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• Pakistan slips on a slippery slope of religious militancy | James M. Dorsey

  11 December 2021

  Dec 8, 2021
  Pakistani political and military leaders have vowed to eradicate ultra-conservative religious extremism that drove a mob to torture, brutally lynch a Sri Lankan national, and burn his body in the eastern city of Sialkot. Some 900 cases have been filed with police and 235 people arrested in connection with the killing.
  "Let me make this clear: I have decided that from now we will not spare those who resort to violence in the name of religion, especially in the name of the Holy (…)

• US ’dark money’ groups behind Mississippi abortion case spend millions overseas | Cordero, Cariboni, Ferreira

  11 December 2021

  by Monica Cordero Diana Cariboni Lou Ferreira *
  3 December 2021
  Groups behind a Supreme Court test case that threatens the constitutional right to abortion in the US are targeting Europe and Latin America too
  US conservative groups behind a Supreme Court legal battle that could shape the future of American abortion rights have spent at least $28m [1] around the world between 2016 and 2019, openDemocracy reveals today. These groups have engaged in numerous international campaigns (…)

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  Artwork: Protesting Women Farmers at the Singhu Border, Delhi | Pakhi

  11 December 2021

  (Artist: Pakhi is a 19-year-old who loves to sing, paint, write and act)

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  Photo from 1929 Berlin Congress of International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship (IAWSEC)

  11 December 2021
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  Map: The Geography of the Great Solar Eclipse of July 14, 1748 - George Smith

  11 December 2021

  Source: adler-ais.axiellhosting.com

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  TV Documentary: Battleground for Idealists (Spanish Civil War) directed by John Blake

  11 December 2021

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  The Spanish Civil War - Battleground for Idealists (3/6) by noscman1 https://youtu.be/ibgvBxGiqp0

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  Video: Czechoslovakian Revolt 1968

  11 December 2021

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  Czechoslovakian Revolt 1968 by Mr Allsop History Clips https://youtu.be/-F4du579rcg

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Dec 4, 2021

  4 December 2021

  * Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Dec 4, 2021
  * A Revolutionary Mother and the Feudal Left | Sukumaran CV
  * On Suspension MPs from 255th Session of Parliament | Binoy Viswam
  * Oppose Call for Blasphemy Law | IMSD Press Release
  * Radio Play: The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene

• Letter to the readers, Mainstream, Dec 4, 2021

  4 December 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, December 4, 2021
  The Prime Minister had on the eve of the Winter Session of Parliament signalled that the Government was open to discussing all issues. The session began on November 29, with the government according top priority to the repeal of Farm laws that it had introduced one year ago and which had faced major opposition by the farmer’s protest movement. The opposition parties in Parliament objected to the lack of discussion around the Farm Laws (…)

• A revolutionary mother and the feudal Left | Sukumaran C.V.

  3 December 2021, by Sukumaran C.V.

  "Indignantly have I heard women argue in the same track as men, and adopt the sentiments that brutalize them, with all the pertinacity of ignorance," says Mary Wollstonecraft in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which was published in 1792 and "is considered the first great manifesto of women’s rights".
  Genuine feminists in Kerala have been witnessing indignantly women arguing ’in the same track as men’ against a 22 year old mother, Anupama, whose infant son was forcibly taken away (…)