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About Prabir Purkayastha

Prabir Purkayastha is the founding editor of Newsclick.in, a digital media platform. He is an activist for science and the Free Software movement.
  • IT Infrastructure (Photo: policyoptions.irpp.org)

    The West no longer World leaders in 84% of critical technologies

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on March 12, 2023 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    Kailath, originally from Kerala but settled in the U.S., is one of the foremost names in the world in communications, control and signal processing. I remembered his words while reading the recent startling headlines that China has become the world leader in 37 of 44 critical technologies evaluated by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).

  • Representational Image. Image Courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

    Biggest threat from Ukraine war: Last Nuclear Agreement suspended

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on March 5, 2023 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    War rarely stays within the boundaries set or desired for it. That makes returning to arms control crucial for the survival of humanity.

  • Mapping Faultlines

    Mapping Faultlines: The planning, execution, and aftermath of Nord Stream sabotage

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on February 18, 2023 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    In this episode of Mapping Faultlines, NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha explains the details of the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines as revealed by journalist Seymour Hersh. He also talks about how benefited from this sabotage.

  • Balloon (britishherald.com)

    Why do we have a balloon hysteria in the U.S.?

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on February 19, 2023 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    THE newsfeeds from the US seem to be completely insane. First, an F22 Raptor, the most expensive U.S. military aircraft, is used to shoot down a Chinese balloon over the Atlantic ocean.

  • Representational use only.Image Courtesy:Maxpixel

    Media in the digital age

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on January 2, 2023 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    The dramatic changes in the technology of mass communications should be brought in line with the larger goals of humanity and a more humane society.

  • Image Courtesy: Science.Org

    Nuclear Bomb connection in United States fusion breakthrough

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on December 23, 2022 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    Neither clean energy nor lower temperatures, the latest scientific breakthrough is about testing the condition of the nuclear stockpiles of the United States.

  • Energy storage allows producers to store solar energy and sell it later when the sun is not shining.

    Hypocrisy of the rich countries and the green energy’s storage problem

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on December 11, 2022 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    THE crux of the issue is that non-fossil, or even a low fossil fuel path, will need grid-level storage costs to drop by a factor of 10 times what they are today!

  • Manufacturing #15, Bird Mobile

    Chip wars or the crisis of late capitalism?

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on August 29, 2021 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    If the U.S. wants to be a world leader, it has to match China in investing in knowledge generation for future technology. Why then is the U.S. taking the sanctions route? Sanctions are simpler to implement; building a society that values knowledge is much more difficult. This is the crisis of late capitalism.

  • Richard Lewontin

    Richard Lewontin, dialectical biologist and activist, dies at 92

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on July 18, 2021 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    A Marxist, activist and scientist, Lewontin fought a lifelong battle against racism, imperialism and capitalist oppression. He is among the most influential scientists in the field of biology and evolution.

  • Why the U.S. Shouldn’t Play Games with Cyberwarfare as Its Power Declines

    Why the U.S. shouldn’t play games with cyberwarfare as its power declines

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on April 18, 2021 (more by Janata Weekly)  |

    Two major cyberhacks—of ‘SolarWinds’ and ‘Microsoft Exchange Server’—have affected a whole range of computer systems worldwide. Both are supply chain hacks, meaning that they appeared to be routine software upgrades for particular components in these systems instead of inserted malicious codes.

  • Hacking

    As U.S. loses its edge, game of cyber chicken could have deadly consequences

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on March 27, 2021 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    ‘…all countries have offensive and defensive capabilities and ‘stealing” data and knowledge from other countries are time-honoured tasks of spook agencies. It becomes an act of war only if it leads to physical damage to critical equipment or infrastructure.’

  • Wikimedia Commons File:Precinct 61 (24746860626).jpg - Wikimedia Commons

    The world can show how Pharma monopolies aren’t the only way to fight COVID-19

    Prabir Purkayastha

    The U.S. has bought up almost all of the stock of remdesivir from Gilead, making it nearly impossible for this COVID-19 drug to be available anywhere else in the world.

  • Wikimedia Commons File-Vaccine.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

    U.S. declares a vaccine war on the World

    Prabir Purkayastha

    Donald Trump launched a new vaccine war in May, but not against the virus. It was against the world.

  • Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston.

    Disease capitalism and COVID-19: Hunger in the belly of the beast

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 10, 2020 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    For capital, profits come from disease, not peoples’ health. COVID-19 shows the consequence of disease capitalism in a globalized world, the rich—countries or individuals—will not be spared either.

  • Hiroshima Appeals by Yusaku Kamekura

    The current U.S. approach to nuclear weapons can only lead to armageddon—arms control provides the only path to peace

    Prabir Purkayastha

    The decade ends with two major threats to humanity: global warming leading to a climate catastrophe and the threat of a nuclear war extinguishing our civilization.

  • USS STARK (FFG-31) listing to port after being hit by two Iraqi Exocet missiles

    The UK’s dubious role in the new tanker war with Iran

    Prabir Purkayastha

    There are signs of a new tanker war in the Persian Gulf, with Britain joining a coalition that wants a war with Iran.

  • PepsiCo and Monsanto’s Bogus Court Cases are War on Indian Farmers (Image courtesy: CNN.com)

    PepsiCo and Monsanto’s bogus court cases are war on Indian farmers

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on May 4, 2019 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    At the heart of the struggle is capital’s need–Monsanto and Pepsico’s–to continuously enclose spheres and generate surpluses from creating a monopoly over something that it does not actually own.

  • Trump and Putin

    Trump and Bolton’s new motto: how I started to stop worrying and love the bomb

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on October 25, 2018 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    The key issue is the U.S.’s desire to return to the 90’s status of the world’s sole hegemon.

  • Donald Trump (Image Courtesy: The Wire)

    The Rogue Nation: U.S. breaks the Iran nuclear deal

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on May 10, 2018 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    This reneging on international agreements by the U.S. is not an isolated case. This is the pattern that the U.S. has been following now for the last 25 years.

  • Aijaz Ahmad

    Aijaz Ahmad on Syria, U.S. and Palestine

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on April 7, 2018 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    A rational solution is possible for Syria, if the US wants to be rational. But with Kushner in the White House Palestine faces a grim future.

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