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• It is important for the peace movement to emphasize today that the people of Iran and the USA are not at war with each other | Bharat Dogra

  19 March, by Bharat Dogra

  Often when a country is attacked by another country and two countries are at war, it is not realized adequately that people of both countries may not want this war which has been imposed on them due to factors beyond their control. This is particularly true in the context of unpopular wars. This is certainly true in the context of the ongoing Iran war.
  According to available data, the Iran war of 2026 has been found in polls and surveys conducted among the people of the USA to be the most (…)

• 19 March

  Abdullah Safdar (I believe) on the background of and reaction to the growth of communalism in British-controlled India as the movement for independence developed.
  From: The Communist International, Vol. 4 No. 5. March 30, 1927
  HINDU-MUSSULMAN antagonisms are a great obstacle to the organised struggle of the Indian nationalist movement. This movement has been experiencing a decline since the end of 1922. In 1920 and 1921 it was a serious menace to British imperialism in India. For the (…)

• The Philosopher of the Public Sphere Falls Silent: Remembering Jurgen Habermas | Santosh Mathew

  19 March

  "Only communication grounded in reason can create legitimate power."

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  A Reality Check on Operation Sindoor |

  19 March, by M R Narayan Swamy

  [fond noir][blanc]BOOK REVIEWblanc]fond noir]

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  Review of Pataguni’s Foreign Policy Decision Making In India | P.S. Jayaramu

  19 March, by P S Jayaramu

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  Foreign Policy Decision Making In India : A Political Psychological Perspective
  by S. S. Patagundi
  Rawat Publications
  2025, Pp 201, Price: Rs 1095
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  This above book by Dr. Patagundi, former Professor of Political Science, Karnatak University, Dharwad, is the product of his research as a Senior Fellow of the Indian Council of Sicial Science Research(ICSSR), New Delhi, a few years ago. The book is actually brought out by the (…)

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  Pakistan

  19 March, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World
  by Christina Lamb
  William Collins
  2015
  640 pages
  ISBN-10 : 0007256922
  ISBN-13 : 978-0007256921
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  At a time when Donald Trump appears to have fallen in love with Pakistan

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  Video: Etienne Balibar

  19 March
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  Blood, sweat, and human trafficking: How sugar created slavery - two part documentary

  19 March

  Blood, sweat, and human trafficking: How sugar created slavery (Part 1) | DW Documentary
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  Blood, sweat, and human trafficking: How sugar created slavery (Part 2) | DW Documentary

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Mar 8, 2026

  8 March

  * Champion Nuclear Disarmament - Open Letter to Rahul Gandhi | K. Sahadevan
  * Tribute to Gargi Chakravartty — Scholar & Comrade | Satyaki Chakraborty
  * War Is Too Serious A Business To Be Left To One Man | Vijay Kumar
  * How Political Opportunism Is Cannibalising the Tamil Future | Aruliniyan Mahalingam
  * The Downside of Screen Time | Martha Rosenberg
  * Man Made Language | Dale Spender

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream — The war on Iran its world wide reverberations

  8 March

  A 76-year-old politician brainwashed a 79-year-old right-wing businessman to kill a 86-year-old religious leader on 1 March 2026. Who else died? A hundred and sixty-five little girls (7-12 year-olds) at the Minab primary school, a civilian site admitted by an official US investigation. On 4 March, a US submarine torpedoes an Iranian warship