Daily Life In Cuba
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Today we are publishing Chapter 2 of Dr Punyabrata Gun's memoir of Shankar Guha Niyogi and his movement. It details Niyogi's vison of health which prospered into a mass movement. This chapter describes how the iconic "Shaheed'' hospital was built from the sweat of the workers without the support of any outside agencies. Perhaps, this could be the pinnacle of independent worker's movement in India.
In a tragic turn of events the sensational October 10 kunduli gang rape victim, dalit minor girl, committed suicide at her house frustrated over the police inaction and investigation into the case. The victim girl was rescued in a critical condition from her house in Musaguda village and taken to the Kunduli Community Health Centre where the doctors declared her as received dead. The minor dalit girl had alleged that she was gang raped by four armed jawans .
Kit Aastrup gives a detailed description of life in Cuba under the horrific sanctions.
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“Struggle And Create: My Days With Com. Shankar Guha Niyogi” – Chapter 2: The Story of Shaheed Hospital
by Dr Punyabrata Gun
Chapter 2 of Dr Punyabrata Gun's memoir of Shankar Guha Niyogi and his movement. It details Niyogi's vison of health which prospered into a mass movement
Daily Life In Cuba
by Kit Aastrup
Daily life presents challenges. Although all households in Cuba have a pressure cooker and a rice cooker, cooking is a slow affair. Rice must be cleaned, garlic must be peeled, beans must be boiled and a sofrito (oil with garlic, onions and peppers) must be made. Many poor Cubans eat only one, main meal a day, an almuerzo (lunch) in the middle of the afternoon – of course depending on their work schedule and whether they get food at work. There are many problems with water and electricity, at least in Havana. For a period of time there were many and long-lasting power outages, now there are short-circuit interruptions. The water supply in Havana is the source of difficulty and irritation. In some neighborhoods, the water supply is closed daily in the middle of the day, in other places, there is water only every other day. When there is no water, you get it from a tank on the roof and it needs to be opened and closed. Sometimes the water does not come at night as expected. L
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I was in Havana, it was missing for 3 days.
Kunduli Gang Rape Victim Commits Suicide
In a tragic turn of events the sensational October 10 kunduli gang rape victim, dalit minor girl, committed suicide at her house frustrated over the police inaction and investigation into the case. The victim girl was rescued in a critical condition from her house in Musaguda village and taken to the Kunduli Community Health Centre where the doctors declared her as received dead. The minor dalit girl had alleged that she was gang raped by four armed jawans .
On The Tragic Cost Of Delay In Rape Investigations
by Women Against Sexual Violence and State Repression
The suicide of the minor dalit girl in Kunduli of Koraput district in Odisha on 22 January is a moment of reckoning for everyone fighting against the heinous crime of violence against women. She had accused four security personnel of gangrape on October 10, 2017. Very typical of incidence of sexual violence where the accused happen to be police, army or security forces, this incident of sexual assault too went through the usual round of inordinate delays and denial of gangrape. The suicide of the young victim who was very keen to pursue her studies but was never able to get out of the raging controversy and heightened media publicity is a bitter reminder of the continued impunity of rapists in uniform, and of the brazen collusion of the state in denying justice to those who, like this young girl, refuse to remain silent.
Disasters Across World While Trump Scorns Global Warming…And Grown An Inch
by Dr Arshad M Khan
The presidential tweet scorning climate change, namely “We could do with some of that climate change here,” after severe blizzards hit the U.S. east coast, could not have been more inopportune!
What Does Psychological And Physical Adaptation To Global Warming Look Like?
by Anandi Sharan
Western man, to whose numbers we count men and women beneficiaries of capitalism in all its facets, must mend his ways or accept the extinction of the human race. One of the mistakes he must rectify is his psychological tendency to foist the job of mitigating global warming on the poor in the name of meeting sustainable development goals.
A Brief Analysis of the Turkish Invasion of Syria
by Judith Bello
All the news today is about Turkey attacking Afrin, a Kurdish governed city in northern Syria and threatening another Kurdish run city named Manbj. This is a very dangerous situation and another devastating assault on the Syrian people who have already suffered so much from a war that that was started by foreign manipulation and fed by foreign fighters, foreign weapons and foreign cash. The war should have ended by now and be winding down, but Syria’s enemies are persistent and cunning.
