Hire and Fire at Will: What Do Global Tech Lay-Offs Mean for India?
Will 2017’s nightmare year for India’s IT industry return in 2023?
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A Sweet Solution? India’s Push to Use Sugar for Fuel May Create More Problems Than it Solves
India, the world’s second-largest sugar producer, has started to turn its surplus into bioethanol as it strives to lower energy costs and meet climate pledges. However, this ignores greenhouse gas emissions embedded in the ethanol supply chain. There are also several other problems.
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Fifty Years of Chipko Movement Clear Pathways For Other Struggles to Save Ecosystems, and Life
This year, 2023 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the historic Chipko Movement, in which vilagers were involved in protecting trees in natural forests from being axed by contractors or government agencies, in the bargain asserting more local rights over forests.
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Angela Davis Discusses Malcolm X’s Legacy and Her Removal From AP Black Studies
Davis says Malcolm X’s legacy is still vital to understanding racism, power and justice in the United States and beyond.
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Clean Energy or New Weapons: What the Fusion Breakthrough Really Means
The US claim that it had achieved “ignition” in nuclear fusion is being hailed as a step into a fossil fuel-free energy future. However, generating electrical power from fusion commercially or at an industrial scale is likely unattainable in the near future; this experiment will only help the US further develop its destructive nuclear weapons arsenal.
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Forever Chemicals, Everywhere
Forever Chemicals are found everywhere from the depths of the Mariana Trench to the mountaintop of Mt. Everest. Following 80 years of manufacturing various PFAS chemicals, the world is swimming in chemical permanence. It is a toxic price society pays for modern-day conveniences.
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The Economics of the Ukraine Proxy War with Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai
Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are premier [geopolitical] economists. They reflect on the economic impacts of the Ukraine proxy war.
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U.S. Admits Weather Pushed Chinese Balloon Off Course, U.S. Shot Down Hobbyists’ $12 Balloon in $2M Missile Attack
US officials acknowledged the Chinese balloon they shot down on February 4 had likely been blown off course by unexpected weather. The US Air Force later spent $2 million using missiles to blow up what appeared to be a $12 hobbyist balloon.
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Palestine Is My Cause: Arabs Reaffirm Support for Palestinians, Rejection of the Occupation
In a poll carried out annually by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies in Doha, 76 percent of respondents said that Palestine is a cause for all Arabs, not Palestinians alone.
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Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism
Corporations like Nestlé are essentially doomsday machines: man-made creations that will ultimately destroy humanity if allowed to continue as they are. It continues to exist only because of the acquiescence and facilitation of its gross misconduct by governments and society.
