Chris Hedges: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in India

Chris Hedges: The Rise of Right-Wing Populism in India

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with Chris Hedges

RT America on Mar 7, 2020

On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Siddharth Varadarajan, editor of The Wire, about the rise of right-wing populism in India and its disturbing parallels to the right-wing rise of populism in the United States.

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Mother’s Day Revival by Cindy Sheehan

by Cindy Sheehan
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FIRST APPEARED IN BLACK COMMENTATOR, May 5, 2011
May 8, 2011

Blue Flax

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“Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
all that we have been able to teach them of
charity, mercy and patience.
We women of one country will be too tender
of those of another country to allow our sons
to be trained to injure theirs.” — Juliet Ward Howe, Mother’s Day Proclamation – 1870

Recently, I had the opportunity to see a movie called Water. The film was written and directed by Deepa Mehta who is an Indian born Canadian most known for her Elements Trilogy: Fire, Water and Earth.

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