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Indo-Pakistani conflict sharpens with New Delhi’s assault on Kashmir0
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- August 9, 2019
By Keith Jones 9 August 2019 www.wsws.org Pakistan has taken a raft of retaliatory measures and issued war threats in response to India’s aggressive and patently illegal moves to tighten its control over disputed Kashmir. These moves, which Islamabad has labeled an “annexation,” have been accompanied by an unprecedented state of siege in Indian-held Jammu and
READ MORETo enforce Monday’s constitutional coup India dramatically intensifies repression in Kashmir0
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- August 8, 2019
By Keith Jones 8 August 2019 India’s Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is mounting an unprecedented military-security crackdown in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region to quell popular opposition to the patently illegal changes that it has made to the region’s government and relations with the central government. In what is tantamount to
READ MOREAfter alleged UK tanker incident in Persian Gulf, EU powers threaten Iran ‘0
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- July 12, 2019
in World — by Alex Lantier — July 12, 2019 US and UK military sources claim that Iranian boats intercepted a British oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz Wednesday, before a British warship, the HMS Montrose, chased them off. None of the reports about this incident can be taken at face value. Iran has flatly
READ MOREPlatitudes at the G20 can’t mask a world on the brink of war0
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- July 1, 2019
1 July 2019 Nick Beams During the 1930s, known as the “disastrous decade,” there were all kinds of twists and turns in relations between the great powers on the diplomatic and international front as well as in the economic and trade spheres. This frenzied activity, characterised by the making of agreements one day to be
READ MOREEU meeting on Iran ends with no agreement to prevent US war0
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- June 30, 2019
in World — by Alex Lantier — June 29, 2019 On Friday, diplomats from Germany, Britain, France, the European Union, China, Russia and Iran met in Vienna for talks on the 2015 Iranian nuclear treaty, a year after Washington unilaterally scrapped the agreement. No agreement emerged from the meeting on the central issue: the growing
READ MOREMinutes to disaster: Lessons to be learned from the confrontation with Iran0
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- June 24, 2019
24 June 2019 On Thursday evening, the United States military was ten minutes away from launching a series of air and missile strikes on Iran that risked sparking a massive new war leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. The strikes were called off at the last moment, amid deep divisions at
READ MOREAfter terrorist bombings, Sri Lankan government imposes draconian national emergency0
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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 February0
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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,
READ MOREUS airstrikes kill at least 30 civilians in Afghanistan0
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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
READ MOREThe “new cold war,” censorship, and the future of the Internet0
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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
READ MOREUN report warns of catastrophic consequences of climate change within 20 years0
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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,
READ MORESri Lankan unions in closed-door discussions with plantation bosses0
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- 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
READ MOREChina denies establishing military base in Afghanistan0
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- 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
READ MOREIndia: Police charge pro-Dalit activists under anti-terrorism laws0
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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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