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‛On Iran, Trump Has Backed Himself – and Much of the World – Into a Corner’; ‛Epic Nonsense: Trump Shelves Project Freedom’; ‛Two Models of Resistance Against the Blockade: The Pakistani Corridor for Iran and the Refining of Cuban Crude Oil’.
‛Medicine Shortages Amid Siege Leave People in Peril in Gaza’; ‛How Israel Is Weaponizing Infectious Diseases in Gaza’; ‛Gaza’s Painful Journeys’: Walking is the main expression of our misery in Gaza. We walk to survive, to swiftly escape the Israeli bombardments and invasions, to provide for our families. And we walk because we have no other option but to walk.
On May 10, the Prime Minister issued seven appeals to the nation – all of whose purpose was to save foreign exchange. The people are being told: prepare to tighten your belts. But it is not the common people who have created the present foreign exchange crisis.
The contrast between the Manmohan Singh government’s management of India–Iran relations under US pressure and the Modi government’s abject capitulation is the clearest possible illustration of what strategic autonomy means in practice, as opposed to in rhetoric.
‛How Indian States Are Using FIRs to Reframe Wage-Related Workers’ Disputes as Crimes’; ‛Money, ID, Only Link to Family: Noida Police Hold on to Phones Despite Workers Being Released’; ‛May Day Under Police Watch in Noida: Workers’ Resistance Persists’.
‛Why Chhattisgarh’s Midday Meal Workers Have Not Given Up Their Fight for Better Pay’: Their work is crucial for children’s wellbeing, but they earn less than Rs 70 a day. A two-month strike sought to secure them a daily wage of at least Rs 350. Also: ‘Govt Doesn’t Seem to Care for Those Taking Care of Country’s Mothers, Children’.
The 16th Finance Commission has avoided estimating the Vertical Fiscal Imbalance which would have given an idea of the gap in the States’ resources; elsewhere the Commission has made changes to the formula on distribution of tax revenue among States, not all of which are convincing.
‛Can China Curb Trump’s Gambit in Hormuz?’; ‛Beijing Confronts US Sanctions on Refineries’: Within six days of the Russian President Putin rendering a forceful advice to the US President Donald Trump to abandon the path of war in Iran, Beijing has delivered a humiliating rebuff to the US move to sanction Chinese oil refineries. Also: ‛Ceasefire Served US’s Purpose in Iran War’.
‛The Pendulum Swings: The Slow Death of Europe’s Pro-Israel Consensus’; ‛Exit Ramps from the U.S.: New Coalitions of the Willing’: As allied confidence in U.S. commitments weakens, and as Trump signals that the lack of trust is mutual, governments are increasingly searching for alternatives.
‛Gangs and Climate Change, Born in the USA’; ‛New Gangsters for Capitalism’: While most of the world (and the media) is all too reasonably focused on the ever-evolving, increasingly disastrous conflicts in Iran and Lebanon, one shouldn’t forget US aggression in Latin America.
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