Disinformation: A New Type of State-Sponsored Violence
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Disinformation: A New Type of State-Sponsored Violence

While attempts by the ruling party to control the media and the messaging are not new in India, what we see now is the use of new technology to ‘curate’ and exercise ‘centralised control’ to spread disinformation in order to harass and intimidate critics.

US Intervention and Capitalism Have Created a Monster in Honduras
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US Intervention and Capitalism Have Created a Monster in Honduras

The US government has fully backed the repression unleashed by Hernández led Honduran government on its people, including providing training, supplies, and funding for Honduras’s police and military – as Hernandez has allowed US corporations to freely enter and plunder the country.

That Unremembered Agony: Gandhi’s First Birthday in Independent India
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That Unremembered Agony: Gandhi’s First Birthday in Independent India

Said Gandhi on that day in 1947, “Indeed, today is my birthday…. This is for me a day of mourning. I am still lying around alive. I am surprised at this, even ashamed that I am the same person who once had crores of people hanging on to every word of his. But today no one heeds me at all…”

The Violent Video from a Recent Eviction Drive Should be a Moment of Reckoning for Assamese Society
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The Violent Video from a Recent Eviction Drive Should be a Moment of Reckoning for Assamese Society

In a state with a tortured history of anti-immigrant resentment, every policy decision can have potentially seismic effects. Assam needs a strong movement to counter the actions of a casteist, communal state.