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December 2014
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1 December 2014, by Vacy Vlazna
Merkel’s Wall Of Hypocrisy
"The Berlin Wall, this symbol of state abuse cast in concrete, took millions of people to the limits of what is tolerable, and all too many beyond it.” On the 25th anniversary of the fall of (...) -
1 December 2014, by Pervez Hoodbhoy
Why Does Malala Yusufzai’s Nobel Bother So Many On The Left?
Arundhati Roy’s charm and lucidity have iconized her in the world of left-wing politics. But, asked by Laura Flanders what she made of the 2014 Nobel Prize, she appeared to beswallowing a live (...) -
1 December 2014, by Praful Bidwai
Why The Right To Dissent Is Indispensable: Romila Thapar Speaks Out
When Bharatiya Janata Party leader LK Advani famously said of the media during the Emergency that “when asked to bend, they crawled”, he received widespread praise from the intelligentsia and (...) -
1 December 2014, by Charlotte María Sáenz
Mexico’s Undead Rise Up
With 43 disappeared student teachers presumed dead, Mexican popular resistance is creating new alternatives to the militarized narco-state. “Alive they were taken, and alive we want them (...) -
1 December 2014, by Emran Feroz
US Journalist Blumenthal Sees Similarity in Islamic State And Israel
STUTTGART: When Gaza was attacked during the summer, Angela Merkel promised to “stand by the side of Israel.” The German chancellor has done much more than offer verbal support for Israel’s (...) -
1 December 2014, by Immanuel Wallerstein
"NATO: Danger to World Peace"
The official mythology is that between 1945 (or 1946) and 1989 (or 1991), the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) confronted each other continuously - politically, militarily, and above (...) -
1 December 2014, by Shiv Visvanathan
Poetics of a Nation: Remembering Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru cannot be seen merely as an object of history, a fragment of policy. He was a dream, a hope, a claim to innocence, an aesthetic, which gave to modernity a touch of elegance (...) -
1 December 2014, by Immanuel Wallerstein
"Syria: Turkish Ambivalence"
Amid the many and ever-evolving shifts of policies and geopolitical alliances in the various countries of the Middle East, one used to be at least sure what are the prime objectives of the major (...) -
1 December 2014, by Fr. Cedric Prakash sj
The Nanavati Commission: Another Hoax On The People Of India!
Finally, yesterday (November 18th 2014), exactly 12 years 8 months and 12 days after it was first constituted by the Gujarat Government on March 6th 2002 to probe the burning of the Godhra train (...) -
1 December 2014, by Eli Aminov
Israel’s Nation State Law: Jewish Sharia
The nation state law currently proposed by the government is yet another signal to Israel’s Palestinian citizens: Israel is for Jews! Prime Minister Netanyahu and his government are (...) -
1 December 2014, by Michelle Weinroth
In Memoriam: Jeanette (née Epstein) Weinroth: June 18, 1929 – October 18, 2014
"Let me not forget that I am the daughter of a woman who herself … never ceased to flower, untiringly, during three quarters of a century." Sidonie Colette A widely recognized public voice (...)