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Venezuela crude is a hot potato by A Correspondent https://t.co/7GkWqkFECs Venezuela’s crude has become a hot potato in the new imperial scramble. Washington’s ruling elite now claims Venezuelan oil revenues and teasers foreign oil giants with a $100 billion bonanza — even as
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Venezuela oil now appears a hot potato. A number of developments are moving around the Venezuela crude that pulled the Empire to take military action against the Bolivarian republic. The crude is not…
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Four Children Freeze to Death in Gaza Amid Israeli Blockade; Children Death Toll Reaches 18 by Quds News Network https://t.co/WyW3qxw0MZ At least four children have died from hypothermia in the Gaza Strip since the start of winter, as Israel’s blockade on essential aid,
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Gaza (QNN)- At least four children have died from hypothermia in the Gaza Strip since the start of winter, as Israel’s blockade on essential aid, including shelter materials…
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A Foreign Policy for India(1927), Revisited: Power, Silence, and Judgement by Sahasranshu Dash https://t.co/GvI8PC6IPK When Nehru penned 'A Foreign Policy for India' in 1927, he envisioned moral autonomy before power — resistance to imperial war and independence of judgment.
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When Jawaharlal Nehru wrote A Foreign Policy for India in 1927, two full decades before Independence, he was addressing a country without sovereignty, without control over its military or diplomacy…
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Second Infant Freezes to Death in Gaza Amid Harsh Winter and Israeli Aid Blockade by Quds News Network https://t.co/bGWsgzlDdL In the besieged Gaza Strip, the cost of war and blockade is now being counted in the bodies of infants. As winter’s brutal cold sweeps across shattered
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Gaza (QNN)- A two-month-old infant has died from extreme cold in the Gaza Strip as a harsh winter and Israel’s blockade of much-needed aid, including shelter materials, deepen the humanitarian crisis…
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A Day at the New Delhi World Book Fair: Books, Cultures, and Contemporary Questions by Azmat Ali https://t.co/Vskdh47vrB Amid New Delhi’s annual literary spectacle, the World Book Fair becomes more than an expo: it’s a living forum where books, cultures, and urgent questions
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On 10 January 2026, the opening day of the New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF), I visited the fair, drawn, as every year, by the promise of books, conversations, and the quiet excitement that only a…
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Unceremonious departure of a popular Assamese weekly by Nava Thakuria https://t.co/9QfSTmZA8i The sudden unceremonious departure of 'Asom Bani', a seven-decade-old pillar of Assamese public life, reveals the deeper crisis engulfing regional media. Once a fearless chronicler of
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Amid existential crisis in the Guwahati-based Assam Tribune group of newspapers, which worsened after the Covid-19 pandemic, a popular Assamese weekly newspaper lost its publication in the later part…
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Smashing International Laws by Vijay Prashad https://t.co/ilKjOn0q29 “Smashing International Laws” exposes the raw brutality of empire in the 21st century. As the United States deploys military force to seize Venezuela’s president and flagrantly violate the UN Charter, this
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In the early hours of Jan. 3, the United States sent its military forces into Venezuela to kidnap President Nicolás Maduro Moros and Cilia Flores, a deputy in the National Assembly…
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Mamata once again hits street to check the dirty game of Amit Shah by Arun Srivastava https://t.co/8ZwuTNUrbC In a dramatic political upheaval, Mamata Banerjee has once again taken to the streets, exposing what she calls the “dirty game” of Amit Shah and the BJP’s central
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What happened in Calcutta in the early hours of January 8 was inevitable. It was to happen someday. Tolerance has its limit. Even an animal retaliates after a certain stage, least to speak of human…
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What if Iran falls? by Ashraf Zainabi https://t.co/kz8ivK8DHF If Iran collapses or is neutralised, the seismic shock won’t stop at its borders. The article argues that Iran has long acted as a buffer between Western power and Eurasian challengers — chiefly China and Russia —
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If Iran falls, will the U.S. move against its real challengers, the China & Russia, and who gets caught in between?. In the evolving landscape of global power, one reality is increasingly clear…
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Candid Imperialism: Trump, Racketeering and Venezuelan Oil by Dr Binoy Kampmark https://t.co/pWXlObSXKt The Biden era’s veneer of democracy has fallen away. What is unfolding in Venezuela is not diplomacy but naked imperialism and racketeering, unabashedly pursued by Donald
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It usually takes archival digging, the golden gaffe, an ill-considered remark and occasional spells of candour by those in power, to admit that the United States has, in common with other imperial…
