The most striking feature of the failed Turkish coup has been the people’s response. The plotters did their routine right: they seized the broadcasting station, they sent a sortie to kill the president, they stationed troops in the vital points, they rolled out the tanks. They calculated everything but the people’s response. As the president survived the att...
For the issue of captivity of elephants in circuses, temples and places owned by private persons, a solution is not possible without analyzing the reasons for their death and suffering. If the reasons are identified, it would be possible to arrive at a lasting solution by taking the required steps thereby ensuring the welfare of elephants. In the main, eleph...
In the previous articles, we explored the origins of the sectarian ideology in the early days of Islam, the Khawarij. We also examined surge of the Wahhabi mission, a similar Takfiri ideology that originated in the 18th century, one that continues to live until this day through the support of different imperial powers, the British Empire and the US. In this ...
In the previous article, we examined the history of the concept of Takfir, Muslims who engage in excommunication of other Muslims. We also examined the history of the first great split within Islam. In this part we will examine the second surge of Takfir, one that originated in the Arabian Peninsula during the 18th century. Before we examine this surge close...
A plague upon the world, a terrorist group who hates humanity. Many are the words describing the Daesh phenomenon which has been unleashed upon humanity. The terrorist group who allegedly originated out of Iraq as a result of the US-led invasion in 2003 has now become a worldwide known phenomenon which few people have never heard of. Their atrocities are rep...
In an act of rare intellectual daring, the beleaguered Hindus of Jammu & Kashmir have taken recourse to the Indian Constitution to hit back at the extreme majoritarianism practiced by successive regimes in the State. The Supreme Court has accepted a public interest petition (489/2016) that was rejected by the J&K High Court, which accuses successive State go...
The history of NATO and its current activities enables us to understand how the West has woven its lies and why it is now a prisoner of them. The elements contained in this article are shocking, but it is impossible to deny the facts. The only other solution is to cling to the lies and persist in hanging...
While political and media attention has focussed on Brexit and on the possibilities of further fragmentation of the EU, Nato, wearing blinkers as usual, increases its presence and influence in Europe. The [Nato] Secretary General, Stoltenberg, having acknowledged “the British people have decided to leave the European Union” assures that “the United Kingdom w...
During the holy month of Ramzan, a call to the devout awoke me at about 4.45 am every day. For the rest of the year the call rouses me between 5.15 to 5.45 am. For 365 days of the year azaan is done five times a day. Calls come from four mosques, sometimes simultaneously, or one after another.
Two of the four mosques are nearly a kilometre away; one is very...
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Kashmiri separatists, including Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik and many others on July 8 called for Kashmir-wide shutdown on July 9. Ever since then, Kashmir has been observing bandh some time on the call of the separatists and sometimes because of curfew. The call was given following the liquidation of Burhan Wani, the dreaded...
On 18 June 2014, Suresh Kumar, Thiruvallur district secretary of Hindu Munnani, was murdered in the cruelest fashion, near the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police situated close to the busy Ambattur Industrial Estate Bus Terminus. He was closing his STD booth when attacked with lethal...
The power of latent Islamic militant forces was also exhibited recently, when tens of thousands of Islamists identified Mumtaz Qadri as a religious martyr at his funeral on March 1, 2016, the day after he was executed for murder. Qadri had been convicted of murdering Punjab Governor Salman Taseer in 2011. A bodyguard of the governor, Qadri killed Salman Tase...
In addition to all of these well-known groups, there are zealots who are hardening their muscles but have so far remained mostly underground. These are the latent threats. For instance, Islamabad’s decision to allow Islamists to garner street power, and the military’s use of same, poses a long-term threat to the country’s future. During Gen. Pervez Musharraf...
In this category, terrorists from two areas stand out. First, the militants in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan, through which the China-proposed CPEC is to wind its way down from the north to the Arabian Sea. Baloch insurgents do not have control over the entire province, but they have a network that routinely blows up gas wells and other inf...
