Why Farmers are Protesting Electricity Amendment Bill, 2020
If passed, this bill is likely to add a Rs.1,00,000 crore additional burden on farmers and raise their cost of irrigation by 500%.
Farmworkers’ Strike Forces Peruvian Congress to Repeal Agrarian Law
After five days of strikes and roadblocks by rural workers, Peru’s Congress forced to repeal the pro-corporate Agrarian Promotion Laws.
Cuba Leads Latin America Towards Affordable Covid-19 Vaccines
The mainstream media is completely silent about the most promising source of Covid-19 vaccines for the Global South – Cuba.
The Most Lethal Virus Is Not COVID. It Is War
In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times, with millions of surgical procedures delayed due to underfunding of the National Health Service, the British Prime Minister has announced a record increase in defence spending.
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Hunger in America: Covid-19 and the Nightmare of Food Insecurity
Behind all the pandemic stories now filling the media lie any number of nightmarish tales, that were already common in a country of raging inequality before the coronavirus landed on US shores.
Want Vaccines Fast? Suspend Intellectual Property Rights
India and South Africa have called upon the WTO to grant a waiver to patent laws allowing countries to produce generic versions of any coronavirus vaccines and Covid-19 treatments. This would benefit not just the poor countries, but the rich ones too.
Covid-19 Impact: Will Impact 29 Crore Children in India
Education is a human right, legally guaranteed in India for all children without any discrimination. Shockingly, Covid-19 has adversely impacted the education of 290 million children.
Urgent Measures Needed to Rescue the Indian Health System; Health Status Is Shocking
The pandemic has unravelled India’s broken health care system and we must implement urgent reforms to fix it.
The Mystery Behind the Aarogya Setu App
The creation of an exclusive, State-driven, contact tracing enhancer for smartphone users in India during Covid times has multiple faults. The primary one is that there is considerable mystery about where the data is being stored and to what extent it is protected.
Want to Avoid Pandemics? Eliminate Factory Farming
Packing huge numbers of animals together in confined quarters is what gave birth to earlier pandemics like H1N1, HIN5, SARS-CoV-1 and now SARS-CoV-2. It will go on happening, so long as industrial farms continue to exist.