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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.
Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are premier [geopolitical] economists. They reflect on the economic impacts of the Ukraine proxy war.
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.
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.
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.
Tony Boza is a Venezuelan economist. In this interview, he discusses the changes in Venezuelan economy when Chávez came into power , and also examines the impact of the U.S. blockade. He next explores the economic policies currently applied in Venezuela.
The tide of communalism that was threatening to submerge the nation was pushed back with a Herculean effort on the part of India’s national leadership. For almost a decade, communal forces remained on the back-foot. They made a poor showing even in the 1957 elections.
The official poor count then stands at 62.5% of Indian households or 813.5 million Indians. At the same time, in January 2023, luxury car makers announced historic high sales of their luxury brands in 2022.
India reported 1,109 deaths and more than 4,000 injuries in registered factories, on average, each year between 2017 and 2020. The largely informal economy and underreporting of incidents even in the formal economy mean these figures are huge underestimates, say experts.
The allocation has come down from Rs 1.11 lakh crore in FY’21 to Rs 60,000 crore for FY’24. The govt is destroying MGNREGA, to create a vulnerable population that could become modern forms of bonded labourers or, worse, enslaved people in a neoliberal economy.
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