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When Nicaragua again announced its plan to build the alternative interoceanic canal to that of Panama, Washington, Wall Street and large multinationals launched an unprecedented media and political campaign against the government of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
Driven by internal crises and faced with the rapidly declining position of US and European imperialism on the world scale, the African continent and its rich resources are increasingly seen as a necessary means for their other war fronts.
In his condemnation of the U.S. war on the people of Vietnam, Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance was not a pacifist one. King was not necessarily anti-war so much as he was against the U.S. empire and its machinations against the Vietnamese and their generational struggle for self-determination.
On 17 January 2025, we commemorate the 64th anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1925-1961).
To remember Russell is to remember the indispensable role of hope in the face of despair, the necessity of resistance when the specter of fascism is with us once again, and the moral obligation to imagine and fight for a world yet to be born.
After Israel’s protracted genocide in Gaza, the ceasefire delivers a devastating victory for the Palestinian resistance and a smug defeat for Israelis, who were forced to cough up unprecedented concessions, leaving Hamas whole and the strip unoccupied.
Farmers from Punjab have protested at the Khanauri and Shambhu borders since February 2024, demanding legally guaranteed minimum support prices for crops. Agitation has intensified with Jagjit Singh Dallewal’s fast-unto-death and three farmer suicides, as the Centre maintains its wait-and-watch policy.
What the RSS chief said a few days ago is that India indeed got political independence in 1947 and real freedom came with the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Gandhi’s disapproval of ‘Hindu water’ and ‘Muslim water’ and superstitions and hypocrisy of sadhus on the occasion Kumbh Mela in 1915 offers lessons in the context of the 2025 Kumbh Mela. Also: Will the Ganga be able to heal or nourish anyone for very long after the Kumbh Mela?
The narrative that the transparency activists and applicants are troublemakers must be challenged.
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