Tag: human rights

The Courts have been the Last Bastion of Sanity in Polarized America, but what if they Go MAGA too?

By Andy Kroll ( Tomdispatch.cm ) – For about a week in the summer of 2018, I caught an early-morning train from Washington, D.C., to the Albert V. Bryan federal courthouse in the suburb of Alexandria. Located a short drive from George Washington’s estate at Mount Vernon, that courthouse serves the Eastern District of Virginia.… Read More The Courts have been the Last Bastion of Sanity in Polarized America, but what if they Go MAGA too?

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Backlash in Iran against President Biden’s vow to “Free” the Country

JUAN COLE NB: Just what I wrote about here, this kind of moronic statement is calculated to assist the theocracy. DS Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – At a campaign event in California late on Thursday, President Joe Biden said, “Don’t worry, we’re going to free Iran, they’re going to free themselves pretty soon.” Biden’s pledge drew… Read More Backlash in Iran against President Biden’s vow to “Free” the Country

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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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Bhagwat eclipsed

DHIRENDRA K JHA is a contributing writer at The Caravan November 1, 2022 NB: How things have changed since June 4, 2024. Mr Bhagwat, not to mention Messrs Naidu and Nitish, have been emboldened by the unforeseen successes of the opposition INDIA alliance. The two N’s are sneering at the opposition, which is ironic, because it is… Read More Bhagwat eclipsed

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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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Iran’s justice: a young man sentenced to death for protesting. No lawyers, one hearing. Ayatollah’s tyranny in action

NB: Iran’s theocracy is an incarnation of evil, a brutal cruel and Satanic force. Lovers of liberty the world over need to expose and resist this force that claims to rule in the name of Allah. DS Patrick Wintour, In a sign of the justice being handed out, Mohammad Ghobadlo, a protester who was arrested… Read More Iran’s justice: a young man sentenced to death for protesting. No lawyers, one hearing. Ayatollah’s tyranny in action

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Victory Speech of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party, President-Elect of Brazil

(Translated from Portuguese) “No one is interested in living in a divided country, in a permanent state of war“ “Now, let’s fight for zero deforestation of the Amazon. Brazil and the planet need a living Amazon” “When an Indigenous child is murdered by the greed of the exploiters of the environment, a part of humanity… Read More Victory Speech of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party, President-Elect of Brazil

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