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Farewell to #ChrisRea: "Driving Home for Christmas", one last time

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Farewell to Chris Rea: "Driving Home for Christmas", one last time
Chris Rea Passes: Iconic 'Driving Home for Christmas' Singer Leaves Lasting Legacy.
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Where I speak about Venezuela, Latin American politics, history, Cuba, American propaganda, an empire’s decline and it dangerous regime change exercises

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January 6, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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What Marxism taught me about the world around me
Marxist Legacy: Explore a family's deep-rooted political consciousness in Kannur, Kerala, and their enduring spirit of collective action and social justice.
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December 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Farewell to #ChrisRea: "Driving Home for Christmas", one last time

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Farewell to Chris Rea: "Driving Home for Christmas", one last time
Chris Rea Passes: Iconic 'Driving Home for Christmas' Singer Leaves Lasting Legacy.
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December 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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In her new book, Ananya Vajpeyi gives travel a new meaning
The author takes you on a guided, intellectual tour through cities she knows well
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December 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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A review of Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ @paulthomasanderson.bsky.social

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September 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Tanuja Pandey, poster girl of Nepal’s Gen Z protests, seeks justice for fallen comrades - Open The Magazine
Tanuja Pandey, who turned 25 on September 15, is now one of the most prominent Gen Z names in Nepal, along with Rakshya Bam, Sudan Gurung, Balen Shah and others, for toppling a government through thei...
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September 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Remembering the Indian communist and freedom fighter who coined the slogan ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ and first demanded ‘Poorna Swaraj’ from British rule.

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Hasrat Mohani: Mystic As Rebel - Open The Magazine
SEATED IN HER HOME IN A TONY HOUSING society of Delhi’s Friends Colony, author Rakhshanda Jalil—currently working on a biography of Hasrat Mohani (1875-1951) titled ‘ The Pesky Nationalist ’—speaks of...
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August 14, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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New White House tariff policy on India “foolish”, bad for bilateral ties, says Scott Horton. The American author/radio host is a trenchant critic of American foreign policy and US-led military interventions
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New White House tariff policy on India “foolish”, bad for bilateral ties: Scott Horton - Open The Magazine
Noted American author, political commentator, war expert and accomplished podcaster Scott Horton says that the Trump administration’s new tariff policy — particularly the one targeting countries like ...
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August 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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In a surprise move, Jammu & Kashmir govt bans 25 books for ‘radicalising’ youth
The authors whose books are banned include Professor Sumantra Bose, AG Noorani, Arundhati Roy, Tariq Ali, Christopher Snedden, Victoria Schofield, Stephen P Cohen, among others
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August 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Author Thomas Suárez presents peace framework for the Palestine-Israel crisis - Open The Magazine
Multi-talented London-based historical researcher and cartographic historian Thomas Suárez says that since Gaza has been made uninhabitable by Israeli forces by indiscriminately razing the occupied ar...
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July 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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New docu ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ lifts the veil on crimes against humanity

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New docu ‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ lifts the veil on crimes against humanity
A new documentary aired on Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo shows that doctors in Gaza are primary targets for arrests and torture
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July 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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New documentary 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' lifts the veil on crimes against humanity

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'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' lifts the veil on crimes against humanity - Open The Magazine
Early on July 3, 2:30 am Indian time, Zeteo, a news organisation founded by former MSNBC journalist and broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, released the much-awaited documentary, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. This...
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July 3, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Jayaprakash Narayan (JP), who ended RSS’s political untouchability, wanted Indira Gandhi to insert ‘socialism’ in the Constitution since 1969, and had argued for a ‘secular’ state

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Jayaprakash Narayan, who ended RSS’s untouchability, wanted Indira Gandhi to insert ‘socialism’ in the Constitution, and argued for a ‘secular’ state
Since the 1940s, the architect of Sampoorna Kranti was obsessed with the insertion of socialism in the preamble and had demanded that India be a secular state to framers of the Constitution, accord…
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June 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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For us kids, Indira Gandhi was a dirty word
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A childhood memory of Emergency in our ancestral home in Kannur - Open The Magazine
The first vivid memory I have of that period is of my father returning home without his thick moustache. He had been underground (or olivil, as they say in Malayalam) with an arrest warrant hanging ov...
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June 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Iran’s parliament has approved the closure of the Strait of Hormuz after US strikes, and now the Supreme National Security Council has to finalise the decision

My story from June 16 on what a closure of this strategic waterway means for the world

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June 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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What’s common between Israel and Pakistan’s nuclear programmes?

