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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Cynthia Stephen |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy
In The Shudra Rebellion, the political theorist and Dalit rights activist Professor Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd attempts what few historians have done: he critiques Indian culture and civilisation by applying a new methodology that onboards the historically marginalised Shudras, who constitute both India’s productive labour and its numerical majority, into the mainstream narrative.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Dan Lieberman |Binoy Kampmark |Phil Pasquini |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd
Donald Trump’s distasteful State of the Disunion address urged salvation, anything to obtain relief from the madness. A lack of empathy and gruff manner displayed a chilling use of the anguish of parents of ravished children to promote the war on immigrants. Did the parents want to be there? Did they want their deceased children used for political opportunity? Naming public places after the children, as if the parents had won a prize, is unconscionable.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Phil Pasquini |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Vijay Prashad
The critics are utterly beside themselves in trying to understand the bruising odds and turns of Donald J. Trump, the reality showman and business tycoon who became US president twice. One particular group that have become prominent are the aggrieved and estranged. Former employees who were given their marching orders after brief spells in Trump’s administration have made a career in podcasting and punditry on the man whose bilious orbit they seemingly cannot escape.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Vijay Prashad |Bharat Dogra
One of the fundamental pillars of our free and democratic country is the right of every child to have a free public-school education. While this is not the case globally, it is a model of a modern progressive society in which today’s world demands literate, educated and well-informed citizens and workers. That very notion of a free education is truly one envied by parents and children around the world.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Vijay Prashad |Juan Cole
As a clergy person who has served congregations in the Black and of-color communities in Chicago, Boston and Washington, DC for over 45 years I am acutely aware of the traumas and anxieties that are encountered because of changing political administrations nationally, regionally, and locally, and how they impact families and lives.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Vijay Prashad |Juan Cole
Federal workers and taxpayers continue to protest daily across the city as they become more frustrated and infuriated by Elon Musk and DOGE in the illegal cutting of their jobs and programs, while Trump single-handedly is destroying the American economy through arbitrarily imposed tariffs that change daily.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Juan Cole |Norman Solomon
Located on busy M Street in tony Georgetown, the Tesla dealership was the scene of a weekly protest on March 8 as part of an ongoing worldwide #TeslaTakeDown campaign. Protesters demonstrated against the electric car company and its unelected CEO Elon Musk head of DOGE for the dismantling of the American government and for ongoing public displays of his Nazi sympathies.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Vijay Prashad |Juan Cole
Science matters! And on March 7 a “Nationwide Stand up for Science” rally took place along with 32 other “nerd parties across the country” protesting the Trump administration’s attack on federal science workers, programs and research.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Vijay Prashad |Juan Cole |Phil Pasquini
Under the guidance and massive supply of money by Elon Musk, Donald Trump won the elections in 2024. Ever since the electoral democratic systems came into being in the world, such big tycoons with total disrespect for democratic principles never won an election in any country. In America, which remained the global model for the constitutional democracy, no leader of Trump’s wealth and with Musk kind of megalomaniac tycoon won an election, that too for the second time.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Bharat Dogra |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Ram Puniyani
On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world’s finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack. Some 600GB of files, including the personal data of Library users and staff from the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) database, was pinched or otherwise exfiltrated by the Rhysida ransomware group, said to have members across Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The group did not receive any ransom, after which the data was auctioned and placed on the dark web.
