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Dismantling The Empire
By Chalmers Johnson

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Three good reasons to liquidate our empire and ten steps to take to do so

Israel’s Discriminatory Land Policies
By Stephen Lendman

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Netanyahu claims barring “natural growth” will tear apart families. Unmentioned is the continued theft of Palestinians lands, a grave violation of international law. Yet, Israel argues that, by law, it can’t reverse issued tenders after properties have been bought and construction begins. However, two 1992 High Court of Justice rulings disagreed. They held that the government could legally halt construction even after begun and that any losses incurred could be addressed in civil court

The Zen Tiger: India ‘s Elections
And The Magic Of Fareed Zakaria
By Pubali Ray Chaudhuri

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Consider Fareed Zakaria’s recent cover essay “ The Capitalist Manifesto ,” ( Newsweek , June 22, 2009 ). Like other articles of the “everything’s OK, relax” school, it unspools line after line of lucid, well-considered prose, all in a bid to convince us, the public, that the system that left so many of us jobless, homeless, uninsured, that gutted our life savings and splintered our dreams, is still the best option we have. The Indian elections, in Mr. Zakaria’s view, constituted a popular mandate for “free trade” and “liberalization.”

The Root Of Violence: Politics Without Principles
By William Gomes

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Mohandas K. Gandhi claimed that politics without principles was one of the roots of violence. The present political regime in Bangladesh has fully characterized their dictatorship as such, by enforcing politics without principles and leading the nation toward violence

Lalgarh And The Radicalisation Of Resistance:
From ‘Ordinary Civilians’ To Political Subjects?
By Saroj Giri

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Lalgarh showed that the Maoist is the name for the articulation of the democratic struggle which now refuses to give up even when it comes face to the face with the state exercising its monopoly of violence. Opening a novel chapter in the interrelationship between the ‘Maoist party’ and mass resistance

Of Polarization And Profiling
By Mustafa Khan

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The notification dated June 5, 2009 of the Gujarat government of Chief Minister Narendra Modi establishing a commission to probe communal polarization is fraught with grave dangers

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