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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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Markela Panegyres Fady Joudah 19 October, 2023 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare As Israel enacts a genocidal war on Gaza, the words of Palestinian-American poet and physician Fady Joudah echo in my mind: You who remove me from my househave also evicted my parentsand their parents from theirs.How is the view from my window?How does my salt taste?Shall I condemn myself…
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POSTED ON MONDAY, DEC 11, 2023 2:05AM BY MARTIN BUTLER by Martin Butler Given the increasing ubiquity of technology in all our lives, it’s surely time to consider what may sound like an obvious, even stupid question but one that is actually vitally important: What is technology for? At its simplest, technology can be understood as a tool…
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BY MARIA POPOVA “Mankind is challenged, as it has never been challenged before, to prove its maturity and its mastery — not of nature, but of itself. Therein lies our hope and our destiny,” the great marine biologist and author Rachel Carson addressed the next generations as she catalyzed the environmental movement with her courageous exposé of…
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Gender, labor, democracy, and Americanism: U.S. history in the (un)making By Aimee Rickman (Posted Nov 29, 2023) Culture, Empire, Feminism, InequalityAmericas, United StatesCommentaryAmerican Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Featured In the early hours of Monday, May 15, 2023, the historical highway marker recognizing the birthplace of a renown feminist, anti-racist labor organizer and defender of reproductive…
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MastodonFacebookTwitterEmailShare During his intervention at the seventh ALBA Summit, Bolivia’s president Evo Morales recalled the 1962 documents of the Organisation of American States (OAS) that resulted in Cuba being expelled from the organisation, and outlined the importance of reflecting on the motives of that expulsion. The resolution indicates that the adherence of any member country…
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