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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
While the Pentagon has committed to transitioning to biofuels for all its trucks, ships and aircraft, its plan to reduce emissions ignores the Pentagon’s continuing role in the annihilation of whales, in spite of the miraculous role that large cetaceans have played in delaying climate catastrophe and maintaining healthy marine ecosystems.
Letter signed by some of the world’s leading intellectuals calling upon the Biden administration to immediately end its cruel and inhumane policies towards Afghanistan, lift sanctions, unfreeze Afghanistan’s foreign assets, and increase humanitarian aid.
If we continue to wage the “war on evil” that George W. Bush began, we will continue to be part of that evil. Think about the millions of Afghans facing starvation in their shattered country, then imagine the consequences coming home.
The notorious prison camp in Cuba is 20 years old. Over the years, several plans to close it have been rejected. For the detainees, little has changed in the last two decades.
Martin Luther King’s speech, “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence”, is a detailed analysis of the politics of colonialism and the cruel absurdity of war, as well as a deep plunge into the human future, pulsating with complex sanity and more relevant than ever 50-plus years later.
The United States claims it is operating under a “rules-based order”—but the term is not the same international law recognized by the rest of the world. Rather, it is camouflage behind which American exceptionalism flourishes.
The continued construction and deployment of killer robots is not inevitable. Indeed, a majority of the world would like to see them prohibited, including U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
What we have heard about chemical waste dumping is only the tip of the iceberg of the amounts of wastes already buried or dumped into rivers, lakes, seas and oceans in violation of the law or with the consent of local and national authorities.
The Modi government is going to come under immense pressure in the coming days to move into the Western camp on the burning issues of Ukraine and NATO’s further expansion, which would “change the world,” as President Biden framed the paradigm in stark historical terms last week.
What crime could the journalist Assange have committed that would warrant confinement for the past nearly 10 years? His organization Wikileaks published millions of leaked documents that pointed to gross violations of human rights during the U.S.’ numerous wars abroad.
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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