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Asad Rehman: The Relationship Between Imperialism, Racism, and the Environmental Crisis

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The expansion of colonial empires and the emergence of a globalized economic system brought about a rapid increase in the destabilization of local and global environments, as well as the exploitation and destruction of indigenous peoples. In doing so, they created structures and dynamics that exist to this day. In this episode of the “Great Unraveling?” series, Asad Rehman joins Laurie Laybourn-Langton to explore the relationship between imperialism, racism, the environmental crisis, and our current moment. Asad Rehman is the Executive Director of War on Want. Before that, he was…

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India-Street Vendors/Hawkers ..

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By Sevvilam Parithi In India, street vendors have been Protected by the Central Act and State Legislatures by the Rules and Schemes under “The Protection of Livelihood of Street vendors and Regulation of Street Vending Act,2014..! During our “*#National #core #committee #meeting #of #NHF ” which held at Hyderabad/Secundrabad.. Com. Mir Inayath Ali Baqri National Working President..and Com.Saktiman Ghosh National General Secretary visited the Street Vendors Rehabilitation Market..KarimNagar, Telengana State…a wonderfully protected market facilitation with dignified livelihood arrangements have been ratified ..as per the fundamental rights to lead the dignified…

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System Change for a Climate Change…

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By Raju Prabath Lankaloka World Environment Day is celebrated on 05th June every year. Since 1974, the UNEP celebrate this day with a pomp and pageant saying that it creates a platform to raise awareness that the world is facing problems such as air pollution, plastic pollution, global warming and sea-level increasing day by day. Yet Global warming, the ‘population time bomb’, nuclear energy and nuclear hazards, pollution and other environmental issues are always in the news. So it is clear that World Environment Day is being celebrated without addressing…

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Sri Lanka & Pakistan.. How IMF & Asian Bank interventions destroyed Economy & Culture…

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From Nawaz Arain سری لنکا اور پاکستان.. آئی ایم ایف اور ایشیائی بینک کی مداخلتوں نے کس طرح معیشت اور ثقافت کو تباہ کیا… Video about Sri Lanka & Pakistan.. How IMF & Asian Bank interventions destroyed Economy and cultural Activities… ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සහ පකිස්ථානය.. IMF සහ Asian Bank මැදිහත්වීම් ආර්ථිකය සහ සංස්කෘතිය විනාශ කළ හැටි…

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Yemen: Journalist killed in a car bomb

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Originally From: https://www.ifj.org/fr/salle-de-presse/nouvelles/detail/category/press-releases/article/yemen-journalist-killed-in-a-car-bomb.html Brussels 21 June 2022 – Saber al-Haidari, a former Yemeni journalist working for foreign media outlets, was killed on 15 June after a device planted on his car exploded while he was driving home in the southern city of Aden, Yemen. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its local affiliate, the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) strongly condemn this killing and call for justice in the face of widespread impunity. According to media reports, the car blast which killed the 40-year-old Al-Haidari also injured other passengers in the car.…

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SRI LANKA: Two big lies told about the 1978 Constitution

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June 21, 2022 An Article by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Two big lies told about the 1978 Constitution By Basil Fernando Two great lies have been propagated about the 1978 Constitution. When a lie is repeated many times by many persons, often such a lie begins to be treated as a conventional truth. The first of these lies is that the 1978 Constitution was created on the model of the French Constitution and the American Constitutional tradition. This was first propagated by Professor A.J. Wilson who called…

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Faces of the Indian New Wave

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The film heritage Foundation Born in Navsari, Gujarat, in 1952, filmmaker Ketan Mehta did his schooling in Delhi and then graduated in film direction from the Film and Television Institute of India, (FTII), Pune. As a child he would watch plays with his father, a litterateur and a professor of Gujarati, who was also the head of the dramatics department at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. He believes that was probably how he was bitten by the bug of theatre and acting. In college he did plays under the tutelage of B.V.…

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True Socialism is the only alternative which can liberate mankind!

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By Raju prabath lankaloka The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Stalinism in Eastern Europe and USSR were presented by the defenders of capitalism as the equivalent of the final victory of the ‘free market economy’ over ‘Communism’. Three decades ago, it produced a wave of euphoria in the bourgeoisie and its apologists. They spoke of the end of socialism, the end of communism and even the end of history. Ever since then, we have witnessed an unprecedented ideological offensive against the ideas of Marxism on a…

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