Month: May 2024

The AfD’s obsession with the Third Reich is driving a realignment of Europe’s far right

NB: All ideologies are imploding, across the globe and across the spectrum. DS Mariam Lau Momentous change is afoot within Europe’s far right. Just as voters across 27 countries prepare to go to the polls in EU elections, a split over the German far right’s allegiance to the Third Reich is driving a realignment. The far-right Identity… Read More The AfD’s obsession with the Third Reich is driving a realignment of Europe’s far right

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Significance of Modi’s meditation at Kanyakumari

Narendra Modi deliberately combines Hindu rituals in his public persona for the political purpose of appealing to the Hindu masses. Bharat Bhushan Opposition parties have objected to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to meditate at Dhyan Mandapam at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, and have approached the Election Commission of India to ban any telecast of… Read More Significance of Modi’s meditation at Kanyakumari

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From Guest Workers to Ghost Workers: The Electoral Exclusion of India’s Migrants

NAMRATA RAJU The ghosts of migrant workers haunting the facades of the buildings they once constructed makes for striking imagery. It is also true that the invisibilisation of migrant workers is just that extreme. Whether in literary fiction such as Deepak Unnikrishnan’s Temporary People, or scholarship like anthropologist Andrea Wright’s Between Dreams and Ghosts, it… Read More From Guest Workers to Ghost Workers: The Electoral Exclusion of India’s Migrants

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Netanyahu and His Nightmare Coalition Are the ‘New Antisemites’

B. Michael Israel-antisemitism relations are a model of successful ambivalent relations that efficiently serve both sides. Israel, with its actions, provides vital fuel for antisemitism. And in exchange, antisemitism provides Israel with a host of excuses for its actions, and helps to nurture Israelis’ paranoia and hysteria, which is so vital for taming the citizenry… Read More Netanyahu and His Nightmare Coalition Are the ‘New Antisemites’

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Israel’s Tents Massacre in Rafah Is a Heinous War Crime / Israel Is Blind to Rafah’s Inferno, but Its Own Ruin Is Entwined With Gaza’s

Toddlers go up in flames, and the Israeli public celebrates, erases, chatters or yawns – that’s what our hell looks like. When you embark on a campaign of vengeance, as the saying goes, dig two graves; Israel has such a strong desire for revenge that it is slowly sinking in a dark abyss, hand in… Read More Israel’s Tents Massacre in Rafah Is a Heinous War Crime / Israel Is Blind to Rafah’s Inferno, but Its Own Ruin Is Entwined With Gaza’s

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Biden was my boss. As a Jew I cannot endorse the Gaza catastrophe / Phyllis Bennis Calls Out the US for Supporting Israel

GAZA casualties, live statistics There are lessons to be learned from our faith and history, as we watch the same dehumanization that fell upon my community now land upon another. Each day, I see photos of those displaced in Gaza, and I am reminded of my own family’s memory of loved ones killed in the… Read More Biden was my boss. As a Jew I cannot endorse the Gaza catastrophe / Phyllis Bennis Calls Out the US for Supporting Israel

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The Current Hegemony (criminality as policy)

Kannan Srinivasan in New York Even as colonialism & formal empire were abandoned, two key policies enabled the continued transfer of global wealth to the West. By the first, the US allowed Britain to effectively default <https://thewire.in/banking/how-india-paid-to-create-the-london-of-today&gt; on its wartime debt to India (including Pakistan) & Egypt of money owed for exports to the United… Read More The Current Hegemony (criminality as policy)

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