Tag: Global War and Violence

Sixty years ago, true statecraft avoided a nuclear war. We need that again over Ukraine

Jonathan Steele NB: While I appreciate Steele’s evocation of moderation and restraint, there’s just one big problem with this article. One man alone saved the world from nuclear war in 1962, and his name was Vasili Arkhipov, one of three senior officers in the Soviet nuclear-weapon equipped submarine, the B-59, off the Cuban coast, which… Read More Sixty years ago, true statecraft avoided a nuclear war. We need that again over Ukraine

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Migrants and Minorities in Ceylon: Lessons for the Present

RITESH KUMAR JAISWAL Sri Lanka was just about recovering from a devastating civil war and its aftermath when it plummeted into an unprecedented economic and political crisis. Mass protests beginning in March, in response to alarming inflation and shortages of food, fuel, medicines, fertilisers, and other essential items, forced President Gotabaya Rajapaksa into brief exile. His replacement, Ranil Wickremesinghe is… Read More Migrants and Minorities in Ceylon: Lessons for the Present

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The joint CIA – MI-6 instigated coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up

First posted August1, 2020 Vanessa Thorpe The hidden role of a British secret service officer who led the coup that permanently altered the Middle East is to be revealed for the first time since an Observer news story was suppressed in 1985. The report, headlined “How MI6 and CIA joined forces to plot Iran coup”, appeared… Read More The joint CIA – MI-6 instigated coup in Iran that changed the Middle East, and the cover-up

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Amarjit Chandan: The Great War & its Impact on Punjabis

Presented at Across the Black Waters One-Day Symposium at the Imperial War Museum, London, November 7, 1998 Don’t go don’t goStay back my friend. Crazy people are packing up,Flowers are withering and friendships are breaking.Stay back my friend. Allah gives bread and workYou won’t find soothing shade anywhere else.Don’t go my friend don’t go. –… Read More Amarjit Chandan: The Great War & its Impact on Punjabis

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Towards the Flame

Review: ‘The End of Tsarist Russia’ by Dominic Lieven By Serge Schmemann Aug. 30, 2015 Dominic Lieven’s stated reason for this contribution to the centenary literature on World War I is to place Russia “where it belongs, at the very center” of the war’s history. Certainly the war proved to be at the center of Russian… Read More Towards the Flame

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Permanent Spring: Indian Maoism and the Philosophy of Insurrection

Dilip Simeon Permanent spring: Seminar # 607, March 2010 ON 30 April 1908, two young men, Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose, entered the boundary of the Muzaffarpur Club in Bihar and waited for the hated judge Douglas Kingsford to appear. They were members of Jugantar, the foremost nationalist-revolutionary group to emerge during the Swadeshi movement… Read More Permanent Spring: Indian Maoism and the Philosophy of Insurrection

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May 1968 was a revolution. Now the violence is just frightening: Daniel Cohn-Bendit

First posted December 08, 2018 As a student, he led the 1968 uprising in Paris. Now he has Macron’s ear, but ‘Dany le Rouge’ is not afraid to speak out on why both sides are at fault The last time Paris burned, his was the face of insurrection. Dany le Rouge (Danny the Red – a nickname… Read More May 1968 was a revolution. Now the violence is just frightening: Daniel Cohn-Bendit

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‘The whole world is watching’: how the 1968 Chicago police riot shocked America. By David Taylor and Sam Morris

First posted August 20, 2018 By the summer of 1968, Americans were dying at a rate of more than 1,000 per month in the bloodiest year of the Vietnam war Where the National Guard once stood in formation with bayonets fixed, a line of stands for rental bikes now stretches away along South Michigan Avenue.… Read More ‘The whole world is watching’: how the 1968 Chicago police riot shocked America. By David Taylor and Sam Morris

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Russia’s genocidal propaganda must not be passed off as freedom of speech

Peter Pomerantsev I was in gorgeous, courageous Kyiv on Monday when the latest Russian missile shower hit Ukraine, murdering civilians and knocking out heat and light on the cusp of winter. Kyivans took it calmly. My meeting smoothly transferred from a cafe to the metro, where we chain-drank coffee and carried on under the sirens… Read More Russia’s genocidal propaganda must not be passed off as freedom of speech

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