India’s Economic Narrative Might Be Glowing. The Economy Isn’t.
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India’s Economic Narrative Might Be Glowing. The Economy Isn’t.

The latest GDP figures are a window dressing under which the economy is unmistakably tottering and the growth trajectory since the pandemic has been ramshackle at best. Incomes are also declining, which means that chances of economic recovery are dim.

Bank Privatization and the Never-finished Neoliberal Agenda
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Bank Privatization and the Never-finished Neoliberal Agenda

Successive governments with a neoliberal agenda have not been able to roll-back nationalization, even after thirty years. That fortuitous ‘failure’ shows that the criticism of public ownership of banking is misplaced, and that neoliberal policies have lost their legitimacy.

The Global South Has Lost $152 Trillion Through Unequal Exchange Since 1960
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The Global South Has Lost $152 Trillion Through Unequal Exchange Since 1960

A recent study finds that over the period 1960 to 2017, total transfers from the ‘emerging and developing economies’ to the ‘advanced economies’ was around $152 trillion. These resources could have ended extreme poverty 15 times over, but instead they were transferred gratis to the core.

Russia Won’t Congratulate CIA on its Diamond Jubilee
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Russia Won’t Congratulate CIA on its Diamond Jubilee

The chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence Sergey Naryshkin has recently written a riveting essay on the 75th anniversary of the Central Intelligence Agency. Most certainly, it serves to remind the Russian people and foreigners alike that nothing has been forgotten, nothing forgiven.