As Our Bodies and Planetary Systems Become ‘Inflamed’, How do We Heal?
In their new book, authors Rupa Marya and Raj Patel explore how capitalism and colonialism have caused sickness and how Indigenous knowledge can offer healing.
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The Original Sin and Continuous Crimes of America’s Involvement in Afghanistan
A 40-year chapter of American involvement has come to an end. But we need to understand how we got here, or else we will simply be waiting for the next monstrous, long-running atrocity to arise, with the same rationalizations of Liberty and Freedom that our leaders have used to cover up their deliberate policies of mass murder, war profiteering and corruption.
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WalmartLand: How US Stores Colonizing Mexico are Displacing Local Culture
Foreign corporations have a lot of freedom in Mexico, and they are backed by trade agreements like NAFTA and USMCA that were created within very unequal power dynamics. As an activist put it succinctly, “This is nothing less than a cultural conquest.”
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Remembrance Must be an Act Affirming Man’s Humanity, Three Haunting Partition Classics Tell Us
Though unlike one another in tone and texture, ‘Adaab’, ‘Toba Tek Singh’ and ‘Garm Hawa’ have the same point of departure: that religion as the primary marker of identity is as irrational as it is abhorrent.
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Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation
A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the United States. Most of this nonsense hides a number of important truths.
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Afghanistan Redux: Malala Yousafzai, White Feminism and Saving Afghan Women
Malala’s “voice” has been turned into its opposite in the capitalist neocolonial economic model that extracts what is of use to it and puts it to a different purpose to serve its own agendas. She is now serving at the behest of her “handlers”—the white feminists who are poised to “save brown women from brown men.”
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US Suffocates Cuba for Unwavering, Victorious Anti-Imperialism at Great Cost
Cuba’s anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that’s one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today.
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Colombians Resume Protests Against Duque’s Far-Right Government
On August 26, as a part of a new national strike, thousands of Colombians took to the streets across the country in rejection of a new tax reform bill promoted by the national government and in support of the ten bills presented by different sectors last month.
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The Glittering Aspiration that was India
Sahgal is referring to the struggle for freedom under Mahatma Gandhi. He brought together people in a way that cut across religion, region, class, gender. Bringing together this rich diversity into a strong political unity that overthrew the British Empire was an extraordinary achievement.
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The Great Game of Smashing Countries
A much repeated course of events: More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the U.S., Britain and their “allies” destroyed.
