The NBA Strike: The Most Important Protest in Team Sports Over the Last 50 Years – Three Articles
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The NBA Strike: The Most Important Protest in Team Sports Over the Last 50 Years – Three Articles

This week’s work stoppage in professional sports is the most significant moment of athlete activism in a half century not because it “raised awareness”, but because it exercised labor’s most elemental form of political power: the strike.

It Is More than 3 Months of Non-Stop Protests in the USA Now – Three Articles
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It Is More than 3 Months of Non-Stop Protests in the USA Now – Three Articles

Capping a week of protests, thousands of protestors gathered in Washington D.C., on 28 August to protest yet another police shooting of a black man in Kenosha – the day also marked the 1963 March on Washington.

GST Impasse Threatens India’s Federal Structure; Seven CMs Decry Assault on Federalism – Two Articles
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GST Impasse Threatens India’s Federal Structure; Seven CMs Decry Assault on Federalism – Two Articles

Centre refuses to transfer GST dues to states. Seven chief ministers express concern about the assault on federal structure, misuse of central agencies, financial injustice, etc.

Record Contraction in India’s GDP  in Q1 FY ‘21: An Act of God, or Incompetence of Leadership – Two Articles
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Record Contraction in India’s GDP in Q1 FY ‘21: An Act of God, or Incompetence of Leadership – Two Articles

India is the global leader in the new daily cases of COVID-19; it is also the worst performer among all major economies during the pandemic. The reason: not through ‘acts of god’, but incompetence of our Central leadership.