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Few revolutionary tracts match in importance Tom Paine’s Common Sense. Published for the first time on January 9, 1776, 250 years ago this month, the pamphlet, a frontal assault on the entire aristocratic world, is widely credited with clearing the way for the Declaration of Independence, which was ratified just six months later.
In the UK, a group of political prisoners from Palestine Action have entered the very dangerous phase of a hunger strike in jail. They are using their starving bodies to scream a truth that the BBC refuses to whisper: Britain is an active participant in the slaughter of Gaza.
“The United States Attacks Venezuela and Kidnaps its President in an Illegal Operation”; “US Starts 2026 by Bombing Venezuela and Kidnapping its President, Setting a Tone of Imperialist Violence for the Year”; “Who Is Nicolás Maduro — and Why Washington Kidnapped Him”.
“‘We Will Never Again Be Slaves’: Speech by Venezuela’s Interim President Delcy Rodríguez”; “Let No One Fall into Enemy Provocations”; “Venezuela’s Revolution Still Stands: Debunking Trump’s Psyop”.
After withstanding a decade of sanctions, Venezuela’s communes are prepared to face Trump’s illegal naval blockade and U.S. plans for economic asphyxiation.
“Global, Regional, Internal: How Many More Self Goals Will the Modi Government Score?”; “India’s Strategic Loneliness in the Age of Trump: Why It Needs a Nehru Now”: The problem for India is that the West is not the only front that it is having trouble with. Things are not going well in the South Asian neighbourhood as well.
The author critically traces the 25-year journey of the public sector firm Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), and seeks to bring out how a real possibility and promise of indigenous development under the public sector was lost.
IndiGo’s crisis shows how liberalised aviation leans on forbearance—profits first, safety later, with the State and passengers holding turbulence.
The twelfth and concluding part of a series of articles on ‘India’s Education Journey: From Macaulay to NEP’. This article discusses the measures the Government of India can take to increase its revenues to finance universal, free, good-quality education for all children, and also increase its social sector expenditures in other areas.
“From Living Landscapes to Extractable Matter: The Aravalli Verdict in Perspective”: By reducing the Aravallis to a numerical height threshold, the ruling converts a richly interconnected ecological landscape into a narrow technical category. Also: “Aravallis on Trial: When Law Protects Profit, Not Life”; and “Redefining Aravallis: Theft of the Commons”.
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