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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 of nuclear arms. A researcher is said to seek objectivity and truth. But he or she learns to select...

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 that they fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin, who had six active criminal cases against Burisma. ...

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 one mighty power: not a rival nuclear-armed state, but a ragtag coalition of assorted celebrities, imp...

Now That the 'Toolkit' Is Out of the Bag, Here's 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/@saurabh3vedi Rights07/Feb/2021 New Delhi: Late on Saturday, the news agency ANI tweeted a video clip of m...

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 perfect prospect: Martin Luther King Jr. More from Rolling Stone By 1967, King had gained stature as t...