Biju Mathew analyzes how international corporate, state, and religious right wing interests actively colluded and benefitted from the decision to revoke Modi's visa.  Simultaneously shedding light on the multi-dimensional nature of US imperialism in the age of globalisation, the article powerfully endorses the power of desi progressive movements and reminds us that the space for anti-imperialist action is often embedded in the very heart of the fascist state machinery.

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Palestinian advocacy on campuses has always been a risky affair, particularly if you are Muslim. Muslim students, community activists and professors daring to speak out for the Palestinian cause have often been detained under secret evidence. Even as Sami Al-Arian languishes in prison, professors in the Middle Eastern & Asian Languages & Cultures Department at Columbia University are the latest targets of the Zionist-neocon axis. Madiha Tahir, who has taken classes with Joseph Massad, one of the professors under attack, dissects the workings of the Zionist groups on the Columbia campus.


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Chi-ming Yang puts the witch-hunt against Professors Joseph Massad and Ward Churchill into historical and current political context. That the latest attacks are worse than those during the McCarthy era should give us all pause for concern. Chi-ming makes a passionate case for the role of anger in public discourse, something that has always caused discomfort even to liberals from the privileged classes.

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The House Committee on UnAmerican Activities may be a thing of the past, but the American Council of Trustees and Alumni has taken up where McCarthy left, Louis Proyect reveals. His account of the gradual capitulation of the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture (at Hamilton College) to right-wing pressure should alert us to the workings of the right wing on academic campuses. Louis also delves at length on the convergence of views between the liberals and those on the Right.

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From Columbia to Urbana-Champaign, the script remains pretty much the same. Except that at UIUC, individual professors are not being harassed but the whole Muslim community is being targeted. A couple of years ago, the student newspaper ( Daily Illini ) ran a series of anti-Palestinian advertisements stereotyping all Palestinians (including kids) as violent and bloodthirsty. And now, the DI pays for Zionist propaganda -- its opinion page has become a Zionist bastion where Palestinians are routinely dehumanized. David Green addresses the Zionist infiltration of the academia in his article.

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Where have the South Asians gone? , Biju Mathew had asked in an earlier article in Samar . Sonia Saini asks the same question and calls for solidarity across ethnic groups amongst people of color. "You'll be surprised at what can be accomplished that way," she says. The recent students victory at Georgetown university vindicates her optimism.

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If you follow college sports, "Fighting Illini" would be a name very familiar to you. University of Illinois Professor Francis Boyle put the issue in perspective in his recent article, Why You Should Boo Illinois . We carried an introductory article in our previous issue, Joe Madre gives an update on the struggle against this racist mascot.

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More than 20 years have passed since the Bhopal gas disaster , and the survivors' struggle for justice continues. Battling state apathy and police brutality, not to mention health disorders due to the disaster, has been a tough ask, but supporters in the US and Britain have helped publicize the issue and keep it in focus. Kamayani Swami and Ryan Bodanyi give an update on activities in the US .

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