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Jul 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Richard Falk |Binoy Kampmark |Rima Najjar |Joseph Kishore
[Prefatory Note: An earlier version of thiss Open Letter to Kamala Harris was published by CounterPunch on July 23, 2024; so many developments have occurred in recent days as to make this longer version seem justifiable.]An Open Letter to Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party, July 2024These is every reason to be glad that Joe Biden finally acted responsibly by withdrawing his candidacy for a second term. It should have happened weeks earlier.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Phil Pasquini |Rima Najjar |Joseph Kishore
Having been endorsed as the only viable candidate to battle Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential elections, Joe Biden was subsequently browbeaten and harried into leaving the way open for another candidate. It involved some movement of political furniture, but nothing more. The process resulting in Biden’s decision had increasingly bulked over the last two months.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Jacob Crosse |Lawrence Wittner |Joseph Kishore |Chris Hedges
More than a week after former President Donald Trump was nearly assassinated by a 20-year-old amateur shooter, there are multiple unanswered questions concerning the complete security breakdown at the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania where the shooting occurred. The shooting left one member of the rally audience dead and critically injured two other people. Trump himself, according to his former White House doctor, now congressman, Ronny Jackson, suffered a “2 cm” bullet wound.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Lawrence Wittner |Arun Mitra |Joseph Kishore |Chris Hedges
Over the past decade and more, nuclear war has grown increasingly likely. Most nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements of the past have been discarded by the nuclear powers or will expire soon. Moreover, there are no nuclear arms control negotiations underway.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Rima Najjar |Joseph Kishore |Bharat Dogra |Edward Curtin
A London reporter writes in WSJ that the assassination attempt on Trump, coming after Biden’s “stumbles” during the recent presidential debate, has pushed the superpower to enter “an unusually turbulent and unpredictable period, prompting allies to question its reliability and foes to gloat.” As a foe of US imperialist foreign policy, not of “America” (my husband is American and my children, like so many other children in the US, are hyphenated Americans), I am not gloating at the sorry...
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Subhash Gatade |Joseph Kishore |Bharat Dogra |Chitta Ranjan Behera
1‘India Will Awake to Police Raj’!““I am reminded of Pandit Nehru ‘s speech “ At the stroke of midnight India will awake to freedom” . At the stroke of midnight night 1st July 2024 India will awake to police raj,” (1)There are rare occasions when a simple tweet underlines the unfolding reality in stark terms. Noted lawyer and human rights activist Indira Jaising’s tweet a fortnight back created similar ripples. Her concern was over the three new criminal laws coming into operation the next morning.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Joseph Kishore |Chris Hedges |Binoy Kampmark |Clarence Lusane
by Joseph Kishore and David NorthThe Republican National Convention opened in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Monday, two days after the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The event was a carnival of fascistic politics that epitomizes all that is reactionary and backward in the American ruling class. Exactly 60 years ago, in July 1964, the Republican Party nominated Senator Barry Goldwater.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Countercurrents Collective |Sonali Kolhatkar |Joseph Kishore
Israel is starving the Palestinian people of Gaza while the world watches. It looks on helplessly pretending it can’t do anything while the reigns of control remain in Israeli hands. There are presently 15,008 food and supply trucks standing on the Rafah border waiting for Israel to allow them to enter Gaza and feed the starving and hungry – hundreds of thousands – people who came to assemble these to escape Israeli missiles and bombs.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Countercurrents Collective |Sonali Kolhatkar |Joseph Kishore |Marwan Asmar
The Israeli military has been “astonished” by the size and quality of the tunnels Hamas has built under Gaza, according to an article published in the New York Times on Tuesday. The tunnel network was originally estimated to include 250 miles (400 km) of underground passages and bunkers. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has since revised these estimates to 350-450 miles (560-725 km) or more.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sonali Kolhatkar |Joseph Kishore |Countercurrents Collective |Marwan Asmar
When United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain called for a ceasefire in Israel’s assault on Gaza in mid-December, his union was among the nation’s largest to do so. It was a bold move, fresh from UAW’s victorious high-profile contract negotiations with the Big Three auto manufacturers a few weeks earlier. “[U]nions are the best bridge toward fighting all forms of hatred and phobias,” said Fain in his ceasefire speech alongside Congressional lawmakers.
