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COVID-19 Impact Worse than a War or a Global Financial Crisis | Arun Kumar
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The Stalin Pattern For Power | Isaac Deutscher
19 December 2020by Isaac Deutscher (March 16, 1953)
Everywhere the same question: Who will rule Russia? If a triumvirate, can it long endure or does the Soviet structure demand a single head? Will there be orderly elimination or violence? If violence, is there (...) -
The Caspian Sea as Battleground: Second Karabakh War as Cause or Consequence? | James M. Dorsey
19 December 2020by James M. Dorsey *
Populated at the time by fluent Hebrew speakers, the Israel desk of Armenia’s foreign ministry waited back in 1991— in the immediate wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union—for a phone call that never came. The ministry was (...) -
Table of Contents - Mainstream, Dec 12, 2020
11 December 2020* Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 12, 2020
* Gandhi’s Civil Disobedience Movement In 1930, German Social Democracy, and Franz Josef Furtwängler | Nirode K. Barooah
* Change in Post-Socialist Slovakia | Brigita Schmögnerová -
Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 12, 2020
11 December 2020Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Dec 12, 2020
It is astonishing that the Supreme Court of India gave permission to the Government of Narendra Modi to go ahead with the foundation laying ceremony for the new Parliament and Central Vista complex (...) -
Nitai Basu, last ‘comrade’ of Kakdwip battle, is no more | Subhankar Gupta
11 December 2020by Subhankar Gupta
Nitai Basu (real name Nityagopal Basu), the last activist of historic peasant struggle of Kakdwip led by the All India Krishak Sabha in West Bengal within a year after India achieved independence passed away on December 6, (...) -
Crises in the Congress Party and the Total Loss of the Self | Murzban Jal
11 December 2020by Murzban Jal
As for the individual, everyone is a child of its time; so philosophy also is its time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as foolish to fancy that any philosophy can transcend its present world, as that an individual could leap (...) -
Accord Highest Priority to Resolving the Farmer Issue: A Simple Three-Point Agreement Can Show the Way Forward | Bharat Dogra
11 December 2020, by Bharat DograIt is amazing that a resolution of the stand-off with farmers’ movements has been delayed for so long. A government which never misses a chance to announce its patriotism has allowed issues which harm the national interests of India to fester for (...) -
Repeal Agri-Laws: Text of Memorandum Submitted by Opposition Political Parties | Dec 9, 2020
11 December 2020December 9, 2020
Press Release
Due to restrictions of Covid protocol, only a five-member delegation is permitted to meet the Hon’ble President of India.
More than twenty political parties in the country have extended their support to the ongoing (...) -
Gandhi’s Declaration Of Civil Disobedience Movement In 1930, German Social Democracy, and Franz Josef Furtwängler | Nirode K. Barooah
11 December 2020, by Nirode K. Barooahby Nirode K. Barooah
[ While almost the whole German popular press denounced the Indian Civil Disobedience movement under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi in 1930 Franz Josef Furtwängler (1894-1964), the International Secretary of the General (...)