Much is known about the terrorist groups tasked by Pakistani authorities “to liberate fellow Muslims” in the Indian part of Jammu and Kashmir. These groups are well-trained and well-knit. Nonetheless, like all terrorists they have shown their willingness from time to time to warm their hands in the fires lit within the country by other Islamist extremists wh...
For decades now, Pakistan has been recognized worldwide as a virtual warehouse of terrorists and insurgents who pose threats to that country’s neighbors as well as to its own domestic order. Armed with various agendas, these terrorists have set up their bases across the country.
The most active terrorist groups are those along Pakistan’s eastern border with...
Much of the early commentary following Britain’s sensational vote to quit the European Union was conspicuous by an aversion to admit that Brexit represents a revolt of the poor, marginalised working and middle classes that have long been at the mercy of a dehumanizing system of mobile capital aggravated by cheap mobile labour. The fact that some racist...
Professor Solomon urges us to fight ‘the Right Wing’, which has, at least temporarily, broken free of our Enemy’s control. The Right Wing has, at least for the moment, been cleverly coerced into challenging our Enemy’s power, (after providing our Enemy with a reliably duped power base for so long). For all that we perceive as his clownishness, Trump has...
A large segment of the American Left seems to remain trapped within the compulsions of rote ideology. Despite all the blazing brilliance of the minds of American leftists, (we could hardly have a higher degree of raw human intelligence at our disposal), our collective mind cannot properly apply itself, in a self-aware manner, to...
The Western Press keeps repeating the same message – by leaving the European Union, the British have isolated themselves from the rest of the world, and will have to deal with terrible economic consequences. And yet, the fall in the Pound could be an advantage within the Commonwealth, which is a far greater family than the Union, and present on all six conti...
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 laid down a US unipolar geo-strategy and toxic, financial globalization that sowed monstrous inequality at the local/regional/global levels. This was harnessed by mass unemployment and suffocating austerity.
Half a century after dangerous period of deregulation under Thatcher and 27 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall...
We now turn to see how captive elephants experience a life of isolation, pain and suffering due to lack of infrastructure and the cruelty and torture perpetrated by mahouts, which often lead to their deaths.
Mariappan was a male elephant serving at the famous Mariamman Temple at Samayapuram near Trichy. Temple authorities have kept him chained by three legs...
While the world Press is searching for ways to re-start the reconstruction of Europe, still without Russia and now without the United Kingdom, Thierry Meyssan considers that nothing can now prevent the collapse of the system. However, he points out, what is at stake is not the European Union itself, but the institutions which enable the domination of the wor...
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been waging war against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. At the drop of a hat he and his flunkeys drag the Prime Minister’s name in every episode, even where any legitimate legal action is taken against his team mates. In the history of post-independence India, never ever was a Prime Minister pilloried in such a crude...
The newspapers, television and internet sites are all about it. In case you woke up late and missed it all, we are talking about BREXIT, a hashtag that was trending on Twitter for long. The Brits voted in a referendum to leave the European Union or EU. Many have called it a devastating and shocking development that could plunge the world into economic...
Some months ago, Union Agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh said, rather caustically, “We are not here to enrich any person or company, we are here to protect the Indian farmer”. This was taken as a tough stand by the Modi government to bring in a scheme of rigorous price control of the much hyped Bt seeds, in particular, Bt cotton, which is the focal poin...
Vellore is a city, a Municipal Corporation. It is also a Lok Sabha Constituency comprising Vellore, Anaicut Village, Kilvazhithunaiankuppam (SC), Gudiyatham, Vaniyambadi and Ambur Assembly constituencies. As per 2011 census, Vellore has 71% Hindus, 24% Muslims and 5% Christians. Ambur is a Muslim dominated constituency with Muslims comprising 61% of the...
Brexit, a loss for not only British but also European and global capital, is ultimately a victory for humanity even though the mentally beleaguered brigades of all-is-always-lost are made to see it as a triumph of the racist right. Those who insure the growing strength of a reactionary right are the barely existent left, too often acting as echo chamber for ...