Fri, 22 Nov 2024, 12:05 pm
Opinion

All disquiet on the eastern front

HAVE you noticed the latest coming out of Eastern Europe — the Estonians, the Lithuanians, the Latvians, the Czechs, and let us not forget the Ukrainians? Suddenly everyone thinks it

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AUGUST 1975: Historical consequences

THERE are many positions on the killings of August 15 but they are mostly politically partisan. Immediately after 1975, some groups even observed the day as ‘day of deliverance’ —

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Mendel’s genetic revolution and the legacy of scientific racism

IN JULY, the world celebrated 200 years since the birth of Gregor Mendel, who is widely accepted as the ‘father of modern genetics’ for his discovery of the laws of

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This happens there in US

THE Trump shelter search incident is a new political occurrence in the United States. Then, the interview came. Donald Trump, a former US president, during an almost daylong interview with

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Time for a refresher in humanity

IN ALL the clamour of recent weeks — the uproar surrounding the anti-Semitism scandal at the Documenta in Kassel is scarcely what anyone would term a debate — we could

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How to resist the empire’s neoliberal debt trap

MICHAEL Hudson has become famous in recent years. The Financial Times credited him with forecasting the 2008 financial crash and its aftermath. His magnum opus, Super Imperialism, now in its third

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Why did US nuke civilians?

It is an atomic bomb. It is the greatest thing in history. — President Harry S Truman (August 6, 1945)   ONE of the seemingly endless Good [sic] War myths

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Why Congress opposed 1946 Naval Mutiny?

IT IS nice to remember the 1946 Royal Indian Navy Mutiny just a few days before we celebrate our Independence Day. It is not just a neglected event in the

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When the just go to prison

DANIEL Hale, dressed in a khaki uniform, his hair cut short and sporting a long, neatly groomed brown beard, is seated behind a plexiglass screen, speaking into a telephone receiver

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Representative democracy is to heed people’s voice

THE government’s efforts to suppress the protest movement by the targeting of its leading members individually are polarising the country more than ever before. Instead of addressing the underlying causes

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