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INDIA: Modi Won Power, Not the Battle of Ideas
By Amartya Sen* – The New York Times The Hindu nationalists were victorious. What does that say about India?
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Civil Society
There is only one sole and most urgent solution at a global scale: Democratic Multilateralism
By Federico Mayor Zaragoza* “… Everything is still possible… but who if not all of us can make it become true?”.
Armed conflicts
Easter Attacks and Geopolitical Conflict in Sri Lanka
By Asoka Bandarage* Sri Lanka has been convulsed since the nine coordinated suicide bomb attacks against Christian churches and five star hotels on Easter Sunday. More than 250 people lost their lives and many others were injured on that fateful day.
Civil Society
Today's WorldView
BY ISHAAN THAROOR* – The Washington Post A daily newsletter that explores where the world meets Washington Trump and the march of ballot box autocrats To President Trump’s critics, the creeping authoritarianism is in plain view. Take this week: Democrats on the Hill declared…
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‘Activism Works’: UK Parliament Makes History in Declaring Climate Emergency
Pressenza London “Now we must act on it” by Andrea Germanos, staff writer for Common Dreams Update: The U.K. Parliament made history on Wednesday by becoming the first to declare an environment and climate emergency.
Civil rights
I've known Julian Assange for 10 Years. His Confinement and Arrest are a Scandal
Stefania Maurizi* – Newsweek “Man is least himself when he talks with his own person. Give a man a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” This famous quote from Oscar Wilde resounded in my head when, wandering around Venice in the spring of 2013, I stumbled into a workshop…
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For Radical US Constitutional Reforms
HALL GARDNER* – Wall Street International Magazine A single 5- to 6-year term Presidency now In my last essay for the Wall Street International Magazine, I argued that Democrats and Independents need to push now for a single term presidency in the effort to prevent Trump from…
Civil rights
Tackling the ‘Impossible’: Ending Violence
Burrowes Whenever, in ordinary circumstances, the subject of violence comes up, most people throw up their hands in horror and comment along the lines that it is ‘in our genes’, ‘nothing can be done about it’ or other words that reflect the powerlessness that most people feel…
Armed conflicts
Eminent Buddhist Leader Urges Halt to Nuclear Weapons and Killer Robots
By Ramesh Jaura* BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) – In the run-up to the forthcoming round of crucial talks on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, Buddhist philosopher, educator and a staunch advocate of nuclear disarmament, Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, has called for easing tensions to halt…
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Assange Arrest A Warning From History
by Tyler Durden – ZeroHedge (*) – via John Pilger** The glimpse of Julian Assange being dragged from the Ecuadorean embassy in London is an emblem of the times. Might against right.