Israeli Atrocities on the Rise
Two recent UN reports reveal the extent to which the Israeli regime has intensified systematic violence against Palestinians while it pushes forward with the ‘Annexation Plan’.
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Progressive Wave Sweeps NY Primary
Two years after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won New York-14, the grassroots progressive movement has spread to surrounding congressional districts in New York.
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Feeding the People in Times of Pandemic: The Food Sovereignty Approach in Nicaragua
While an array of UN agencies is predicting a global hunger pandemic triggered by COVID-19 lockdowns, in Nicaragua there are no hunger flags flying.
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Coronavirus: How Spain Left Its Elderly to Die
Newly released emails from Madrid’s right-wing government show how authorities instructed care homes not to take elderly coronavirus patients to hospitals.
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Billions of Children are Being Punished by the Pandemic
There are immense casualties from this Great Lockdown; among its many victims are the children – who are often less remarked upon.
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Do the Dalit Lives Matter In India? Reflecting on Condition of Dalits and Apathy
The situation of Dalits in India is akin to the African-Americans in the US in a number of ways; however there are no protests in India similar to the outrage witnessed there.
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Rising Authoritarianism in Philippines and Shrinking Spaces for Democracy
The Corona Pandemic and subsequent lockdown in Philippines have been used by the President Duterte to push for passage of Anti Terrorism Bill, to intimidate civil society and curb any resistance – very similar to what the NDA is doing in India.
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Everything Affects and Is Affected by Every Other Thing
John Bellamy Foster [The following was published as part of roundtable in answer to the question: What is the main lesson that environmental movements should carry forward from the coronavirus pandemic? —Ed.] In his classic ecological work, The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, Frederick Engels observed that “in nature…
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No Holy Cow in a Democracy
Sankara Narayanan There is a general tendency to name anyone questioning the activities of the armed forces engaged in war with an enemy nation as anti-national. This labelling also extends to the reporting of commission and omission of the armed forces operating against native Indian combatants in conflict zones such as Jammu & Kashmir, North-East…
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How China and India Came to Lethal Blows
Beijing saw a threat in New Delhi’s steady improvement of borderland infrastructure and renewed Indian claims on disputed territory.
