Tag: History

‘A white man’s war, a Black man’s fight’: the eye-opening story of Black soldiers in Vietnam

At a time when Black military history is being rewritten under Trump officials, new book The War Within a War provides a vital reminder Martin Pengelly Wil Haygood’s new book, his 10th, is The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home. Meeting in Washington DC to discuss it, he produces from… Read More ‘A white man’s war, a Black man’s fight’: the eye-opening story of Black soldiers in Vietnam

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After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel

It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned Janine di Giovanni In Syria, where I worked during the years of Bashar al-Assad’s terror, people were often taken away to torture cells before dawn by masked men. The timing was deliberate. It disoriented them at their most… Read More After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel

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If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live

Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth Carlos Hernández Photo: Alberto Di Lolli Dear reader, for the first time since I became a journalist, I have to tell you I wish you weren’t reading what I’ve written. Because if you’re reading this,… Read More If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live

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The dagger of the assassin was concealed beneath the robe of the jurist

The dagger of the assassin was concealed beneath the robe of the jurist: Justice case; Opinion delivered by the Nuremberg Military Tribunal; 1947 Juridical personalities known for partisanship and cruelty: Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville; Roland Freisler; Andrey Vyshinsky… an endless list: Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville was appointed public prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris on 10 March 1793,… Read More The dagger of the assassin was concealed beneath the robe of the jurist

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How Our Leaders Failed to Save Gandhi from Godse’s Bullets (2022)

‘My late mother Kamalamma Madikera Sharada Prasad was part of the prosecution team in the Mahatma Gandhi murder trial before Justice Atma Charan in Red Fort in 1948, a role for which she had been specifically handpicked by Oscar Henry Brown, chief presidency magistrate of Mumbai. A postgraduate in psychology, she was a freedom fighter who… Read More How Our Leaders Failed to Save Gandhi from Godse’s Bullets (2022)

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Gandhi-Sarhadi Gandhi Sandesh Karwan: January 30, Gandhi Shahadat Diwas, to February 6, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Birth Anniversary

Gandhiji has been killed by his own people for whose redemption he lived. This second crucifixion in the history of the world has been enacted on a Friday – the same day Jesus was done to death one thousand nine hundred and fifteen years ago Father forgive us These lines in white on a black… Read More Gandhi-Sarhadi Gandhi Sandesh Karwan: January 30, Gandhi Shahadat Diwas, to February 6, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Birth Anniversary

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The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age

NB: Adam Tooze is a brilliant historian, capable of weaving together different elements of global events. including anti-colonial rebellions, ideological impulses of rulers and ruled alike, and the behaviour of financial markets as a means of understanding complex geopolitical phenomena like the rise to preeminence of the American polity during and after the Great War… Read More The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age

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