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• Joe Biden - A Sensitive Man | Humra Quraishi

  13 November 2020, by Humra Quraishi

  MUSINGS
  November 11, 2020
  The first and foremost aspect that strikes about Joe Biden, the President-elect of America, is the fact that he didn’t let any of the personal tragedies get him down. Perhaps, equipped with exceptional emotional strength, he could take on major setbacks, which the ordinary couldn’t have managed to go through.
  In fact, for the last couple of days, I have been sitting reading details to the personal tragedies Joe Biden faced and overcame. Not one of those to (…)

• Cartoon on 2020 US Presidential elections | Jayaraj Vellur

  13 November 2020, by Jayaraj Vellur
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  La Paz Declaration: In Defence of Democracy (Nov 9, 2020)

  13 November 2020

  Gathered in La Paz for Arce’s inauguration, left-wing leaders from eleven Latin American and European countries used the historic occasion to issue a declaration warning of the growing threat internationally of extreme-right violence and the harnessing of the pandemic for anti-democratic ends.

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  Text of trilateral statement by Armenia-Azerbaijan-Russia of November 10 on Nagorno-Karabakh

  13 November 2020

  Statement by President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia and President of the Russian Federation
  November 10, 2020
  We, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, state the following:
  1. A complete ceasefire and termination of all hostilities in the area of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is declared starting 12:00 am (…)

• ’A backlash against a patriarchal culture’: How Polish protests go beyond abortion rights | Jon Henley and Kasia Strek

  13 November 2020

  by Jon Henley, Europe correspondent, and Kasia Strek in Warsaw
  6 Nov 2020
  Mass demonstrations have exposed underlying anger at political and religious interference in people’s everyday lives
  For 14 nights they have marched, enraged by a near-total ban on abortion that has stirred a generation to stage the largest mass demonstrations that Poland has seen since Solidarność toppled the communist regime in the 1980s.
  Until soaring coronavirus numbers and a looming national lockdown made (…)

• Why foreign countries are scrambling to set up military bases in Africa | Theo Neethling

  13 November 2020

  by Theo Neethling
  September 23, 2020
  Recent media reports claim that a covert Kenyan paramilitary team is responsible for the unconstitutional killing of terror suspects in nighttime raids. The reports are based on interviews with US and Kenyan diplomatic and intelligence officials.
  The team was trained, armed and supported by US and British intelligence officers.
  It has been reported that since 2004, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) programme has been operational in Kenya without (…)

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  Video: Ian Angus: Why We Need An EcoSocialist Revolution - Socialism 2013

  13 November 2020
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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, Nov 7, 2020

  8 November 2020

  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Nov 7, 2020 Letter to the Readers, Mainstream - Nov 7, 2020 US Elections 2020: Decline of America as a Leader of Democracy | Vijay Kumar US Elections 2020: Is the show finally over for Donald Trump? | Judith Butler Who Can Resist The Magic Of Oratory | TJS George Contours of ‘Freedom of Expression’ | Chittarvu Raghu New Farm Laws: For Farmers or Corporates? | K N Ninan Tapan Bandyopadhyay and Marxian temper | Sankar Ray How Neo-liberalism Works in India? | Arup (…)

• LETTER TO THE READERS - Mainstream, November 7, 2020

  8 November 2020

  The 2020 US Presidential race produced a huge drama and drew exceptionally large participation by the electorate, after a photo finish. Joe Biden has now been declared the winner of this very close electoral battle by all major media networks across the US. He will now become the 46th president of the USA. President Donald Trump continues to raise the red herring of electoral fraud and denigrate the integrity of the American electoral system and thereby eroding trust in the democratic (…)

• US Election: Decline of America As a Leader of Democracy | Vijay Kumar

  8 November 2020, by Vijay Kumar

  The counting of votes for U.S. Presidential election has gone down to the wire and it is heading for a nail-biting finish. Once again, Poll Punditry has gone awfully wrong. Whoever wins, the American democracy and its liberal model is going to be big looser. Even if Joe Biden succeeds in winning the race for White House, as presently appears, he will emerge as a bruised leader. On the other hand, the victory of Trump will be an unmitigated disaster for US democracy.
  The deadlock in (…)