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  Review of Aleksandra Komornicka’s Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s | Pawel Markiewicz

  20 April 2025

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]
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  Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s:
  The Opening Up
  by Aleksandra Komornicka
  Routledge
  2024. 246 pp.
  (cloth), ISBN 978-1-03-239216-5
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  Reviewed by Pawel Markiewicz (Polski Instytut Spraw Miedzynarodowych)
  For many who lived in Poland through the 1970s, the decade is often remembered and described as an era of political liberalization and social prosperity. Coming on the heels of Polish United Workers

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  Cartoon: Different kinds of terrorists | Nala Ponnappa

  20 April 2025
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  Cartoon: What is happening in Harvard took place earlier in JNU | Alok

  20 April 2025

  Source: Cartoonist Alok on April 18, 2025

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  Music: Summer Song | Ludovico Einaudi

  20 April 2025

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  Ludovico Einaudi - Summer Song by LudovicoEinaudiVEVO https://youtu.be/WZFmDDWzBss?si=HSUf7UAn7Uf6GDaJ

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  Video: Trump, Netanyahu, and the Real Estate Logic of Genocide | Phyllis Bennis

  20 April 2025

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  Phyllis Bennis: Trump, Netanyahu, and the Real Estate Logic of Genocide by Transnational Institute https://youtu.be/hp8MPtQANbk?si=Can4_wTo7Q3cZ7pw

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 15, Apr 12, 2025

  13 April 2025

  * Social Cost of Automobility | Sunil Dharan
  * Jagathamma

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 12, 2025

  13 April 2025

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream
  Over the past years there have been a multiple instances of long standoffs between opposition ruled states and the State Governors. The opposition parties in India had come to accuse the central Government in Delhi of trying to use the constitutional position of the Governor to subvert governmental affairs from a back door and block legislation adopted by state assemblies. Under the Modi Govt some of the Governors got their job because they were from the (…)

• America acted in bad faith, Tahawwur Rana only a small player: former Home Secretary | Faraz Ahmad

  13 April 2025, by Faraz Ahmad

  The Modi government and its kept media have gone to town blowing their trumpet over getting home on Thursday April 10 night Tahawwur Husain Rana, one of the co-conspirators in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack.
  Prime Minister Modi who believes he can turn any political crisis facing his government into a profitable capital has given such a play to the United States of America (USA) of President Donald Trump sending over to India a co-conspirator of 26/11 attack with a big tamasha- two senior (…)

• Who are the Victims of Education Scam in West Bengal? | Arup Kumar Sen

  13 April 2025, by Arup Kumar Sen

  Corruption has become a part and parcel of contemporary public life in India. It is noteworthy that West Bengal did not figure in the list of top 8 corrupt states in India, according to the India Corruption Survey 2019, an independent survey which sought around 1,90,000 responses. On the other hand, West Bengal found its place in the list of the least corrupt states (See www.moneycontrol.com)
  The Supreme Court verdict on April 4, 2025, is concerned with the gigantic recruitment scam of the (…)

• Many-sided Contributions of Medha Patkar | Bharat Dogra

  13 April 2025, by Bharat Dogra

  A very important component of the progress of a country consists of democratic and peaceful social movements which seek to correct various distortions and flawed decisions, as seen from a perspective which is different from that of decision-making powerful authorities. This perspective is often based on considerations of justice and environment protection, reflected in trying to prevent avoidable displacement of a large number of people, including farmers, and preventing many kinds of (…)