Environment

Anti-Nuclear Struggles

Protest Reception for Mr. Abe, Prime Minister of Japan

26 January 2014

Protest Reception for Mr. Abe, Prime Minister of JapanIt was indeed a very spirited protest event, in which the message against the India-Japan Nuclear Deal was loud and clear, Around 150 protesters predominantly young and women participated in the ‘Protest Welcome to Mr Abe’ and shouted slogans against India-Japan Nuclear Deal which is in the offing.

Students from St. Aloysius Degree College, Trainees from Indian Social Institute, United Theological College (UTC), members from the LGBTQ community, left and progressive individuals were among the participants at the protest event at Town Hall on 25th January ’14, which was organised under the banner of Peoples’ Solidarity Concerns-Bangalore. read more

Environment

Hyperloop – Future of High Speed Travel?

14 August 2013

HyperloopThe recent announcement by the billionaire businessman – Elon Musk on design plans for the ‘Hyperloop’ transport system could well be one of the prototypes in the future of high speed travel. Elon Musk, who is best known as the founder of PayPal, Space X and more recently for bringing out the all electric car – Tesla X, set the media buzz when he claimed a few months back that he had plans for building the super-fast ‘pneumatic’ tube transport system which could cover the distance of 615 Km between Los Angels (LA) to San Francisco (SF) just under 30 min at speeds of over 1000 Km/hr and even higher for longer distances. read more

Environment

Climate Change: Arctic sea ice drops to a new record low

28 December 2012

Capitalism Has Failed the Environment

This past September saw the lowest amount of Arctic summer sea ice recorded in 33 years of measurement. Climate change experts warn that the Arctic could be ice-free as early as 2020, 30 years earlier than the last estimate published in 2007. A complete loss of summer sea ice has devastating consequences for not only the fragile Arctic ecosystem, but also the entire global population. read more

Environment

Bangalore – Garden or Garbage City?

4 November 2012

A crisis that was in the making for a long time & now both the city administration (BBMP) and the state government is clueless on how to solve the garbage crisis that has gripped the city for over two months now (so much so that it has now made it to the New York Times!). It is not as if there is no solution at hand and the government has after tremendous pressure taken a few steps, but the magnitude and the scale of the crisis is just too overwhelming to be solved in a few days time. read more

Anti-Nuclear Struggles

Noam Chomsky expresses solidarity with Kudankulam protesters

2 November 2012

The following article appeared in the Times of India, national daily, highlighting the support of the world renowned scholar and activist – Noam Chomsky, in support of the anti-Kudankulam struggle. The article also mentions the statements of other supporters of the anti-nuclear struggle from the poster statements that have appeared in the countercurrents.org website. This includes statements from CWI supporters such as Lucy Redler (SAV– Germany), Paul Murphy (MEP, Socialist Party- Ireland), Siritunga Jayasurya (United Socialist Party- Sri Lanka) and TU Senan (International Co-ordinator – Tamil Solidarity). read more