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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Thomas Suarez |Pieter Friedrich |J Hester |Phil Rockstroh
Gabbard’s service to India’s Hindu nationalist movement didn’t block her as Director of National IntelligenceLast month, I sat with two FBI agents in Washington, DC for at least two hours to discuss my experiences as a victim of transnational repression by India’s Hindu nationalist (“Hindutva”) government.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Pieter Friedrich |J Hester |Phil Pasquini |Bharat Dogra
Gabbard was rightly worried that questions about her long ties to Modi’s BJP would ariseThe most incongruous moment of Tulsi Gabbard’s Jan. 30 Senate hearing to become Director of National Intelligence was when she opened her remarks by denying, among other things, being the “puppet” of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The hearing left Gabbard facing an uncertain vote due to a wide range of her unorthodox policy positions.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Pieter Friedrich |J Hester |Frederic Jennings |Eliza Daley
Mainstream critiques of Gabbard’s compromises miss the forest for the treesLast month, when former U.S. congressional representative Tulsi Gabbard spoke at the controversial BAPS temple in Robbinsville, New Jersey, it marked her first major public appearance since being nominated as the country’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Gabbard has faced a wave of critics and skeptics ever since the nomination.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Pieter Friedrich |J Hester |Immanuel Ness |Bharat Dogra
Why is Gabbard so closely linked to the Hindutva rulers of India? When Ram Madhav was a representative at her wedding in April 2015, you have to really trace back and look at the four years previous to that as far as the ongoing long-term relationship between Tulsi Gabbard and the Hindu nationalist organizations that this particular individual, Madhav, represents.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Pieter Friedrich |J Hester |Rebecca Gordon |Vikas Meshram
I was in New Delhi when it all started. It was August 2018.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Pieter Friedrich |J Hester |Bhabani Nayak |Phil Pasquini
Is Hindutva’s foreign interference buying U.S. political power? In a development that sent shockwaves through the U.S. political landscape, former Democratic Representative and candidate for president Tulsi Gabbard was nominated by Donald Trump to serve as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidyadhar Date |J Hester |Rebecca Gordon |Manas Jena
The BJP has scored a big if questionable win in the just held legislative assembly elections in Maharahtra. But the state administration has scored a self goal or shot itself in the foot when it comes to it boasts about so called modern, high technology and urban transport with the miserable failure of its hobby horse the Metro rail network in Mumbai. The Metro was touted as a technology marvel and the actual result has blown into the authorities’ face.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | J Hester |Bruce Lerro |Philip Farruggio |Dan Lieberman
One of the most-used libelous labels of establishment Democrats is “Russian asset”, a term used to disparage those on the right and on the left opposed to continuing U.S. support for the war in Ukraine. Like many liberal conspiracy theories, such as the now-debunked Russiagate theory, which posited that Russia successfully interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help Donald Trump win, the “Russian asset” trope was, unsurprisingly, the brainchild of one Hillary Clinton.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Henry Giroux |Tom Engelhardt |Edward Curtin |J Hester
Stoked by vitriolic political rhetoric spread by the right and increasingly left unchallenged by leading Democratic politicians, the normalization of a hostile and violent attitude toward immigrants is spreading. Under such circumstances, democracy has reached a dangerous moment given the emergence of a violent politics emboldened by fantasies of racial cleansing and a national rebirth.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | M K Bhadrakumar |Arjun Banerjee |J Hester |Jake Johnson
NAPM supports the cause of an independent and sovereign Palestine and stands in full solidarity with the people of Palestine and Lebanon as they continue to persevere under Israeli aggression!The Indian government’s meek silence on the unfolding genocide is condemnable:NAPM demands an immediate end to the arms trade with Israel as part of comprehensive sanctions on Israel.
