21st Century US Coups and Attempted Coups in Latin America
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21st Century US Coups and Attempted Coups in Latin America

ByStansfield Smith

During the 21st century, the US rulers have turned to a new coup strategy, relying on soft coups, a significant change from the notoriously brutal military hard coups in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and other countries in the 1970s. A list of 27 US-backed coups in the first 21 years of this century.

Annus Horribilis 2021 Leaves India Frayed, but Fight Must Continue; Also: 2021 – The Year of Evictions
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Annus Horribilis 2021 Leaves India Frayed, but Fight Must Continue; Also: 2021 – The Year of Evictions

BySmruti Koppikar; and SabrangIndia

Our normal was bad enough with communal strife and anti-Dalit violence, but the new normal is far worse. Hate became the calling card of 2021, and India went several rounds down the spiral. Also: A report by HLRN says that over a quarter of a million people were evicted in India during the Covid-19 pandemic.

An Open Letter to the Odisha CM on the Police Repression in Dhinkia
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An Open Letter to the Odisha CM on the Police Repression in Dhinkia

ByCourtesy: Countercurrents.org

Expressing shock and concern over the ongoing police repression on the peasants and betel growers of Dhinkia, Gobindpur and Nuagaon villages of Jagatsinghpur district who for 17 years have used the most democratic means to resist the forceful acquisition of land for the POSCO project.

‘Spirit of Anti-CAA Protests Lives on’: Students, Others Recount Police Action at Jamia
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‘Spirit of Anti-CAA Protests Lives on’: Students, Others Recount Police Action at Jamia

ByIsmat Ara

On the 2nd anniversary of the police crackdown on students protesting in the Jamia Millia University campus against the enactment of the CAA, students and civil society members recounted the police brutality that had left several injured. The PUDR also released a fact-finding report.

China Shows it Is Possible to Beat Covid
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China Shows it Is Possible to Beat Covid

ByJoseph Kishore and Scott Scheffer

A compilation from two articles: China, with 1.4 billion people, has kept total cases below 100,000 and total deaths below 5,000. By comparison, the United States, with less than a quarter of the population of China, has had more than 50 million cases and 800,000 deaths.

People Centered Human Rights and the Black Radical Tradition
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People Centered Human Rights and the Black Radical Tradition

ByAjamu Baraka

The realization of authentic freedom and human dignity can only come about through victory over Pan European white supremacist colonial/capitalist patriarchy. With people centred human rights, we have an ideological weapon for advancing this struggle.

The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange
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The Judicial Kidnapping of Julian Assange

ByJohn Pilger

“Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us.” These words of Jean-Paul Sartre should echo in all our minds following the grotesque decision of Britain’s High Court to extradite Julian Assange to the United States where he faces “a living death”. This is his punishment for the crime of authentic, accurate, courageous, vital journalism.