own struggle for independence. But the confusing signals it has sent through various statements and actions put forth in the recent weeks of this deadly war hardly reflect a clear diplomatic strategy.
Any policy that ignores historical and (…)

Since the publication of the first edition of Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Lies, ritual slaughter of animals — kosher, sanctioned by Jewish law and halal, sanctioned by Islamic law — has received more news coverage. Because the cattle, sheep, goats, and other animals are not stunned or rendered insensate during ritual slaughter, the suffering and agony can be prolonged and upsetting to watch.
In 2017, before Eid al-Adha, or the Islamic Feast of Sacrifice, Veysel Eroğlu the Minister of (…)

Sitting in this killer-haze that’s been enveloping the New Delhi-NCR and the adjoining areas. The very survival getting tougher and tougher. Pollution of all hues and forms surmounting, with no relief. Anyway, in these barbaric times who cares how many of us die or stay live, and if alive then in what pathetic condition! Save for that small percentage of those who are able to afford air purifiers and the rest of the survival bandobast in these poisonous polluting times, the rest of the (…)

02.11.2023 | Ukraine-Palestine Solidarity Group
We, Ukrainian researchers, artists, political and labour activists, members of civil society stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine who for 75 years have been subjected and resisted Israeli military occupation, separation, settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing, land dispossession and apartheid.
We write this letter as people to people. The dominant discourse on the governmental level and even among solidarity groups that (…)

IPES Food International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems
October 24, 2023
Food cannot be a weapon of war
Statement on the siege of Gaza
The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) unequivocally condemns the heinous and indiscriminate attacks that have terrorized civilians – both Israelis and Palestinians – in the ongoing war in Israel and Gaza. Further, we condemn the catastrophic situation now unfolding in Gaza, in which food is illegally (…)

South Africans who suffered apartheid for over half a century under a white supremacist occupation regime, are the first to show to the world how to react to the apartheid regime of Israel’s depredation of Gaza and annihilation of the Palestinians.
Bolivia, then Colombia and then Chile too have recalled their ambassadors and suspended diplomatic relations with Israel. These Latin American nations have demonstrated, in this horrific situation created by the Zionist apartheid regime of (…)

National Alliance of People’s Movements National Office: A/29, Haji Habib Bldg., Naigaon Cross Road, Dadar (E), Mumbai – 400014 E-mail: napmindia[at]gmail.com Web: www.napm-india.org
State-enabled and human-induced destructive flood in the Narmada Valley, is the responsibility of the Central and state governments!
Reservoir not being regulated and emptied on time to ‘celebrate Prime Minister Modi’s birthday’, led to the massive submergence and destruction
9th November 2023: The (…)

Press Release issued on 9th November 2023
The Joint Platform of Central Trade Unions and Independent Federations/Associations oppose any move to
EXPORT INDIAN WORKERS TO ISRAEL TO REPLACE PALESTINIAN WORKERS
Israel is shamelessly escalating its genocidal attack against Palestinians, rejecting appeals by the UNO or even their masters, the USA for a ceasefire!
The Modi government’s unethical and duplicitous stand on this issue too stands exposed : first the quick expression of (…)