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There is a striking irony in the way Sitaram Yechury is being remembered today.
K A Shaji in Facebook Pinarayi Vijayan and the Kerala CPI(M) leadership speak of Yechury as a towering communist, an exceptional parliamentarian and a great defender of secular India. But when Yechury was alive, the CPI(M) unit in Kerala, by then firmly under Pinarayi Vijayan’s iron grip, was among the strongest forces resisting him. This…
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The World’s Economic Centre of Gravity Is Returning to Asia: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2023) Han Youngsoo (Republic of Korea), Seoul, Korea 1956–1963. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In October 2023, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published its annual Trade and Development Report.…
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In an evolutionary eyeblink, our species has gone from hunting and gathering to living in complex societies. We need to rethink the story of this monumental transition By Michael Marshall 27 June 2023 Coke Navarro FOR almost all of human existence, our species has been roaming the planet, living in small groups, hunting and gathering, moving…
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The US military’s greatest enemy worked in an institution saturated with military funding. How did it shape his thought? courtesy the Department of National Defence PCN4720 Chris Knight is a senior research associate in the department of anthropology at University College London. He is the author of Blood Relations: Menstruation and the Origins of Culture (1991) and Decoding Chomsky: Science…
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POSTED ON WEDNESDAY, DEC 27, 2023 8:19AM BY AZRA RAZA Stuart Jeffries in The Guardian In a study with chilling modern resonance, the history don contends that the age of reason was betrayed by the greed, corruption and barbarism of Britain’s ruling elite Stuart Jeffries Tue 12 Dec 2023 07.00 GMT Britain, thought Thomas Paine, needed to be destroyed.…
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An ingenious and accessible discussion of a big question we’ll never answer – the reason for our existence A section of the Milky Way galaxy. Photograph: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images Why is there something rather than nothing? It’s meant to be the great unanswerable question. It’s certainly a poser. It would have been simpler…
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