Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Evaluating Indian Kings: Tipu Sultan
Tipu stands very tall in the scale of religious tolerance. The half-baked propaganda of the communal forces is trying to divide communities.
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Capitalism | Fascism | Online Blog | USA | World Politics
How Street-Level Direct Action is Challenging Trump’s Authoritarianism
Every day, the nation collectively witnesses horrific violence against the most vulnerable among us. Street-level support people around the country, like Chicago’s rapid response volunteers, not only provide direct aid and protection, but double as crucial documentarians.
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Trump, Europe and the International Neo-Fascist Movement: From Ideological Support to Political Coordination
Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, US foreign policy towards Europe has undergone a significant transformation. This shift reflects a desire for direct and systematic intervention in the internal political power struggles of European nations, favouring far-right and neo-fascist parties or governments.
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Lavrov Sees a New Era of Global Development
The rare appearance by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the State Duma is always a special occasion to read the tea leaves in Russian politics. A summary of his remarks.
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Fascism | Imperialism | Israel | Online Blog | Palestine
Victory for Palestine Action as ‘Filton 6’ Acquitted
Six Palestine Action activists who broke into an Israeli arms factory in the UK have been acquitted or not convicted of all charges against them.
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Gandhi’s Enduring Legacy: Truth, Non-Violence, and Sangh Hypocrisy – 3 Articles
‘The Eternal Gandhi’: Amidst a Bid to Tarnish His Legacy, the Mahatma Endures. Also: ‘Now Is a Good Time to Be Concerned About the Truth and Non-Violence’; and ‘Decoding the RSS Hypocrisy of Respecting Gandhi’.
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Capitalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
When Courts Echo Majoritarianism, and Citizens Carry the Idea of India – 2 Articles
‘India’s Courts Are Echoing the Intolerance of its Ruling Party, its Affiliates, and State They Are Remaking in Their Image’: India’s criminal-justice system is inverting the presumption of innocence and Constitutional principles to align with the majoritarian ideology of the ruling BJP. Also: ‘Mohammad Deepak Kumar, Shaila Negi, and the Idea of India’.
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India’s Surveillance State Should Alarm Every Democracy
India is becoming one of the world’s most aggressive testing grounds for state digital surveillance systems. Over the past decade, the Indian State has quietly assembled a parallel digital security architecture that allows authorities to intercept, analyze and store communications data at an enormous scale.
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Communalism | Fascism | India | Online Blog
RSS and Bhagat Singh: From Derision to Appropriation
The RSS, which consciously kept aloof from the glorious freedom struggle, finds itself in a peculiar bind: it has to brandish itself as the sole repository of nationalism, but it lacks an authentic icon of freedom to call its own. To rid itself of this embarrassing lacuna, it resorts to appropriating figures like Bhagat Singh, who had nothing whatsoever to do with the ideology the Sangh espouses.
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Pinochetism Returns to Power in Chile – 2 Articles
‘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.
