The Historic Injustice Served to Care Workers by India’s Highest Court
Anganwadi staff are vital to ensuring the wellbeing of India’s children. Yet in 2006, the Supreme Court refused to recognise them as government employees.
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Proclamations of Hate in India’s Temples
Disallowing non-Hindus from performing in temples is a sign of failing to understand all that the temple space represents.
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Russia Pushes Back Western Sanctions, Revs Up Operation in Eastern Ukraine
All indications are that the contingency planning that Russia had worked out to pull through a severe sanctions regime is paying off. The ruble’s recovery has been absolutely astounding. Plus: extract from – “US Narrative Won’t Survive Defeat in Donbass”.
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What Is Propelling the U.S. into Increasing International Military Aggression?
The Ukraine crisis naturally shows specific national features. But it is also the manifestation of an escalating U.S. international military policy which is created by the economic weakening of the U.S. while it continues to have military strength.
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Nepal’s Economy in a Tight Spot
The government in Nepal says that the economic situation is not as bad as it is in Sri Lanka, but the opposition insists on measures to prevent a crisis. With the ruling coalition not on a firm footing in Parliament, political instability threatens to hobble economic recovery.
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Sri Lanka: Averting the Looming Food Crisis
Key components of an alternate agriculture system should be diversification of production on agricultural lands, enhancing agrobiodiversity, integration of animal husbandry and multi-crop cultivation, crop rotation, and the protection and promotion of resilient local seed and plant varieties.
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From Rachel Carson to Monsanto: The Silence of Spring
June 2022 marks 60 years since the publication of Rachel Carson’s iconic book ‘Silent Spring’, that documented the adverse impact of indiscriminate use of pesticides on the environment. Since then, Monsanto has mounted a deceitful defence of its health- and environment-damaging pesticides and orchestrated toxic smear campaigns against Carson and other scientist campaigners.
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Beyond Eurocentrism
In this book, Amin argues that the story of capitalism emerging from endogenous European characteristics of rationality and triumph – which continues to dominate social theory – is distorting. It disguises the true nature of the capitalist system, including the role of imperialism and racism in its history.
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Heroic Venezuela
Venezuela heroically faced a brutal empire in the 19th century and is heroically defying yet another in the 21st century. Its past triumph fuels its courage and upholds its determination in the present.
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Reflecting on the Most Poignant Moments of Last Two Years During Anand’s Incarceration
He is an undertrial, implicated under falsified charges under the draconian UAPA. At the age of 72 years, when people need to be cared for by their children, and be surrounded by their families, Anand and my struggles are entirely different. And all this merely on the basis of a story presented by the NIA to the court, the facts of which are pending verification.
