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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Marwan Asmar |Kim Petersen |Michael Albert
Emboldened by Donald Trump’s war on words and “woke” phrases, Congressman Andrew Clyde (R-GA) a member of the House – Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on March 3 introduced bill H.R. 1744 to eliminate Black Lives Matter Plaza (BLM). The racist overtones in erasing this important symbolic part of DC and American history are not lost on anyone.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Kim Petersen |Hugh Curran |Dan Lieberman |Binoy Kampmark
The New York Times yesterday (11 March 2025) headlined: “Trump Intensifies Statehood Threats in Attack on Canada.” What particularly stood out was the sub headline: “The U.S. president on Tuesday reiterated his claims on Canada’s territory as he increased tariffs, threatening to bring the country’s economy to its knees.”How are Canadians supposed to feel about being threatened? How are Canadians to feel about the indignity of being brought economically to their knees?
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Richard Eskow |Ellen Cantarow |Kim Petersen
Historians widely agree that anti-Semitism was a dominant ideology in Christendom for over a millennium. The term ‘anti-Semitism’ is now commonly used to describe hostility or prejudice against Jews. While Arabs are also Semites, the term ‘anti-Semitism’ emerged in 19th-century Europe, where Jews were the primary Semitic group present. Consequently, the term has become synonymous with anti-Jewish sentiment.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Juan Cole |Phil Pasquini |Lawrence Wittner |Kim Petersen
The opening weeks of the second Trump administration have produced daily headlines that read — no, this is not hyperbole! — like science fiction. The spectacle of a South African tech billionaire and his cronies staging a twenty-first-century cybercoup with the acquiescence of an aging lunatic of a president beggars belief.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Lawrence Wittner |Kim Petersen |Norman Solomon
WASHINGTON (03-04) – Activists gathered outside across from the Capitol prior to President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress this evening in an event titled “Refuse Fascism.” The anticipated Trump-a-thon of the usual self-aggrandizement of his accomplishments in the past two weeks will not list how he has failed to “lower grocery prices on day one,” or how Elon Musk acting as a co-president has destroyed many vital and important departments and programs along with people’s lives...
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Lawrence Wittner |Kim Petersen |Yanis Iqbal
Chittodia village, located in Suhagpura block of Pratapgarh district (Rajasthan), is finding sustenance increasingly difficult because of water scarcity during the first half of the year, before the advent of the monsoon rains. It is not just a matter of shortage of irrigation water, even drinking water is increasingly difficult to access for people as well as farm and dairy animals.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Lawrence Wittner |Kim Petersen |Binoy Kampmark |Norman Solomon
In April 1966, Senator J.W. Fulbright, Chair of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gave a remarkable and highly-publicized speech at Johns Hopkins University, condemning the U.S. role in the Vietnam War. Warning of “the arrogance of power,” Fulbright argued that “we are not living up to our capacity and promise as a civilized power for the world.” It turned out to be a momentous speech, enraging President Lyndon Johnson and providing a rallying point for U.S. critics of the conflict.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Kim Petersen |Lawrence Wittner |Norman Solomon |Ranjan Solomon
While living in the Middle East, a Palestinian friend taught me about Arabic culture, which he said was still preserved in Yemen. Arabic etiquette, he told me, was that a guest was to be protected, housed, and otherwise looked after. White House etiquette is something else. I was quite taken aback by viewing how Donald Trump and JD Vance ganged up on their Ukrainian guest Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Yanis Iqbal |Kim Petersen |Subhash Gatade |Vikas Meshram
The Companion, the national magazine of the Students Islamic Organization of India (SIO) [students’ wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind] has released a list of 10 books to read this Ramadan. The first among them is Abul A’la al-Maududi’s Towards Understanding Islam. This choice is curious, because SIO’s constitution lists the promotion of “moral values in the educational system” as one of its goals. However, Maududi presents the most immoral system imaginable – immoral in its radical denial of equality.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Jessica Corbett |Binoy Kampmark |Jean Shaoul |Kim Petersen
We the undersigned appeal to PM Modi, the Government of India and the Parliament, to condemn U.S. President Trump’s statements calling for the ‘clean out’ & ‘take over’, essentially calling for US ownership & total ethnic cleansing of the Gazan Palestinian population. President Trump has shocked the world when he used the phrase – ‘just clean out’ Gaza, by transferring the Palestinian population to Jordan & Egypt.
