Five theses on the situation in Nepal

VIJAY PRASHAD AND ATUL CHANDRA
Following the resignation of Nepalese Prime Minister K.P. Oli amid massive protests driven by the country's youth, various narratives have circulated that simplify and distort the complexities and realities on the ground in Nepal that are at the root of this crisis.

If your house is not clean, ants will enter through the door and attract snakes.

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eloquent genocides

RAFAEL POCH-DE-FELIU
Historically, annihilating purposes are denied and hidden by their protagonists. The Young Turks, or the Nazis, for example, left hardly any declarative and printed evidence of their intentions against Armenians and Jews. Discretion prevailed.

The Israeli authorities have openly proclaimed these intentions with astonishing eloquence. Bathed in a self-justifying national ideology of colonialism and supremacism with roots that link religion and ethnicity, and that routinely dehumanizes Palestinians, Israeli society naturally consumes, assumes and projects the message.

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Joaquín Araujo: the rise in temperatures and droughts herald a not-so-distant hydric collapse

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Joaquín Araújo is a Spanish naturist, writer and journalist who has dedicated a large part of his life to making humanity aware of the dangers and suffering that the ecological degradation of the planet can cause. In this summer season in the northern hemisphere, with all the alarms going off due to the unstoppable rise in temperatures and the lack of water, we talked to him about the threat of climate change.

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The enemy within

CHRIS HEDGES
The war industry, a state within a state, eviscerates the nation, lurches from one military fiasco to another, strips us of civil liberties, and pushes us into suicidal wars with Russia and China.
The United States is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. It is axiomatic between the two ruling parties that there must be constant preparation for war.

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