What’s Wrong with a 30-Hour Work Week?
There is something problematic with advocating a 30-hour work week at the beginning of the 21st century: a 30 hour week is not short enough!
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Capitalism | Economy | Imperialism | Latin America | Online Blog | People's movements | Socialism | USA | World Economy | World Politics
21st Century US Coups and Attempted Coups in Latin America
During the 21st century, the US rulers have turned to a new coup strategy, relying on soft coups, a significant change from the notoriously brutal military hard coups in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and other countries in the 1970s. A list of 27 US-backed coups in the first 21 years of this century.
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Capitalism | Economy | Print Edition | USA
Corporate Power Is What Drives Inflation
The biggest culprit for rising prices that’s not being talked about is the increasing economic concentration of the American economy in the hands of a relative few giant big corporations with the power to raise prices.
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Capitalism | Economy | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Nuclear Weapons and World Order: a Dialogue
The world is more dangerous than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the battlelines between the nuclear weapons states and governmental and civil society anti-nuclearism has never been more definitively drawn. A dialogue between two renowned anti-nuclear activists.
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Capitalism | Economy | Gender Issues | India | Print Edition
World Inequality Report: India Stands Out as a Very Unequal Country
According to the World Inequality Report 2022, the levels of wealth and income inequalities in India are among the worst that prevail in the leading countries of the world.
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How ‘Big Oil’ Works the System and Keeps Winning
Despite countless investigations, lawsuits, social shaming, and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable. It has made consuming its products seem like a human necessity, confused the public about climate science, and repeatedly out-maneuvered regulatory efforts.
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NFHS-5 Results Now Available: What Do They Tell Us
The NFHS-5 data shows an increase in severe wasting in children under five; The more alarming thing is the 8 percentage points’ rise in the fraction of children suffering from anaemia; What NFHS-5 Data Tells Us About Indian Women’s Use of Period Products.
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Privatisation of Two PSUs Counter to the Prime Minister’s Atmanirbhar Effort
The proposed privatisation of two CPSUs, namely, Central Electronics Ltd. (CEL) and Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. (BEML), runs counter to the Atma Nirbhar idea, whose intention is to build self-reliance in the different sectors of the economy.
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India Wants a ‘Blue Revolution’. What Do India’s Fishers Want?
In a deep-dive investigation, Supriya Vohra takes a closer look at how the fortunes of India’s small-scale fishers have declined – and who is responsible.
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Capitalism | Economy | Indian Economy | Online Blog | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Digital Currency: Fog Beyond the Hype
What are digital and cryptocurrencies? Why is there so much hype about this new form of digital money? Will it threaten the hegemony of paper money? A detailed explainer in the context of recent policy explorations in India on a Central Bank Digital Currency.
