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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
With store shelves stripped of baby formula, families across the USA are getting desperate. It is actually a problem of monopoly capitalism – the formula industry in the United States, like so many others, is highly concentrated. And one of these monopolies has shut down – due to a bacterial infection.
The change in marijuana laws across the US raises issues far beyond, “Hey, dude, we can blow a joint now without getting busted.” The burgeoning business of growing pot raises the specter of corporate agriculture with its threats to human health and natural ecosystems.
Next month sees the 50th anniversary of the killing of Palestinian novelist and intellectual Ghassan Kanafani in July 1972. His death was attributed to the Mossad and the anniversary of it is worth reflecting upon in the light of a continuing resort to the policy of assassination by the State of Israel.
China’s largest city, Shanghai, largely reopened Wednesday morning after a two-month lockdown that successfully beat back an outbreak of the virulent Omicron BA.2 subvariant of COVID-19. The event was a triumph of public health mobilization.
A tribute to Amir Khusrau 1253-1325), whose annual urs, or death anniversary commemoration, begins May 19, 2022: Khusrau (was a Renaissance Man long in advance of the Renaissance.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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