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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

2 months

Indigenous peoples, the largest leatherback nesting beach in the northern Indian Ocean, pristine coral reefs, vast tracts of rainforest and countless species found nowhere else in the world. All to be destroyed for a container terminal. Do read and share.

Remote Island of Great Nicobar Threatened by Container Terminal

A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

4 months

In the background is an Adani coal mine on what used to be one of the densest tracts of forest in India, Hansdeo Arand. This devastation was enabled by merciless persecution of Indigenous and environmental activists by the Modi-led Indian government.

Tribal Army

@TribalArmy

4 months

भारत का समृद्ध जैवविविधता से पूर्ण हसदेव जंगल का विनाश करने वाले नरेंद्र मोदी विश्व पर्यावरण दिवस पर आज #एक_पेड़_माँ_के_नाम का नौटंकी अभियान चला रहे है। #WorldEnvironmentDay ‌

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

They've lived forever alongside tigers. They're being evicted by a colonial idea of conservation in which animals must be strictly separated from people. Except, of course, tourists in jeeps.

Survival International

@Survival

3 months

Amarlal, a young Baiga man from India, explains how his people have been harassed & threatened with eviction since their village was declared part of a #tiger corridor. They are sent to jail for building houses, or even collecting wood, but they are determined to stay.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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The Nicobar long-tailed macaque, extracts leaf fibers to floss its teeth, breaks open coconuts with rocks, uses twigs to scratch its back, and breaks up into small groups to surreptitiously raid plantations. They could be driven to extinction by The Great Nicobar project.

Mogens Trolle

@MogensTrolle

3 months

Videos of long-tailed macaques using stone tools to crack open rock oysters - and Koram Island in Thailand where it takes place. Some of the tools they use look like miniature versions of stone-age hand axes with sharp edges and points appropriate for precision hacking.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

The splendor and wonder of just one island. Please read and share. Not sure how much of our world we can save but, together, we can surely save Great Nicobar.

Remote Island of Great Nicobar Threatened by Container Terminal

A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

1 year

This reminds me of how the Bengal famine was never declared to be a famine--because then the British government would have to provide relief. But this is the Indian government. via @scroll_in

How India made it harder to declare a drought

In 2016, a government manual complicated an already fraught process. This made it significantly more difficult for affected farmers to seek relief.

scroll.in

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

The closest living relative of the dodo, the Nicobar pigeon, lives on this island. Along with many other amazing creatures. And an Indigenous people who have no other home.

Remote Island of Great Nicobar Threatened by Container Terminal

A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

My timeline is full of videos of floods and fires. And reports of record oil profits and climate protestors being arrested.

Volcaholic 🌋

@volcaholic1

3 months

Four people are missing after catastrophic flooding, caused by severe thunderstorms, hit southern Switzerland yet again. Upper Valais, including Saastal, Goms, Zermatt, and Getwing, has been severely affected. The storms caused flooding, landslides, and debris flows in the

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

2 months

Pristine forests to be cleared for an Adani coal mine (Hasdeo) and for a container shipping terminal that will likely also go to Adani. Both projects are immensely destructive of Indigenous rights and biodiversity. My article on Great Nicobar:

Remote Island of Great Nicobar Threatened by Container Terminal

A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

www.scientificamerican.com

Advaid അദ്വൈത്

@Advaidism

2 months

Over 270,000 trees to be axed in Hasdeo forests and 964,000 trees in Great Nicobar. [Today's Hindustan Times] While we are fighting climate change...

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

4 months

The destruction of international law by the US emboldens aspiring genocidaires everywhere

Siddharth

@DearthOfSid

4 months

Brazen, open call for genocide by a right-wing poster boy on south Asia’s leading multimedia news agency. Horrifying and shameful that this man is given platforms to spew his venom.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

How Native American land management ensured the abundance that colonizers enjoyed--and abused. via @sciam

The Ecology of the First Thanksgiving

Food sources around Plymouth Colony were so abundant because of Native land management

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

Fascinating story of scientific detective-work and cross-fertilization via @sciam

Investigating Antidepressants' Surprising Effect on COVID Deaths

Researchers are still puzzling over what this drug does at the molecular level to help COVID patients

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

8 months

This is an important thread on how the US is destroying international law because it no longer serves its interests.

Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

8 months

I've been saying since the start of the war on Gaza that one key - if not THE key - prism through which one should read the conflict is that it's a fight between America's "rules-based order" and international law (see my original post👇) Sadly, since

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

Meet the horrified monkeys, the neurotic tree shrews, the sea turtles who've shared Earth also with the dinosaurs, the closest living relative of the dodo and other characters on this remote island. And the reclusive Shompen.

Remote Island of Great Nicobar Threatened by Container Terminal

A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

8 months

Muslims are "bacteria," according to a US-based Hindu supremacist: "If we do not kill the bacteria, the bacteria will kill us." via @truthout

Here’s How the Hindu Supremacist Movement Is Infiltrating US Politics

As the 100-year-old movement in India celebrates a key victory, a new report reveals its ties with the US far right.

truthout.org

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

Food gives life. It should not be subjected to the politics of domination and control. Small farmers have no option but to wrest back the ability to grow the food they want to eat and share. Agroecology is how they are doing it. @_RajPatel @MichaelFakhri @DeSchutterO

Scientific American

@sciam

3 years

Ending hunger requires much more than pulling more food from the ground; it involves grappling with entrenched hierarchies of power. Agroecology frees the world’s poorest farmers from such structures of control

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

2 years

A society designed to take care of all life, human and non-human. via @sciam

This Amazonian Indigenous Group Has Lessons in Sustainable Living for All of Us

The Apiwtxa community has designed a way to live with, rather than off, nature

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

4 years

The lethality of dam-building in an extremely unstable seismic zone. via @sciam

The Impending Dam Disaster in the Himalayas

Two of the most populous nations—China and India—are building hundreds of dams in a violently active geologic zone

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

Even as Africa's farmers are protesting the corporate takeover of agriculture, India's farmers have been on the streets for almost a year now, for the same reason. via @sciam

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

7 months

Thanks! @GhoshAmitav My contribution is routinely erased from discussions about Churchill and the Bengal famine. Still, it's shocking to see my meticulously documented findings, even the quotes I upturned, repeatedly used in this podcast with no mention of Churchill's Secret War.

Amitav Ghosh

@GhoshAmitav

7 months

@Madhusree1984 is largely responsible for uncovering Churchill's role in the Bengal famine. No wonder the BBC didn't want to interview her.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

Even as the IPCC warns of irreversible climate change, the US legal system is helping an oil company with its relentless persecution of a lawyer who had the guts to take it on. Absent major political change, I don't see how climate change can be fixed.

Greg Palast

@Greg_Palast

3 years

The first-ever criminal prosecution by a US corporation. This, by itself, is deeply, deeply, dangerous and I will not let them put @SDonziger behind bars without raising hell! #FreeDonziger

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

7 months

The BBC interviews other scholars here, who describe Churchill's links with the Bengal famine. But it pointedly ignores me, who discovered the connection. It's simply shocking that this erasure is combined with the claim that they are finally reckoning with what happened.

Amit Guha

@AmitGuha2020

7 months

The Bengal famine of 1943 killed more than 3 million people. There is no memorial, museum, or even a plaque, anywhere in the world to the people who died. One man is determined to gather the stories before it is too late.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

7 months

"My friend said that everywhere Aaron went, he planted trees. I imagine these seeds planted in our hearts and minds. They will sprout, and they will grow into giant strong trees with deep roots built to weather the many battles that lie ahead on this burning planet."

