The idea of creating a programme to identify potential “terrorist” thinking was put forward under the Blair Labour Government by Sir David Omand, a former GCHQ intelligence officer. The programme ...

The word smart has become very popular, particularly in the development sector. We have climate-smart agriculture, smart villages, smart irrigation, smart technologies and many other smart things.

The centrality of property to political economy is a metaphysical error, institutionalized forgetting, spawning violence and uncountable injury. It might be duality’s most powerful bullet… ...

Many have dubbed the current situation of the Indian polity under Narendra Modi as the ‘Silent Emergency’, referring to the period between 1975–77, when Indira Gandhi’s government suspended… ...

After the news of drought in the US the climate crisis is continuing with all the bad news from around the world, from the ...

The Beginning of a United Struggle till Voting rights are restored to all Citizens – Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah have misused the Election Commission of India and erased… ...

As Countercurrents marks its Silver Jubilee, it is an opportunity to reflect on the role it has played in independent journalism and consider how it can strengthen its contribution over the next ...

There is something magnificently obscene about a civilization that treats association with a sex trafficker as a moral scandal but endorsement of a leader accused of genocide as statesmanship. Donald ...

With the rise of the AfD, Germany’s crisis of democracy is spreading. Voting for the AfD might be a release for a suppressed (Freudian) drive – more like a pathological version of a collective death… ...

When it comes to climate change, there is no “story,” not in the normal news sense anyway. The fact that 97% of scientists ...

Today I spoke with friends in Kabul, members of Afghan Peace Volunteers, a group of young people who engage in peace building ...

Issues 89-90 of the journal Aspects of India’s Economy, titled “West Asia: The People Refuse to Submit,” published by the Research Unit for Political Economy (RUPE), serves as a comprehensive ...