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After terrorist bombings, Sri Lankan government imposes draconian national emergency 0
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- April 23, 2019
23 April 2019 The Sri Lankan government has exploited Sunday’s terrorist bombings, which claimed at least 290 lives, to impose a national state of emergency that gives the police and military draconian powers of arrest and detention. While many details have not been released, Sunday’s attacks involved coordinated bombings, within minutes of each other, of
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Reports underscore how close India and Pakistan came to all-out war in late February 0
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- March 20, 2019
By Keith Jones 20 March 2019 A Reuters report and an Indian Navy press statement, both published Sunday, shed further light on just how close South Asia’s rival nuclear powers, India and Pakistan, came to all-out war late last month. According to Reuters, at the height of the war crisis—after Indian warplanes had bombed Pakistan,
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US airstrikes kill at least 30 civilians in Afghanistan 0
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- November 29, 2018
By Oscar Grenfell 29 November 2018 Local officials and residents have confirmed that US airstrikes on Tuesday night killed at least 30 civilians in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. These tragic deaths are the latest war crime in the 17-year US-NATO occupation, aimed at subjugating the geo-strategically critical nation to the dictates of the US and
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The “new cold war,” censorship, and the future of the Internet 0
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- October 17, 2018
by International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) 17 October 2018 On Tuesday, the New York Times published a major editorial statement warning about the “breakup of the web” amid the rise of internet censorship and international geopolitical conflicts. “If things continue along this path,” the newspaper warns, “the next decade may see the internet relegated
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UN report warns of catastrophic consequences of climate change within 20 years 0
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- October 10, 2018
By Bryan Dyne 10 October 2018 The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a special report Monday calling for “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” in order to limit human-induced global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. “If the current warming rate continues,” the report states,
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Sri Lankan unions in closed-door discussions with plantation bosses 0
- Blog
- September 8, 2018
By W.A. Sunil 8 September 2018 Amid growing working-class anger over poverty-level wages and increased productivity demands, Sri Lanka’s plantation unions and the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon (EFC) are holding backroom discussions over a new collective agreement. As in the past, plantation workers have been kept completely in the dark about these negotiations. On August
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China denies establishing military base in Afghanistan 0
- Blog
- September 6, 2018
By Peter Symonds 6 September 2018 An article in the South China Morning Post last week suggesting that China was establishing a military base in north-eastern Afghanistan provoked a flurry of articles in the US and international press inflating the Chinese military role. While the report was quickly denied by Kabul and Beijing, it is clear that
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India: Police charge pro-Dalit activists under anti-terrorism laws 0
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- September 6, 2018
By Kranti Kumara 6 September 2018 With the aim of muzzling opposition to India’s Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government and its noxious Hindutva (Hindu supremacist) ideology, Maharashtra state police raided and conducted warrantless searches of the homes of seven left-wing activists on August 28 in six different cities across the country. The seven are all
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Line-up of reaction and militarism at McCain memorial 0
- Blog
- September 5, 2018
By Patrick Martin 3 September 2018 Saturday’s memorial service for Senator John McCain, held at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and broadcast on a half dozen television and cable networks, was an officially sanctioned tribute to militarism and war. Honoring the arch-warmonger McCain, a fervent supporter of US aggression from Vietnam to Syria and
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The canonization of John McCain: Media, political establishment turn warmonger into saint 0
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- September 3, 2018
1 September 2018 “I hated my enemies even before they held me captive because hate sustained me in my devotion to their complete destruction and helped me overcome the virtuous human impulse to recoil in disgust from what had to be done by my hand.”—John McCain on the Vietnam War, April 2001 “However heady the
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