As Munawar Faruqui Case Shows, Questioning BJP’s Hindutva Project While Being a Muslim Can Land You in Jail
Several young Muslims have been locked up because they had the temerity to assert their right to equal citizenship.
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FIRs vs Free Speech, the Signature Tune of Indian Fascism
If Indians who cherish their democracy, their country’s unparalleled diversity of thought and culture, do not recognise the threat to India as a nation that the so-called Hindu rashtravadis pose, then their future will be bleak.
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State and Fascist Crackdown Backfires: Support for Farmers Spreads – Three Articles
Quite contrary to what many had anticipated, the state crackdown on farmers’ leaders, together with attacks by BJP goons, has breathed a new life into the agitation. Farmers are joining the agitation in growing numbers.
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The Pentagonization of America – Two Articles
As the enthusiasm for war on terror ebbs in America, Pentagon hawks have been searching for new wars and escalations – the new targets are China and Russia. While this guarantees more money for the Pentagon, it hasn’t made the US safer; the wars are also coming back home.
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‘Who Ended the Holocaust?’
Today in the West, while hypocritical empty crocodile tears are wept over the Nazis’ victims, real history continues to be suppressed, denied and buried beneath mountains of lies.
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Patriotism Has No Religion, and Here’s the Proof for Mohan Bhagwat to See
Followers of each religion, including Hinduism, have been unpatriotic at one point or another.
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Munawar Faruqui’s Case Shows How the Mob has Captured India’s Justice System
With no evidence against the comic, courts cite law and order as a reason to keep him in jail – an almost direct link between the mob and India’s justice system.
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Why has the Adani Group Singled Out Journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta?
Reason: Guha had written two articles alleging that the government unduly favoured the Adani Group, helping it expand and evade taxes. Also: Press Statement by the Editors Guild of India criticising Thakurta’s arrest warrant issued by a Gujarat court.
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Fascism, Imperialism, and Anti-Communism at the Capitol Hill Riots
The flags of U.S. client states, anti-communist regimes, and pre-revolution puppet states dotted the sea of MAGA hats and Confederate flags at the Capitol Hill mobs. Making sense of why requires understanding the convergence between imperialism abroad and fascism at home.
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Fundamentalists Make Hay While the Sun Shines
Perhaps, the rulers and administrators manning the State machinery, haven’t heard this verse of Baba Farid Shakarganj (1173-1265 AD): “Farid, the earth questioned the sky, Where are the mighty captains gone? / In their grave they rot, was the reply / And rebuked for tasks not done.”
