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Lula’s Victory in Brazil and the Path Ahead
Brazil

Lula’s Victory in Brazil and the Path Ahead

Photo lula da silva By: Surya Lula da Silva, the former President and Workers’ Party (PT) candidate, won the Brazilian presidency with a narrow margin in the runoff election held on October 30th, 2022. The current President Jair Bolsonaro, known as the “Brazilian Trump,” received 49.10%. In Brazil, a presidential candidate needs more than 50% of the vote to win the election. On October 2nd, Lula received 48.4% of the votes, thus, necessitating the runoff election. Pandemic and the Brazilian Economy Brazil is the largest country in Latin America with a population of 217 million and a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of $ 1.8 Trillion making it the 12th largest economy in the world. According to a recent World Bank report on Brazil, COVID-19 wreaked havoc on the people a...
The Kejriwal Conundrum: Bhagat Singh and Ambedkar Portraits for Votes, Laxmi and Ganesha Images for Notes
India

The Kejriwal Conundrum: Bhagat Singh and Ambedkar Portraits for Votes, Laxmi and Ganesha Images for Notes

Bhagat Singh Even as Narendra Modi seeks to lure the electorate in election-bound Gujarat by conjuring dreams of mega investment and grand development, the collapse of a British era suspension bridge in Morbi which has taken a toll of at least 134 lives has exposed the sordid reality of the much trumpeted Gujarat model. Details emerging from the Morbi bridge tragedy point to a shocking pattern of governance – utterly inept and corrupt. Morbi-based wall clock making company Oreva was awarded the contract to repair and maintain the century-old suspension bridge. The contract which is valid till 1937 and allows the company to charge the public for using the bridge was finalised reportedly without any open tender. The company claimed to have completed renovation by spending 2 crore ru...
CPI(ML) Statement on the Centenary of Communist Party of China
China

CPI(ML) Statement on the Centenary of Communist Party of China

On the occasion of the centenary of Communist Party of China, the Communist Party of India (Marxist Leninist) salutes the revolutionary legacy of the CPC. The heroic Chinese people, under the inspiring leadership of Mao Tsetung and the CPC, accomplished the people's democratic revolution in just twenty eight years after the CPC’s birth, and achieved basic socialist transformation of a backward agrarian society in another seven years. The liberation of the world's most populous country from the domination of feudal lords, the big bourgeoisie and imperialist powers provided a tremendous boost to the international communist movement in general and national liberation struggles in colonial and semi-colonial countries like India in particular. The armed agrarian revolution in China was ...
Time to Defeat the Modi Cult and End BJP Misruleby 
India

Time to Defeat the Modi Cult and End BJP Misruleby 

It is once again election season for the people of Himachal Pradesh, Delhi and Gujarat. Himachal Pradesh has already voted to form the next Assembly and government, Delhi will be voting on December 4 to elect its reconstituted Municipal Corporation and Gujarat goes to the polls in two phases on December 1 and 5. Desperate to defend its thoroughly discredited and non performing dispensations, the BJP is once again relying on another high-voltage Modi campaign and Modi, in turn, depends on his loyal 'godi media' to amplify his campaign of mass distraction. And the campaign is getting increasingly insulting for the electorate and ominous for the future of India's electoral system. In Gujarat, the Morbi bridge collapse has clinically exposed the corrupt and callous nature of prolonged ...
UK: Rishi: Richest Zionist puppet Ever PM
United Kingdom, ZIO-NAZI

UK: Rishi: Richest Zionist puppet Ever PM

The Roots of Rishi: UK's Richest Ever PM , Zionist puppet Rishi Sunak by UK correspondent In one of his first messages to Narendra Modi, Rishi Sunak promised to deepen the ‘security, defence and economic partnership’ between UK and India, and on 16th November, as expected, after a meeting with Modi, he agreed 3000 visas to UK for Indian nationals. This is clearly a prelude to the signing of a trade deal which has been condemned by both British and Indian trade unions for its likely impact on labour rights. As the diplomatic relationship deepens, so apparently does Sunak’s personal closeness to the RSS. While in Britain he has gone out of his way to publicly promote his identity as primarily a devout Hindu, over and above any Indianness, recently his mother-in-law Sudha M...
The 20 Most Violent Cities in the U.S. in 2022
USA

