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Ben Norton While the US government, international NGOs, and corporate media outlets have relentlessly demonised the elected governments in Venezuela and Nicaragua, the Washington-backed right-wing administration in Chile has been violent cracking down on an uprising against neoliberal policies, and with virtual impunity. In October 2019, protests erupted across Chile against the government…
Marc Becker In 1930, Waldo Frank wrote in the leftist US weekly The Nation that the April 16 death of Jose Carlos Mariátegui had plunged “the intelligentsia of all of Hispano-America into sorrow; and nothing could be more eloquent of the cultural separation between the two halves of the new world than the fact…
Robert Hunziker There’s a problem with America’s (and we’d like to add, India’s – editor) favourite statistic: GDP. It avoids pretty much everything that’s actually, truly, really good for society, including the importance of robust ecology. Still, it’s the biggest measure of what’s happening with the economy and used around the world, even though…
Eric Toussaint Over the last ten years Greece has been a prime example of how a country and a people can be deprived of their liberty through clearly illegitimate debt. Since the 19th century, from Latin America to China, Haiti, Greece, Tunisia, Egypt and the Ottoman Empire public debt has been used as a…
Courtesy: Countercurrents Collective As coronavirus fears spread, a world-renowned virologist has explained when Covid-2019 will fade away and, whether medical masks are of any use. Around the world, public anxiety grows, with people embarking on panic buying and even fighting for medical masks. But for initiated professionals, the Covid-2019 is just one…
Courtesy: The Wire Staff Different prime ministers choose to communicate in different ways. If tweets, radio broadcasts and speeches at rallies are Narendra Modi’s preferred modes of communication, India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, believed in letters—snail-mail, in today’s parlance. Soon after he assumed office in August 1947, Nehru began a tradition of writing…
Sumanta Banerjee At a time when Delhi was burning in the fire of communal riots sparked by the provocative speeches of leaders of his own party as evident from video reports, it was ironical that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should have invited President Trump to visit, of all places, Sabarmati, the ashram where Gandhi…
Omar Raad Chowdhury Women around the world, regardless of their status, nationality, color, are at a constant state of war with the patriarchy, a war that has been raging since the Agricultural Revolution and that has its roots deeply embedded in property relations. Rapes are the by-products of that war, patriarchy’s trophies won in…
Malavika Karlekar As reports continue to pour in of nonviolent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), the abiding trope is of women at the forefront, whether at Shaheen Bagh, Park Circus or venues at Mumbai, Pune, Patna, Lucknow … with each passing day, spaces of protest are growing. Women’s involvement in political protest…
Alan MacLeod, Whitney Webb Many of the massive anti-neoliberal protest movements that exploded across the globe last year have pressed on into 2020, especially those that rose up throughout Latin America. Many of those demonstrations—clearly newsworthy due to their enormous size, composition, and motives—were and continue to be ignored by prominent English language news…
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