Eli Meyerhoff 🍉

@EliMeye

7 months

Powerful words from Aaron Bushnell’s will: “If a time comes when Palestinians regain control of their land, and if the people native to the land would be open to the possibility, I would love for my ashes to be scattered in a free Palestine.” 1/2

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

If you want to know why Africa's farmers are boycotting the UN food summit today, read this. via @sciam

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

4 years

My work linking Churchill with the Bengal famine is routinely used without attribution (and often with errors). I did not try to get justice, mostly because I was happy that the issues were getting press. Perhaps I should have been more assertive. @romimahajan @AnnuJal @sohinichat

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

The closest relative of the Dodo, the iridescent Nicobar pigeon, lives on this island. Among many other irreplaceable creatures and two groups of Indigenous people.

Rafiqul Montu 🇧🇩

@ri_montu

3 months

Great Nicobar Island Is a Paradise in Danger A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity Excellent piece by @Madhusree1984 in @sciam @pankajsekh @vaishnaroy

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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One of the most reclusive people in the world, the Shompen, live only on this island. Their language and culture have barely been deciphered by scholars. They could be exterminated by this project.

Remote Island of Great Nicobar Threatened by Container Terminal

A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

Meanwhile, farmers who have been protesting Modi's pro-corporate farm laws for seven grueling months are being arrested on the colonial-era charge of sedition, which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. #FarmersProtest

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

Almost 700 Indian farmers have died over the past year protesting the corporate takeover of agriculture. The world has ignored their heroic stand. As Modi meets Biden, it's time to ensure that farmers are heard. #FarmersProtest @_RajPatel @MichaelFakhri @Million_Belay @RoKhanna

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

"I came to think of Great Nicobar as a magical world rather like Pandora of the Avatar movies—complete with Indigenous peoples, luminous mushrooms, majestic trees thousands of years old, and mysterious creatures of the forest, coastline and deep."

Remote Island of Great Nicobar Threatened by Container Terminal

A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

Why is Great Nicobar Island so very special, why do its creatures and peoples inspire so much love?

Remote Island of Great Nicobar Threatened by Container Terminal

A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

www.scientificamerican.com

Hansraj Meena

@HansrajMeena

3 months

**To Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change** I am writing to express my concern regarding the proposed development project in the Great Nicobar Islands, which will involve the felling of over 8,52,000 trees. This Rs. 750 billion project includes the construction of

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

All the more reason to protect Great Nicobar:

Remote Island of Great Nicobar Threatened by Container Terminal

A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

www.scientificamerican.com

Yale Environment 360

@YaleE360

3 months

A new study finds that it would be possible to avert a mass extinction by protecting thousands of hotspots for rare wildlife that, together, span just 1 percent of Earth. Read more @YaleE360 :

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

"We are not citizens in democracies, addressing our governments to redress injustice... . We are disenfranchised people, facing governments taken over by industry actors who welcome inequality and suffering as part of their ideology and business models."

Julia Steinberger

@JKSteinberger

3 months

Here it is: I think it's some of the most important writing I have ever done. What We Are Up Against. Exposing the secret history of the making of the climate crisis should change everything about how we act to stop it.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

Even as India's economy slides into the abyss, thousands of farmers protest for almost a year now, human-rights activists remain behind bars and a bloodthirsty state apparatus targets Muslims, a lavish biopic burnishes the Modi cult. @RanaAyyub @HartoshSinghBal

Indiatimes

@indiatimes

3 years

Encompassing the life of one of India’s foremost leaders, MX Player brings viewers the inspirational tale of PM, @narendramodi .

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

7 years

Just out! Speaking on Churchill's imperial legacy on WNYC.

On the Media

@onthemedia

7 years

When Winston Churchill crafted his own legacy, he conveniently left out his history of racism, imperialism, and classism, says @Madhusree1984 :

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

2 years

For humans, too, the lack of fences and walls, especially as climate changes, is essential to survival. via @sciam

Gazelle Traveled Distance of Nearly Half Earth's Circumference in Five Years

Maps of the journey show the importance of conserving vast, unfenced landscapes to aid the survival of Mongolian gazelles

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

7 months

This BBC "reckoning" with the Bengal famine of 1943 brings up my findings about Churchill's role, but in a fragmented way, and mostly to bat them away. It never refers to me or to Churchill's Secret War. Clearly, they don't want people to engage with the full argument.