The 20 Most Violent Cities in the U.S. in 2022

By: Dana Hanson Crime has been rising in the U.S. in the last few decades, and it’s only getting worse. Violent crime can be defined as a crime where the perpetrator uses force to commit a crime or threatens to use force on a victim. Violent crimes include assault, rape, murder, robbery, manslaughter, sexual assault, and kidnapping. Crime rate is a critical factor many consider when moving to new cities or traveling. While national crime levels are easier to perceive, people don’t often think that crime is up in their cities and neighborhoods. In 2020, The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, there were 538,203 violent crime incidents reported in the United States by 9,991 law enforcement agencies that submitted data to the National Incident-Based Reporting syst...
Democrats, Not ‘Democracy,’ at Risk Today
USA

Democrats, Not ‘Democracy,’ at Risk Today

PATRICK J. BUCHANAN (Getty Images) "Make no mistake -- democracy is on the ballot for us all." So declaiming in his Union Station speech to the nation on the real stakes in the 2022 elections, President Joe Biden, who was immediately echoed by Barack Obama, painted himself and his party into a corner. For if Trump Republicans carry the day Tuesday, Biden will have to declare, if there is any consistency left in him, a "defeat for democracy" and a victory for the party that he has said is steeped in "semi-fascism." Assume, for the sake of argument, a GOP capture of the House of Representatives and of a majority of the U.S. Senate. How would Biden describe that GOP victory, if he has persisted in his stated belief that the fate of "democracy" itself was on the table? W...
Revisiting the ‘Good War’s’ Aftermath
USA

Revisiting the ‘Good War’s’ Aftermath

Emerging Truth in an Ocean of Myth Review of After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation, by Giles MacDonogh (Basic Books, 2007) Reviewed by Dwight D. Murphey Professor Murphey Those who honestly chronicle human events, present or past, are a rare and honorable breed. We should certainly ennoble them within the pantheon of our earthly gods. As we do so, we will no doubt include those who, not out of alienation against the West or the United States or its people but out of a thirst for truth, are bringing to light the awful events that followed in the wake of World War II (as well as the enormities that were committed as part of the way in which the war was fought against civilian populations, although that is a subject we won’t be exploring here). That...
British Historian Details Mass Killings and Brutal Mistreatment of Germans<br>at the End of World War Two
Germany, United Kingdom

British Historian Details Mass Killings and Brutal Mistreatment of Germans
at the End of World War Two

By Mark Weber Germany's defeat in May 1945, and the end of World War II in Europe, did not bring an end to death and suffering for the vanquished German people. Instead the victorious Allies ushered in a horrible new era that, in many ways, was worse than the destruction wrought by war. In a sobering and courageous book, After the Reich: The Brutal History of the Allied Occupation, British historian Giles MacDonogh details how the ruined and prostrate Reich (including Austria) was systematically raped and robbed, and how many Germans who survived the war were either killed in cold blood or deliberately left to die of disease, cold, malnutrition or starvation. Many people take the view that, given the wartime misdeeds of the Nazis, some degree of vengeful violence against the...
US Admits Iran Is Not Building a Nuclear Bomb
Iran, USA

US Admits Iran Is Not Building a Nuclear Bomb

by Ted Snider  America’s top diplomat for negotiating a nuclear deal with Iran said on October 30 that the US is not going to "waste time" trying to keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal alive. President Biden’s special envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, said that “It is not on our agenda. We are not going to focus on something which is inert when other things are happening…and we are not going to waste our time on it… if Iran has taken the position it has taken." Apparently reading from the script, Malley insistence that "we are not going to focus" on the negotiations echoes earlier statements from the State Department. On October 12, State Department spokesman Ned Price used the same formulation, saying that the negotiations are "n...