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The oil and gas industry has delivered $2.8bn (£2.3bn) a day in pure profit for the last 50 years, a new analysis has revealed. This has provided it enough power to “buy every politician, every system” and delay action on the climate crisis.
Excerpts from a briefing paper published in May 2022 by Oxfam International: More billionaires, more extreme poverty. Global inequality has skyrocketed since Covid began.
Several top environmental experts have opposed the proposals by the Govt of India, to amend environment, forest and biodiversity protection laws, as also laws regulating pollution control, under the “influence and financing by foreign governments and international financial institutions”.
Almost the whole of India was caught in a serious power crisis from early May 2022. The Indian government even started pushing cash-strapped State government utilities for importing expensive coal. What are the factors that led to this country-wide mess?
If cleared, the project spread over 1,044 square kilometres will ruin the pristine rainforests in the region.
The deeper reasons behind the Sri Lankan crisis are Sinhalese Buddhist majoritarianism, authoritarianism of the Gotabaya regime, violent targeting of minorities, brutal methods adopted to curb press freedom and deliberate curbing of the culture of scrutiny of public policies.
As journalists face punitive action for fact-checking and reporting hate speech by those allied with India’s ruling party, citizens are stepping into the breach, taking enormous risks to document rising instances of hate speech and hate crimes in the country.
While commenting on the first part of the “Ecological Catastrophe, Collapse, Democracy and Socialism” debate, Foster discusses the most urgent task today: to respond to the ecological catastrophe and the danger of an imminent civilisational collapse from an ecosocialist perspective.
Once again, Western ‘experts’ are predicting a financial crash in China. How much truth is there in this latest batch of critiques on China’s economic progress?
Russia’s Campaign in Ukraine: Nearing an Inflection Point?; and: Russia Teaches Europe ABC of Gas Trade.
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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