Priyamvada Gopal ©

@PriyamvadaGopal

7 months

Blacklisting by the BBC is a thing. I've had the same experience with early producer contact and vetoing from above. These troublesome women who have their own minds...

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

Global agribusinesses are seeking to expand their reach in low-income countries with overhyped GM crops.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

Trying to save the planet is "fanaticism" that will land you a long jail term. Destroying the planet will make you unbelievably wealthy. This is the evil order in which we live.

Real Media

@RealMediaGB

3 months

⚖️ All defendants have been found guilty by unanimous verdicts in the trial of five @JustStop_Oil protesters at Southwark Crown Court this morning. They were accused of conspiring to cause public nuisance through their protest actions on the M25 in November 2022. In remarks at

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

Stan Swamy is dead. Arrested and denied bail despite being desperately ill--in effect, driven to his death by the Modi regime for helping indigenous peoples fight corporate landgrab. via @sciam

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

7 months

Thanks, @PriyamvadaGopal It's shocking to see my findings reproduced, the quotes I upturned requoted, in a fragmented way, always with the objective of explaining away my accusations, and nowhere with any reference to Churchill's Secret War. @kehinde_andrews

Priyamvada Gopal ©

@PriyamvadaGopal

7 months

@Madhusree1984 I'm sorry, Madhusree. This is scummy and feels like a jolt: I've had the same experience. They want people who follow the script.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

7 months

Uncounted numbers of famine victims in Bengal in 1943 died from consuming foods that gave them diarrhea. A starved stomach is an exceedingly sensitive one; after a weeks of starvation, it can only tolerate soft, easily digestible foods. Everything else hastens death.

Sulaiman Ahmed

@ShaykhSulaiman

7 months

10 YEAR OLD CHIL EXPRESSES HIS DISCOMFORT AFTER CONSUMING ANIMAL FEED

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@Madhusree1984

4 years

Pygmies and wildlife coexisted for millennia--until conservation coupled with extractive industries arrived. via @sciam

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

7 years

The sun may never set on British misconceptions about our empire | Ian Jack

An Oxford don wants Britons to stop feeling guilty about colonialism. But evidence suggests it already inspires more pride than shame, writes Guardian columnist Ian Jack

www.theguardian.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

This should be headline news, everywhere. We are so terrified that we refuse to look. But if we keep refusing, if we pretend the problem will fix itself, or Greta will, all by herself, we can't act to save ourselves. via @sciam

Troubling Signs of Key Antarctic Glacier Retreat Emerge

Some of the forces keeping Thwaites Glacier stable are starting to unravel

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

The incredible island where the Nicobar pigeon lives:

Remote Island of Great Nicobar Threatened by Container Terminal

A container port the Indian government plans for this remote island threatens unique Indigenous cultures and biodiversity

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

7 months

The doctors in Gaza who refused to abandon their patients, the journalists who refused to abandon the stories that had to be told, knowing that the bombs and bullets would come for them too... was that protest? Or simply sacrifice, born of profound love?

Karen Attiah

@KarenAttiah

7 months

Enslaved people threw themselves overboard during the Middle Passage-- some of those suicides were direct acts of rebellion, to reduce slavers' profits. Mass hunger strikes were used against apartheid. The more brutal the oppression, the more extreme the resistance.

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@Madhusree1984

3 years

Agroecology is the choice of millions of small farmers. It protects the climate, biodiversity, and food security. But it is not even on the agenda of the UN food summit. Raj Patel tells us why that needs to change. @Million_Belay @mrajshekhar @sciam

Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger

Millions of farmers are growing and sharing food in ways that enhance nutrition, biodiversity and quality of life

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

7 months

My original research, meticulously referenced, in Churchill's Secret War (2010), implicated Churchill in the Bengal famine of 1943. BBC contacted me for this program and then chose to ignore my voice and a full accounting of Churchill's responsibility.

Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

7 months

The BBC interviews other scholars here, who describe Churchill's links with the Bengal famine. But it pointedly ignores me, who discovered the connection. It's simply shocking that this erasure is combined with the claim that they are finally reckoning with what happened.

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2 years

This port will destroy a vast tract of Great Evergreen Rainforest, with many undocumented species, the home of the Shompen, a vulnerable Indigenous people numbering a few hundred, and a leatherback turtle nesting beach. It's omnicide. via @ET_Infra

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Biodiversity's Greatest Protectors Need Protection @sophiegrig @gatheredremains @sitavenkateswar via @sciam

Biodiversity's Greatest Protectors Need Protection

Indigenous peoples have been conserving ecosystems for millennia. Now the developed world wants to evict them

www.scientificamerican.com

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@Madhusree1984

2 months

The ferocity. I wonder how they train/brainwash these cops... do they really think climate protesters are their enemies?

GhostofDurruti

@DurrutiRiot

2 months

You watching French cops charging & attacking 10,000 climate activists at #LaRochelle today. Cops protect the bosses. They're the enemies of the people. We need to organise & resist.

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Excellent interview, @debhartha

Democracy Now!

@democracynow

5 months

India is in the midst of a pivotal election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a third term and another five years in power. But @debhartha says Modi's right-wing Hindu nationalist agenda, based primarily on "hatred and demonization of Muslims," is beginning to falter.

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This is beautiful. A liberation chant from India, for which Indian students have been jailed, at Columbia campus. "Zara zor se bolo, Azadi!" means "Shout out loud, Freedom!"

Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus at Columbia U

@CampusJewHate

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The "welcoming educational environment" at @Columbia and @BarnardCollege .

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@Madhusree1984

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Famine is a symptom of imperialism. Speaking as the researcher who discovered Churchill's role in precipitating and aggravating the Bengal famine, I can say this famine has been far more deliberately and cold-bloodedly induced, with the clear objective of killing.

UN Special Procedures

@UN_SPExperts

3 months

The recent deaths of more #Palestinian children due to hunger & malnutrition leaves no doubt that famine has spread across the entire #Gaza strip - UN experts warn.

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Emergency Fund for Herat-AFG Earthquake Victims

Emergency Fund for Herat-AFG Earthquake Victims, organized by Farida Razaqi

Today, multiple devastating earthquakes have tragically claimed the live… Farida Razaqi needs your support for Emergency Fund for Herat-AFG Earthquake Victims

www.gofundme.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

Americans don't want endless war. It's defense contractors do. @Horganism via @truthout

Are the Motives of War Profiteers Driving Us to the Brink of a New Cold War?

The first Cold War made trillions for the war industry. Profiteers know a new Cold War with China would make many more.

truthout.org

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@Madhusree1984

3 years

Trevor Noah says what those of us with dark skin can't help noticing

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@Madhusree1984

3 years

A fascinating, disturbing and important feature @sciam

Borderline Personality Disorder May Be Rooted in Trauma

A focus on the traumatic origins of an often stigmatized psychiatric diagnosis is inspiring new treatments

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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Important as this statistic is, I'm sick and tired of "humans" and "humanity" being blamed for the crimes of capitalism. Plenty of humans know how to live without destroying nature. They're being exterminated by an economic system based on endless consumption and expansion.

GO GREEN

@ECOWARRIORSS

1 year

Humans Have Altered 97 Percent of Earth’s Land Through Habitat and Species Loss and Earth cannot take any more which is why our climate and every eco system on the planet is collapsing faster than at any time in Earth billions year old history

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How I wish an Indian politician could speak so forcefully about the colonial history we share with Ireland and Palestine! All three countries were not only impoverished but also partitioned by the UK's divide and rule policies.

Arnaud Bertrand

@RnaudBertrand

7 months

Extraordinary video of the Irish PM lecturing Biden to his face - Biden who loves reminding people he's Irish! - on why "the Irish people are deeply troubled about [Gaza]" and why "the Irish have such empathy for the Palestinian people". The Irish PM

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3 years

An illegal road deep into the territory of uncontacted Amazon tribes. It must be stopped.

