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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
On Sept 20, 2001, President Bush declared a “war on terror”. It has meant a 20-year slide to defeat in Afghanistan, a proliferation of militant groups across the Middle East and Africa, and a world-spanning war that has killed about 300 times the number of people murdered in America on 9/11.
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.
As we come upon the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, it is tempting to give in to despair about collective White violence, impunity, and criminal activity yet again going unpunished. A study found a whopping 21 million Americans share the values of the insurrectionists.
For those who believe Africa was decolonized decades ago, it’s time to wake up from dream-world. With the help of groups like the CIA, Europe and USA covertly recolonized the continent, with bribes, murders, loans, privatizations and the installation of western-friendly regimes.
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.
2021 marked a historic year in labor organizing for workers in the US, with tens of thousands of workers partaking in union votes and strike actions.
The State Bank of India recently announced that it had entered into a partnership with Adani Capital. Like with all public-private partnerships under capitalism, the public sector will bear the risk while the private sector will share the rewards generated largely by the investment of public capital.
Not a day has gone by that the United States has not tried to overturn the Cuban Revolution, through the assassination of its leaders, invasions by proxy forces, preventing it from normal commercial and diplomatic relations, and encouraging social distress in the island to become a counterrevolutionary force.
Julian Assange and his organisation WikiLeaks published vital information received from whistle-blowers that chronicled U.S. war crimes and atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. This includes the horrifying video that showed U.S. military personnel killing Iraqi civilians.
A critique of the ideological justifications given by extremely rich people today to justify their obscene wealth.
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