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Independent interdisciplinary researcher and writer.
Web site: http://imperialismandthethirdworld.wordpress.com.
I am an interdisciplinary researcher and writer, with background in many areas of biological and social sciences. I have lived and worked in many countries, as a scientist and head of research and development programs and centers. I have done in-depth and extensive studies on Marxism, Leninism, phenomenology, existentialism, political economy of capitalism and socialism, technocracy, psychology, mass psychology, genetics, epigenetics, etc., and formulated and published a new and original macro-level theory on the biosocial regulation of human nature by the powerful, combined, and intertwined social forces of social systems (capitalism, imperialism, socialism, various mixtures in the Third World etc.), technocracy, and cultures. One of the most important and disturbing conclusions of my theoretical research in this area is that the inner ecology of human nature itself is being disrupted and eroded by the politico-economic and cultural forces of advanced capitalism and advanced technocracy, self-evident on the empirical level. And that is happening on the biosocial levels, involving selection as well as epigenetic processes. My original theory was published in 1980, long before epigenetics became accepted in the scientific community and started getting applied in various areas of life and social sciences. I had already expanded and refined the theory in 1982. However, that version was not published. This is the only theory ever written or published on these complex interdisciplinary matters. It can be read through the following link. It needs further development. I am aware that in the current academic and intellectual environment of worldwide subservience to capitalist materialism, dehumanization, and inhumanization, such an original and critical macro-level interdisciplinary theory faces extreme institutionalized biases and hostility. Therefore I have never looked for any institutional support for this project.
Overwhelming majority of scientists in the areas of natural and life sciences are what the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset had called Learned Ignoramuses, that is, they know a lot about a tiny little area of natural or biological reality, but nothing about other areas of that reality or social and human reality. Social and human sciences, and even philosophy, have become mutilated in similar ways. Typical scientists now not only do not see the forest for the trees, but do not even see the tree for the leaves.
While the natural and life scientists are, by and large, devoid of any knowledge of social and politico-economic reality, the knowledge and consciousness of social scientists in these areas, besides being extremely fragmented, are conditioned and regulated by the powers that be of the capitalist and imperialist systems of the Advanced Capitalist-Imperialist Technocratic Civilization and its imitators in the Third World.
Such scientists and technicians are the darlings of the governments and corporations in the capitalist and imperialist countries, as they provide them with the knowledge, information, and technical means for achieving their goals of domination, profits, and power. They are rewarded very well for these services and most of them are objective and subjective pillars of these unjust, evil, and nature-and-human nature-eroding-and-polluting systems.
Overwhelming majority of teachers, professors, and academics in the schools, colleges, and universities are like that too and play similar roles in the system. The few, who are not like that, seldom survive in these establishments. They are brainwashing countless millions of students-creating new generations of tokens and coins for the civilian, military, and corporate slot machines- who, by and large, do not know what is being done to them and are paying exorbitant tuition and other fees-to be brainwashed and fit into those slots- from which all the whores of the system are paid high salaries and other benefits. The relatively very few, who know what is happening, are powerless to bring about the necessary changes. Such is the unmatchable power of money-the bond of all bonds (Marx)-in the contemporary Advanced Capitalist-Imperialist Technocratic Civilization and its imitators in the Third World.
This is a large and very important topic and requires the writing of a separate article.
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Note by Fazal Rahman This audio contains important information and interviews on the Ukraine C... more Note by Fazal Rahman
This audio contains important information and interviews on the Ukraine Crisis and its fascists, Brazilian fascists, Russia, USA,, and Europe, etc. The US and Western mainstream media continue to deny the existence of neo-Nazis in Ukraine, against all the factual evidence. They are confident of the efficacy of their lies and coverups in their populations, overwhelming majorities of which are not only ignorant, gullible, and receptive, but are unconsciously conditioned to demand and require such deceptions. The mass unconscious and mass consciousness in these societies have become very dangerous, because, among other things, these have become the mass psychological and cultural basis of fascism in much of the West, and especially in the US. These have been effectively immunized against all real facts, truth, logic, history, ethics and morality, justice, and goodness, which are replaced by their opposites in the mass consciousness.
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This audio contains commentary on the newly established Disinformation Board by the US government... more This audio contains commentary on the newly established Disinformation Board by the US government and Biden's plan to send $33 billion more to Ukraine, in the midst of economic crisis in the US, which is going to get worse. It contains interviews with Scott Ritter, David Tawil, and Peter Coffin, critical political, military, and economic analysts.
