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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
If the world, and the USA, are to implement their plans for a green energy future, Washington and Beijing have no option but to cooperate. Otherwise, they can revert to the oil wars of the past. On an already overheating planet, that would lead to a civilizational fate worse than death.
Twenty-two years ago, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was subjected to 78 straight days of bombardment from NATO. This crime of 1999 has indeed haunted not only Europe but the world ever since it was perpetrated; what is seemingly past is really both prologue and precedent.
The African continent – home to the cradle of human civilization, 55 disparate nations, more than 1 billion people and the most genetic and cultural diversity on the planet – is the single largest information black hole in the Canadian press (and dominant world press) today.
Even at the very peak of Martin Luther King Jr.’s popularity, the mass protests that King led and inspired “didn’t come anywhere close” to the massive racial justice protests that have erupted over this past year, says Noam Chomsky.
To understand the roots of the current escalation, one must examine the U.S.-backed, foundational Israeli government policy of using strategies of “terror and expulsion” in an effort to expand its territory by killing and displacing Palestinians, says Noam Chomsky.
The historic Food Systems Summit being organised by the United Nations later this year has been co-opted by corporate interests who are pushing towards a highly industrialized style of agriculture promoted by supporters of the Green Revolution.
Imran Khan’s government came to power in 2018 promising to reorient Pakistan’s economy toward the needs of the population. But faced with a debt crisis it soon dropped its reformist agenda — and now, the IMF is pressuring it to place its State Bank permanently beyond democratic control.
What is ultimately missing in the Western media’s critiques of China and elsewhere is objectivity. The raping of the planet, the massive inequality and so on, is being carried out by all sides – China, Russia, the EU, and the US.
Why does the West, supposedly a global promoter of democracy, support Saudi Arabia, a monarchy? The answer lies in a historical process whereby Saudi Arabia was propped up by major powers as an outpost of imperialist interests and a bulwark against revolutionary ideologies.
Like all previous economic systems in recorded history, capitalism is on track to repeat the same three-step trip: birth, evolution, and death. The timing and other specifics of each system’s trip differ. U.S. capitalism too has reached and passed its peak.
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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