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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Sally Dugman |Indian Muslims |Saurav Sarkar |Robert Jensen
My daughter is now a school guidance counselor (sort of like a school psychologist and educator merged into one helpful school role while running programs about lying, stealing, bullying, dealing with death of a loved one, the value of cooperative behavior, shyness and other important topics). It suits her well since she always wanted to help hurt or maligned others, and did so since she was a young child or as when she was an older one in her senior year at high school.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Chris Hedges |Medea Benjamin |Robert Lipsyte |Sally Dugman
First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims. Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you get rich. Enter his inner circle, his “made” men and women, and you do not have to follow rules or obey the law. You can disembowel the machinery of government. You can turn us and the natural world into commodities to exploit until exhaustion or collapse.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Medea Benjamin |Robert Lipsyte |Sally Dugman |Binoy Kampmark
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. DaviesAs we approach the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a monumental shift is taking place that might just lead to the end of this calamitous war. This is not a breakthrough on the battlefield, but a stark reversal of the U.S. position from being the major supplier of weapons and funding to prolong the war to one of peacemaker. Donald Trump promised to end the war in Ukraine if he was re-elected as president.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | T Navin |Phil Pasquini |Todd Miller |Sally Dugman
The recent deportation of Indian immigrants from the United States in a manner that involved shackling them in chains—binding their hands and feet—before transporting them on an American military flight is deeply disturbing. While it is true that these individuals may have attempted to enter the U.S. through unauthorized means, their actions were likely driven by desperation and hope for a better future.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Todd Miller |Sally Dugman |Kevin Reed
10th Feb, 2025: National Alliance of People’s Movements strongly condemns the inhuman and cruel treatment meted out to Indian Citizens by the new Trump-led US Government. In the history of deportation, this is yet another cruel and shameful low and marks the beginning of another era of racist politics.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Sally Dugman |Kevin Reed |Eric London |Andrea Mazzarino
The last Friday in August in central Massachusetts was very hot — almost one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (37.778 Celsius). That afternoon, I went out on my front porch to get my mail, and suddenly felt dizzy and nauseous after which I, without any time lapse, immediately fell down in a kind of faint. Then I realized not too much later that I couldn’t walk anymore.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidya Bhushan Rawat |Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Countercurrents Collective |Sally Dugman
It was some time in October 1991 that sitting at the lawns of Lokayat, the place Dr Mulk Raj Anand used to stay in Delhi, reading morning papers that day, a letter to the Editor column of The Hindustan Times, attracted me. I read the letter which was in three columns writing about the media and the casteism in it. The sender of the letter was V T Rajshekar, Editor, Dalit Voice.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Countercurrents Collective |Sally Dugman |Chris Hedges
V T Rajshekar’s death, on 20 November, 2024, though at the age of 93, saddens me deeply in one sense, but allows me to celebrate his life and legacy. He was a friend and a guide of courage and confidence for activists and writers like me across India and beyond. Because of him my book Why I am Not a Hindu got the London Institute of South Asia (LISA) award in 2008. He personally attended the award ceremony in the Westminster House of Parliament (British Parliament) followed by my lecture.
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May 26, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Jay Janson |Irwin Jerome |Sally Dugman |Philip Farruggio
U.S. Memorial Day, originally intended as a solemn day of mourning for families of dead veterans has long become an opportunity for jingoistic war celebration, deceiving politicians and recruiting officers to parade and glorify warfare as a means to entrap young volunteers for future wars.
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May 17, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Laurel Sutherlin |Sally Dugman |Andre Vltchek |Robert Hunziker
Despite corporate commitments, deforestation rates remain high, and community land conflicts continue. Since the turn of the century, there has been a consistent average annual loss of 3 to 4 million hectares (7.4 to 9.9 million acres) of tropical forest globally. This puts us far from reaching the goal of zero deforestation by 2030, a target embraced in 2021 by 145 countries during the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
