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  Release of Belarusian Translator Volha Kalackaja - Statement by PEN America (Jan 17, 2021)

  22 January 2021

  PEN America Demands Immediate Release of Belarusian Translator Volha Kalackaja
  Author Margaret Atwood says Belarus must halt its "cruel assault" on those seeking democracy
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
  January 17, 2021
  (New York, NY) — The Friday detention of the Belarusian translator Volha Kalackaja is yet another alarming example of the increasing crackdown on the creative community in Belarus, PEN America said today, and she must immediately be released and any charges against her (…)

• Is Standard of Higher Education Falling Under Neoliberalism? | Arup Maharatna

  22 January 2021, by Arup Maharatna

  Introduction and Background
  That the Second World War (WWII) in its wake marked a watershed in the thinking and policy on higher education (HE) is perhaps not a commonplace especially among the younger generations. HE historically (roughly until WWII) used to mean specialized in-depth teaching/learning as well as academic research, driven by curiosity/interest/passion/thirst for new knowledge, conducted in colleges, universities and such other dedicated academic institutions. It is only (…)

• The COVID-19 Crisis and the Fascist Class Politics in Hungary | Attila Antal

  22 January 2021

  by Attila Antal[[Attila Antal (1985) is holding a PhD in political science. He is a senior lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law Institute of Political Science [in Budapest]. He is a coordinator at the Social Theory Research Group at Institute of Political History. He is editor-in-chief at Hungarian Marxist journal Eszmélet (Consciousness). He is doing his contemporary research in political theory of populism, social and critical theory, theory of democracy, green political (…)

• Middle East futures: Decade(s) of defiance and dissent | James M. Dorsey

  22 January 2021

  by James M. Dorsey
  (An earlier version of this article appeared in Orient)
  If the 2010s were a decade of defiance and dissent, the 2020s promise to make mass anti-government protests a fixture of the greater Middle East’s political landscape. Protests in the coming decade are likely to be fuelled by the challenges Middle Eastern states face in enacting economic and social reforms as well as reducing their dependence on energy exports against the backdrop of a global economic crisis and (…)

• Sherlock Holmes and the case of toxic masculinity: what is behind the detective’s appeal? | Ashley Morgan

  22 January 2021

  by Ashley Morgan *
  December 16, 2020
  Sherlock Holmes is the most famous detective of all time. Since he was imagined into creation in 1892 by the young Scottish doctor Arthur Conan Doyle, there has been hardly a decade in which a play, television series, film or book about Sherlock Holmes has not been produced.
  In 2010, a fresh take on Sherlock Holmes burst onto British screens. This contemporary Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, inspired a whole new level of fandom and (…)

• Open Letter To Władysław Gomułka and the Central Committee of the Polish Workers Party | Isaac Deutscher (1966)

  22 January 2021

  This open letter was released on 28 April 1966 as a protest against the sentencing of Kazimierz Badowski, Ludwik Hass, Jacek Kuroń, Karol Modzelewski and Romuald Śmiech, who had been tried and found guilty of distributing illegal literature, including Kuroń and Modzelewski’s Open Letter to the Party.
  I am addressing this letter to you in order to protest against the recent secret trials and convictions of Ludwik Hass, [1] Karol Modzelewski, [2] Kazimierz Badowski, [3] Romuald Śmiech, [4] (…)

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  Thomas Piketty: Capital and Ideology Social Europe Podcast

  22 January 2021

  Politics
  Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is Professor of Economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Associate Chair at the Paris School of Economics and Centennial Professor of Economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics.

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  Video: Mongolia - From the Steppe to the Slum | An Aljazeera Documentary

  22 January 2021

  As mass livestock deaths threaten Mongolia’s nomadic culture, some herders are abandoning their traditional way of life

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Jan 16, 2021

  15 January 2021

  * [Letter to the Readers - Mainstream, Jan 16, 2021
  * India Vaccine Rollout Plan Has Serious Shortcomings | Gyan Pathak
  * Is This What Democracy Has Come To? | T J S George

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Jan 16, 2021

  15 January 2021

  On January 15, the 9th round of talks took place between the representatives of protesting peasants and the Government of India over the three contentious Farm Laws. There is a continuing stalemate with no end in sight.
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  India is all set for a national launch on January 16 of vaccination campaign against Covid-19 by using Covishield and Covaxin vaccines which still need further trials and have been approved for emergency use only. In the past ten days, a number of bodies of health (…)