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India's 'cockroach' movement ousts minister, but can Modi calm youth?

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Led by Gen-Z youth across India, the movement has become perhaps the biggest challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his 12 years in office.

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"Cockroach Democracy": Arundhati Roy on India's Youth-Led Protest Movement & Modi's Collapsing Support

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"Cockroach Democracy": Arundhati Roy on India's Youth-Led Protest Movement & Modi's Collapsing Support

A youth-led protest movement in India is demanding an end to the country’s status quo. Sparked by the leak of national exam questions, tens of thousands of young people have taken to the streets. They are protesting under the banner of the Cockroach Janta (People’s) Party — a new party named to reflect the words of India’s chief justice, who compared unemployed youth to cockroaches and parasites. The movement has only swelled in response to a violent crackdown on protesters. Although the protesters’ initial demands were for the resignation of the country’s education minister, “everything has shifted to directly attacking [Prime Minister Narendra] Modi,” says Indian writer Arundhati Roy, who joins us from New Delhi, the physical center of a movement that first found exponential success online. The erosion of democratic principles under Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata (Indian People’s) Party is being contested on a large scale for the first time, says Roy. “It’s really a generation whose parents and grandparents wore those Modi masks and chanted 'Modi, Modi, Modi,' and got him into power. It is their children now who are saying the emperor has no clothes.”

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Venezuela’s ousted dictator Nicolas Maduro has New York narcoterrorism trial date set

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Venezuela’s ousted dictator Nicolas Maduro has New York narcoterrorism trial date set

The ousted Venezuelan dictator and his wife are charged with working with drug cartels to ship thousands of tons of cocaine into the US for more than 20 years until their January capture in a stunning late-night raid.

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Ousted heroes sound alarm over 'intimidated' Hegseth: 'Bigger than these clowns'

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Ousted heroes sound alarm over 'intimidated' Hegseth: 'Bigger than these clowns'

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's purge high-ranking military officers has ousted officers speaking out about their serious concerns with his leadership, according to a new report. Former officers, who say they were forced to retire after questioning command decisions, are now determined to go on the record despite a sense of loyalty to the organization, MS NOW's Priya Sridhar reported Thursday.“For many of us, part of it is a sense of loyalty to the organization that is bigger than these clowns," one officer told Sridhar. "We know that in the organization, there are still good people trying to do good things and we don’t want to say things that might hurt them."Among their concerns is the ousting of Gen. Christopher Donahue, the final soldier to leave Afghanistan in a retreat that Hegseth has repeatedly attacked as "humiliating."An officer argued to MS NOW that it was hypocritical of Hegseth to claim his focus is on warfighters and then remove people like Donahue. "[Hegseth] is intimidated by people who have real warfighting background and don’t just talk about the warrior ethos,” the former officer said, adding, “I think he just can’t stand people around who will call him on his b-------.”The officers believe Hegseth wants the public to see him turning senior officials into yes-men, MS NOW reported.They pointed to a September Hegseth speech in which he called on hundreds of senior military officers to focus on “restoring a warrior ethos.” “What he was trying to do was establish primacy over the armed forces in a public way," a formal official said. "‘We can get the most senior people in the military to do exactly what we’re going to tell them to do.'”

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Responds to Latest U.S. Tariff Increase

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Responds to Latest U.S. Tariff Increase

Things are going to escalate very quickly now as the midterm election looms closer and various interests start to take their lane against President Trump and the economic position of the United States. There are trillions at stake. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was asked about the latest Sec.338 tariffs levied by President Trump and […] The post Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Responds to Latest U.S. Tariff Increase appeared first on The Last Refuge.

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New British PM Burnham Appoints John Healey as Chancellor – Former Defense Minister Toppled Starmer Leadership Over Insufficient Military Funding

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New British PM Burnham Appoints John Healey as Chancellor – Former Defense Minister Toppled Starmer Leadership Over Insufficient Military Funding

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Prosecutor ousted after alleged romance with illegal immigrant sex-crime suspect: 'Pattern of misconduct'

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Prosecutor ousted after alleged romance with illegal immigrant sex-crime suspect: 'Pattern of misconduct'

Missouri's attorney general accused county prosecutor Camille Johnston of an intimate relationship with an illegal immigrant charged in a sexual assault case in her jurisdiction.

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If Britain Has a New Prime Minister, It's a Day Ending in Y

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Former Hungarian Prime Minister visited White House and State Department

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Former Hungarian Prime Minister visited White House and State Department

EXCLUSIVE — Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited the White House and State Department during a trip to Washington, D.C., last week, as his successor works to undo his 16 years in power. The previously unknown visit, revealed to the Washington Examiner by a source familiar with the matter, appears to be his first […]

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