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“I am endlessly grateful to American literature. But it is gone. I come to its tombstones, and I mourn. But after laying down some flowers in front of great names, I know that it is time to move on…. This is not the America that I loved and admired. That is why I do not live there, anymore, for many years.”
Protest the stabbing of Salman Rushdie by all means. But don’t forget to protest even more loudly the silencing and disappearing of Julian Assange.
After dropping two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945, killing between 100,000 and 200,000 civilians, top U.S. government officials lied, claiming there was “no radioactive residue” in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that Japanese reports of deaths due to radiation were “propaganda.”
Measured by the federal poverty line, about 37 million Americans live below the poverty line—that’s about 11 percent of the population. But this leaves out many millions more Americans who live one emergency expense away from poverty.
Each anniversary of the atomic bombings provides us a unique opportunity to study and reflect on the horrors of possible nuclear war and the massive destruction already wrought by pursuing nuclear madness.
Over the past three days, relentless Israeli airstrikes killed at least 45 Palestinians, including 16 children, and caused extensive devastation; Also: Events continue to demonstrate that Palestine cannot be made a marginal issue, however much Israel and the USA try.
I find the best way to understand what happened in Xinjiang is to contrast it with Afghanistan. Why? Because they’re neighboring regions that faced very similar problems to which very different solutions were applied, with ultimately very different outcomes.
Mexico’s President AMLO visited the US on July 12 and offered five proposals to US President Joe Biden. These proposals are based on AMLO’s in-depth knowledge of Mexican history and his reading of the economic crisis in the US, which seems to be losing its edge as a global leader.
“Africa, China, and US Imperialism”: compares the US-Africa relationship and the China-Africa relationship. “Africa Remains at the Center of a 21st Century Cold War”: On the race between Russia, France and USA to influence the 1.3 billion people living in Africa.
The United States is one of the worst countries in the world at controlling COVID-19, which has claimed more than one million American lives, and also caused enormous social and economic devastation in the country. This article examines the impact of U.S. anti-COVID policy.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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