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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
‘Kill Anything that Moves’, a new book by Nick Turse, transforms our understanding of what the Vietnam war actually was. Turse discovers that episodes of devastation, murder, massacre, rape, and torture once considered isolated atrocities were in fact the norm.
Collectively, we need to imagine a world in which we as Americans are no longer the foremost merchants of death, in which we don’t imagine ourselves as the eternal global police force, in which we don’t spend as much on our military as the next 10 countries combined.
We need to move beyond U.S. myopia and analyze U.S.-Korea policy in terms of “deep rationality.” That is, the underlying reasons for behavior not articulated by the actors, perhaps out of prudence, but also quite likely because they are not aware of them themselves.
The Hawaiian movement for self-determination was forever changed by the fierce and unapologetic leadership of the late Haunani-Kay Trask. This loving obituary written by one of Trask’s mentees explores her powerful legacy.
What unites the West Indian islands is not language and culture, but the wretchedness of slavery, rooted in an oppressive plantation economy. Both Haiti and Cuba are products of this ‘peculiarity’, the one being bold enough to break the shackles in 1804, and the other able to follow a 150 years later.
A discussion with seasoned communards of one of Venezuela’s flagship communes about how they see the country’s situation, the solutions they have learned through experience, and the future they project for the besieged country.
It was in Cuba that Hemingway wrote his iconic novel ‘The Old Man and the Sea’. That book won him the Nobel Prize in October 1954. “This is one prize that belongs to Cuba, because my work was conceived and created in Cuba,” he said.
Spyware like Pegasus is not just dangerous as it wrests complete control over an infected phone. It is menacing also because it introduces the skills and knowledge of nation-states into the civilian sphere.
Evidence suggests that the world’s most sophisticated commercially available spyware has been misused and greater accountability and oversight is needed. Also – Edward Snowden Calls for a Global Moratorium on Spyware Trade.
Data Leak Exposes Global Surveillance Plot Targeting Journalists and Dissidents; Amnesty International ‘Fully Stands By’ Project Data; Pegasus Reports Highlight Need for Better Regulation of Spyware: UN Rights Chief; A Test for Pegasus – and Indian Democracy.
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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