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A CNN report quoted an unnamed US official as saying Russia’s retaliation for western sanctions has put the West in “unchartered territory”. Suffice to say, Blinken’s call underscores the desperate urgency in Washington to open a line of communication to Moscow at the political level.
Numerous Western political leaders and media outlets have blamed the Sri Lankan crisis on a supposed Chinese “debt trap”. In reality, the vast majority of the South Asian nation’s foreign debt is owed to the West.
The Pentagon is just one element in an ever more costly American national security state. Adding other military, intelligence, and internal-security expenditures to the Pentagon’s budget brings the total upcoming “national security” budget to a mind-boggling $1.4 trillion.
Today, NATO has bases or relationships with almost all African countries, all controlled by the US empire for the purpose of full spectrum dominance, driven by the ferocious appetites of corporate capital.
George Floyd was murdered two years ago today. It set off a massive uprising that changed a generation. While the movement didn’t stop the police killing of Black people, a whole generation was deeply changed by the protests.
One must wonder how one can call themselves ‘pro-life’ if they oppose abortion but support every war the United States engages in, wherein innocent men, women and children are slaughtered, having done committed no ‘crime’, except to be born in the country the U.S. invades.
In this recent interview, Jacques Baud speaks about what is now happening in Ukraine, and the enthusiastic warmongering that still persists in the West.
Sending Ukraine a $300 million shipment of powerful M-777 howitzers is a lobbying triumph for BAE Systems, one of the many war industry corporations fattening on the death and destruction of the Ukraine war.
The wilfulness, arrogance and irresponsibility of the six US Supreme Court judges, who voted to limit the authority of the EPA to issue rules stopping or limiting the release into the air of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are rapidly heating the planet, is staggering.
The U.S. is a “highly unusual society, in many ways,” says Noam Chomsky in this interview about the economic and political organization of the U.S. polity and the shockingly reactionary rulings of the Supreme Court on guns and abortion.
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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