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Papers by Fazal Rahman
The percentage of Americans able to access quality healthcare hit a new low of 55% in 2024, accor... more The percentage of Americans able to access quality healthcare hit a new low of 55% in 2024, according to the West Health-Gallup Healthcare Affordability Index. Affordability of healthcare has become one of the top issues ahead of the 2024 US presidential election.
The US healthcare system continues to lag far behind other high-income countries, an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund shows.
Note by Fazal Rahman This article was published in Lancet, a world-leading general medical jour... more Note by Fazal Rahman
This article was published in Lancet, a world-leading general medical journal. According to its estimates, up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza, which include both direct and indirect deaths, resulting from the Israeli genocidal war against the Palestinians . Using the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2 375 259, this would translate to 7•9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip. This is what the US and much of the West have been supporting, funding, and arming. Why I am not surprised or shocked? Because they themselves have done even much worse in their past and recent history.
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Note by Fazal Rahman This article describes some of the reality of Prison-Industrial-Complex (PIC... more Note by Fazal Rahman This article describes some of the reality of Prison-Industrial-Complex (PIC) in the US, which, as stated by many of its victims, is continuation of slavery in the 21 st Century. As is the common and routine practice in all politico-economic matters here, law enforcement, government, and corporate officials-the beneficiaries of exploitation of such slave labor-not only try to cover it up, but justify, rationalize, and moralize it. This is one of innumerable manifestations of the sinister reality of American capitalist-imperialist "democracy", which has created hundreds of millions of clones thumping their chests about being free, democratic, advanced, and exceptional. They are exceptional indeed, but not in the way they imagine.
Israel unleashed five wars on Gaza since 2006, the atrocities of which have been getting much wor... more Israel unleashed five wars on Gaza since 2006, the atrocities of which have been getting much worse and greater. In the current 2023 war, residential buildings, houses, hospitals, schools, and infrastructures are all being demonically bombed, burnt, and destroyed. Al Ahli Hospital with patients, wounded, and people taking refuge there for safety was targeted, killing at least 500 people and destroying whatever little was left there for saving lives. Total blockade has been imposed on the Gaza strip, blocking food, water, electricity, fuel, medicines, and other necessities of life. More than one million people were ordered to move to southern part of Gaza from the North. Those who were trying to move there, numerous walking as they had no other options, to save their lives, were bombed on their way. The southern part is also being bombed. Close to 10,000 Gazans, including more than 3,900 babies and children have already been killed, and close to 23,000 wounded, including 6,300 children. 420 Palestinian children are killed or injured every day in the Gaza Strip (3).
Note by Fazal Rahman Most commenters on this article on AOL are exuding their fascist-racist an... more Note by Fazal Rahman
Most commenters on this article on AOL are exuding their fascist-racist anti-Muslim venom. As clearly stated in the article, most of the 1.25 million people on the watchlist are Muslims, who have never committed any crimes and have no connections with terrorism or terrorists. They are the ones who are being terrorized by the US government agencies and the commenters there. American history is full of brutal massive repressions against dissidents, socialists, and communists. These Muslims are none of those. They function within the American capitalist political and economic system. Such systems are also dominant in all the Muslim countries.
Also, as documented by James A. Lucas, US state terrorism has killed 20 to 30 million people in various countries since the Second World War
James A. Lucas. U.S. Regime Has Killed 20-30 Million People Since World War II. https://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-regime-has-killed-20-30-million-people-since-world-war-ii/5633111
US high tech military machine slaughtered more than 3 million Vietnamese in the Vietnam War and around 3 million in wars against Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yugoslavia, and Syria. Countless millions were injured and maimed, were forced to flee to other countries as refugees, and became internally displaced, their means of living and infrastructures also having been destroyed.
Compared to such massive US State Terrorism, Non-State Terrorism, which almost always is a response to state terrorism, during the same period caused incomparably lower deaths, countable in thousands, and other damages.
Overwhelming majorities of Americans and Europeans are ignorant of these facts and do not even want to know them, and, instead, emit self-righteous one-sided harangues only condemning non-state terrorisms, without the slightest understanding of their causal connections to the massive state terrorisms, and omitting the latter totally.
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Note by Fazal Rahman Under capitalism and imperialism, science and technology and mankind have b... more Note by Fazal Rahman
Under capitalism and imperialism, science and technology and mankind have been on the wrong tack during the past few centuries, reaching the current sinister and mass suicidal stage. All these developments in researches on ever more lethal and effective weapons of mass destruction are one of the numerous results of that and one of the greatest other dangers that have been created in human history. Western Capitalist-Imperialist Civilization has created this sinister reality. Since 1940s, US has been initiating and leading these processes, forcing other countries to do the same, leaving no other alternatives to them.
