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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.
‘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’.
‘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’.
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.
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.
‘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.
‘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?’.
A delay of two years, unreliable hate-crime statistics, and discarded sedition charges, the NCRB 2023 Report offers us marginal data on crime but plentiful data on social control.
‘Raids at Kashmir Times Office in Jammu; Editors Call it “Attempt to Silence” Independent Media’; ‘Kashmir Times: A Jammu Newspaper That Stood Up for the Valley’: Established in 1954, it is considered to be an influential and credible voice in Kashmir’s media landscape.
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