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Trump goes solo in Ukraine Disconnecting Ukraine from Europe
By Peter M Johansen. Translated by Johan Petter Andresen. During the election campaign, Donald Trump claimed that he could stop the war in Ukraine within 24 hours, and that was…
PKKs struggle for Democracy and Freedom in Kurdistan
Arnljot Ask This winter we have seen important steps forward in the struggle led by PKK to solve the so called “Kurdish issue” in Turkey; how to give the Kurds…
International Situation & Growing Contention
Kobad Ghandy In the 34th annual Forbes list of the world’s billionaires, the list included 2,095 billionaires with a total net wealth of $8 trillion – over twice the size…
Old Wine In New Bottle
Kobad Ghandy In 2019 budget the same Finance minister gifted over Rs.3 lakh crores to the big corporates reducing their tax to one of the lowest in the world. In…
Lessons from Liberation Struggles of Kurdish Workers Party (PKK)- Part-II
Arnljot Ask The Part-I of this article was earlier published in this webzine Volume-I Issue-2. What has the PKK achieved throughout the past decades? What is the situation of Kurds…
Caste Pride and Politics
Anand Teltumbde Caste has been the key factor in Indian politics. If India is being irrevocably damaged today, single biggest causal factor is caste. The BJP, notwithstanding its claims that…
Forecast 2025: roaring or tepid? ASSA 2025: part one – AI, AI, AI..
Michael Roberts Every year, I report on the annual proceedings of ASSA, the Alliance of Social Science Associations, run by the American Economics Association. It is the biggest economics conference…
Religions in South Asia and Caste
Patha Pathak Partha Pathak (Excerpt from his PhD thesis) Conceptually speaking, the definition of religion for India as an organised order of belief and rituals does exclude vast areas of local, regional…
Identity ‘Versus’ Class Politics: in the Context of Brahmanism
Raktim Ghosh The issue of Identity versus class politics, has taken on quite a seriousness in the third camp of the ‘small but not insignificant’ clans of Bengal. The advent…