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By Bert Schouwenburg Following the 1973 US-backed military coup in Chile, the country became a testing ground for neoliberal economics that was forcefully administered at the point of a bayonet. Fifty years later, on the other side of the Andes, Argentinian President Javier Milei is seeking to introduce sweeping...
Assange Flies To Freedom, But His Plea Deal Exposes Us Empire’s Ugly Malfeasance
By Annie Domini Julian Assange, easily the world’s most persecuted and famous journalist, is free at last. At the moment of writing this column, Assange is onboard a private plane that is costing him half a million dollars (which his family plans to pay off via crowd-funding donations appeal),...
Nuanced Messages Of Modi’s First Official Visit To Russia As Third Time Prime Minister
By K Raveendran The choice of Russia as the destination of the first official visit in his third term heading a coalition government is laden with symbolism and strategic implications, encompassing political messaging to coalition partners and a reinforcement of economic ties between India and Russia. Historically, India and...
18th Lok Sabha Has Begun In A New Climate Of Vibrant Democracy
By Dr. Gyan Pathak A new era has begun after a decade in the 18th Lok Sabha with election of Om Birla as Lok Sabha Speaker for the second term, who was welcomed jointly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi after shaking hands...
The Julian Assange Story Has Few Takers In India Under Modi 3.0
By Sushil Kutty ‘Who hasn’t heard of Julian Assange?’ Legions of Indians haven’t. Those few who had heard of Julian Assange soon forgot the taste of his name swirling on their tongues. In fact, who was Julian Assange — journalist, publisher, WikiLeaks founder; Internet sensation, despicable foreign agent, what...
The Rise And Rise Of Priyanka Gandhi In Congress Politics In Last Two Decades
By Harihar Swarup Finally after two decades of ‘will she, won’t she’ Priyanka Gandhi is going to make her election debut now. She will contest the Lok Sabha bypoll from Kerala’s Wayanad, the constituency that her brother Rahul Gandhi has vacated so as to retain Rae Bareli seat in...
Delhi NCR Luxury Real Estate Sector Eyeing For A Price Correction In 2024
By Mriganka M Bhowmick It has been a dream run for developers and investors in Delhi NCR over the last two years in luxury residential real estate. The year-on-year price rise of new launches has been no less than 20%. A steep and steady increase in prices has brought...
There Are Signs That The Next Frontier Of Israeli Settlers May Be Lebanon
By James M Dorsey Even by Israeli standards, Uri Tzafon (Awaken North) is a far-right fringe group. Amid mounting tension with Lebanese Shiite political group and militia, Hezbollah, along the Lebanon-Israel border, Uri Tzafon is calling for Israeli settlement of southern Lebanon. The group has yet to gain traction....
Julian Assange Is Finally Free From Prison And It Is A Moment To Celebrate
By Ben Chacko LONDON: Julian Assange is free, or soon will be. For 12 years he has been a prisoner: for seven of them holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy as a political asylum-seeker, for five in HMP Belmarsh, his treatment compared to torture by international experts. The plea...
INDIA Bloc Has Scope For Adding New Allies In This 18th Parliament Session
By Nitya Chakraborty The 18th session of Parliament began on June 24 with two ominous signals for the third time Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party BJP, the leader of the NDA coalition. The first, the massive scandal over the question papers leak in the NEET examinations involving...
Union Budget 2024-25 May Bring Relief To India’s Distressed Workforce
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Participation of Central Trade Unions (CTUs) in the pre-budget consultation exercise led by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday is a significant development signalling a relief for the India’s distressed workforce that the Union Budget 2024-25 may bring. The joint forum of ten central...
Narendra Modi-RSS Tussle Intensifies Over Choice Of New BJP President
By Arun Srivastava In the last one hundred years since its founding,, the RSS had never faced such an existential crisis as it is happening now with its row with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a former leading pracharak. In 2003 the RSS had faced a big fight with...
After Big Fat ‘Zero’, Mayawati Rejigs BSP For Comeback
By Sushil Kutty Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati has been thinking — a human trait which she had almost given up on over the past several years while the party slid into near total irrelevance even as her favourite nephew grew into her sandals. Of significance, however, is the...
Speaker Bagher Qalibaf Is Frontrunner In Iran Presidential Polls On June 28
By Girish Linganna The snap election on June 28 is happening in Iran because President Ebrahim Raisi died in a helicopter crash last month. On Sunday, June 9, Iran’s Guardian Council, which is responsible for overseeing elections and laws, approved six candidates to run in the unscheduled presidential election...
Germany’s Far Right Party AfD Is Stuck After Its Success In European Polls
By Sebastian Friedrich BERLIN: Less than six months ago, the rank and file of Germany’s leading far-right party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), was ecstatic. Founded a little over a decade ago as a Eurosceptic protest party, by early 2024 the AfD was polling at up to 23 percent...
Failed Privatisation May Be Behind Falling Standards Of The Railways
By Nantoo Banerjee The Indian Railways is no longer considered as the union government’s most important public contact platform. This is despite the fact that around 500 million passengers took train journeys across the country during last April alone. The number keeps on rising. The Railways loaded 128.29 million...
Priyanka Contesting From Wayanad Is Linked To The Congress Strategy On South
By Kalyani Shankar Amidst a flurry of speculation and anticipation, the Congress party has made a strategic and significant move by fielding Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi in the by-elections in Wayanad. This seat became available after her brother Rahul Gandhi decided to retain Rae Bareily and step down from...
Unprecedented Rise In Unemployment To 9 Per Cent Is The Key Concern
By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the last 30 days, unemployment in India has risen sharply to 8.9 per cent, at a time when Union Finance Minister has started consultations with various stakeholders for preparing Union Budget 2024-25. Such an unprecedented rise in working-class distress has made the budget making...