Survival International

@Survival

3 years

This exclusive footage shows the devastation & destruction brought by an illegal road in #indigenous lands. In #Peru , #UncontactedTribes are at risk of being wiped out unless the authorities act now to stop this & others being constructed. #AisladosParaVivir @Ciro_GalvezH

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

1 year

Arundhati Roy speaks for all of us who were shocked by Biden's embrace of Modi

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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Are we really smarter than our predecessors? If so, why are we so adept at creating ways to destroy ourselves, and so poor at ensuring the continuity of all that sustains life? @sciam

Ancient Peoples Teach Us That We Can Create a Better World

A radical retelling of civilization’s origins leads to an expansive vision of human possibility

www.scientificamerican.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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Now the Indian government is being accused of planning a settler-colonial genocide of an entire Indigenous People

Now the Indian government is being accused of planning a settler-colonial genocide of an entire...

39 scholars wrote to the Indian government warning it that its plans to turn the Shompen People's island into a mega-port and city is genocide

www.thecanary.co

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

7 months

It's astonishing that they would seek to erase the truth about something that happened 80 years ago. Clearly, burnishing the image of Empire and Churchill still remains crucial.

Priyamvada Gopal ©

@PriyamvadaGopal

7 months

I am used to this now, so I pay no mind. But when it first happens, it feels really shitty, like a jolt of condemnation for reasons you don't understand though, ofc, you know what they are deep down. Then finding your work repurposed: I'm sorry @Madhusree1984 had to endure this.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

2 years

Donziger finally walking free seems a good time to share my analysis of how US courts help US corporations avoid liability for the crimes they commit abroad. via @DissentMag

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

7 months

This famine was in 1943. But the Victorian era in India was one of almost continuous famine, and it forced the exodus of bonded laborers. It was a matter of survival. The best reference on the Victorian-era famines is Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts.

visceral warning signs 🇵🇸🥥🌴

@cleanandgritty

7 months

@nameshiv @Madhusree1984 Thank you!! I didn't know there were so many. My family is West Indian and now I'm curious how the timing in the 19thc correlated with the end of the slave trade + ~importation of other colonial subjects to the Caribbean colonies at the time

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Madhusree Mukerjee

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This old Harper's interview summarizes the main points of Churchill's Secret War (Basic Books, 2010)

Churchill's Dark Side: Six Questions for Madhusree Mukerjee, by Scott Horton

Madhusree Mukerjee, a former editor at Scientific American and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, has published a bombshell book about Churchill's

harpers.org

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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There was a Spanish flu epidemic during and after WWI. The death toll, in the tens of millions, was likely so high in India because of starvation. So it's not only Churchill, but British imperial policy that kept India in a state of incipient famine and epidemic for 190 years.

visceral warning signs 🇵🇸🥥🌴

@cleanandgritty

7 months

@nameshiv @Madhusree1984 Looking at this now it almost makes Churchill's one seem worse because there were finally several decades without one from 1901-1943... Also just having more documentation and the way he spoke about it is really disturbing and contrasts with the way he's remembered w/r/t WWII

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

How does a nation that starves children continue to see itself as a savior, a champion of human rights? A true feat of self-deception. via @truthout

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

6 years

Scott Wallace quotes me on the Sentinel Islanders for this piece in NatGeo: via @NatGeo

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

4 months

India's elections are barely over, but the rush to build a shipping terminal, international airport and an entire new town of 350,000 people on this jewel of an island is already on.

Rishika Pardikar

@rishpardikar

4 months

Andaman & Nicobar administration rushes land acquisition for an international airport that is part of NITI Aayog's mega project. Residents & local panchayat demand engagement on social impact assessment (SIA) & a proper public hearing. For @thenewsminute

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

2 years

We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself.--Then We Tried to Get It Published via @sciam

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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How lovely that people are trying to learn these techniques and apply them, instead of dismissing them as a quaint relic @csmonitor

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

5 months

Indian government says its forces killed 13 Indigenous "terrorists." These included a deaf girl who, villagers say, were raped by security forces before they killed her.

