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The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020 – at a rate of $14 million per hour – while nearly five billion people have been made poorer, reveals a new Oxfam report on inequality and global corporate power.
‘Genocide in Gaza’; ‘International Court of Justice Hears Devastating Presentation of Israeli Genocide in Gaza’; ‘Why We Have to Make the Jewish Ghetto Comparison’.
There is no back door or side door that will lead to peace between the Arab World and Israel that does not lead through Palestine.
Argentina’s new president Javier Milei proposes to use U.S. dollars as the currency of his country, while abolishing its central bank altogether. This means not just maintaining a fixed exchange rate between the dollar and the domestic currency, but an abolition of the domestic currency altogether.
By mid-year 2023, the UNHCR put the number of refugees at 36.4 million worldwide. This figure doesn’t include the people fleeing war and other systemic and climate violence, called “internally displaced persons” – UNHCR puts their number at 62.2 million in its mid-2023 report.
Concentrated wealth and power are undermining democracy. Here’s what Joe Biden ought to be saying and doing about it.
January 11 marks the 22nd anniversary of the founding of the prison component of the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Cuba. Guantánamo has been universally condemned by every human rights group in the world, as well as by the United Nations, and most countries in the world.
The outcome of US-led conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia will have a profound impact on the developing world order. Washington has already lost the former, and its major adversaries are vested in making sure it loses the latter too. Also: ‘How Yemen Is Blocking US Hegemony in West Asia’.
Today’s global conflicts – whether in Eastern Europe, West Asia, or East Asia – are spawned by a fading US hegemon desperately clinging to power.
The people of Ecuador recently voted in a referendum to halt oil exploitation in the Yasuní National Park in the Amazon and prohibit mining in the Chocó Andino region in the Andes. An interview with one of the people at the heart of the Sí Al Yasuní campaign, Kichwa activist Leo Cerda.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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