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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
If we continue to wage the “war on evil” that George W. Bush began, we will continue to be part of that evil. Think about the millions of Afghans facing starvation in their shattered country, then imagine the consequences coming home.
As UAE Embraces Iran, Fizz Goes Pop for Abraham Accords. Also: Assad, Syria and China’s New Silk Road – Count on Syria becoming an important West Asian hub in China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
There is an all-round realisation amongst the key protagonists – China, Uzbekistan and Pakistan –that regional connectivity and long-term peace and stability in Afghanistan are interlinked.
It is not in India’s interests to needlessly annoy a host of countries in the region and from outside the region such as Turkey, Iran, Qatar, China, Pakistan — and even Russia. The bottomline is that the government must explain how India benefits out of this joyride in Quad-2.
The Moscow meeting of ten regional states and the Taliban officials on Wednesday has produced an outcome that by far exceeds expectations. It is also clear – the Biden administration has lost the plot.
A survey of what Afghanistan looked like when “global Britain” first showed up on the streets of Kabul, and the nearly two centuries since, could help clear up some muddled thinking about Afghanistan today.
The U.S. and its proxies have been defeated in countries such as Vietnam, Angola, Nicaragua and elsewhere. And now they have been defeated in Afghanistan. These defeats are significant events, but we are far from an end to the epoch in human history that began in 1492.
The author, a professor of global religions at Moravian University, examines the concept of moral injury, why so many veterans of America’s twenty-first-century forever wars have suffered from it, and why, for some, suicide has been the only solution.
There has been no better time for the world than now to discover the wisdom of Rumi without doing away with its religious context.
Until the U.S. steps forward and leads the effort, nuclear warfare will always be with us. And annihilation of the human species will always hover over us as a real, increasingly probable result.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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