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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Does the Japanese people’s deliberately induced ignorance of their wartime and postwar past “condemn them to repeat it,” this time allied to the US whose citizens, like the Japanese, have had the true nature of their own government’s wartime imperialism concealed from them?
The Russian military has announced that twin objectives have been realised in the Ukraine — namely, pinning down Ukrainian forces to the Kiev region and, secondly, preventing the transfer of Ukrainian forces from the western and central regions to the east by “using air dominance” and deploying high-precision weapons.
In Colombia, Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez have registered as presidential and vice-presidential candidates, respectively, on behalf of the Historic Pact coalition for elections taking place on May 29. They have a good chance of winning, and transforming Colombia.
The long-term suffering likely to come from the environmental damage we’re causing should impel us all to call for a major diplomatic push to end the nightmare in Ukraine now. After all, if the world’s great powers don’t pull together soon on climate action, we’re in trouble deep.
The mine would severely affect a vast area of Birbhum district. The top soil, which had taken lakhs of years to form, would be turned into a heap of wastes. The area would be turned into a desert. The fertility of the soil would be damaged. The diversity of terrestrial and aquatic life would suffer a huge loss.
The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States.
Perhaps one million plus Iraqis were dead due to US actions. Millions of Iraqis became refugees. The horror precipitated by my country affected not only the victims over there, but millions of Americans. We became a divided nation, echoing what occurred during the Vietnam phony war.
Interview with Ángeles Maestro, a former communist deputy of Spain, on how she views the NATO war from a country like Spain, which, like the rest of the European Union, is once again on its knees before U.S. arrogance.
Indian foreign policy needs a strategic course correction. India should distance itself completely from the self-centred U.S. polices whose aim is the preservation of its global hegemony. The first step in that direction should be to quit Quad.
There has never been a full reckoning with the racism that is woven into the fabric of our nation. Hiding our history makes us weaker, not stronger. Confronting difficult feelings can bring us healing and wholeness, and bring us together.
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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