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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
I stare blankly at the news. Little men with guns once again stir the country – the world – into a state of shock and grief and chaos. Attention: Every last one of us is vulnerable to being eliminated… randomly.
‘Pinochetism Returns to Power in Chile’; and: ‘Chile Swerves to the Right and into the Past’: How well the Chilean opposition responds to this sobering defeat will determine whether Mr. Kast truly represents an ominous swerve toward the world’s current desolate panorama of would-be dictators, or whether he proves a mere parenthetical in Chile’s erratic but perpetual advance toward freedom and justice.
When peace is demanded from the weak and defined by the strong, it ceases to be peace at all – it becomes submission disguised as justice.
As governments weaken environmental protections to promote new mining projects, the global scramble for critical minerals is deepening social divides and harming vital ecosystems. Only reduced consumption and robust, enforceable rules can prevent long-term harm and protect basic human rights.
‘Bangladesh’s Liberation Under Siege’: As Bangladesh marks the victory of its 1971 liberation, the secular, socialist foundations of the nation’s birth are under assault by the convergence of US geopolitical interests with religious fundamentalism. Also: ‘Is This the Bangladesh We Wanted?’.
While madrasas once played a respected role in fostering intellectual thought and Islamic scholarship, the Taliban’s use of the madrasa system represents a sharp departure from this tradition, turning education into a tool for ideological control and obedience.
After 40 years of struggle, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement is now at nearly two million members and taking center stage in the fight for democracy and equality. It has done that by flying the most unlikely militant banner of all: organic food.
‘Mali Defends Sovereignty Against a Western-Backed “Proxy War” by Terror Groups’: As doomsaying Western media reports prophesy the fall of Mali to an Al Qaeda affiliate attacking fuel convoys, the government has re-secured supply routes and hosted Mali’s first international defense expo in a supposedly besieged capital. Also: ‘Mali Holds Firm: West Eyes New Front to Sabotage Sahel Independence’.
From Milan to Palermo, a wave of student occupations has swept the country, reviving a deeply rooted tradition of resistance. But this time, the banners hanging from the windows don’t just demand better school funding; they demand an end to the slaughter of Palestinians and a reckoning with the West’s complicity.
Singing and chanting can have profound benefits to physical, mental and social health, with both immediate and long-term effects.
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