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India’s gaffe at Samarkand
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Samarkand on September 16 after the SCO Summit turned into a media scandal.
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Biden keeps pledging direct U.S. war with China over Taiwan
The president of the United States has once again committed the US military to direct hot war with China in the event of an attack on Taiwan, a commitment that was once again walked back by his White House handlers.
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Vernon Gonsalves: Stop denying political prisoners the right to healthcare in Indian jails
On 8th September Vernon Gonsalves, one of the 16 undertrials in the Bhima Koregaon case lodged in the anda cell of Taloja Central Jail, was diagnosed with dengue and likely pneumonia.
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Marx’s writings on Asia: A sober assessment
Throughout most of recorded history, Asia has been the wealthiest region in the world.
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War is not the answer to deep planetary insecurity: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2022)
The latest Human Development Report (2021–22) records that for the first time in thirty-two years, the Human Development Index has registered a second consecutive year of decline.
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Why China’s first solar-powered, semi-satellite drone is a big deal
In a big step toward green development, China has built its first solar-powered large unmanned aerial vehicle.
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Economist Michael Hudson on debt relief, inflation, Ukraine disaster capitalism, petrodollar crisis
Economist Michael Hudson discusses partial student debt relief in the U.S., inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China’s challenge to the petrodollar.
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Political prisoners unite the British Raj and ‘New India’
Just as the British rulers used to refer to political prisoners during their rule as ‘terrorists,’ the rulers of today also call people imprisoned for opposing them ‘terrorists’.
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Imperialism and Taiwan
The recent visit of the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, to Taiwan has sharply increased the prospect of war in the region.
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NYT scolds China for not ‘learning to live’—or die—with Covid
Four and a half million people. That’s how many Chinese people would have died from Covid-19 had its government taken the same approach to the pandemic that the United States has taken, and gotten the same results.
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Silencing the Lambs — How propaganda works
Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done.
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While U.S. leaders moralize about alleged human rights abuses in Russia and China to justify proxy wars, prisoners in the U.S. routinely suffer from inhumane treatment
A Miami Prisoner is Among Those Who Believe That U.S. Prison Authorities Are Trying to Kill Them.
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We will march, even if we have to wade through the Pakistani floodwaters: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2022)
Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Calamities are familiar to the people of Pakistan who have struggled through several catastrophic earthquakes, including those in 2005, 2013, and 2015 (to name the most damaging), as well as the horrendous floods of 2010. However, nothing could prepare the fifth most populated […]
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Doing business with Taliban Govt
In no time after the retreat from Afghanistan, NATO is already immersed in another proxy war in Europe, and the alliance, at U.S. behest, is lurching toward the Arctic to counter Russia and China’s “big plans for the polar region.”
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Black King of Songs
His communism brought the great American singer Paul Robeson trouble in the U.S., but helped make him a hero in China.
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Indian workers defend their steel with their lives: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2022)
The long and distant epoch of pre-history, dated to the time before the start of the Common Era, is conventionally divided into three periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age.
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Blaming China and other developing countries for climate change ‘is simply racist’
‘Time to call a spade a spade ….’
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The People’s Steel Plant and the fight against privatisation in Visakhapatnam
The story of the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is not only a story about its workers. Their resistance, aspirations, and victories are part of a wider canvas that is interwoven with struggles to defend the public sector, confrontations with neoliberalism, and the fight to carry out a national modernisation project. Each collage in this dossier combines […]
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Even after a century, water is still the marker of India’s caste society
For Dalits, water is not a natural beauty, the nectar of life or a life-nurturing agent, but a ‘caste burden’.
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Vietnam’s war remnants museum
There’s a saying that “the victor writes history”. Standing in the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, the question arises: Who wrote the history of the Vietnam War we were taught in Australia?