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A Call for Accountability in ICE Cold Minneapolis Killing by Phil Pasquini https://t.co/dqW5gVGxEi Renee Nicole Good’s killing by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis is not an isolated tragedy — it’s a stark indictment of a militarised state. On
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In pouring rain outside the White House this afternoon, human rights activists engaged as they did in cities across the country in calling for “ICE out for Good,” protesting the shooting death of…
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When Power Becomes Law: Gaza, Venezuela, and the Crisis of Global Norms by Ghassan Shahrour https://t.co/FmZBC2gxAN Power is no longer restrained by law — it becomes the law. In Gaza, entire communities are crushed with impunity; in Venezuela, military strikes and abductions
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Around the world, a dangerous pattern is emerging: powerful states are acting as if might makes right. Gaza and Venezuela are stark examples. In Gaza, families are displaced, hospitals destroyed…
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The Rapid Evolution of the United States Narrative on Venezuela by Ashish Singh https://t.co/fztJZ41r8d In a breathtaking pivot this January, the United States has rewritten its Venezuela narrative with imperial audacity. What began as “counter-narcotics” pressure and naval
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In the opening days of 2026, Washington’s posture toward Venezuela shifted with remarkable speed, transforming from sustained pressure and maritime containment into direct intervention and a sweeping…
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Greenland and the New Resource Imperialism by Dr Ranjan Solomon https://t.co/RfKBmLjbrG As Arctic ice melts under the weight of climate crisis and corporate greed, Greenland is being recast not as a fragile homeland but as the prize in a new scramble for minerals and power. The
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When Donald Trump declared that the United States’ interest in Greenland was a matter of “national security,” the remark was widely mocked as yet another display of his transactional worldview.
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Why Trump’s aggressive agenda must be discarded in favor of true US greatness based on peace with justice by Bharat Dogra https://t.co/3eP5JzVBTY In an era of deepening imperialism, the relentless drive of Trump’s aggressive agenda isn’t making the U.S. stronger — it’s eroding
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President Trump has taken a number of decisions which have surprised a lot of people including scholars within the USA and abroad. These appear to them to be highly arbitrary.
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WWII Myths and Ukraine’s Vision of Victory by Ilya Ganpantsura https://t.co/ruoSSAD74u Caught between myth and reality, Ukraine’s vision of victory is haunted by the ghost of the Second World War. What once united people around the Soviet “Great Victory” now shapes how
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The historical scenario of the Second World War became firmly embedded in people’s minds back in the Soviet Union, where the war functioned as the central ideological construct of the “Great Victor...
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Inequality, Malnutrition and the Crisis of Democracy in India by Vikas Parashram Meshram https://t.co/w7xLUqs9h1 India’s economic “miracle” masks a stark reality: systemic inequality and rampant malnutrition are eroding democratic foundations. New data reveal that two-thirds of
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Although India is counted among the world’s fastest-growing economies today, when viewed from the lens of equality, a vast chasm is clearly visible in society. According to the ‘World Inequality…
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Nicolas Maduro, Renee Good and the kidnapping of the USA by Satya Sagar https://t.co/jhwrRTQwnV The United States has crossed every line. From the shocking kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro—dragged from Caracas and paraded in a New York courtroom—to the
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When I heard how Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela had been kidnapped and squirreled away to a prison in New York I, like many around the world, felt a blinding anger against Donald Trump and…
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Threats to Mexico, Control of Oil, Arms Traders and the Imperial Morality: A World with Sharpened Contradictions by A Correspondent https://t.co/FA9FbI1MJt Imperial aggression, resource wars and moral hypocrisy define our era. As the U.S. openly threatens Mexican sovereignty —
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The world is witnessing sharpened contradictions. There were contradictions all the time in our world. But the contradictions are turning sharper in recent time. The Empire is publicly proclaiming…
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The Delusion of Distinction: Why ‘Allah’ Is ‘God’ and Why It Matters for Secularism by V A Mohamad Ashrof https://t.co/jplpVnHA8P This article examines the theological and legal tensions arising from the linguistic distinction drawn between the Arabic term ‘Allah’ and the
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This article examines the theological and legal tensions arising from the linguistic distinction drawn between the Arabic term ‘Allah’ and the English term ‘God’ within pluralistic secular frameworks.
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