Hunger Will Kill Us Before Coronavirus
UN’s World Food Programme has warned that the numbers of people who lived with acute hunger around the world would double due to COVID-19 by the end of 2020 ‘unless swift action is taken’.
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Big Data and the Science of Manipulating the Masses
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.”
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Biggest Banks on Wall Street Laundering Money for Criminals – Two Articles
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has once again managed to do what federal bank regulators refuse to do in the United States – come clean with the American people about dirty Wall Street banks.
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How Adani Will Become India’s Largest Private Airport Operator
The Adani group, led by the country’s second-richest man, Gautam Adani––whose proximity to PM Modi is common knowledge––is all set to become the largest private operator of airports.
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Indian Government vs International Capital: The Vodafone Case – Two Articles
Though the Indian state pretends to be very powerful when it comes to hapless citizens and acts most arbitrarily against them, it has little leverage against international capital. And yet the Indian government is handing over control of almost all the strategic sectors to international capital.
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Steamrolling Farm Bill, Labour Bill and Other Legislations: Denigration of Parliament, Office Of Presiding Officer and Federal Structure
The unseemly haste through which the three Farm Bills and same numbers of labour bills were passed has fateful implications for parliamentary democracy and federalism.
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New Wings for Socialism
What was missing in the old efforts to build a new socialist society was forgetting that along with building new material foundations, it is necessary to build new human beings; those early attempts tried to fly with things that only looked like wings.
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The Scientist as Rebel in the Indian Cultural Milieu
The dynastic blood relation as a prop for personal advancement is a fundamental theme of our cultural ethos, and it stifles original research and thinking in India.
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Arundhati Roy: Rebel With a Cause
In a world of conformists and cowards, Roy’s courage inspires and kindles hope.
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On Dr. Ambedkar’s Conversion
This is what the former CM of Tamil Nadu wrote while welcoming Dr Ambedkar’s decision to convert to Buddhism.
