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• The political theatre behind Philippines police cleansing | Steffen Jensen and Karl Hapal

  11 March 2023

  by Steffen Jensen and Karl Hapal *
  In January 2023, the Philippines’ Secretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government, Benjamin Abalos Jr, initiated a process of vetting top police officials. This process calls for the courtesy resignation of all generals and colonels of the Philippine National Police (PNP) while a committee of five assesses their involvement in drug dealing in the Philippines.
  Abalos presented the initiative as a bold move to rid the PNP of ‘bad apples’ and (…)

• The UN Vote: India has No Choice | Papri Sri Raman

  11 March 2023, by Papri Sen Sri Raman

  FEBRUARY WAS AN important month for India. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, visiting Bengaluru on 23 February, to participate in the primary G20 finance ministers’ and financial institution governors’ (G7 FMCBG) assembly in the G20 talks (with India as chair) said, ‘imparting any help to Russia’ or any ‘help to avoid any systemic evasion of sanctions, could be a ‘‘critical problem’’ for the United States’. Her’s was no threat, only a wish that India support the sanctions against Russia. (…)

• Metaphor In Orbit (Science is Not All Social Relations) | Hilary Rose & Stephen Rose

  11 March 2023

  by Hilary Rose & Stephen Rose
  This is an abridged version of an article which appeared in Science Bulletin 22, 1979, a communist science and technology journal published in the United Kingdom.
  In November 1976, we published an edited collection of articles (in two volumes: The Political Economy of Science and The Radicalisation of Science, Macmillan) attempting to define some of the theoretical issues relevant to a Marxist understanding of science under capitalism, as they had (…)

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  Prakash Singh and the Future of Police Reforms in Independent India | KS Subramanian

  11 March 2023, by K S Subramanian

  BOOK REVIEW
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  The Struggle For Police Reforms in India : Ruler’s Police to People’s Police by Prakash Singh
  Rupa Publications India May 2022 Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9355202474 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9355202475
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  Prakash Singh is a leading former IPS officers of India. He belongs to the Uttar Pradesh cadre of the IPS and was the state’s Director General of Police. He was also DG of the Border Security Force, a Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) such as the CRPF (…)

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  Indian History or Propaganda? | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  11 March 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

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  Don’t Forward That Text! Separating Myths from History on Social Media
  by Amit Schandillia
  HarperCollins India Pages: 303 Price: Rs 399
  So, many Hindu temples did Tipu Sultan destroy?
  Many, most might answer. Innumerable, Hindu radicals are bound to assert. History communicator Amit Schandilia’s meticulous research leads to findings that are bound to shock everyone: those who view the Muslim king positively and those who hate him.
  At the height of the (…)

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  When The Other Moves Into Limelight | Radhakanta Barik

  11 March 2023, by Radhakanta Barik

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  Dark Fear, Eerie Cities: New Hindi Cinema in Neoliberal India by Šarūnas Paunksnis
  Oxford University Press 2019 ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0199493189 193 pages, Kindle Edition __0__
  GLOBALIZATION TRANSFORMED INDIA into modern economy in the mid-nineties. The positive impact on the economy, however, disrupted India’s traditional social structures. Withdrawal of the state from economic activities pushed society in India to modernise but created tenuous relationships in different (…)

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  Painting: The Little Girl in Blue | Amrita Sher Gil (Dec 1934)

  11 March 2023
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  Photo: Dostoevsky’s St. Petersburg view from Raskolnokov’s window (1967) | Inge Morath

  11 March 2023
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  Music: I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts | Freddy Martin

  11 March 2023

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  I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts by FREDDY MARTIN - Topic https://youtu.be/qp_ylvwWMTQ

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  Video: Guy Standing and Yanis Varoufakis speak on the need for Basic Income

  11 March 2023

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  Guy Standing & Yanis Varoufakis on Basic Income [ in English, ελληνικοί υπότιτλοι ] by mέta — Centre for Postcapitalist Civilisation https://youtu.be/iweLU5aVKrk
  Il Centro per la Civiltà Postcapitalista, mέta, ha organizzato martedì 21 settembre 2021 una discussione tra Guy Standing e Yanis Varoufakis sulla necessità del Reddito di Base. Ha moderato Sotiris Mitralexis. L’evento è stato co-organizzato da Mέta, Museo Numismatico di Atene e Papasotiriou Publishing, a (…)