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Note by Fazal Rahman In this article, a Pakistani writer, Rafia Zakaria, analyzes the long term ... more Note by Fazal Rahman
In this article, a Pakistani writer, Rafia Zakaria, analyzes the long term racist attributions of mountain climbings to the White European and North American climbers, while ignoring the local porters who not only make that possible, but have far more experience, expertise, and hardiness in high mountain climbing. A porter was left dying on K2 in Pakistan, the second highest and most dangerous mountain in the world, by Norwegian climbers, so that they could claim being the fastest climbers in the world by scaling the 14 highest peaks in the world in 92 days.
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The great grandson of Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was detained in Mumbai on Wednesday a... more The great grandson of Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was detained in Mumbai on Wednesday as he left his residence to commemorate an iconic feat of India’s freedom movement against colonial British rule.
Tushar Gandhi, the fourth generation of the coveted Indian leader’s family, was headed to August Kranti Maidan to mark the “do or die” call of his great grandfather against the British rulers in 1942 when he was detained by the state police.
Note by Fazal Rahman Hindutva, movement of Hindus to establish the hegemony of Hindus and Hindu... more Note by Fazal Rahman
Hindutva, movement of Hindus to establish the hegemony of Hindus and Hinduism in India, under the current Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, lead by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is much worse than the White Supremacist or neo-Nazi movements in the US or elsewhere, as it consists of hundreds of millions of Hindus majority there. Apart from brutal hatred and discrimination against the lower casts untouchables, they are now viciously discriminating against and brutally attacking other religious and ethnic minorities, including the 207 million Muslims. One of the major causes of this is the growth of Indian economy, technology, and military strength, which have created some power syndrome in the mass psychology of Hindus, somewhat similar to the Super-Power Syndrome in the mass psychology of Americans.
Recently, Hindu mobs have been attacking the Christian minority in Manipur state. Following two articles focus on that situation.
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Poor nations are forced to fill the ‘coffers of big banks and polluters’ instead of protecting pe... more Poor nations are forced to fill the ‘coffers of big banks and polluters’ instead of protecting people’s homes, experts say
Debt-stricken nations that are also highly vulnerable to the climate crisis have paid a staggering $50bn (£39bn) to G20 creditors since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report.
The analysis, conducted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), sheds light on the financial burden faced by the world's poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries, as they grapple with repaying debts to the 20 richest nations of the world.
This and an earlier paper (Rahman 1980) have ventured into the terra incognita and focused on the... more This and an earlier paper (Rahman 1980) have ventured into the terra incognita and focused on the effects of social environment on the epigenetic and biosocial regulation of human nature. Undoubtedly, there are also the effects of natural and physical environment on such regulation, which are also important to investigate. Various research studies with other forms of life, cited in the Review of Literature in these papers, reveal how changes in the internal and external physical environmental factors cause corresponding epigenetic and gene regulatory changes in various organisms.
A dialectical theory is developed in these papers on the dialectical and relative nature and regulation of human nature, in relation to and in interactions with the politico-economic, mass psychological, and cultural systems and processes of the social environment. The main focus is on the totally un-researched and unknown areas and effects of such regulation on the epigenetic and gene regulatory dimensions. Some recent research findings which clearly demonstrate that domestication forces and pressures and directional selection (analogous to changes in the politico-economic and cultural forces and pressures in humans) bring about tangible and heritable gene regulatory changes in some animals are reviewed and correlated with the hypotheses and discoveries of our theoretical research. It is concluded that the imperialist capitalism-science and technology-culture complex, especially in its extremist forms and advanced stages, like those of the US, gives rise to extreme imbalances in the differential socio-genetic regulation of human nature.
Destruction of the ecology of nature is dialectically related to the destruction of the ecology of human nature, both being the historical products of the co-evolution of capitalism and technology.
I HAVE never felt as uncomfortable and scrutinised in any European capital as I have in Paris,... more I HAVE never felt as uncomfortable and scrutinised in any European capital
as I have in Paris, where many white people exude silent belligerence.
I wasn’t surprised, then, by the video of a French policemen shooting a teenager of Algerian descent during a routine traffic stop. The teenager was 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk. In the days following the fatal shooting, thousands of rioters took to the streets of France and burned down shops and cars. The protesters said they identified with the teenager because they too had faced persecution by the police. The incident seems to have brought France’s racism towards Muslims and other non-white immigrants to the forefront.
