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Failing to remove the Essential Commodities Act through the farm laws due to the farmers’ agitation, the Modi Government is now adopting a different strategy. The FCI is contracting out food grain storage to private companies – Adani Agri Logistics Ltd and Leap India Food & Logistics Private Limited.
After a decade-long gap, India turned back to long-term coal power contracts in 2024. Some states tailored the tender conditions. The Adani Group won big.
‛Elon Musk Is Now a Trillionaire. How Much Is a Trillion Really?’; ‛Elon Musk and the Politics of Trillionaire Fascism’: Elon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue, exploitation into spectacle, and mistakes its own deepest failures for its greatest successes.
‛While Slashing Food Aid and Healthcare, GOP Advances Trillion-Dollar Military Budget’; ‛The Real Budget of the U.S. MilitaryIs Far Larger Than Reported’; ‛More Americans Are Hungry in the Face of Federal Cuts, Rising Grocery Prices’; ‛More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits’; ‛Nearly Half of Adults Struggled to Afford Healthcare Last Year’; ‛More Than 5 Million People Have Lost Health Coverage Under Trump-GOP Law’.
‛The Lithium Frontier: Empire, Oligarchs, and the Struggle for the Salt Flats of the Andes’; ‛Lithium Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A New Mineral Rush Spearheaded by the United States, Europe, and Other Major Powers’.
The path offered by the IMF to Senegal’s debt crisis promises stability, but results in perpetual stagnation. The alternatives outlined in this article are more politically demanding, and more confrontational. But they open the possibility of a different trajectory: one in which development, rather than debt repayment, becomes the organising principle of economic policy.
The Cockroach Janta Party is now the voice of the resentment felt by Indian youth not only toward the incompetence, and even corruption, of those in power (which manifests itself in repeated exam leak scandals), but also and above all toward unemployment. Also, extract from: ‛We Are Cockroaches, We Outlived Dinosaurs’.
‛The Continued Asphyxiation of India’s Public Health Budgets’: 50% of India’s citizens remain at the mercy of markets when it comes to healthcare, even as the Indian government remains far behind its goal to commit 2.5% of GDP to public health by 2025. Also: ‛Crushed by Cost’.
‛The Ruin of Cotton Farmers: Who Stands to Gain?’; ‛India’s Cotton Tariff Removal Reflects the Hollowness of Modi’s Austerity Push’: The textile ministry’s removal of the 11% cotton import tariff, amid US diplomatic pressures and Marco Rubio’s visit, risks domestic farm prices while making the industry dependent on foreign imports.
‛Mad Rush for AI/ Data Centres in India: At What Social Cost?’: Data centres are known to be big guzzlers of water and electricity. 200 GW of data center capacity will annually consume 1,200 Twh of electricity and more than 1000 million cubic meters of water. Also: ‛The Hidden Water Cost of AI in a Thirsty India’.
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