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1 week ago | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Binoy Kampmark |Bhabani Nayak |Michael Albert
SAN FRANCISCO (04-15) – Today being Tax Day, a day most Americans dread, activists from across the country protested the unfairness of taxes allowing the rich to pay less than their fair share and in how the federal government spends taxpayers’ hard-earned money.
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1 week ago | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Bhabani Nayak |Michael Albert |Liz Theoharis
Island states tend to be anxious political entities. Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting penetration is never far. Threats of such unwanted intrusion are embellished and magnified. In the case of Australia, these have varied from straying Indonesian fishermen who are seen as terrors of border security, to the threatened establishment of military bases in the Indo-Pacific by China.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Arun Mitra |Ram Puniyani |Bhabani Nayak |P M Joshy
In our country with diverse beliefs and traditions coexisting, the promotion of rational thinking and scientific temper is extremely important. Superstitious beliefs, blind practices and rituals are an impediment to the path of development. Scientific temper is not merely knowledge of science, but it is a rational way to analyse the events and it is the quest for deeper understanding. Therefore it is essential for any society to be inquisitive, inclusive and assimilative for advancement.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ram Puniyani |Bhabani Nayak |P M Joshy |Rob Hopkins
The convergence of Christian-Jewish-Zionist extremism, European neo-Nazism, and Hindutva ideologies — aided by arms lobbies and imperialist interests — has contributed to a global climate of war hysteria, racism, blasphemy, and social unrest. This paper examines the historical and political foundations of the Hindutva-Zionist nexus, exploring its impact on India’s political trajectory.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Shiraz Durrani |Haider Abbas |Bhabani Nayak |Romi Mahajan
Class & IdeologyThe political context of African publishing is not given the attention it deserves. The elephants in the room are capitalism and imperialism, which distort every aspect of life in favour of the ruling elite and make policies that are against the interest of working people. Essentially, there are class divisions and class struggles in Kenya (and Africa). It is the capitalist ideology that the ruling class promotes while suppressing the socialist aspirations of people.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bruce Lerro |Bhabani Nayak |Immanuel Ness |Bharat Dogra
Summary of Part IIn Part I of this article I contrasted sixteen ways in which communist macro-psychology differs from liberal micro-psychology as it is practiced in the United States. I described communist psychology in action in the field of eating habits and the impact of advertising on the public’s emotional life.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Andre Damon |Julia Conley |Nagesh Chaudhari
On March 11, 2025, the people of Odisha witnessed a historic low in the Odisha State Legislative Assembly, where ruling party BJP Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) attacked opposition party members inside the house, which is considered the temple of democracy. The ruckus was not accidental; it was a result of the criminalisation of politics in the state. In Odisha, more than fifty percent of the MLA candidates contesting in the 2024 elections had criminal records.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Yanis Iqbal |Tamanna Joshi |zeenat khan |Bhabani Nayak
The emergence of feminist politics has led to a patriarchal counter-revolution that pays lip-service to “equality” while insisting that women and men should occupy different, separate places in society. In the case of Islamists, this ideology takes the following form: Islam recognizes the equality of men and women but underlines their separate and complementary roles/responsibilities based on God-given differences.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ram Puniyani |Bhabani Nayak |P M Joshy |Richard Falk
RSS Combine’s agenda of Hindu Rashtra has been built upon the narratives through multiple mechanisms. The festivals have been the occasion for promoting its agenda. Also highlighting some deities for ‘social political messaging’ has been in the political arena in a major way. The recently held Kumbh was a mega spectacle, which became more of a National event rather than a religious gathering. One major change for this year’s Kumbh is its heavy marketing as a cultural and developmental showcase.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |P M Joshy |Ram Puniyani |Binoy Kampmark
Hindutva politics claims to be rooted in integral humanism and Gandhian socialism as its foundational principles. The BJP has incorporated these principles into its party constitution and regards them as its core pillars of its politics. However, in practice, it follows a politics of othering minorities and depriving marginalized communities while accelerating the crony capitalism established by the Congress Party.
