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Our ignorance of the costs of war is cultural and systemic. Our military certainly hasn’t proved eager to document civilian casualties in a reliable or consistent way. In fact, what the Pentagon has known about them was often actively suppressed.
Adapted from Vijay Prashad’s speech on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: in 1975, Walter Rodney said, Africa is on the move. This line stays with me, digs deep into my sense of historical possibility. What did Rodney mean when he said that line?
The crisis is not going away any time soon. While this will mean even greater devastation for workers and students, it leaves open the possibility for this struggle to deepen its assault on Sri Lanka’s elites.
With store shelves stripped of baby formula, families across the USA are getting desperate. It is actually a problem of monopoly capitalism – the formula industry in the United States, like so many others, is highly concentrated. And one of these monopolies has shut down – due to a bacterial infection.
The change in marijuana laws across the US raises issues far beyond, “Hey, dude, we can blow a joint now without getting busted.” The burgeoning business of growing pot raises the specter of corporate agriculture with its threats to human health and natural ecosystems.
Next month sees the 50th anniversary of the killing of Palestinian novelist and intellectual Ghassan Kanafani in July 1972. His death was attributed to the Mossad and the anniversary of it is worth reflecting upon in the light of a continuing resort to the policy of assassination by the State of Israel.
China’s largest city, Shanghai, largely reopened Wednesday morning after a two-month lockdown that successfully beat back an outbreak of the virulent Omicron BA.2 subvariant of COVID-19. The event was a triumph of public health mobilization.
A tribute to Amir Khusrau 1253-1325), whose annual urs, or death anniversary commemoration, begins May 19, 2022: Khusrau (was a Renaissance Man long in advance of the Renaissance.
The most crucial issue is, why do the common Muslims of today’s India have to pay for the sins of ‘Muslim’ rulers of the past who had friendly and cordial relations with higher caste Hindus? We also need to investigate whether ‘Hindu’ history was devoid of religious, social and political persecution.
Most arguments put forth by the government and its functionaries don’t hold water.
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