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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Shiraz Durrani |Haider Abbas |Bhabani Nayak |Romi Mahajan
Class & IdeologyThe political context of African publishing is not given the attention it deserves. The elephants in the room are capitalism and imperialism, which distort every aspect of life in favour of the ruling elite and make policies that are against the interest of working people. Essentially, there are class divisions and class struggles in Kenya (and Africa). It is the capitalist ideology that the ruling class promotes while suppressing the socialist aspirations of people.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Romi Mahajan |Thomas Klikauer |Binoy Kampmark |Irwin Jerome
Nowadays, we have Nazism in the news again and not as simply a metonym for evil or a symbol of the degree to which -historically- a rich country can lapse, but instead as a present threat. In the most powerful nation on Earth- armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons and economic bombs- the government has been occupied by forces of the far right. The country no longer resembles what it did even just a decade ago. It feels like 1933.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ralph Nader |Gideon Polya |Romi Mahajan |John Rachel
The Hague (Quds News Network)- Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) has submitted a historic referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC), urging an investigation into former US President Joe Biden, former Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. The group filed the ICC referral against them over complicity in Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ralph Nader |Gideon Polya |Romi Mahajan |John Rachel
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Three newborns died in Gaza due to extreme cold as Israel continues to ban entry of mobile homes and tents. Dr. Saeed Salah, medical director of the Patients’ Friends Benevolent Society Hospital, said three other infants remain in critical condition. “In the past two weeks, we admitted eight newborns suffering from severe cold injuries,” Salah said. “Three of them died within hours of arrival. They were only a day or two old, weighing between 1.7 kg and 2 kg.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ralph Nader |Gideon Polya |Romi Mahajan |John Rachel
Occupied Palestinian Territory – As part of Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, the Israeli army targeted the Juha family’s home without warning or military necessity. The attack resulted in a massacre that killed approximately 90 civilians – including 71 women and children – and injured dozens more.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ralph Nader |Gideon Polya |Romi Mahajan |Ramzy Baroud
Enough already of the media’s lazy indifference to the vast undercount of the Palestinian death toll from Netanyahu’s genocidal daily bombing and shelling of Gaza’s defenseless civilian population. I’m referring to all the media – the corporate media, the public media, and the independent media. They all stick with the Hamas Ministry of Health’s (MOH) count of named victims whose corpses have been identified by hospitals and mortuaries.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Gideon Polya |Romi Mahajan |Ramzy Baroud |Mir Adnan Aziz
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israel has postponed the release of 602 Palestinian detainees as part of the seventh batch of the prisoner exchange deal under the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, allegedly accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire, despite the latter having handed over six Israeli captives earlier on Saturday.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Edward Curtin |Romi Mahajan |Bharat Dogra |Jay Janson
Before my mind was turned to the subject of my title, I started to write a piece called “Are the Dead Nostalgic?”It’s a touchy philosophical question that has no definitive answer. It seems flippant in an impossible way, which it is, but its flippancy holds a secret message. So I asked the dead who would speak to me and got a few mixed and muffled replies. You can understand their reluctance to say anything.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Ram Puniyani |K M Seethi |Mohd Khan |Romi Mahajan
Recently (31st December 2024) while inaugurating the Conference as a part of Sivagiri pilgrimage, Pinarayi Vijayan supported the proposal of Swami Satchitanand’s to stop the practice of removing shirts, to keep the torso bare while entering temples. It is believed that this practice came into being to identify those wearing sacred thread, upper caste which alone were privileged to wear it. Some people doubt it, but it is unlikely that there was any other reason for keeping one’s torso uncovered.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Romi Mahajan |Bharat Dogra |Jay Janson |Ranjan Solomon
“Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays virtue. “ Indeed. Take for instance the outpouring of rhetorical grief after George Floyd’s brutal murder. Leaders of companies of all sizes instructed their social media teams to send messages of solidarity, lamentation, and hope too– via the usual channels. Some even pledged money to help “lift” communities that had been disadvantaged.
