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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The government says that the economic impact from the second Covid-19 wave will be less than that of the first. But economists point to signs of a growing rural economic crisis, and call for urgent relief measures to ward off long-term damage.
The COVID-19 crisis has hit workers across the world, particularly women, who are over-represented in low-paid precarious sectors; Pandemic created ‘unparalleled’ global employment crisis, informal workers worst hit: ILO.
The only way that the coronavirus can be checked is through universal vaccination of the entire global population. What is blocking this is the intellectual property right of a few multinational drug companies. Plus: AIPSN Statement Urges Govt to Expand Public and Private Sector COVID-19 Vaccine Production.
It’s the systemization of harassment and the weaponization of every possible piece of law to persecute opponents and critics of the government that are extenuating individual freedoms and civil liberties. So, while the Supreme Court’s decision to review the constitutional validity of Section 124A is welcome, it is not enough.
In the past week, it seems as if the U.S. attitude towards Israel and Palestine has changed more than in the previous 50 years. Everybody seems to be acknowledging it, from progressive media to pillars of the establishment like The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Interview with Santos Saavedra Vásquez, the president of the National United Center of Rural and Urban Peasant Patrols of Peru, on the upcoming second round of presidential elections in Peru, and they mean for the rural, peasant and Indigenous communities of the country.
An analysis of the impact of the growing movement against Bolsonaro in Brazil.
More than just a set of free-market policies, neoliberalism has always sought to alter society’s balance of power in favor of bosses. Its assault on democracy and undermining of unions is now playing straight into the hands of the far right.
The abiding essence of the American elite’s foreign policy is: maintaining their dominance over the world, for their own power and profit. (They certainly aren’t doing it for the sake of the nation, which they’ve turned into a rotting husk.)
China seems poised to take leadership of regional efforts to forge a safety net that protects countries in East Asia from the fragility that cross-border financial flows engender.
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