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What Bernie Sanders Means for America
Whatever happens from here, Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist, has just won the first three contests for the Democratic nomination for president. What has already happened…
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President Trump getting a wall in India too
US President is due to visit India on February 24, but the trip may provide more optics than substance Saikat Datta US President Donald Trump is…
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Coronavirus: how health and politics have always been inextricably linked in China
Since the onset of the Chinese revolution in the early 20th century, public health objectives have been an integral part of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP)…
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Democratic backsliding and the information battle
Continued backsliding of democracy for more than a decade, globally and domestically, has raised the question—where are we heading? The question, for some, is an innocuous…
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Hong Kong Is Showing Symptoms of a Failed State
With empty supermarket shelves and rising public distrust, the coronavirus-hit city is ticking most of the boxes. Grocery runs in Asia’s financial powerhouse have begun to…
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The interplay between politics and the military
While the politicisation of the military remains a concern, so is the militarisation of political discourse and practice C Uday Bhaskar In his inaugural address on…
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Peace plans have no function except to serve Israel’s colonial takeover of Palestine
US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participate in a joint statement in the East Room of It will prove to be Israel’s…
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2010s: The Decade of Protests
As 2020 begins with news of escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, it is important that we reflect on the defining features of the…
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Linking Sharjeel With Shaheen Bagh Exposes BJP’s ‘Desperation’
It will be an understatement to say that the spontaneous and organic protests across the country against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of…
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Preventing genocide in Myanmar: Court order tries to protect Rohingya Muslims where politics has failed
Myanmar has been ordered by the International Court of Justice to take “provisional measures” to protect the Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority in the Buddhist-majority country…
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An apology for Bangladesh
At the 50th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos this week, Prime Minister Imran Khan demonstrated two things, yet again. One, that there…
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India doesn’t want to remain as a factor of SL’s internal political dynamics – Prof. Karori Singh
Two countries have developed a model kind of relationship No problem will crop even in distant future India is sensitive about Sri Lanka’s developmental needs Indian…