After Covid-19, What Can India Learn from the Universal Healthcare Systems of its Neighbours?
There are lessons to be had from Nepal, Bangladesh and the Maldives about providing free access to medical treatment.
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COVID19 | India | Online Blog
Rising Food Prices: Not Because of Ukraine War, But Due to Market Speculation; and Control Over Supplies by Global Food Giants – 2 Articles
A report has found that rising prices of foodgrains are not because of demand and supply imbalance, but because of excessive speculation by investment firms and funds in the commodities markets. Another article says: Global food giants like Cargill have made a killing due to the rising food prices.
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The Poor at the Crossroads
More than half a century after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death, his message remains tragically relevant in our seemingly never-ending pandemic-ridden moment, still rife with racism, economic exploitation, and militarism.
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Lula Launches Presidential Pre-candidacy
On May 7, Lula announced his candidacy for the presidential elections to take place in Brazil in October this year. A transcript of this speech before a jubilant crowd of thousands of union workers and social movement activists, at the launch of the ‘Let’s go together for Brazil’ movement.
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Capitalism | China | COVID19 | Online Blog
Finance Capital Demands an End to Shanghai’s Lockdown and China’s Zero-COVID Policy
Financial Times, the leading international business newspaper, has in a statement denounced lockdowns and all other public health measures that impinge on the production of profits but have saved millions of lives in China.
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The COVID-19 Impact on Women in India: Increased Material and Physical Violence
The period of the Covid-19 pandemic has witnessed a dramatic worsening of the conditions of ordinary women and girls, made worse by official apathy and patriarchal attitudes of those in power.
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The Keep Africa Poor and Dependent Project
The chain of suppression and exploitation of African nations is long, running from slavery and colonialism (including colonial extraction) to wealth and climate inequality, racial capitalism and now Covid vaccine apartheid.
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Save Lives, Socialise Big Pharma
As the potential antibiotic crisis gets worse, the solution is a nationalized pharmaceutical industry fully under public control. Under such a system, money from profitable drugs could simply be channeled to less profitable things like vaccines, antibiotics, and neglected tropical diseases.
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India’s COVID-19 Deaths 6-7 Times Higher Than Official Figures: Analysis
India’s cumulative COVID-19 deaths were six to seven times higher than reported officially, according to a recent analysis published in the Science journal on January 7, 2022.
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Economic Survey 2021-22: Glossing Over Travails of a Pandemic-Hit Economy
The Economic Survey, in keeping with the trend in recent years, paints a rosy picture of the economy, while sidestepping issues that are of concern to most Indians, still suffering in the wake of the pandemic. In keeping with the recent trend, it showers more management-style jargon.
