The Plunder and Loot by Private Healthcare in India
Profits take priority over the wellbeing of patients, turning the sector into a business for wealth accumulation by any means, even unlawful and unethical.
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Marital Rape: Confronting Religious Misinterpretations, Social Stigma, Despite Legal Clarity
From beautiful bride, to victim of marital rape, this is the story of Shanti, a 19-year-old Pakistani woman whose husband has been charged under the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2013 (Pakistan).
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
Unilateral and Illegal Sanctions–Mainly by the United States–Kill Half a Million Civilians Per Year
According to the Global Sanctions Database, the United States, European Union and UN have sanctioned 25% of the countries in the world. The United States by itself sanctioned 40% of these countries, sanctions that are unilateral because they do not have the assent of a UN Security Council resolution.
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Capitalism | Online Blog | USA
America’s 25 Year Tax Cutting and Fiscal Train Wreck
The bigger picture about the Trump Tax Cuts is the looming fiscal crisis driven by the growing convergence of runaway tax cutting since 2001, chronic escalating defense and war spending, more frequent deeper crashes of the economy with slower economic growth between, and now since 2022 accelerating trillion dollar annual interest costs on the U.S. national debt.
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Capitalism | China | Online Blog | USA
China Challenging US Domination – 5 Articles on Global Politics
‘The New Silk Road and the Threat to American Domination’; ‘SWIFT’s Decline: How Global Powers are Escaping the Dollar Trap’; ‘Iran Ready to Ditch GPS for China’s BeiDou’; ‘Trump and China in Brazil’; and: ‘Iran Confronts Europe’s Trigger Mechanism–with Eurasian Allies at its Side’.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Latin America | Online Blog | USA
Trump’s Latin American Policies Go South
In Latin America and the Caribbean, the empire’s war on the world assumes a hybrid form, with the weapons taking the form of “soft power” – sanctions, tariffs and deportations. Resistance is growing, with new alliances bypassing Washington. As the empire’s grip tightens, so too does the resolve of those determined to break free from it.
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What Is Happening in Myanmar?
Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s civil war has escalated into its most violent phase in decades. The scale of the conflict is bewildering. Between 60-200 armed groups are now active, with members in total numbering between 150,000 to 300,000 individuals engaged in the world’s most prolonged revolution.
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The French Army Booted Out of Senegal: Crisis of French Imperial Hubris
A discussion of France’s nefarious neo-colonial practices in Africa – the African people are now fighting back, with Senegal now booting France out of the country after 150 years.
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80 Years After Trinity: Why was There So Little Dissent at Los Alamos and What Does It Mean Today?
The nuclear threat endangers not only global peace and security but the very continuity of the human species, not to speak of the simple survival of life on Earth. How, you might wonder, could we ever have arrived at such a precarious situation?
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British MPs Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana Announce a New Political Party – 2 Articles
‘It’s Time for a New Kind of Political Party. One That Belongs to You’: Full statement by two prominent left-wing British MPs, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, announcing they are setting up a new party; also: ‘Over 600,000 Sign Up for New Left-Wing Party in Britain’.
