Month: January 2022

Shyam Saran: Communal virus runs riot – Attacks on minorities may lead to irreversible fragmentation of Indian Union

The three-day hate fest against the Muslim community, held at Haridwar recently, is only the latest in a series of intemperate and vulgar attacks against minorities that, if unchecked, may lead to an irreversible fragmentation and disintegration of the Indian Union. We should stop minimising the destructive impact of these increasingly brazen and violent attacks… Read More Shyam Saran: Communal virus runs riot – Attacks on minorities may lead to irreversible fragmentation of Indian Union

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Chris Hedges and Mark Rudd Discuss Self Destructive Forces on the Left

NB: This argument is an American counterpart of my understanding about the delusions of revolutionary extremism. These delusions are to be found amongst extremist nationalists too, who also see themselves as revolutionaries. These ideological pipe-dreams are fueled by visions of forcing human character into new a mould (determined by the Headquarters of Truth), an addiction to totalitarian… Read More Chris Hedges and Mark Rudd Discuss Self Destructive Forces on the Left

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Praneet Pathak: Modi in a Traffic Jam, and the Decaying of Our Democracy

Today the nation feels threatened, our collective security and democracy compromised – or so the media would have you believe, with the prime minister’s cavalcade having to turn back due to protests and the allegations of ‘poor security management’ it has given rise to. But in reality, this incident reveals to us the many facets… Read More Praneet Pathak: Modi in a Traffic Jam, and the Decaying of Our Democracy

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Nabil Salih: An Iraqi in the capital of the US Empire / Tom Engelhardt: A Nation Unmade by War

As a child in Baghdad, I opened my eyes to a world holding its whip and subjugating us Iraqis to collective punishment through sanctions and repeated wars. Death in Iraq was a spectacle on TV screens in the US. War coverage paid scarce attention to civilian casualties. As one Iraqi woman put it after the Gulf War, “Did they… Read More Nabil Salih: An Iraqi in the capital of the US Empire / Tom Engelhardt: A Nation Unmade by War

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Dozens of protesters and police dead amid Kazakhstan unrest: Chaos as Russian ‘peacekeepers’ arrive in country / As Kazakhstan burns over inequality, the elite’s wealth is safe and sound in London

Dozens of protesters and at least 12 police officers have died in ongoing violence in Kazakhstan, authorities have claimed, as “peacekeepers” from a Russian-led military alliance arrived in the country at the request of the embattled president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. Witnesses in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, described scenes of chaos on Thursday, with government buildings being stormed or set… Read More Dozens of protesters and police dead amid Kazakhstan unrest: Chaos as Russian ‘peacekeepers’ arrive in country / As Kazakhstan burns over inequality, the elite’s wealth is safe and sound in London

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