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  Table of Contents - Lockdown Edition no.12 | June 13, 2020

  13 June 2020

  Mainstream, VOL LVIII No 26, New Delhi, June 13, 2020
  CONTENTS: LETTER TO THE READERS, 13 June - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.12 - The Editor India - China: Standoff in Ladakh needs political solution | MK Bhadrakumar Video: Coronavirus, War & Empire: Arundhati Roy & Jeremy Corbyn in Conversation with Tariq Ali | 6 June 2020 Israel: No to annexation and occupation! Yes to peace and democracy! - Call 6 June demo in Tel Aviv Nuclear arms control: What happens when US and Russia let (…)

• LETTER TO THE READERS, 13 June - COVID 19 Lockdown Edition No.12

  13 June 2020

  Letter to Readers Mainstream, 13 June 2020 - Lockdown Edition no 12
  The Govt. of India has kept citizens in the dark about large-scale entry of Chinese troops into Indian territory inside Ladakh. The otherwise very jingoistic govt which leaves no opportunity go by to make noises of war vis a vis Pakistan has been totally silent about China. The Modi govt probably feared a political fallout so it has kept mum. Some rare media reports revealed details of the scale – about 10,000 regular (…)

• Standoff in Ladakh needs political solution | MK Bhadrakumar

  13 June 2020, by M K Bhadrakumar

  June 10, 2020
  The good thing about the nihilistic Indian media narratives — relentlessly negative — over the military standoff in eastern Ladakh is that the government largely disregarded them. Hopefully, a de-escalation of tensions is on cards.
  Nihilists and cynics are best shunned. Especially when they also happen to be Sinophobes with a tunnel vision of the contemporary world situation who blithely overlook that China is a major player in the superpower league.
  Some dominant (…)

• Video: Coronavirus, War & Empire: Arundhati Roy & Jeremy Corbyn in Conversation with Tariq Ali | 6 June 2020

  13 June 2020

  Full video recording of Arundhati Roy, Jeremy Corbyn and Tarq Ali in discussion on organised by Stop The War Coalition in the UK. They discuss Coronavirus, #BlackLivesMatter, China, India, Kashmir, Palestine

• Israel: No to annexation and occupation! Yes to peace and democracy!

  13 June 2020

  [Posted below is the short text of call from the peace movement and the Israeli left for a joint demonstration by Israelis and Palestinins / Jews and Arabs on 6 June 2020. The successful demonstartion was held and has been reported in the media]
  Tel Aviv Protest Sat. June 6 - No to Occupation and Annexation! Sat. June 6 at 7.00 PM at the Rabin Square, Tel Aviv
  We’ll all say
  No to annexation and occupation! Yes to peace and democracy!
  We, Jews and Arabs, will protest together for a (…)

• Nuclear arms control: What happens when US and Russia let it lapse? | Fred Weir

  13 June 2020

  by Fred Weir
  MOSCOW
  The world is sleepwalking toward a period free of nuclear arms control, as New START, the last remaining nuclear weapons treaty, is set to expire next February.
  This dark horizon has been approaching for quite a while, but the political will to avert it has collapsed. The Trump White House has spent its term withdrawing from arms control treaties - the latest being the Open Skies Treaty last month - and shows little interest in extending New START. And Russia has (…)

• ‘Atma Nirbhar Bharat’: A mantra to mask failure? | Anand K Sahay

  13 June 2020

  by Anand K Sahay
  When the lockdown came without notice, and the regime left the 400 million informal sector in the lurch, the Indian state sat unmoved
  Now it is hard to find any classes of people, including among Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s followers, who believe that the PM has given leadership in the execution of the urgent twin tasks before the country — of fighting the pandemic, and dealing with the economy — after the unknown virus struck, or even before.
  The thali-banging, the (…)

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  Media Manipulation in Words of MaclomX, 1964 | Poster by Fred Sochard

  13 June 2020

  Art work by Fred Sochard

• Centenarian Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Corona trauma | Sankar Ray

  13 June 2020

  by Sankar Ray
  Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the US poet, painter and social activist, who crossed 101 years on 24 March 2020, who founded the iconic San Francisco bookshop City Lights that famously brought out Allen Ginsberg’s Howl in 1955 and faced the anger of American imperialism, is in a sanguinary agony. The publication of Ginsberg’s poems sparked an obscenity trial, although the court dismissed the charges. The poem became an anthem for the Beat Generation. Ferlinghetti used to say, " A (…)

• What the Novel Corona Virus Possibly Taught Us? | Amit Chaturvedi and Shashank Chaturvedi

  13 June 2020

  by Amit Chaturvedi and Shashank Chaturvedi
  When it comes to understanding the social and psychological impacts of a crisis of the kind that the COVID-19 pandemic is turning out to be, we see that science and research have made only preliminary advances in the field. About a couple of decades ago, Michael M.J. Fischer, the renowned Professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in his groundbreaking book Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, was (…)