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The giant pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson has recently proposed paying $ 8.9 billion to settle thousands of legal cases relating to severe health problems including ovarian cancer being caused by its talcum powder products in North America.
Raising taxes on the rich, whether through the corporate profit tax or through a wealth tax, should be the obvious way of raising resources to finance government expenditure. But both Biden administration and the Republicans leave out this alternative in the current debate on US debt ceiling.
The prospect of the Chinese economy being a growth locomotive to lift the rest of the world from looming depression is virtually nil at this point. The massive BRI is mired in massive loans to countries unable to service the debt. Attempts to boost domestic China growth by relying on a consumer boom are also presently doomed.
‘Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island’ is the title of a newly-released documentary feature film directed, written and produced by award-winning filmmaker Heidi Hutner. It brilliantly connects the proverbial dots of the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant disaster.
A brief exploration of the life, times and legacy of one of the most distinguished cultural figures of modern Africa – the Senegalese trade unionist, writer and filmmaker, Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007), whose birth centenary is being observed this year.
The BJP’s defeat has proved that Modi can be beaten if influential regional leaders espouse fundamental issues of people.
‘I hate the idea of men taking women for granted and thinking they can get away with anything. It is time we all got together and put an end to this,’ says a supporter at Jantar Mantar.
While the budget outlay is stagnant in real terms, the FM has announced a hike in capital expenditure — of a whopping 37.4%. This is the third year in succession that she has announced a big hike in capex. She claims this “enhance growth potential and job creation”. Will it?
The decision to drop the Gandhi assassination from the NCERT’s history textbook just cannot extinguish the Mahatma’s memory.
The message flashed on my phone informing death of a Delhi University, Philosophy Assistant Professor, Samarveer Singh ‘by suicide’ in his rented accommodation near the University! They say if a country is to be sent downhill, destroy its academics …
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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