Chile’s Government is Shooting Anti-Austerity Protesters
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Chile’s Government is Shooting Anti-Austerity Protesters

Ben Norton   While the US government, international NGOs, and corporate media outlets have relentlessly demonised the elected governments in Venezuela and Nicaragua, the Washington-backed right-wing administration in Chile has been violent cracking down on an uprising against neoliberal policies, and with virtual impunity.   In October 2019, protests erupted across Chile against the government…

Kill GDP to Help Save the Planet
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Kill GDP to Help Save the Planet

Robert Hunziker   There’s a problem with America’s (and we’d like to add, India’s – editor) favourite statistic: GDP. It avoids pretty much everything that’s actually, truly, really good for society, including the importance of robust ecology. Still, it’s the biggest measure of what’s happening with the economy and used around the world, even though…

Top Soviet Virologist & WHO Expert Explains Covid-2019
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Top Soviet Virologist & WHO Expert Explains Covid-2019

Courtesy: Countercurrents Collective    As coronavirus fears spread, a world-renowned virologist has explained when Covid-2019 will fade away and, whether medical masks are of any use.   Around the world, public anxiety grows, with people embarking on panic buying and even fighting for medical masks.   But for initiated professionals, the Covid-2019 is just one…

Three Letters to Chief Ministers that Nehru Wrote 

Three Letters to Chief Ministers that Nehru Wrote 

Courtesy: The Wire Staff    Different prime ministers choose to communicate in different ways. If tweets, radio broadcasts and speeches at rallies are Narendra Modi’s preferred modes of communication, India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, believed in letters—snail-mail, in today’s parlance. Soon after he assumed office in August 1947, Nehru began a tradition of writing…

India’s Citizenship Laws Resemble South Africa’s Asiatic Registration Act
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India’s Citizenship Laws Resemble South Africa’s Asiatic Registration Act

Sumanta Banerjee   At a time when Delhi was burning in the fire of communal riots sparked by the provocative speeches of leaders of his own party as evident from video reports, it was ironical that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have invited President Trump to visit, of all places, Sabarmati, the ashram where Gandhi…

The Movement against Patriarchy Must Address Capitalism

The Movement against Patriarchy Must Address Capitalism

Omar Raad Chowdhury    Women around the world, regardless of their status, nationality, color, are at a constant state of war with the patriarchy, a war that has been raging since the Agricultural Revolution and that has its roots deeply embedded in property relations. Rapes are the by-products of that war, patriarchy’s trophies won in…

How Women Took Charge of the Dandi March

How Women Took Charge of the Dandi March

Malavika Karlekar   As reports continue to pour in of nonviolent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), the abiding trope is of women at the forefront, whether at Shaheen Bagh, Park Circus or venues at Mumbai, Pune, Patna, Lucknow … with each passing day, spaces of protest are growing. Women’s involvement in political protest…