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Apr 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Soumyanetra Munshi |Gideon Polya |Bharat Dogra |Joydip Ghosal
ALBUS takes the Time-Turner from SCORPIUS – he presses down upon it and the Time-Turner begins to vibrate, and then explodes into a storm of movement. And with it the stage starts to transform. The two boys look at it. And there is a giant whoosh of light. A smash of noise. And time stops. And then it turns over, thinks a bit, and begins spooling backwards, slow at first …And then it speeds up.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Gideon Polya |Bharat Dogra |Joydip Ghosal |Chepal Sherpa
Melbourne philosopher Brian Ellis (Professor Emeritus in Philosophy, La Trobe University and former Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne) has published “On Civilizing Capitalism” that argues for a pragmatic, humane and science-based approach to economic theory as opposed to the currently dominant neoliberalism that in recent decades has supplanted the post-WW2 Keynesian welfare state models, and socialism that has been supplanted by free market capitalism in Russia and China.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Joydip Ghosal |Chepal Sherpa |Farooque Chowdhury
In my younger days as a journalist I was blessed to have the friendship of several dedicated young doctors who after passing out in distinguished ways from some of the top medical colleges had decided to devote themselves to serving the poor in remote villages or working class colonies.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Joydip Ghosal |Chepal Sherpa |Farooque Chowdhury
These are difficult times for democracy and this book on democracy in Hindi has thus been published at just the right time. Although it is mainly centered on India, it also ventures from time to time to comment on the situation in other parts of the world too.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Phil Pasquini |Joydip Ghosal |Andre Damon
“They let the dog on my husband as the soldier kicked the door down”The most immoral army at work: https://t.co/P6BelssWWS— PalMedia (@PalBint) March 24, 2024A six-member family who escaped their neighborhood near the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City which has been besieged by the Israeli army since 18 March provide testimony of what happened to them. “Al Shifa Complex – we nearly all died there,” grunted the man.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Marwan Asmar |Joydip Ghosal |Andre Damon
WASHINGTON (03-24) – The exterior of the Israeli Embassy that was transformed earlier this month into “Kibbutz Israel” by human rights activists as a living reminder of the ongoing genocide in Gaza while calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, has been transformed yet again.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Marwan Asmar |Joydip Ghosal |Andre Damon |Ariel Gold
Much of the information coming out of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City speak of dark times and ill-will for the people there. Ever since the Israeli army raided the hospital last week reports have suggested of unspeakable atrocities being made to the doctors, nurses, general staff as well as the thousands of displaced people there who took the hospital as their abode because they have nowhere to go. Eyewitness accounts are horrifying.
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Chris Hedges |Joydip Ghosal |Bharat Dogra |Charles Andrews
PEN America, once an important defender of rights for writers, editors and artists, has, under the direction of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel, abandoned its mission, destroyed its credibility and provoked a revolt among its members. Its refusal to condemn the genocide in Gaza and Israel’s targeted killings of writers, academics and journalists, has seen numerous writers withdraw from the annual PEN World Voices Festival in New York and Los Angeles, scheduled for April and May.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Joydip Ghosal |Andre Damon |Marwan Asmar |Ariel Gold
Mohammed Omer in his book ‘Shell-Shocked, Dispatches from a War, On the ground under Israel’s assault’ (Publisher Speaking Tiger) documented the third major Israeli assault on the Gaza strip. He is a Palestinian journalist. In 2008 he was awarded the Martha Gellhorn Prize for journalism. He has reported extensively for Al Jazeera, the Nation, Democracy Now!, and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Romi Mahajan |Joydip Ghosal |Chepal Sherpa |Farooque Chowdhury
Siddhartha Deb, Haymarket Books, forthcomingI am an academic-manque, who made it only as far as a master’s in South Asian studies.
