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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Prakash Sharma |Ana Pararajasingham |Vidyadhar Date |Ralph Nader
Artists at National School of Drama performed Hillol Kumar Pathak’s Madhumokhika at the theatre festival Bharat Rang Mahotsav. Madhumokhika, the play, isn’t just about surrealism intrigued smoothly into the mundane everydayness of a housewife but also about the revelation of what is in between, horror of aspiration, conflict of modernities, and everything operating within the vicious apparatus of patriarchy.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Vijay Prashad |Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake |Ana Pararajasingham
Anura Kumara Dissanayake, known with convenient laziness as AKD, became Sri Lanka’s latest president after a runoff count focusing on preferential votes. The very fact that it went to a second count with a voter turnout of 77% after a failure of any candidate to secure a majority was itself historic, the first since Sri Lankan independence in 1948. AKD’s presidential victory tickles and excites the election watchers for various reasons.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vijay Prashad |Atul Chandra |Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake |Ana Pararajasingham
by Atul Chandra and Vijay PrashadOn September 22, 2024, the Sri Lankan election authority announced that Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) alliance won the presidential election.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake |Ana Pararajasingham |Nafees Ahmad |Pranjal Pandey
In the run up to elections the post-Marxist National People’s Party (NPP), has run a high-gloss, foreign-funded, election campaign to market its policies as a ‘new dawn’. Remarkably, the NPP and rival political parties alike had ignored wider geopolitical developments that may contribute to such a dawn given the globally networked nature of Sri Lanka’s ‘poly crisis’.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Darini Rajaisngham-Senanayake |Ana Pararajasingham |Nafees Ahmad |Pranjal Pandey
In the run up to elections President Ranil Wickramasinghe has portrayed his government’s Debt Sustainability Agreement (DSA) with the International Monetary Fund as a panacea for Sri Lanka’s globally networked ‘polycrisis’. Minister of Finance, Shehan Semasinghe, meanwhile, claimed that ‘there is no alternative’ (TINA) to the lender of last resorts, the IMF. Amending the agreement as called for by some opposition parties would cause heavy losses to the country and amount to ‘suicide’ he noted.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ana Pararajasingham |T Vijayendra |Walden Bello |Marwan Asmar
Since its debut in 2019 at the Sydney Town Hall, Counting and Cracking is back, this time at Carriageworks. Except for some minor changes, the play remains as “warm and witty” as it was then described. One may add that it is also an incredibly authentic portrayal of events as experienced by a Tamil family over several decades, and across four generations.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | P S Sahni |Andre Damon |Marwan Asmar |Ana Pararajasingham
Palestinains in Search of HumanityOnce a people or a nation colonized by European imperialists, it remains colonized and subjugated by the Masters forever. The contemporary oil-producing Arab world represents that historic reality. The Israeli planned onslaught on Gaza for over six months and its catastrophic consequences of crimes against humanity and alleged genocide – all have imprints of complicity of modern Arab -Muslim leaders.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | P S Sahni |Andre Damon |Marwan Asmar |Ana Pararajasingham
[Benjamin Netanyahu asked the Chief of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at the War Cabinet Meeting somewhere in Circa 2027, May 1st.]IDF Chief: Sir, we have killed over 200,000 Palestinians so far. Worse, Hamas is alive and kicking; besides our intelligence reports indicate that it had managed to dig a tunnel over 240 feet deep in the Negev Desert, roughly thirteen km south-east of Dimona city.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Marwan Asmar |Ana Pararajasingham |Sajid Farid Shapoo
On Friday morning, Israel carried out an airstrike on a military base in central Iran near one of its nuclear facilities, further widening the war in the Middle East instigated by the imperialist powers. After decades of proxy conflicts throughout the Middle East, Israel and Iran have now each exchanged fire against one another from their own territory, setting a precedent for further escalation.
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Apr 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Ana Pararajasingham |April M. Short |Mustapha Marrouchi
Is it a row or just a tiff brewing between German and Israel? “…We are not like the Nazis,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the German Minister Annalena Baerbock when she visited Israel last Week. The comment was part of an altercation between Baerbock and Netanyahu when the latter insisted there was no famine and Gaza but the German Foreign Minister kept pushing the point, at which time Netanyahu raised his voice at her.