Livin’ The Screen Life: #productsmakemehappy
by John Savage
I don’t want be a part of the hive. But I’m a human being. I need other human beings. Something is broken in me. I hate myself. I don’t feel a sense of belonging or connection in any aspect of my life. friendships, family, romance, work. Ennui and alienation are my reality. A city of 8 million people. A hive of loneliness.
Russiagate, Trump, And An American Police-State?
by Eric Zuesse
Republicans in the U.S. House have made available to all members of the House an allegedly scandalous “memo” that allegedly summarizes the FBI’s cooperation with the Democratic Party during the 2016 Presidential election; but, supposedly, no House member is being allowed to make this evidence available to the public, because, supposedly, as Republican House Intelligence Committee member Mike Conaway from Texas said, “That’d be real dangerous,” and yet he provided no evidence to back up that police-state assertion of the Government’s supposed ‘right’ to hide, from the voters, information that’s crucial to voters’ being empowered to vote intelligently.
A Genuine Actor: Francesco Serpico
by Edward Curtin
A tribute to about one of the first whistle-blowers in the USA, the famous NYPD cop Frank Serpico
Grand Silence About Things That Matter
by Richard Oxman
In Genetics, to silence is to interfere with the expression of (a gene or gene segment) so that its biological function is suppressed. The mess we’re in begs — if we are to honor Life — for the Grand Silence to be suppressed.
The Exsanguination of Medical Ethics
by Dr Nayvin Gordon
Did the Medical Profession fight to hold on to its ethics so as to always “act in the patient’s best interest when providing medical care”? No. Tragically the Medical Profession succumbed to the rise of Corporate Health Care by betraying their core medical ethic and became complicit “stewards” of an economic system that puts profits before people
Why Fear And Self-Hatred Destroy Human Sharing And Solidarity
by Robert J Burrowes
As our world spirals deeper into an abyss from which it is becoming increasingly difficult to extricate ourselves, some very prominent activists have lamented the lack of human solidarity in the face of the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya
The Palestinian Struggle Is Not About Rights Within A Legitimized Israel; It’s About Liberation And Self-Determination
by Rima Najjar
The #BDS Movement is a nonviolent grassroots movement originating in the occupied territory of Palestine. Its overriding principles are consistency and commitment to universal human rights, and it has proven to be effective, as a tactic, not least for changing the conversation on Israel. [See What is BDS].
Cyber Security: Going Beyond Data Protection
by S G Vombatkere
In an age of exploding data, information and knowledge, both human and machine, cyber security is as much a necessity for personal privacy as it is for internal and external national security, or for day-to-day economic activities and operation of social and economic infrastructure systems. Cyber security also constitutes the defensive part of modern warfare which is intimately connected with the blood-and-guts, on-the-ground military operations. Thus, the threats to privacy and to national security from loss, leakage or corruption of data whether due to ignorance, inadvertence or cyber attack, need to be understood clearly.
Lynch Mobs And Fringe Elements: Are They Really Just Anti-Muslims?
by Surabhi Singh
The lynch mobs are not there to scare the Muslims into submission. Rather, they are here to divert the audience from the theatre of an open loot of resources, to convert India into a market, the latest move being introduction of 100% FDI in retail. Earlier, similar designs have been played by UPA government too. It is not a coincidence that beef ban is lifted soon before elections are due in the East, neither is the introduction of GST, the meteoric rise in the prices of diesel, pulses, the failures of crops, the non availability of crop subsidies, the farmers slowly and definitely being pushed to suicides..
Vibrant Villages Are Key To India’s Success
by Moin Qazi
The Indian village has, for long, been viewed as a convenient entry-point for understanding Indian society. At the beginning of the 20th century, Mahatma Gandhi had emphatically declared: “The soul of India lives in its villages”. Even after 70 years of Independence, in the wake of urbanisation, villages are at the core of the country’s soul.
Demonetization And Its After Effects
by Harasankar Adhikari
Now this poor labour class people use to blame government for horrifying decision of demonetization. They are gradually entering into the situation of job losers and necessarily they are afraid of hunger and others. They use to utter that the rich people are very much conscious and they are strict to incur unnecessary expenses for their lives style management.
Humans And Evolution
by Mousumi Roy
In the current method of ‘species proliferation’, it takes a human child 18-25 years to learn basic and advanced survival skills before attaining the ‘age of maturity’ and, consequently, the rights to mating, voting and various other similar rights given to mature people. From an evolutionary perspective, this appear to be completely counter intuitive.
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