The Taliban’s Ban Works: Opium Production Collapses in Afghanistan Note by Fazal Rahman Banni... more The Taliban’s Ban Works: Opium Production Collapses in Afghanistan
Note by Fazal Rahman
Banning drugs and effectively greatly reducing them and opium production by Taliban in Afghanistan, under such dire economic conditions and international hostility, is a reflection of their idealist and sincere adherence to Islamic religious teachings and ethics, which is in diametrical contrast to pragmatic capitalist materialism of the West.
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Narendra Modi arrived in Australia late on Monday, and last night was scheduled to address a 20,0... more Narendra Modi arrived in Australia late on Monday, and last night was scheduled to address a 20,000-strong crowd — mostly of Indian origin — at the Olympic stadium. There has been resistance, including posters in Sydney — mostly torn down — calling for a citizen’s arrest of the ‘Hindu terrorist Modi’.
The terrorist charge largely harks back to the anti-Muslim pogroms in Ahmedabad in 2002 when Modi, who was then the chief minister of Gujarat, decided that the state’s police and firefighters would do nothing to protect the victims. At least 2,000 people were murdered. Modi predictably denied all responsibility for the violence.
ON the eve of the G7 summit in Japan last week, there was a sudden outburst of hand-wringing and ... more ON the eve of the G7 summit in Japan last week, there was a sudden outburst of hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth in Australia. Just hours after the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, had confirmed that Joe Biden would be visiting the country for the chiefly anti-China Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) summit in Sydney, the US president announced that, sorry, he wouldn't be able to make it. Biden said he would be obliged to rush back from Japan to deal with his country's debt crisis. Several commentators lamented that his absence would play into China's narrative that the US is insufficiently engaged with the Indo-Pacific to remain the regional hegemon. Others reassured the public that America remains dedicated to its Asia-Pacific role. Japan's prime minister followed Biden's example, but the fourth component of the Quad decided to carry on. Narendra Modi arrived in Australia late on Monday, and last night was scheduled to address a 20,000-strong crowd-mostly of Indian origin-at the Olympic stadium. There has been resistance, including posters in Sydneymostly torn down-calling for a citizen's arrest of the 'Hindu terrorist Modi'.
Note by Fazal Rahman Burning of irreplaceable books and manuscripts in the Madrassa Azizia librar... more Note by Fazal Rahman Burning of irreplaceable books and manuscripts in the Madrassa Azizia library by Hindu mobs is one of the numerous acts of violence against Muslims in India, under the current government of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), lead by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, under whose government in the state of Gujarat hundreds of Muslims were massacred by Hindu mobs in 2002, with impunity. BJP is an extremist Hindu supremist political party, allied with other Hindu supremist and anti-Muslim organizations. Its policies and actions are diametrically the opposites of those of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, the leaders of Indian national liberation movement, which freed India from British colonialism. End of note Madrassa Azizia was a well-known religious school in Bihar Sharif town.-Photo by BBC
Karim Ahmed Khan, who has issued the arrest warrant for Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has be... more Karim Ahmed Khan, who has issued the arrest warrant for Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has been the Chief Prosecutor of International Criminal Court (ICC) since 2021. He is a British citizen. His father was born in Mardan in India, during the British colonial rule. After partition, Mardan became part of Pakistan. His brother, Imran Ahmed Khan, was a conservative British MP, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail, for sexually assaulting a 15 years old boy, after intoxicating him.
Karim Ahmed Khan replaced Fatou Bensouda at ICC, who in 2017 had announced plans to start investigating historic allegations of crimes against humanity and war crimes. This followed a 2016 ICC report that affirmed a "reasonable basis" to believe that the US had carried out war crimes in Afghanistan. However, Khan announced that ICC investigation will exclude war crimes committed by US forces and their allies, and that his office will focus on alleged crimes of Taliban and Islamic State. The main reason for replacing Fatou Bensouda with him at the ICC was precisely this change in the contents and directions of the investigation.
