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Walter Rodney wrote, “The development of Europe [was] part of the same dialectical process in which Africa was underdeveloped.” In recent decades, Canada has played an outsized role in this process of underdevelopment – particularly in Burkina Faso.
‘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.
Angela Rangad’s extraordinary solo protest ended with the Meghalaya government calling her for consultations on better implementation of the Chief Minister’s Relief Against Wage Loss scheme.
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.
Opinion: Bhagwat’s Glasnost in RSS-Muslim Ties Is Welcome, But Can He Rein in Modi and Adityanath?; Counterview: The RSS’s Age-Old Agenda Is the Same, No Matter What Mohan Bhagwat Says; The Burden of Being ‘Bharatiya’ in Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu Rashtra.
This is another conversation with Thiru K Veermani which was recorded on November 1st, 2019. Veeramani says that Periyar was not opposed to Hindi, he was against its imposition on Tamil Nadu; the RSS wants to impose Hindutva culture on Tamil Nadu.
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