What Gandhi, Saint Francis and Pope Francis Have in Common
The three great personalities are united by the silken thread of ‘godward faith and manward love’.
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I Want to Get Our Rights from the Americans Who Harmed Us
Julian Assange and his organisation WikiLeaks published vital information received from whistle-blowers that chronicled U.S. war crimes and atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. This includes the horrifying video that showed U.S. military personnel killing Iraqi civilians.
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Democratic Production and Self-Organized Labor: How the Che Guevara Commune Confronts the Crisis (Part II)
First-hand accounts of the impact of the US sanctions on a coffee and cocoa growing commune in the Venezuelan Andes. In this part, the author writes about the democratic organization of labor in the Che Guevara Commune’s two main productive units.
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The Troubled Legacy of General Rawat Needs to Be Rolled Back
The rulers of “Naya Bharat” have introduced an imbalance in the civil-military equation. And if the politicians seek acceptability on the back of the soldiers’ sacrifice, the generals in turn will aspire to a louder voice in shaping the republic’s collective destiny.
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People Centered Human Rights and the Black Radical Tradition
The realization of authentic freedom and human dignity can only come about through victory over Pan European white supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy. With people centred human rights, we have an ideological weapon for advancing this struggle.
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The U.S. Military Budget as a Mushroom Cloud: Why It’s Time to Make Deep Cuts at the Pentagon
A retired Air Force lieutenant colonel considers a military in which the losses are all on the battlefield, and the gains are all in the Congress as well as in the military-industrial complex that continues to soar like a missile in a moment when so many other parts of this society are sinking fast.
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Nuclear Weapons and World Order: a Dialogue
The world is more dangerous than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the battlelines between the nuclear weapons states and governmental and civil society anti-nuclearism has never been more definitively drawn. A dialogue between two renowned anti-nuclear activists.
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Highland Resistance: How the Che Guevara Commune Confronts the Crisis (Part I)
First-hand accounts of the impact of the US sanctions on a coffee and cocoa growing commune in the Venezuelan Andes.
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Democracy Crumbling: How Did India End Up Among Top 3 ‘Backsliders’?
A recent report by International IDEA, an inter-governmental think tank, finds that “70% of the global population now live either in non-democratic regimes or in democratically backsliding countries”. The report cites Brazil, India and the United States as the biggest backsliders globally.
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The Fierce Determination of Ordinary People to Build an Extraordinary World
United States President Joe Biden has suborned 111 countries to attend his Summit for Democracy on December 9–10, ending on Human Rights Day. In the name of democracy, the U.S. government is pushing its own agenda to consolidate power and further its national interests.