Note by Fazal Rahman Excellent analysis of the current international situation by Lieutenant-Ge... more Note by Fazal Rahman
Excellent analysis of the current international situation by Lieutenant-General Evgeny Buzhinsky, who knows what he is talking about, especially in the military aspects. However, many assistants of US and NATO proxy war, like the Poles, the Balts, the Czechs, which he talks about, will have no relevance, in case the Anal Character (Freudian term for extreme irrational stubbornness) US imperialism, with which almost all the US leaders have been infected throughout history, somehow changes its self-damaging and world-damaging policies and actions in the current hot war in Ukraine. This proxy war is not a cold war. It is a rapidly escalating hot war, which Ukrainian puppet, Zelensky, has been trying to escalate into the Third World War, endangering the survival of human and most other species. He should be tried for plotting this most dangerous crime against humanity and nature in some international court. Churchill’s speech about Iron Curtain only gained prominence in the West and its clients elsewhere. In its essence, it was nonsensical. Stalin understood the political economy, mass psychology, policies and actions of the US and Western imperialisms better than most other Soviet and Russian leaders. Gorbachev and Yeltsin understood these less than any others, and ruined the USSR and socialism there and internationally. The current crisis and war in Ukraine is one of the numerous results of that Grand Betrayal.
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Note by Fazal Rahman This audio contains important information and interviews on the Ukraine C... more Note by Fazal Rahman
This audio contains important information and interviews on the Ukraine Crisis and its fascists, Brazilian fascists, Russia, USA,, and Europe, etc. The US and Western mainstream media continue to deny the existence of neo-Nazis in Ukraine, against all the factual evidence. They are confident of the efficacy of their lies and coverups in their populations, overwhelming majorities of which are not only ignorant, gullible, and receptive, but are unconsciously conditioned to demand and require such deceptions. The mass unconscious and mass consciousness in these societies have become very dangerous, because, among other things, these have become the mass psychological and cultural basis of fascism in much of the West, and especially in the US. These have been effectively immunized against all real facts, truth, logic, history, ethics and morality, justice, and goodness, which are replaced by their opposites in the mass consciousness.
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This audio contains commentary on the newly established Disinformation Board by the US government... more This audio contains commentary on the newly established Disinformation Board by the US government and Biden's plan to send $33 billion more to Ukraine, in the midst of economic crisis in the US, which is going to get worse. It contains interviews with Scott Ritter, David Tawil, and Peter Coffin, critical political, military, and economic analysts.
46 views
The percentage of Americans able to access quality healthcare hit a new low of 55% in 2024, accor... more The percentage of Americans able to access quality healthcare hit a new low of 55% in 2024, according to the West Health-Gallup Healthcare Affordability Index. Affordability of healthcare has become one of the top issues ahead of the 2024 US presidential election.
The US healthcare system continues to lag far behind other high-income countries, an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund shows.
Note by Fazal Rahman This article was published in Lancet, a world-leading general medical jour... more Note by Fazal Rahman
This article was published in Lancet, a world-leading general medical journal. According to its estimates, up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza, which include both direct and indirect deaths, resulting from the Israeli genocidal war against the Palestinians . Using the 2022 Gaza Strip population estimate of 2 375 259, this would translate to 7•9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip. This is what the US and much of the West have been supporting, funding, and arming. Why I am not surprised or shocked? Because they themselves have done even much worse in their past and recent history.
End of note
Note by Fazal Rahman This article describes some of the reality of Prison-Industrial-Complex (PIC... more Note by Fazal Rahman This article describes some of the reality of Prison-Industrial-Complex (PIC) in the US, which, as stated by many of its victims, is continuation of slavery in the 21 st Century. As is the common and routine practice in all politico-economic matters here, law enforcement, government, and corporate officials-the beneficiaries of exploitation of such slave labor-not only try to cover it up, but justify, rationalize, and moralize it. This is one of innumerable manifestations of the sinister reality of American capitalist-imperialist "democracy", which has created hundreds of millions of clones thumping their chests about being free, democratic, advanced, and exceptional. They are exceptional indeed, but not in the way they imagine.
Israel unleashed five wars on Gaza since 2006, the atrocities of which have been getting much wor... more Israel unleashed five wars on Gaza since 2006, the atrocities of which have been getting much worse and greater. In the current 2023 war, residential buildings, houses, hospitals, schools, and infrastructures are all being demonically bombed, burnt, and destroyed. Al Ahli Hospital with patients, wounded, and people taking refuge there for safety was targeted, killing at least 500 people and destroying whatever little was left there for saving lives. Total blockade has been imposed on the Gaza strip, blocking food, water, electricity, fuel, medicines, and other necessities of life. More than one million people were ordered to move to southern part of Gaza from the North. Those who were trying to move there, numerous walking as they had no other options, to save their lives, were bombed on their way. The southern part is also being bombed. Close to 10,000 Gazans, including more than 3,900 babies and children have already been killed, and close to 23,000 wounded, including 6,300 children. 420 Palestinian children are killed or injured every day in the Gaza Strip (3).