Shreya Raman

@shreyaraman18

5 months

Since January, there have been encounters after encounters that have been boasting about Maoist deaths. But this narrative hides the deep suffering of Adivasi people Watch my video report

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

1 year

Few activities are more lucrative than dam-building. Tons of public money, no accountability. This is a corruption-driven colonization project. via @third_pole

What is driving hydropower construction in Arunachal Pradesh?

India is currently building as many as six large hydropower plants in Arunachal Pradesh. Experts say high costs, environmental damage and human rights concerns raise questions about the rationale...

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

Shocked to learn that pioneering public-health specialist Smarajit Jana, who helped curb the AIDS epidemic in India, just died of Covid. He wrote about Covid control for SciAm last year: India Contain the Pandemic? via @sciam

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

5 months

“It takes the forces 5 minutes to kill a man. But it takes them 1-1.5 hours to kill a woman. Because, for one hour, we are abused, assaulted and raped and after that, the police shoot us and kill us.” On corporate-state brutality in India.

Shreya Raman

@shreyaraman18

5 months

My first report was an investigation into the 'encounter' that police said killed 13 Maoists. The story while exposing the police claims also tries to tie the links between forest diversion for mining, Maoist insurgency and state sponsored violence

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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So many people were killed by Covid in India, by Modi's callousness and incompetence, that instead of being cremated, as many would normally have been, they were buried en masse on the banks of the Ganga.

Suby #ReleaseSanjivBhatt

@Subytweets

5 months

Modi went into hiding during the 2nd wave for 14 days with no public appearances. These guys are clueless during mishaps. They only know how to exploit human weaknesses! Never forget. Never forgive.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

Orwellian? Kafkaesque? Not sure there is a word to describe what we're seeing here.

Eye on Palestine

@EyeonPalestine

3 months

“You are killing us” .. humanitarian aid dropped on a tent of a displaced family in Gaza. مساعداتكم تقتلنا ..

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Madhusree Mukerjee

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6 years

How Economic Inequality Harms the Environment via @sciam

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

1 year

The top 1% of Indians own more than 40% of the wealth. So many Indian children are malnourished that the Modi government, with its laser focus on image, is revising the standards for wasting and stunting. @TheIndiaForum

A New Dawn? Can India Reverse Its Staggering Inequality?

How long will India’s working people live with a policy regime that concentrates unimaginable levels of wealth in a few hands and leaves millions of people struggling for food, healthcare, decent...

www.theindiaforum.in

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

A post-Anthropocene world is already being built, from the ground up. Here's how it can grow. @josie360 @JosephEStiglitz @londonmining @Global_Witness @IndianCountry @mrajshekhar @sitavenkateswar @IWGIA @CSORG

Scientific American

@sciam

3 years

These alternative economies are inspirations for a sustainable world

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

11 months

This was the "Parthenon" at the Documenta 14 art exhibit in 2017. It declares the sanctity of free speech: every tiny rectangular silhouette is a banned book. I contributed one from India. How tragic that the Documenta itself is crumbling under attacks on free speech.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 years

Tens of thousands of Indian farmers have been protesting the corporate takeover of agriculture for almost a year now. Around 700 have died of exposure and other causes in this heroic protest. They deserve to be heard.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

8 months

In this paper, which distills some takeaways from Churchill's Secret War, I argue that sovereignty, rather than democracy, is what saves a country from imperial famines. Which is of course directly relevant to the impending famine in Gaza.

The Bengal Famine of 1943

Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers.

www.academia.edu

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

4 months

13 died of heatstroke in just one hospital

Piyush Rai

@Benarasiyaa

4 months

This is the scene inside the UP's Mirzapur hospital where 7 homeguards deployed for election duty died due to heat stroke. At least 23 other security personnel are under medical observation with some in serious condition. As per official estimate, apart from seven home guards, 6

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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A worthwhile video. But you can't solve a problem if you can't identify its cause. It isn't "humanity" heating the planet. Plenty of humans know how to live on Earth without destroying it. It's industrial civilization, and if we can't dismantle it, Earth will do it for us.

