Slow Motion Lulismo
Two renowned Brazilian academics on Lula’s first year back in power.
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The Baluchistan Imbroglio
The author discusses the background to the latest strikes – first Iran targeted the base of an armed-separatist group, the Jaish al-Adl, in Baluchistan; two days later, Pakistan unleashed a drone attack against Baluchi-militant ‘terrorist hideouts’ on the Iranian side of the border.
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Wealth of Five Richest Men Doubles Since 2020 as Five Billion People Made Poorer in “Decade of Division”
The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020 – at a rate of $14 million per hour – while nearly five billion people have been made poorer, reveals a new Oxfam report on inequality and global corporate power.
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There’s No Free Press Without a Free Assange
If as a global human community we allow the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, it will be a world-historic blow to the freedom of thought, conscience, and expression. It will be a victory for secretive, abusive governments and corporate institutions around the world.
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Capitalism and the Production of Poverty
The perpetual production of ever-changing forms of poverty is an inevitable part of the creative destruction that characterizes capitalism. The form of poverty changes, because capitalism is dynamic and constantly changing, but poverty remains.
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‘My Daily Bread Is My Daily Doubt’: Mumbai Mill Worker Narayan Surve’s Poetry in Translation
An excerpt from ‘In That Mill, I Too Was Forged: Poems’, by Narayan Surve, translated from Marathi by Jerry Pinto.
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‘The Sunset of the Century’: Tagore’s 1900 New Year Poem Resonates in 2024
Tagore’s words, “Be on watch, India” and asking people “to stand before the proud and the powerful/ With your white robe of simpleness”, are of greater relevance today, when the arrival of 2024 is being celebrated, than when he composed those words to mark the advent of the year 1900.
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South Africa’s Case Before the International Court of Justice on Genocide in Gaza – 3 Articles
‘Genocide in Gaza’; ‘International Court of Justice Hears Devastating Presentation of Israeli Genocide in Gaza’; ‘Why We Have to Make the Jewish Ghetto Comparison’.
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Thirty Years of Failure on Climate: How Did it Come to This?
The reason for the climate crisis is the ever-increasing profits being generated by the global capitalist class from the exploitation of the world’s human and natural resources. The captains of industry and the politicians who serve them are therefore determined to preserve the status quo as long as possible.
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Communalism | Communalism | India | Online Blog | Securalism
Congress Declines to Participate in Temple Consecration; Gandhi and Tagore on Temple Inauguration – 3 Articles
‘The January 22 Ram Temple Inauguration Is a Political Event. It’s a Crucial Test for Indian Politics’; ‘Why Congress Clearly Saying January 22 Is Part of RSS/BJP’s “Political Project” Matters’; ‘Gandhi, Vivekananda, Tagore, and Temple Consecration’.
