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Larry Wilkerson: President Obama and Russian President Putin need to ease domestic pressure to act militarily, thus keeping Ukraine as a buffer.

While Obama turns up the rhetoric it takes a military man to know where this leads – while we are no fan of Larry Wilkerson we appreciate his rationality in this crisis.

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                                    CPN-Maoist spokesperson Pampha Bhusal,

KATHMANDU, March 24: An intense debate has erupted within the CPN-Maoist over the party’s organizational structure to be endorsed through its forthcoming national convention slated for June. 

The rank and file members have begun a debate on whether to adopt a centralized general-secretarial system or a collective

                               
                         Michael Hudson – Edward Herman and Jack Matlock

George Kennan was the U.S. diplomat and Russia specialist who developed the cold war strategy of containment of the Soviet Union, though he later criticized its militaristic implementation. 

In 1998, when the Senate voted to extend NATO to include Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic,

Democracy and Class Struggle welcomes this article by Pepe Escobar  on the Ukraine has it focuses on the real issue of NATO which gets lost in EU talk and which the European Left has underestimated in its polemics about the Ukraine – thanks for keeping your eye on the real issue Pepe Escobar. 
             
The new Ukraine of “Yats,” Tyahnybok and Yarosh, in a rush, signed the

The Maidan activists in Ukraine may have achieved their goal of overthrowing the government – but they say they have no plans to remove their tents from the city center, at least until May’s presidential election.

However, their leaders are looking increasingly divided – throwing harsh accusations at each other. Traitors, bandits, snakes… these just some of the insults being hurled at former

अर्जुन प्रसाद सिंह शहीद-ए-आजम भगत सिंह ने यह बात 1931 में फांसी के फंदे पर लटकाये जाने के कुछ ही दिन पहले कही थी। उनका अनुमान सही निकला और करीब 16 साल बाद 1947 में एक समझौता हो गया। इस समझौते के तहत अंग्रजों को भारत छोड़ना पड़ा और देश की सत्ता की बागडोर ‘गोरे […]

http://scroll.in/article/maker-of-film-on-encounter-killings-in-gujarat-struggles-to-find-venue-in-ahmedabad?id=659163 Maker of film on encounter killings in Gujarat struggles to find venue in Ahmedabad Sumana Ramanan Film maker Gopal Menon cannot find a venue in Ahmedabad to screen his latest film Unholy War, about both fake encounters in Gujarat and the state’s development model over the past decade. Three civil society organisations have declined […]

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-statistics-of-gender-bias/article5827135.ece?homepage=true The statistics of gender bias Satyabrata Pal Over the next few weeks, there will be many tussles between our mostly male politicians over India’s security. But almost no one will ask if a country can be secure when half its citizens live in deepening insecurity, threatened not by terrorists or enemy soldiers but by […]

Pranaya SJB Rana and Roshan Sedhai of E Kantipur spoke to CPN- Maoist party spokesperson Pampha Bhusal  about the prospects of unification, their opposition to local elections and the party’s roadmap

What are the prospects for reunification with the UCPN (Maoist)?

It should be understood that, for now, we have only formed a working alliance with the UCPN (Maoist). We split from the party