‘How Many Minutes to Midnight?’
As we enter the 70th year of the Nuclear War Era, we should be contemplating with wonder that we have survived. We can only guess how many years remain.
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COVID19 | Online Blog | USA
The Costs of Covid; Covid-19 was 99% Likely from the US – 2 Articles
‘The Costs of Covid’: The theory that the disease had been created in a lab in China as a weapon against the USA is fictitious. It blends ignorance, bigotry and denial with what the historian Richard Hofstadter called the “paranoid style” in American politics: “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy.” Also: ‘Covid-19 was 99% Likely from the US’.
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Frankenstein at the Border: Pakistan, the Taliban and the Wounds of a Region
Farooq Sulehria discusses the crisis along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the misconceptions within Pakistan’s military establishment, and the shifting global and regional power landscape.
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Capitalism | China | Online Blog | Socialism
Exploring the Chinese Revolution Today
The author reflects on the evolution of her intellectual political relationship to China, a journey that began with limited knowledge of a seemingly far-away land and ends with a nuanced understanding grounded in her on-the-ground experiences as a visiting professor at Peking University.
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What Really Does ‘Western Civilisation’ Denote?
The atrocities committed by Western imperialist countries against people all over the world over the last several centuries have been so horrendous that using the term “civilization” to cover such behavior appears grotesque.
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Colonial Debt: The Unsettled Ledger of History
Centuries of plunder, forced labour and extraction built the wealth of Europe while impoverishing the Global South. The debt owed is not symbolic; it is measurable, moral and political. Reparations are not charity—they are justice long overdue.
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COP30 Talks End in Failure – 3 Articles
‘Climate Talks End With “Empty Deal” That Fails on Forests, Finance, and Fossil Fuels’: COP30 concluded on Saturday in Brazil with a deal that does not even include the words “fossil fuels”—the burning of which scientists agree is the primary cause of the climate crisis. Also: ‘COP30: The Shift to Green Capitalism Fails to Materialise’; and: ‘COP30 Isn’t a Failure — It’s a Farce’.
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Capitalism | Economy | India | Online Blog
Corporate Corruption in Modi Raj – 5 Articles
‘Corruption Festers in India, But No Outrage in Modi Raj’; ‘Modi Govt Oversaw Plan to Steer Billions from LIC to Adani: Report’; ‘Narendra Modi’s Mammoth Bank Heist Over the Last 10 Years’; ‘Cobrapost Alleges Rs 28,874-crore “Fraud” by Anil Ambani’s Reliance ADA Group’; ‘Surely, the General Doth Protest Too Much’.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | India | Online Blog | USA
Assaults on Federalism: Trump is Catching up with Modi
Federal interferences with state rights have been there for decades both in US and India, but the sheer brazenness and the dizzying pace of the current assaults on federalism are unprecedented.
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Fascism | India | Online Blog
Crimes Uncounted: When Data Becomes the State’s Defence
A delay of two years, unreliable hate-crime statistics, and discarded sedition charges, the NCRB 2023 Report offers us marginal data on crime but plentiful data on social control.
