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The PM claimed that there was no APMC system in Kerala and asked why the opposition was “misguiding” the farmers on this issue. Professor R. Ramakumar addresses this allegation and also talks about the various schemes of the State government.
The government’s brazen class bias is crystal clear, as it gives away national assets built with public money to its favourite capitalists, together with tax breaks.
In 2014, the Union environment ministry agreed with an expert recommendation that HEPs shouldn’t be erected in paraglacial zones.
The common ground with citizens from other parts of the country is the idea of a modern and secular India, as reflected by the Constitution.
For Hindutva, which is not a spiritual or religious world view but a doctrinaire, authoritarian political programme, Hinduism is a mere prop.
It is probably true that the public is fed with lies before, during and after every war. It is definitely true with the Afghan War. We must learn to be skeptical of both our political leaders and our mass media, when they give us reasons for going to war.
A momentous statement has just been published in the British medical journal The Lancet and in 200 other health journals. It says, “We are united in recognizing that only fundamental and equitable changes to societies will reverse our current trajectory.”
There are three elements that define the core of capitalism: capital, profits and wages. In recent decades, with the emergence of monopolies and growth of neoliberalism, the relationship between these three have changed.
Vaccine costs have pushed many developing countries to the end of the Covid-19 vaccination queue. Worse, less vaccinated poor nations cannot afford fiscal efforts to provide relief or stimulate recovery. Plus: Cuba: The First Country in the World to Vaccinate Children Under 12.
For the last two months, the Mapuche Elisa Loncon has presided over the constituent assembly in charge of writing the new Chilean constitution that will replace the Pinochet era constitution. In this interview, Loncon talks about the threats and challenges faced by the Constitutional Convention.
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