Tag: India
Norvergence: It’s time to remember the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster
George Stacey, an environmentalist at Norvergence: “I’ll never forget Bhopal Gas Tragedy- a man-made catastrophe resulted in the death of over 4,000...
Nearly 2 million people in India could lose citizenship in biggest...
Nearly 2 million people in the northeast state of Assam are at risk of being rendered stateless in India after the government...
The terrifying implications of India’s elections for people and the planet
The Modi government’s far-right bigotry is well-known, but its equally disturbing environmental record isn’t.
South Asia’s nuclear-armed neighbors pull back from the abyss
The international community can only hope that the carnage and chaos of February was the last in a tragic series of encounters between nuclear neighbors that could otherwise lead South Asia to devastation and the world to nuclear winter.
As national elections draw closer, millions of farmers facing economic despair...
As India’s agrarian crisis deepens, so too will the social unrest, which may force future elected officials to take action on the growing demands of India’s powerful rural populace.
The world’s most dangerous divide
If nuclear war comes, it will happen because of a calculation or miscalculation by India or Pakistan.
Women in India stand up to reactionary forces, call for ‘equality,...
“We are taking the pledge that we will uphold Renaissance values, we will stand for equality for women, we resist the attempts to make Kerala a lunatic asylum, and we will fight for secularism.”
Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 7
State Senator sentenced to jail time for bribery, Alex Jones banned from Twitter, India legalizes gay sex, and more.
India legalizes gay sex, ruling discrimination on the basis of sexual...
"Criminalizing carnal intercourse is irrational, arbitrary and manifestly unconstitutional."
‘A beautiful moment:’ Arundhati Roy hails Indian Court legalizing gay sex,...
It's a major victory for LGBTQI groups.
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Ending the American Dream by 2029?
The future seems to free the mind from reality’s restraints and let the imagination soar. Yet it has also proven full of political pitfalls.
How MAGA changed the world in 2025, and what comes next
Amid the domestic and geopolitical mayhem unleashed by Donald Trump’s return to the White House, powerful interests were busy enacting a radical anti-democratic agenda.
‘Domestic terrorism’: Leaked DOJ memo targets ‘anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity’
The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, who joins us to discuss how it expands on President Donald Trump’s NSPM-7 directive.
The dark side of Trump’s moon
A new book sheds light on the "intellectual" underpinnings of the Trump revolution.
Trump plan to dismantle US weather research hub alarms scientists and state officials
A proposal by the Trump administration to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research has sparked warnings from scientists, university leaders, and Colorado officials who say the move could undermine public safety, economic stability, and decades of shared scientific infrastructure.