Overcoming Inequalities: A Conversation with Otro Beta
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Overcoming Inequalities: A Conversation with Otro Beta

Otro Beta is a cultural project that seeks to bring the Venezuelan barrio youth away from the dead-ends that capitalism imposes on them. It aims to incorporate them into the new horizons of personal and collective development that the Bolivarian Revolution has opened up.

Penetrating Curtains of Deceit: I.F. Stone’s ‘The Hidden History of the Korean War’
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Penetrating Curtains of Deceit: I.F. Stone’s ‘The Hidden History of the Korean War’

The eruption of full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula advanced U.S. geopolitical interests and those of its key Asian clients; it also provided the pretext for President Truman to quadruple the military budget and create a militarized economy and foreign policy that remain with us to this day.

That Unremembered Agony: Gandhi’s First Birthday in Independent India
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That Unremembered Agony: Gandhi’s First Birthday in Independent India

Said Gandhi on that day in 1947, “Indeed, today is my birthday…. This is for me a day of mourning. I am still lying around alive. I am surprised at this, even ashamed that I am the same person who once had crores of people hanging on to every word of his. But today no one heeds me at all…”

Need for Bhagat Singh’s Relentless Criticism-Based Reasoning to Defend Constitution
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Need for Bhagat Singh’s Relentless Criticism-Based Reasoning to Defend Constitution

A reflection on Bhagat Singh’s thoughts on reasoning, critical thinking, challenging truth, and retributive justice as expressed in his seminal essay ‘Why I am an Atheist’, and their contemporary relevance in today’s India.