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1 week ago | 
juancole.com | Aviva Chomsky |Juan Cole
( Tomdispatch.com ) – In an aphorism sometimes attributed to Leo Tolstoy, sometimes to John Gardner, all literature relies on one of two plots: a person goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. Let me offer my own version. We might summarize the entire history of the human race in two words: people move. Everything else is just elaboration on that basic plot.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Aviva Chomsky |Kevin Reed |Ramzy Baroud
What should one make of the recent White House meeting between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? Well, this time Netanyahu was almost summoned to the White House to be told a few home truths. This meeting was not like the first time when Netanyahu came to the White House in early February when it was all glowed to be unexpectedly told that Trump wants the USA to take over Gaza.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Aviva Chomsky |Kevin Reed |Ramzy Baroud |Kim Scipes
Palestinain Territory – The horrific massacre carried out by Israeli forces in the Al-Shuja’iyya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, marks a clear escalation in the ongoing genocide and a blatant denial of the Palestinian people’s right to life in the Gaza Strip. The attack represents an explicit and deliberate attempt to completely erase the Palestinian presence in Gaza.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Aviva Chomsky |Kevin Reed |Ramzy Baroud |Kim Scipes
In the colonial view of the world — and, in its own strange fashion, Donald Trump’s view couldn’t be more colonial — White European colonizers were embattled beacons of civilization, rationality, and progress, confronting dangerous barbaric hordes beyond (and even, sometimes, within) their own frontiers. Colonial violence then was a necessary form of self-defense needed to tame irrational eruptions of brutality among the colonized.
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2 months ago | 
znetwork.org | Aviva Chomsky |Norman Solomon |India Walton |Simone Chun
What can ordinary, busy people do about a U.S. government and society quickly swinging toward fascism? What do we know from the past and present and around the world about what works? Where do we start? How do we continue?
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Dinkar Kapoor |Aviva Chomsky |Kim Petersen |Vijay Prashad
ToSmt Sarada MuraleedharanChief SecretaryGovt of KeralaDear Smt Muraleedharan,I have come across a distressing news report that indicated “forest department officials responsible for demolishing three tribal huts at the Kollimoola tribal settlement in Begur, part of the Tholpetty forest range in the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary (WWS)“The tribals are original residents of forests and the forest officials have no right either to displace them or demolish their huts.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Himanshu Kumar |Dinkar Kapoor |Aviva Chomsky |Medea Benjamin
It has come to our attention that the Home Ministry of Chhattisgarh Government, via a circular dated 30 October 2024 has banned Moolwasi Bachao Manch, Bastar, stating it to be an unlawful and anti development organization. The ban has been initiated under section 3 of the draconian Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act (CSPSA). This circular does not cite any concrete reasons for the same.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vijay Prashad |Bharat Dogra |Aviva Chomsky |Vikas Meshram
Across the Pacific, Indigenous communities lead a growing wave of sovereignty against ongoing legacies of Western colonialism in the region, from the assault on Māori rights in Aotearoa to the US and French military presence in wider Oceania. For the past few weeks I have been on the road in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Australia at the invitation of groups such as Te Kuaka, Red Ant, and the Communist Party of Australia.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
revista.drclas.harvard.edu | Aviva Chomsky
In school, we may have learned that Simón Bolívar proposed expansion into northeastern Colombia in his quest for regional unification.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Dinkar Kapoor |Aviva Chomsky |ABHAY KUMAR |John Feffer
On Gandhi Jayanti yesterday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched ‘Dharti Aaba Janjati Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan’ in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand. In this campaign, schemes worth Rs 83,300 crores will be implemented for the upliftment of 5 crore tribal people in 63000 villages of the country. This scheme will be run in 2740 blocks of 549 districts of 30 states and union territories of the country.
