Mainstream Weeklyby Mukesh Kapila *
October 8, 2021
I first visited the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 1994 during the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda. In Goma’s emergency hospital, I witnessed rows and rows of rape survivors who had fled across the border.
A quarter-century later, it is hurting again in the same place, for the same reason: sexual violence. But what is different is that the alleged perpetrators are humanitarians, sent to save the community from a deadly (…)
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Circles of impunity: why sexual violence by humanitarians and peacekeepers keeps happening | Mukesh Kapila
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15 October 2021by Malalai Joya
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Twenty years after the U.S. launched their invasion and war, the people of my long-suffering country are right back where we started. After trillions of dollars spent, and hundreds of thousands killed and displaced, the Taliban flag is once again flying over Afghanistan.
As the youngest woman elected to Afghanistan’s Parliament back in 2005, my experience reflects the failure of the U.S. and NATO war — a policy that used women’s rights as a pretext (…) -
The Children and Psychology | Paul Goodman
15 October 2021[Paul Goodman, who was born in 1911, was a novelist, poet, playwright, social critic, a psychologist, and an anarchist public intellectual who wrote several books - which include Gestalt Therapy (Julian Press), The Structure of Literature (Univ. of Chicago), and Growing up Absurd (Vintage Books), Compulsory Mis-education/The Community of Scholars (Random House).
The below essay by Goodman appeared in the journal Anarchy of January 1962]
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Table of Contents, Mainstream, Oct 9, 2021
8 October 2021* The CPI and Kanhaiya Kumar’s Departure | Ajayakumar Kodoth
* Gail Omvedt: The Legacy of an Activist Writer | Gabriele Dietrich
* Farmers’ Protest against the Farm Laws seen from West Bengal | Manabesh Sarkar
* The Politics of 15th Finance Commission Recommendations | Govind Bhattacharjee