We Are the Ones Who Will Awaken the Dawn: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2019)

26 December 2019 — Tri-Continental

V Arun Kumar

V. Arun Kumar (People’s Dispatch), Aishe Ghosh, Student Leader, Delhi, 9 December 2019.

Dear Friends,

Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Millions of people are on the streets, from India to Chile. Democracy is both their promise and it is what has betrayed them. They aspire to the democratic spirit but find that democratic institutions – saturated by money and power – are inadequate. They are on the streets for more democracy, deeper democracy, a different kind of democracy.

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Never Trust a Failing Empire

17 December 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation

By Federico Pieraccini

The Washington Post, through documents released through the Freedom of Information Act, has published a long investigation into Afghanistan. Journalists have collected over 400 testimonies from American diplomats, NATO generals and other NATO personnel, that show that reports about Afghanistan were falsified to deceive the public about the real situation on the ground.

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