Mike Hudema

@MikeHudema

4 months

The Ice Is Melting The Land Is Flooding The Ocean Is Dying The Trees are Burning The Living Planet Is Unraveling It's happening on our watch. We can't solve this emergency if we keep expanding the problem. #ActOnClimate #Climate #energy #renewables #go100re

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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Raj Patel tells Amy Goodman why his feature for Scientific American is entitled "Agroecology is the Solution to World Hunger". @sciam #UNFSS2021 @sitavenkateswar @MichaelFakhri @TimothyAWise @DeSchutterO @MaywaMontenegro @chikikothari via @democracynow

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

3 months

This is how they destroyed Jeremy Corbyn.

Alec Karakatsanis

@equalityAlec

3 months

Oh my god. The unspoken “antisemite” the New York Times accuses Jamaal Bowman of “praising” as part of the paper’s Zionist propaganda campaign is the son of holocaust survivors and one of the foremost Jewish academic experts on the Israel Palestine conflict, Norman Finkelstein.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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Replace "Israel" with "Russia" and "Gaza" with "Ukraine." Would such a headline be imaginable?

Hebh Jamal

@hebh_jamal

11 months

Big news publication in Germany: “Does Israel violate human rights by attacking targets in Gaza ? No, say lawyers. Even civilian objects such as clinics can be attacked if the buildings are misused .” Germany has lawyers that say it’s ok to bomb hospitals with civilians inside.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

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Churchill's Secret War on Book Riot's Oscars reading list:

10 Books to Read Before the 2018 Oscars

Books to read before the Oscars, based on the nominees!

bookriot.com

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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This is the route to fascism. In India, neoliberalism transferred wealth from the public to newly minted billionaires, solidifying their grip on government and impoverishing hundreds of millions. Who were told to take their fury out on Muslims. Only the scapegoats change.

Albert Pinto

@70sBachchan

3 months

Amazing. IMF says jump. Kenyan govt asks How high? Austerity + Privatizations. Those on the auctioneer’s block included Kenya's national oil corporation, pipeline company, machining company, vehicle manufacturing company, seed company, rice milling...

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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The focus on saving lives, especially of the elderly, meant imposing social isolation. Which took a horrific toll on the young. @sciam

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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For centuries, colonial powers and corporations have controlled the world's food supply. Agroecology frees farmers from such structures of domination and control. That could be why it's not on the #UNFSS2021 agenda. #foodsovereignty @sciam @Afsafrica @via_campesina @FIANista

Scientific American

@sciam

3 years

Ending hunger requires much more than pulling more food from the ground; it involves grappling with entrenched hierarchies of power. Agroecology frees the world’s poorest farmers from such structures of control

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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This is Biden's genocide

Max Granger

@_maxgranger

6 months

After passing Congress with overwhelming Democratic support, Biden signs a bill that gives Israel $3.8 billion in weapons for genocide and defunds UN human rights and aid agencies, ensuring Israeli impunity and abetting the enforced mass starvation of Palestinian children.

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

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You haven't even read Churchill's Secret War? Why am I not surprised. Makes it so much easier to whitewash Empire if you're ignorant of the evidence. @PriyamvadaGopal

Dr Zareer Masani

@ZareerMasani

7 months

@ayushi_nayak @Madhusree1984 @PriyamvadaGopal Indeed, do check out my 5 books. Any by you yet?

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Madhusree Mukerjee

@Madhusree1984

1 year

Wonderful to see Ravish Kumar, one of India's most courageous journalists, on Democracy Now! Another was Gauri Lankesh. She was assassinated. via @democracynow

“While We Watched”: New Film Spotlights Journalist Ravish Kumar’s Fight for Truth in Modi’s India

As world leaders from the United States to France welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we look at press freedom in India under the leader of the Hindu nationalist party BJP. One of India’s last...

www.democracynow.org

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