Israel & Pakistan both stole crucial centrifuge blueprints from Urenco, and both helped other countries develop nuclear bombs through illegal sales of design and technology, thus aiding proliferation
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What’s common between Israel and Pakistan’s nuclear programmes? - Open The Magazine
Even as Israel launched military strikes at Iran on June 13 alleging that the latter was in the final stages of enriching uranium to a level that it could be used for a military offensive, what comes ...
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June 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The biggest diplomatic challenge for India

How Pakistan’s state-run think-tanks and diaspora are reshaping global research and posing a diplomatic challenge to India

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Funding The Fault Lines - Open The Magazine
AT A TIME when India has sent seven outreach delegations—comprising lawmakers and ex­perts—to 33 countries to strengthen its case against cross-border terrorism in the aftermath of a limited war with ...
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May 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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🚨 Has anyone else been watching the new Netflix series “Turning Point: The Vietnam War”?

It’s really good and shares viewpoints many have never seen, heard, or understood. Highly recommend you watch it www.netflix.com/us/title/817...
Watch Turning Point: The Vietnam War | Netflix Official Site
This thought-provoking documentary series examines the harrowing consequences of the Vietnam War, from the Gulf of Tonkin incident to the fall of Saigon.
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May 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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"Following the Taliban’s capture of Kabul numerous reports indicated that US-made arms, including M4 & M16 rifles, worth billions of dollars, had fallen into Taliban hands. The Taliban reportedly began selling off these arms to various groups" @ullekh.bsky.social openthemagazine.com/special/it-i...
It is "possible" that M4 rifles used by Pahalgam terrorists came from Afghanistan: Expert - Open The Magazine
London-based Australian journalist and Afghanistan expert Lynne ​O​’Donnell, who reported extensively from Afghanistan until she was detained and harassed by the Taliban in mid-2022, has said it is “p...
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April 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Ukraine Encroaches on ‘Friendly’ Moldova consortiumnews.com/2025/04/24/u...
Ukraine Encroaches on ‘Friendly’ Moldova
Ullekh NP reports on fears in Moldova that the Zelensky government in Ukraine, in its search for hydro power on the lower Dniester River, is starting to claim a chunk of its neighboring ally.   By...
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April 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Ukraine has encroached westwards over the past year on its friendly neighbour Moldova, a country that has stood by Kyiv against the Russians and sheltered thousands fleeing the war, to build hydroelectric dams in a bid to overcome a crippling power shortage.

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Ukraine silently encroaches on ‘friendly’ Moldova - Open The Magazine
Ukraine has encroached westwards over the past year on its friendly neighbour Moldova, a country that has stood by Kyiv against the Russians and sheltered thousands fleeing the war with Moscow, to bui...
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April 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Ukraine silently encroaches on ‘friendly’ Moldova - Open The Magazine
Ukraine has encroached westwards over the past year on its friendly neighbour Moldova, a country that has stood by Kyiv against the Russians and sheltered thousands fleeing the war with Moscow, to bui...
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April 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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#MarioVargasLlosa Colossus of the Latin American Novel

The Nobel Prize-winning author, who died Sunday, has lately been critical of the West and American foreign policy in Latin America

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Mario Vargas Llosa, the colossus of the Latin American novel - Open The Magazine
For those of us who grew up reading Mario Vargas Llosa in the 1990s, no analysis of his oeuvre is possible without a comparison with his former mentor and friend Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whom Llosa lat...
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April 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Exclusive: Columbia University professor Jeffrey D Sachs says US president Donald Trump is bullying universities at the behest of the Israel Lobby

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Jeffrey Sachs decries pressure on universities from the White House - Open The Magazine
Columbia University professor and acclaimed economist Jeffrey D. Sachs says that while university donors tend to be more respectful of political dissent on American campuses, it is the Donald Trump ad...
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March 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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A review of my new book ‘Mad About Cuba’ by Ameer Shahul

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February 9, 2025 at 6:25 AM