Articles by Sonali Kolhatkar

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Tell the Truth about Israel’s Crimes against Humanity
Sonali Kolhatkar | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Israeli forces killed more than a hundred Palestinians and wounded more than 700 on 29 Feb 2024 during a distribution of food aid in Gaza city. And yet, Western media headlines went out of their way to obscure and protect the perpetrators of this awful crime.

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Tell the Truth About Israel’s Crimes against Humanity
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

1 Mar 2024 – Western news bias in favor of Israel is more and more apparent as media outlets go out of their way to obscure the perpetrators of genocide.

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20 Years of U.S. Occupation Was Brutal in Afghanistan—and so Will Be the Exit
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jul 2021

15 Jul 2021 – Alongside the relief of ending the longest war in modern American history, we need to acknowledge the horrors of what we are leaving behind in Afghanistan.

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Socialism Has a PR Problem—One That Can Be Solved
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jun 2021

25 Jun 2021 – Even as openly socialist candidates are winning political power, the right is working hard to equate socialist governance with repressive regimes.

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Why Big Pharma’s Arguments against Patent Waivers Don’t Add Up
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 May 2021

18 May 2021 – While President Biden is backing the temporary lifting of COVID-19 vaccine patents, drugmakers are making dire predictions of stifled innovation and eroded public trust. What they really fear is losing profits.

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Why Big Pharma Shouldn’t Have Any Control over COVID-19 Vaccines
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Mar 2021

While a public desperate for protection against COVID-19 is quick to shame “vaccine hunters,” the real culprits are the companies refusing to share their publicly funded intellectual property and the governments allowing them to get away with it.

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US Government Asks Native Hawaiians to Legitimize Occupation with Vote
Sonali Kolhatkar – TeleSur, 16 Nov 2015

Native Hawaiians are the last Indigenous population in the U.S. without their own government. But what they want is independence, not legal recognition.

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World Fights Back against the Biggest Brother in History
Sonali Kolhatkar - Truthdig, 2 Dec 2013

The United States’ vast and indiscriminate worldwide surveillance of ordinary people and heads of state has no historical precedent. Now countries around the world are fighting back using the United Nations as a vehicle for change.

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Prop 37, GMOs, Food Sovereignty, and More
Vandana Shiva and Sonali Kolhatkar, Uprising Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2012

A new poll conducted by the University of Southern California and the LA Times has found that Proposition 37, the GMO labeling initiative, has slipped a whopping 17 points since the last poll in September [2012]. Now, one of the world’s most renowned scientists and environmental activists, Vandana Shiva, is speaking out. Long a thorn in the side of Monsanto, Dr. Shiva has taken on big bio-tech and agribusiness companies in her home country of India and works with farmers groups all over the world to protect their right to farm using their traditional methods and seeds.

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