Note by Fazal Rahman Most commenters on this article on AOL are exuding their fascist-racist an... more Note by Fazal Rahman
Most commenters on this article on AOL are exuding their fascist-racist anti-Muslim venom. As clearly stated in the article, most of the 1.25 million people on the watchlist are Muslims, who have never committed any crimes and have no connections with terrorism or terrorists. They are the ones who are being terrorized by the US government agencies and the commenters there. American history is full of brutal massive repressions against dissidents, socialists, and communists. These Muslims are none of those. They function within the American capitalist political and economic system. Such systems are also dominant in all the Muslim countries.
Also, as documented by James A. Lucas, US state terrorism has killed 20 to 30 million people in various countries since the Second World War
James A. Lucas. U.S. Regime Has Killed 20-30 Million People Since World War II. https://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-regime-has-killed-20-30-million-people-since-world-war-ii/5633111
US high tech military machine slaughtered more than 3 million Vietnamese in the Vietnam War and around 3 million in wars against Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yugoslavia, and Syria. Countless millions were injured and maimed, were forced to flee to other countries as refugees, and became internally displaced, their means of living and infrastructures also having been destroyed.
Compared to such massive US State Terrorism, Non-State Terrorism, which almost always is a response to state terrorism, during the same period caused incomparably lower deaths, countable in thousands, and other damages.
Overwhelming majorities of Americans and Europeans are ignorant of these facts and do not even want to know them, and, instead, emit self-righteous one-sided harangues only condemning non-state terrorisms, without the slightest understanding of their causal connections to the massive state terrorisms, and omitting the latter totally.
End of note
Note by Fazal Rahman Under capitalism and imperialism, science and technology and mankind have b... more Note by Fazal Rahman
Under capitalism and imperialism, science and technology and mankind have been on the wrong tack during the past few centuries, reaching the current sinister and mass suicidal stage. All these developments in researches on ever more lethal and effective weapons of mass destruction are one of the numerous results of that and one of the greatest other dangers that have been created in human history. Western Capitalist-Imperialist Civilization has created this sinister reality. Since 1940s, US has been initiating and leading these processes, forcing other countries to do the same, leaving no other alternatives to them.
End of note
Note by Fazal Rahman In this article, a Pakistani writer, Rafia Zakaria, analyzes the long term ... more Note by Fazal Rahman
In this article, a Pakistani writer, Rafia Zakaria, analyzes the long term racist attributions of mountain climbings to the White European and North American climbers, while ignoring the local porters who not only make that possible, but have far more experience, expertise, and hardiness in high mountain climbing. A porter was left dying on K2 in Pakistan, the second highest and most dangerous mountain in the world, by Norwegian climbers, so that they could claim being the fastest climbers in the world by scaling the 14 highest peaks in the world in 92 days.
End of note
The great grandson of Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was detained in Mumbai on Wednesday a... more The great grandson of Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was detained in Mumbai on Wednesday as he left his residence to commemorate an iconic feat of India’s freedom movement against colonial British rule.
Tushar Gandhi, the fourth generation of the coveted Indian leader’s family, was headed to August Kranti Maidan to mark the “do or die” call of his great grandfather against the British rulers in 1942 when he was detained by the state police.
Note by Fazal Rahman Hindutva, movement of Hindus to establish the hegemony of Hindus and Hindu... more Note by Fazal Rahman
Hindutva, movement of Hindus to establish the hegemony of Hindus and Hinduism in India, under the current Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, lead by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is much worse than the White Supremacist or neo-Nazi movements in the US or elsewhere, as it consists of hundreds of millions of Hindus majority there. Apart from brutal hatred and discrimination against the lower casts untouchables, they are now viciously discriminating against and brutally attacking other religious and ethnic minorities, including the 207 million Muslims. One of the major causes of this is the growth of Indian economy, technology, and military strength, which have created some power syndrome in the mass psychology of Hindus, somewhat similar to the Super-Power Syndrome in the mass psychology of Americans.
Recently, Hindu mobs have been attacking the Christian minority in Manipur state. Following two articles focus on that situation.
End of note
Poor nations are forced to fill the ‘coffers of big banks and polluters’ instead of protecting pe... more Poor nations are forced to fill the ‘coffers of big banks and polluters’ instead of protecting people’s homes, experts say
Debt-stricken nations that are also highly vulnerable to the climate crisis have paid a staggering $50bn (£39bn) to G20 creditors since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report.
The analysis, conducted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), sheds light on the financial burden faced by the world's poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries, as they grapple with repaying debts to the 20 richest nations of the world.
