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The noted constitution expert’s interview covers a range of topics, including the calls for a new constitution, simultaneous polls, questions raised on the Basic Structure of the constitution, the prevailing climate of intolerance, and the changing relationship between judiciary and executive.
Patrick Olivelle and Ramachandra Guha talk about Ashoka’s rule, the characteristics that set him apart as a ruler, how he came to embrace and then spread his moral philosophy, and more.
In order to prevent a democratic and people based resolution of the crisis in Haiti, the US ruling elite have engineered the approval by the UN Security Council of a Multinational Security Support Mission to Haiti, authorized to use armed force in support of the de facto regime of Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
The UK has planned or executed over 40 attempts to remove foreign governments in 27 countries since the end of the Second World War. These range from brutal colonial wars and covert operations to efforts to prop up favoured governments, including British Guiana in 1953, Egypt in the 1950s, Iraq in 2003 and Libya in 2011.
Peoples Dispatch speaks with Sani Adamou, Secretary General of Niger’s Revolutionary Organization for New Democracy, to discuss the root causes of the recent coups and the future of democracy in Niger.
The spokesperson for the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt warns that in 2023-2024, “all records of fiscal adjustment in the Global South will be broken”. He also affirms that “the IMF is much stronger than it was two decades ago.”
The US Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks recently announced the “Replicator Initiative.” Among other things, it would involve producing “swarms of drones” that could hit thousands of targets in China on short notice. Call it the full-scale launching of techno-war.
Letter to the Cargill-MacMillan family: In every region where Cargill operates, you are destroying the environment and driving out or threatening the communities who live there.
The fire was once aflame and blazing in this small country. May its memory serve as a spark to rekindle its embers.
This is an all-too-symbolic tale of how one institution in Topeka, Kansas, once a vocational college for Black students, became over the decades — and all too symbolically — a women’s prison. Then consider the remarkable story of one man who tried not just to stem but turn the tide there.
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