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Former Israeli army general Amiram Levin said what is happening in the West Bank is ‘total apartheid’ and ‘dragging us all into war crimes’.
In a turnaround, the IMF has now granted Pakistan a larger-than expected, nine-month, short-term loan package of $3 billion. This is independent of the earlier IMF-supported program.
On Tuesday, August 8, the Amazonia Summit and the IV Presidential Meeting of the member countries of the Amazonia Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) began in Brazil. As the first contribution of the Summit, the Declaration of Belém Do Pará was issued.
“We anticipate acceleration of the long-term global warming rate by at least 50%, i.e., to at least 0.27°C/decade,” says James Hansen, in an article “Oh-Oh. Now What?”
This article, first published on October 17, 2017 by the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee, seeks to tell the truth and learn the lessons of the US war in Indochina, and of the broad, diverse protest movement that ended the war.
Fidel not only survived the fury of the Batista dictatorship, guerrilla war, and 600 assassination attempts, but led a revolutionary process which after 60 years, continues to resist and triumph.
Hugo Chávez emerged in the history of Venezuela when the thesis that ideological disputes throughout the world had ended was most entrenched. Far from being over, however, history had an important task for the Venezuelan people, who rose up against neoliberalism in 1989 and who continue to build a project of twenty first-century socialism today.
Historical materialism, in the dominant twentieth-century narrative in the West, is understood as confined to social sciences and humanities. However, John Bellamy Foster writes, Marx and Engels did not have such a limited conception, instead engaging with the natural sciences, providing insight into the dialectics of nature.
Living in a time when heated discussions around caste tend to centre around reservations, it becomes increasingly important for Dalit literature to claim its space.
“’Quit India’: The Last Nail in the Coffin of the British Empire”: The movement took a turn not contemplated by Gandhi and the Congress leaders. Also: “81 Years Ago, Launching the Quit India Movement, Gandhi Had Warned Us of Our Current State”.
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