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Articles

• “The Politics of Religion in Africa: Social Movements, Digital Media, and the Global Public Sphere”
  9 May, by siawi3

  A new grant funded program.

• USA-India : Hindu Nationalist Influence in the United States, 2014-2021 The Infrastructure of Hindutva Mobilizing
  8 June, by siawi3

  A Report on the Infrastructure of Hindutva Influence Peddling, Mobilizing and Fund Raising in the US, 2014-2021. This 93-page report looks at the Infrastructure of Hindutva Influence Peddling, Mobilizing, and Fund Raising in the US. Fascism-inspired groups, called the Sangh Parivar (Sangh family, or the Sangh), operate a vast social ecosystem throughout India. On the U.S. side, that apparatus combines diasporic Sangh-implemented family and youth programs, cultural events, temple-related conferences, charitable funders of education and health projects, and political pressure groups that appear to provide social and political support to Hindutva.

• US anti-abortion group targets Ukrainian refugees
  2 July, by siawi3

  Heartbeat International is appealing for money to fund its anti-abortion network in Ukraine and eastern Europe.

• France : Le ministère ouvre les fonds sociaux aux écoles primaires privées
  13 juillet, par siawi3

  Sur France Inter le 7 juillet, Pap Ndiaye demande à être jugé sur sa politique de lutte contre les inégalités. Or un petit cadeau de fin d’année à l’école privée inaugure sa politique au B.O. le même jour. Sous le titre anodin « mesures complémentaires à la circulaire n°2017-122 du 22 août 2017 », une circulaire ouvre l’utilisation du budget des fonds sociaux directement aux directeurs des écoles privées sous contrat qui sont à plus de 90% des écoles catholiques. Drôle de lutte contre les inégalités et de défense de la laïcité...

• The Wagner Group is Just the Latest Example of Privatized War News Abroad
  15 July, by siawi3

  For many years, substantial military operations have been conducted by mercenaries. Today, the Wagner Group, a shadowy Russian company engaged in the thriving mercenary business, is perhaps the leading private enterprise partner in global military ventures. Employing as many as 10,000 military personnel, it is headquartered in the Russian town of Molkino, right beside a military base run by the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency.

• Message from Sri Lanka
  19 July, by siawi3

  “In some cases, it’s difficult because the belt is already on the last notch. Sri Lanka has a state-funded healthcare system from birth to death. Some are worried that the IMF might recommend that we tighten the healthcare system. Our education system is also free from grade one to university level. This might be another area that the IMF might recommend pruning. But these may add to the unrest, which is already hampering the recovery of the country and unsettle any government, which takes over in the next few weeks."

• The Rotten Roots of the IMF and the World Bank
  27 July, by siawi3

  The kind of far-reaching interventionist powers of international economic institutions that we associate with the Washington Consensus—powers to enforce austerity in borrowing states and demand they enact extensive liberalizing reforms—did not emerge out of the blue in the late 20^th century. Instead, they originated many decades before, at the end of the First World War, when powerful states and private actors forged new partnerships to protect their interests at a moment of enormous global economic and political turmoil.

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