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We don’t need billionaires out to “conquer space.” We need to conquer inequality.
When they tell me, a Brazilian, that there is no democracy in Cuba, I descend from the abstraction of words to reality. How many photos and news have been seen or are seen of Cubans in misery, beggars scattered on the sidewalks, children abandoned in the streets, families under the viaducts?
The world’s top athletes coming together in a spirit of friendly competition is a beautiful vision. But the Olympics have become a machine for the ruthless extraction of profit at the expense of working-class people.
Data Leak Exposes Global Surveillance Plot Targeting Journalists and Dissidents; Amnesty International ‘Fully Stands By’ Project Data; Pegasus Reports Highlight Need for Better Regulation of Spyware: UN Rights Chief; A Test for Pegasus – and Indian Democracy.
The plan to reshape the Mahatma’s Sabarmati Ashram is an act of vandalism.
The hate-filled and menacing messages on some WhatsApp groups are frightening in their implications.
To fight hunger and distress due to the pandemic, India must universalise foodgrain distribution, expand the food basket in its rations scheme and provide cash transfers. Plus article: Addressing the Nutrition Crisis in India in the Time of Covid 19 Pandemic.
Retail prices of petrol and diesel have gone up even as global crude prices dampened, and the dollar-rupee exchange rate remained relatively stable. All told, more than half the price consumers pay per litre of fuel goes to tax, of which the lion’s share goes to the central government.
The rise in India’s forex reserves is no cause for celebration. Rather it points to effects of the economic contraction induced by the pandemic and the new vulnerabilities that the circumstances accompanying the pandemic have generated.
Interview with Silke Pérez, a member of the Association of Rural Workers, on the past and present of the Sandinista Revolution and the challenges that lie ahead this year which sees the country head to the polls for presidential elections.
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