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Published on 15 April 2021 Postgraduate Researcher Despite severe restrictions implemented by governments in many countries to combat the current Covid-19 pandemic, protest and demonstrations have continued to take place around the world. In Angola, like elsewhere in Africa and beyond, these protests are being led by the youth with many resulting in police brutality and deaths. The country has been undergoing deep political and economic transformations before...

Bird Song of the Day At reader request, Birds of Australia. Duet with an insect. * * * #COVID19 At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site. I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. That’s the stuff to give the troops. • Early in February, I said a simple way to compare Biden’s performance to Trump’s on vaccination would be to compare the curves. If Biden accelerated vaccine administration, t...

The writer is an author and a lawyer based in Mumbai. STATES have a brazenly inconsistent behaviour whenever their conduct on human rights towards their own citizens is criticised by foreigners especially by foreign governments or their human rights activists. It began with prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, became worse under Indira Gandhi and has reached its nadir under Narendra Modi. Indira Gandhi’s remarks at a press conference on Oct 15, 1983, were presumptuous to a degree. She said, “We...

There’s so much to take issue with in this recent Atlantic Council report by arch Russophobe, Swedish economist and senior fellow at the Council Anders Aslund, that it’s hard to know where to begin. His paper, written jointly with Russian social activist Leonid Gozman, entitled "Russia after Putin: How to rebuild the state" is a masterpiece in western pro-regime change propaganda. The "Regime is falling apart" the report asserts, "we do not know when and how Russian President...

How to put pressure on government officials. Srdja Popovic was one of the leaders of the Serbian youth movement Otpor, which helped topple Slobodan Milosevic in October 2000. After the victory of the revolution, he founded the Center for Applied Non-violent Action and Strategies (CANVAS), and, in 2015, his book "Plan of the Revolution" was published. Popovich told Radio Svaboda how the Serbian opposition tried to win over the security forces, why activists should read the Chinese strategist Su...

Silently Disciplining Research By Reseach Professor Emeritus at Prio, Ola Tunander, Modern Times, Ny Tid, Whistleblower supplement, March 6, 2021 Researchers who question the legitimacy of US wars, seem to experience being ousted from their positions in research and media institutions. The example presented here is from the Institute for Peace Research in Oslo (PRIO), an institution which historically has had researchers critical of wars of aggression – and who can hardly be labeled friends...

He had served on the board of Amtrak, the train his father famously rode to work every day, became senior vice president of MBNA, a bank that was a top contributor to Joe Biden’s Senate campaigns, and was appointed to the board of  the National Democratic Institute, which pushed for regime change in Ukraine before the Maidan Square protests. In December 2015, when Vice President Biden again visited Ukraine, he gave an ultimatumto now-President Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk ...

Disha Ravi and the ideas of an ‘andolan-jeevi’ named Gandhi Premium Activist Disha Ravi was sent to five-day Delhi Police special cell custody, in New Delhi on Sunday. (ANI) (HT_PRINT) Share Via Read Full Story If the claims and assertions of the Delhi Police are to be taken at face value, India would appear to be a vulnerable nation. Even with a $2.6 trillion economy and a nuclear-armed military routinely ranked among the top five in the world, it seems to be remarkably fragile against on...

Now That the Toolkit Is Out of the Bag, Heres the Role it Plays in Peaceful Protests Planning how to use ‘tools’ at a people’s disposal ensures that a peaceful movement is not ignored and achieves its target sooner than later. And the tradition goes back to Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. The toolkit under fire is a virtual document and not a box of physical tools, unlike the metal batons police in Shahdara sought to acquire whilst dealing with farmers. Photo: Twitter/@saurabh3...

Why Martin Luther King Didn’t Run for President Mark Engler © Agence France Presse/Getty Early in 1967, America was mired in an escalating war in Vietnam, presided over by President Lyndon B. Johnson. A collection of liberal leaders including anti-war Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin, prominent socialist Norman Thomas and future Congressman Allard Lowenstein were determined to recruit a serious anti-war candidate to challenge Johnson in 1968. They believed they had the pe...