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EDITORIAL: RSS, HINDUTVA AND ITS LEADERS CONSISTENTLY ON THE SIDE OF THE OPPRESSOR, AND MODI’S MORAL COWARDICE IN ABSTAINING IN UN VOTE ON CEASEFIRE, AS ISRAEL THREATENS A NEW NAKBA
Vinod Mubayi
As the horrific, genocidal slaughter of the civilian population continues in Gaza, with almost 10,000 killed including thousands of small children at the time of writing, public demonstrations by hundreds of thousands of people have taken place in all major cities in the world in favor of a ceasefire and a stop to the wanton killing by aerial bombardment along with the total siege of Gaza imposed by Israel. These rallies have occurred in Washington, DC, New York and London in the heart of the US and UK, countries that are the main backers of the Israeli government and in the case of the US its major arms supplier and financial patron for many decades. In the UN General Assembly, a large majority, 120 countries, that included even members of NATO such as France and Belgium, voted in favor of a ceasefire. Only 14 countries, including the US and Israel and a few Pacific Island countries, voted no.
Read more…AMIDST THE MADNESS…
Beena Sarwar
We hold on to our core beliefs and values, refusing to descend to the level of those who seem to have lost their humanity.
Read more…PALESTINIANS FACE GENOCIDE. NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR ACADEMIC NEUTRALITY
Marcy Newman
I don’t hesitate to use the word genocide because I know that when Raphäel Lemkin defined the term in 1944, and when the United Nations adopted it four years later, they intended the crime to apply to any group of people who are being targeted because they comprise the same national, ethnic, racial or religious group. (Similarly, in the context of international law, the crime of apartheid is applicable beyond South Africa, where it originated, which is why it applies to Israel as well.)
Read more…CERAS STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE! OCCUPATION MUST END NOW!
At this time CERAS (Centre sur l’asie du sud/South Asia Centre) stands in solidarity with Palestine and the Palestinian people.
Read more…DO PALESTINIANS HAVE THE RIGHT TO RESIST? THE UNEQUIVOCAL ANSWER IS YES
Tariq Ali
As I write this, Gaza is still being bombed, its citizens massacred by a state that has dehumanised itself as well as its powerful supporters (Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is among the more recent apologists, and New Delhi is the only significant global city where there has been no demonstration against Israeli war crimes) over the years, each decade worse than the one before. There is no moral, political, or military equivalence as far as the two sides are concerned.
Read more…STOP THE DEPORTATIONS: SOLIDARITY STATEMENT WITH AFGHANS IN PAKISTAN
Afghan Reparations Collective (ARC)
What’s Been Happening? Millions at Risk.
The government of Pakistan announced a deadline for all “undocumented Afghans” – essentially Afghans seeking refuge but denied this status by the government – to leave the country by November 1, 2023. The demands were qualified through unproven accusations of Afghans being involved in “terrorism.”
Read more…LONG READ: THE GUPTA PAPERS: HOW THE MODI GOVERNMENT IS COVERING UP TWO DECADES OF DEFENCE CORRUPTION TO SAVE THE RAFALE DEAL
Nileena MS
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ON A CLOUDLESS DAY in March 2012, an Audi sped along the highway connecting Milan and Lugano. Its two occupants, the 68-year-old Italian-American businessman Guido Ralph Haschke and his friend and business partner Carlo Gerosa, were scared. The Italian police had been zeroing in on them in its investigation of bribery allegations in the Indian government’s 2010 purchase of 12 helicopters—worth Rs 3,727 crore—from AgustaWestland, a subsidiary of the state-controlled defence company Finmeccanica, now called Leonardo.
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