This and an earlier paper (Rahman 1980) have ventured into the terra incognita and focused on the... more This and an earlier paper (Rahman 1980) have ventured into the terra incognita and focused on the effects of social environment on the epigenetic and biosocial regulation of human nature. Undoubtedly, there are also the effects of natural and physical environment on such regulation, which are also important to investigate. Various research studies with other forms of life, cited in the Review of Literature in these papers, reveal how changes in the internal and external physical environmental factors cause corresponding epigenetic and gene regulatory changes in various organisms.
A dialectical theory is developed in these papers on the dialectical and relative nature and regulation of human nature, in relation to and in interactions with the politico-economic, mass psychological, and cultural systems and processes of the social environment. The main focus is on the totally un-researched and unknown areas and effects of such regulation on the epigenetic and gene regulatory dimensions. Some recent research findings which clearly demonstrate that domestication forces and pressures and directional selection (analogous to changes in the politico-economic and cultural forces and pressures in humans) bring about tangible and heritable gene regulatory changes in some animals are reviewed and correlated with the hypotheses and discoveries of our theoretical research. It is concluded that the imperialist capitalism-science and technology-culture complex, especially in its extremist forms and advanced stages, like those of the US, gives rise to extreme imbalances in the differential socio-genetic regulation of human nature.
Destruction of the ecology of nature is dialectically related to the destruction of the ecology of human nature, both being the historical products of the co-evolution of capitalism and technology.
I HAVE never felt as uncomfortable and scrutinised in any European capital as I have in Paris,... more I HAVE never felt as uncomfortable and scrutinised in any European capital
as I have in Paris, where many white people exude silent belligerence.
I wasn’t surprised, then, by the video of a French policemen shooting a teenager of Algerian descent during a routine traffic stop. The teenager was 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk. In the days following the fatal shooting, thousands of rioters took to the streets of France and burned down shops and cars. The protesters said they identified with the teenager because they too had faced persecution by the police. The incident seems to have brought France’s racism towards Muslims and other non-white immigrants to the forefront.
The Taliban’s Ban Works: Opium Production Collapses in Afghanistan Note by Fazal Rahman Banni... more The Taliban’s Ban Works: Opium Production Collapses in Afghanistan
Note by Fazal Rahman
Banning drugs and effectively greatly reducing them and opium production by Taliban in Afghanistan, under such dire economic conditions and international hostility, is a reflection of their idealist and sincere adherence to Islamic religious teachings and ethics, which is in diametrical contrast to pragmatic capitalist materialism of the West.
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Narendra Modi arrived in Australia late on Monday, and last night was scheduled to address a 20,0... more Narendra Modi arrived in Australia late on Monday, and last night was scheduled to address a 20,000-strong crowd — mostly of Indian origin — at the Olympic stadium. There has been resistance, including posters in Sydney — mostly torn down — calling for a citizen’s arrest of the ‘Hindu terrorist Modi’.
The terrorist charge largely harks back to the anti-Muslim pogroms in Ahmedabad in 2002 when Modi, who was then the chief minister of Gujarat, decided that the state’s police and firefighters would do nothing to protect the victims. At least 2,000 people were murdered. Modi predictably denied all responsibility for the violence.
ON the eve of the G7 summit in Japan last week, there was a sudden outburst of hand-wringing and ... more ON the eve of the G7 summit in Japan last week, there was a sudden outburst of hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth in Australia. Just hours after the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, had confirmed that Joe Biden would be visiting the country for the chiefly anti-China Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) summit in Sydney, the US president announced that, sorry, he wouldn't be able to make it. Biden said he would be obliged to rush back from Japan to deal with his country's debt crisis. Several commentators lamented that his absence would play into China's narrative that the US is insufficiently engaged with the Indo-Pacific to remain the regional hegemon. Others reassured the public that America remains dedicated to its Asia-Pacific role. Japan's prime minister followed Biden's example, but the fourth component of the Quad decided to carry on. Narendra Modi arrived in Australia late on Monday, and last night was scheduled to address a 20,000-strong crowd-mostly of Indian origin-at the Olympic stadium. There has been resistance, including posters in Sydneymostly torn down-calling for a citizen's arrest of the 'Hindu terrorist Modi'.
