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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The first decades of the 21st century have been a gilded age for the world’s super-rich. While the mass of humanity has struggled through successive economic crises, accelerating environmental breakdown and now a devastating global pandemic, billionaire wealth has risen to dizzying heights.
The climate movement can challenge the capitalist system that threatens to destroy the conditions for life and civilisation on this planet only in international cooperation with the workers’ struggle, the women’s struggle, the fight against racism, and other movements.
The Department of Consumer Affairs has called for comments on an amended version of the Consumer Protection (E-Commerce) Rules, 2020. While the intent here seems to be to protect privacy and prevent unfair competition, another objective seems to be surveillance.
Villagers living in the Uttar Pradesh sugar belt bear the brunt of poorly implemented environmental regulations and water scarcity
The industrial unit, into which Vedanta will pump in an estimated Rs 10,000 crore in phases, is being set up despite opposition from local residents and members of the civil society over its environmental impacts; there are also problems in the way land for the project was allotted.
Warming-induced changes in the Himalaya-Karakoram region will impact water availability in the Indus, Ganga and Brahmaputra basins. Farming, hydropower and megacities such as Delhi & Lahore will face the brunt.
Previously solid ground is quickly degrading. The melting of the permafrost is about to cause huge damage to buildings and infrastructure across the country, Russia’s natural resource minister warns. Also: Rapidly Thawing Permafrost Threatens Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
With the expanded unemployment rate at 43.2%, its highest level ever, it would be foolish to label everyone who participated in the “Free Zuma” protests and took food from major supermarkets as “irrational and criminal”.
Cuban government officials and activists have reiterated their demand for an end to the blockade imposed by the US which over six decades has cost Cuba $147.8 billion in damages.
Until we pressure lawmakers to repeal that 2001 AUMF and end the forever conflicts that have gone with it, America’s wars will ensure that our democracy and the rule of law as we know it will make any promises of peace, self-defense, and justice ring hollow.
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