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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
For more than a century after the Civil War, the treatment of Black Americans was so horrific that it is easy to see why these atrocities were left out of textbooks.
Every lost soul matters. It’s one thing to reduce life to an abstract statistic, but far more problematic is quietly aligning with the world of the policymakers and accepting murder – war, especially the unprovoked kind – as a necessary facet of national, let alone human, security.
“American Dream, Global Nightmare: On the Origins of the Iraq War” – this piece was written in 2003, it still stands up fairly well. Also: “20 Years Later, the Stain of Corporate Media’s Role in Promoting Iraq War Remains”.
The U.S. government printed $300 billion in a week to save collapsing banks and bail out Silicon Valley oligarchs and venture capital firms, paying them all of their uninsured deposits. Also: “Credit Suisse and the Power of Money”.
The Cuban socialist healthcare system is internationally recognized as one of the best in the world. However, in spite of its extraordinary successes, the United States’ sixty-year long blockade has tremendously detrimental effects on Cuban life in general, and their healthcare system in particular.
The US is divesting from working people and investing in banks and venture capitalists, to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Gaddafi’s projects would have liberated the continent from the dominance of Western centres of power and monopoly, transforming global economic structures and inspiring other regions in the Global South to “unite, organize and fight”. And so NATO intervened, to overthrow Gaddafi.
This is not about the survival of a free press. There is no longer a free press. The paramount issue is justice and our most precious human right: to be free.
20 years ago, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, as war criminals, launched the sociocide of the people of Iraq. That illegal war of aggression was based on recognized lies, propaganda and cover-ups.
Seattle made history Tuesday as the first city in the U.S. to expressly ban caste-based discrimination after an outpouring of input from South Asian Americans.
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