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• Ukraine: Back to Status quo in Europe? | Shrikant Paranjpe

  18 March 2022

  by Dr. Shrikant Paranjpe*
  The Russian intervention in Ukraine can by understood in the context of two concepts, one that deals with the issue of legitimacy of intervention and the other with concerns about national security. The issue of legitimacy traces its source to the process of change that took place in Eastern Europe in 1989. The East European revolution that saw the disintegration and creation of new nation states rested on the foundation of ethnic nationalism based right to (…)

• Neo-Nazis are exploiting Russia’s war in Ukraine for their own purposes | Rita Katz

  18 March 2022

  by Rita Katz *
  Not since ISIS have we seen such a flurry of recruitment activity.
  “Hi can you please forward a message since two of us are trying to get a carshare from germany to ukraine going,” reads a Feb. 26 message forwarded to a popular neo-Nazi Web channel.
  “We are 3 french, leaving Strasbourg tomorrow morning with our car,” another message answered. “There is place for 2 german fighters.”
  These are the types of conversations that have flooded Western neo-Nazi and (…)

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  The Russian Federation Should Cease Military Operations on the Territory of Ukraine - International Court of Justice Order regarding Ukraine vs Russia Matter - Text of Press Release of March 16, 202

  18 March 2022

• Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space | The Committee to Abolish Outer Space

  18 March 2022

  by Sam Kriss
  The Committee to Abolish Outer Space
  Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space
  There’s nothing there already.
  We have been lied to, subjected to a cruel and chilly lie, one so vast and total it’s no longer fully perceivable but has turned into the unseen substrate of everyday life. It’s a political lie. They told us that outer space is beautiful.
  They showed us nebulae, big pink and blue clouds draped in braids of purple stars, always resolving themselves at (…)

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  Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Photo of Arrest of an Anti War Protester in Saint Petersburg (2 March 2022)

  18 March 2022

  via: La galera per un fiore. Lotta delle femministe russe |il manifesto

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  Music: The Chad Mitchell Trio - What Did You Learn In School Today?

  18 March 2022

  Play
  What Did You Learn In School Today? by The Chad Mitchell Trio - Topic https://youtu.be/Z8JmKRL4D4k

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  Audio: Slavoj Zizek on the war in Ukraine (March 9, 2022)

  18 March 2022

  Play
  Zizek on the war in Ukraine [Audio] (March 9, 2022) by phallosophia https://youtu.be/UXJp7K2jz6g

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  Audio: Geopolitics of the War in Ukraine, with Georgi Derluguian | March 16, 2022

  18 March 2022

  Georgi Derluguian on the geopolitical, economic, and social implications of the current war in Ukraine. The in-depth historical analysis, both of the current Russian invasion in Ukraine, and the larger global context outlines how the war can be understood.

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, March 12, 2022

  11 March 2022

  * Caste-patriarchy-politics nexus in an illegal adoption case in Kerala | Kalyani Menon Sen & others
  * Tribute to Professor Aijaz Ahmad | Prabhat Patnaik
  * Who wants war? | SG Vombatkere
  * A Pedagogic Experiment with Rural Children | Avijit Pathak
  * On Pakistan’s ‘Aurat March’ 2022 | Nadra Huma Quraishi

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, March 12, 2022

  11 March 2022

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, March 12, 2022
  The just-concluded state assembly elections of February March 2022 in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, and Goa have forcefully demonstrated again the overwhelming dominance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as a political force in India. In all four states it has been re-elected successfully for a second term. Unfortunately, since 2014 many in democratic and left circles have, repeatedly failed to realise that the party is over; (…)