Note by Fazal Rahman Burning of irreplaceable books and manuscripts in the Madrassa Azizia librar... more Note by Fazal Rahman Burning of irreplaceable books and manuscripts in the Madrassa Azizia library by Hindu mobs is one of the numerous acts of violence against Muslims in India, under the current government of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), lead by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, under whose government in the state of Gujarat hundreds of Muslims were massacred by Hindu mobs in 2002, with impunity. BJP is an extremist Hindu supremist political party, allied with other Hindu supremist and anti-Muslim organizations. Its policies and actions are diametrically the opposites of those of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, the leaders of Indian national liberation movement, which freed India from British colonialism. End of note Madrassa Azizia was a well-known religious school in Bihar Sharif town.-Photo by BBC
Karim Ahmed Khan, who has issued the arrest warrant for Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has be... more Karim Ahmed Khan, who has issued the arrest warrant for Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has been the Chief Prosecutor of International Criminal Court (ICC) since 2021. He is a British citizen. His father was born in Mardan in India, during the British colonial rule. After partition, Mardan became part of Pakistan. His brother, Imran Ahmed Khan, was a conservative British MP, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail, for sexually assaulting a 15 years old boy, after intoxicating him.
Karim Ahmed Khan replaced Fatou Bensouda at ICC, who in 2017 had announced plans to start investigating historic allegations of crimes against humanity and war crimes. This followed a 2016 ICC report that affirmed a "reasonable basis" to believe that the US had carried out war crimes in Afghanistan. However, Khan announced that ICC investigation will exclude war crimes committed by US forces and their allies, and that his office will focus on alleged crimes of Taliban and Islamic State. The main reason for replacing Fatou Bensouda with him at the ICC was precisely this change in the contents and directions of the investigation.
Note by Fazal Rahman Excellent analysis of the current international situation by Lieutenant-Ge... more Note by Fazal Rahman
Excellent analysis of the current international situation by Lieutenant-General Evgeny Buzhinsky, who knows what he is talking about, especially in the military aspects. However, many assistants of US and NATO proxy war, like the Poles, the Balts, the Czechs, which he talks about, will have no relevance, in case the Anal Character (Freudian term for extreme irrational stubbornness) US imperialism, with which almost all the US leaders have been infected throughout history, somehow changes its self-damaging and world-damaging policies and actions in the current hot war in Ukraine. This proxy war is not a cold war. It is a rapidly escalating hot war, which Ukrainian puppet, Zelensky, has been trying to escalate into the Third World War, endangering the survival of human and most other species. He should be tried for plotting this most dangerous crime against humanity and nature in some international court. Churchill’s speech about Iron Curtain only gained prominence in the West and its clients elsewhere. In its essence, it was nonsensical. Stalin understood the political economy, mass psychology, policies and actions of the US and Western imperialisms better than most other Soviet and Russian leaders. Gorbachev and Yeltsin understood these less than any others, and ruined the USSR and socialism there and internationally. The current crisis and war in Ukraine is one of the numerous results of that Grand Betrayal.
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Positivist, neo-positivist, empiricist, and pragmatic approaches dominate all the intellectual en... more Positivist, neo-positivist, empiricist, and pragmatic approaches dominate all the intellectual environment in the capitalist and imperialist societies, and especially in the English speaking ones. The flaws of these approaches include fragmentations and abstractions, absence of theoretical groundings or grounding them in false and misleading frameworks, among others. Such fragmented facts do not lead to their essential meanings, relevance, essences, and causes, which can only happen in accurate theories that reveal the nature of regularities and essential ties of reality. Theories that are essential in this regard are those that reveal the nature of politico-economic and social systems as well as of human natures, mass psychologies, and cultures, all of which produce and reproduce these regularities and essential ties of reality systematically and constantly. True and full meanings of facts and their relevance are only revealed in their connection to the related facts and their essences, where these originate in various forms and appearances. To comprehend the full meanings of facts, forms, and appearances, it is essential to make the transition to their essences and contents. Dialectical logic, the use of which is minimal in the English speaking countries, is of great help in those transitions.
Human qualities and values, culture, mass psychology, and mass behavior are dialectically related... more Human qualities and values, culture, mass psychology, and mass behavior are dialectically related to their genetic, epigenetic, biological, and physiological dimensions, with mutually conditioning and modifying interactions, which, in principle, are heritable. On the genetic level, these involve differential regulation and activation of the correlated underlying genes. Human populations have undergone thousands of years of various forms of alienation and reification under various class-divided social formations, which, under capitalism and imperialism, greatly multiplied, accelerated, and affected the whole populations, with variable individual effects within the populations. If the particular genes have not been selected out and eliminated, but only modified in their levels of activation, then those levels can, in principle, be re-modified, under different social formations, with different political economies, like socialism and communism, which would create different human qualities and values, cultures, mass psychologies, and mass behaviors. However, such transcendence, which Marx had envisioned, will not occur all at once, but in series of transcendences, over a relatively long period of time.