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As the enthusiasm for war on terror ebbs in America, Pentagon hawks have been searching for new wars and escalations – the new targets are China and Russia. While this guarantees more money for the Pentagon, it hasn’t made the US safer; the wars are also coming back home.
By unilaterally ending a 29-year ceasefire, Morocco highlights the urgent need for the UN to make good on its commitments to Western Sahara.
2021 is a crucial year for Nicaragua, with national elections due in November. With Biden coming to power, will the US administration continue its attempts to sabotage the elections? And can Nicaragua once again defend its sovereignty against US and other foreign interference?
While skirmishes continue on the borders of India, Sameer Arshad Khatlani explores the deeply embedded syncretic elements in the heritage left behind by the founder of Sikhism. Part of his legacy still lives on in Pakistan.
The Chilean government has finally agreed to a process of constitutional reform. Though the government is trying to sabotage the process, it’s a historic opportunity, won by millions of Chileans taking to the streets, to step out from the long shadow of Pinochet’s dictatorship.
The legality of the state’s move to recover damages from people accused of having participated in the protests is dubious.
Anyone who believes locking President Donald Trump out of his social media accounts will serve as the first step on the path to healing the political divide in the United States is likely to be in for a bitter disappointment.
Iran’s Revolution is generally understood to have begun on January 7, 1978, and continued until the Shah fled the country on January 16, 1979. The revolution was brewing for decades though …
The historical anthropologist says that there is a growing argument for a human history that predates war altogether and further points out that war is not innate to human nature, but instead, is a social and cultural development that begins at certain points around the globe.
Karthika Naïr talks of Shaheen Bagh and of her poem “Ghazal: India’s Season of Dissent”, of the politics of literature, and of how literary texts can “respond” to violence, grief and pain.
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