International

State of siege and repression in Kashmir

Bill Van AukenTHIRTEEN million people in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) have spent the last 14 days under a regime of extraordinary repression and collective punishment at the hands of India’s Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. These actions have few—and historically infamous—precedents. A population that is greater than those of entire European countries […]

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U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE DEMANDS

Australian involvement in war drive against China Oscar Grenfell US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo used his recent visit to Sydney for annual Australia-US Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) to issue bellicose denunciations of China and to demand greater Australian involvement in Washington’s aggressive confrontations with Beijing and also Iran. Pompeo and US Defence Secretary Mark Esper […]

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TENSE US-RUSSIA RELATIONS

The most perilous time in the history of the world Stephen Lendman I HAVE stressed time and again that today is the most perilous time in world history. It’s because of US rage to control planet earth, its resources, and populations by whatever it takes to achieve its objectives — preemptive wars against nonbelligerent states […]

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REPORT ON BRUTAL HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

Indian security forces’ use of torture against Kashmiris Wasantha Rupasinghe A RECENTLY published report gives a blood-curdling account of brutal human rights violations against Kashmiri people by Indian security forces in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), India’s only Muslim-majority state. The tragedy that is contemporary Kashmir is rooted in the reactionary 1947 […]