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Review of Vincent Bevins’ book, ‘The Jakarta Method: Washington’s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World’. The CIA called the massacre “one of the ghastliest and most concentrated bloodlettings of current times.”
The IMF recently forecast a severe slowdown in global growth along with soaring prices. A recent paper argues that U.S. military spending, the scale of the United States in global consumption, the role of the Wall Street-Dollar-IMF regime, and other factors play a key role in this crisis.
While supporters argue that the IMF package will help boost foreign exchange reserves and benefit the economy, people from low-income groups say they believe that the package will create more hardships.
The Gotabaya Rajapaksa government’s culpability can be said to lie in steering the country into the clutches of neo-liberalism, though it may not have had a choice.
Degrowth and ecosocialism are two of the most important movements—and proposals—on the radical side of the ecological spectrum. This article seeks to map the large areas of agreement between the two, and lists some of the main arguments for an ecosocialist degrowth.
Discussion with physician Rupa Marya about Deep medicine, which is “a way of understanding how social structures are making us sick and working to redesign those structures—as opposed to shallow medicine, which always points at the cause and the locus of suffering inside one person or one individual.”
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”.
With national elections approaching in the Philippines on May 9, there has been a rise in human rights abuses, and so the need for international solidarity is more pressing. A report by a US activist who visited Philippines in solidarity with the democratic movement there.
The Sri Lankan government is all set to enter into an agreement with the IMF. This article discusses its consequences for the people.
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate on the growing labor movement in the United States following two major victories at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island and a Starbucks roastery in New York City.
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Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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