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    Time to resume the democratic process

    07 Feb 2022

    The Narendra Modi administration amended the Constitution in August 2019 to abolish the special status Jammu and Kashmir had enjoyed under it. The stated objective was to bring the state on par with the rest of India. Ironically, two and a half years

    How Trump ignored advisers, spread election lies

    21 Dec 2022

    The executive summary of the House Jan. 6 committee’s report documents how former President Donald Trump was repeatedly warned by those closest to him — Cabinet members, campaign officials and even family members — that claims he had lost his reelection due to fraud were false. But Trump spread those lies anyway.

    Democracy is under threat all over the world

    09 Dec 2022

    The police raid was apparently the largest in postwar German history. Early on Wednesday morning, some 3,000 officers from various branches of federal and regional law enforcement swept across 11 of Germany’s 16 states as well as locations in Austria and Italy, arresting at least 25 people — including a Russian woman — and questioning

    Another Trump term would be too much to bear

    25 Dec 2022

    2022 has been an “annus horribilis” for the world. The phrase, meaning a horrible year,” gained currency 30 years ago when Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II employed the term to describe her year of constant family ructions culminating in the fire at historic Winsor Castle. In 2022 the planet has continued to suffer from man-made

    Trumpian tactics for elections are working everywhere

    27 Dec 2022

    From the United States to Brazil and Israel, a barrage of election-related misinformation hammered voters around the world in 2022, but many pushed back against the conspiracy-laden Trumpian tactic of sowing distrust in the democratic process. A tsunami of falsehoods flooded Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube — from “deep

    Hong Kong students plan second day of pro-democracy rallies

    03 Sep 2019

    Hong Kong school and university students on Tuesday are due to boycott classes and hold pro-democracy rallies for the second straight day, further fuelling the political crisis in the Chinese-ruled city.

    Big events no guarantee for nations’ image

    28 Nov 2022

    It did not need much guess work to know that a country holding a major sports event like the summer/winter Olympics or the football Word Cup would leave any impact on the minds of the people for a long time if the internal conditions are not friendly enough and if the country has not developed an image of being a friendly country.

    A brazen violation

    09 Feb 2023

    The removal by Republican majority leader Kevin McCarthy of the sole Muslim woman of colour, Ilhan Omar, from the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Foreign Affairs

    It’s time to make America’s democracy great again

    06 Sep 2023

    To tell you the truth, if I do just that, the polls all say that one out of three of you won’t want to hear or read it – and that you damn well won’t believe it. So let’s start today with the things just about all of us believe. Almost all of us believe that we are on the side of the Patriotic Americans. And way too many of

    General education classes strengthen democracy

    12 Sep 2023

    Higher education faces a new wave of attacks from Republican politicians. In 2022, legislators in 36 states introduced 137 “educational gag order” bills, a 250 per cent increase from 2021. Further, the American Association of University Professors recently documented 57 bills in 23 states aimed at controlling

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