The Kisans are Right. Their Land Is at Stake – Part 2
The international context of why the Indian government and corporate houses are pushing to seize control of farmers’ lands.
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Oxfam Report Shows Combined Pandemic Wealth of Richest 10 People Could Pay to Vaccinate Entire World
The world’s ten richest men, says an Oxfam report, have seen their combined wealth increase by half a trillion dollars since the pandemic began—more than enough to pay for a COVID-19 vaccine for everyone and to ensure no one is pushed into poverty by the pandemic.
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The Consequences of Inequality Can Be Fatal
Capitalism, as Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows, relentlessly worsens wealth and income inequalities. Unequal economic distributions finance unequal political, social, cultural and “natural” outcomes.
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Germany Draws Another Line in the Sand for the U.S.
By giving the goahead for the completion of the Nord Stream 2 AG project, Germany has signalled that it will not yield to pressure from Washington in their dispute over the pipeline project even after the transfer of power in the U.S. in January.
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2021: A Crucial Year for Nicaragua
2021 is a crucial year for Nicaragua, with national elections due in November. With Biden coming to power, will the US administration continue its attempts to sabotage the elections? And can Nicaragua once again defend its sovereignty against US and other foreign interference?
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The Climate Crisis Keeps Getting Worse – And It Is Doing So at an Accelerating Rate: Four Articles
Top scientists warn of ‘ghastly future of mass extinction’ and climate disruption; New study shows Earth now warmer than any time in last 12,000 years; Global ice melt accelerating at record rate; Florida professor predicts Amazon rainforest collapse by 2064.
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Why India Must Oppose Dumping of Radioactive Water from Fukushima into the Pacific
Next year, the operator of the tsunami-hit Fukushima nuclear plant would start releasing radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean. Several nations are up in arms against it, but Indian authorities are silent. A discussion about what is at stake for people and the environment.
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Capitalism | China | Economy | Online Blog | World Economy | World Politics
China Cherishes Hanoi’s Nay to ‘Quad’
Vietnam has not bowed to American pressure to join the Quad. The result is that China and Vietnam’s economic relations have steadily prospered, and China is today Vietnam’s largest trading partner and the latter is China’s sixth biggest trading partner.
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Fascism | Online Blog | USA | World Economy | World Politics
On the Anniversary of His Death, Theodore W. Allen’s Analysis Still Resonates
“White supremacy” wrote Allen, is “both the keystone and the Achilles heel of U.S. bourgeois democracy.”
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The Geo-Politics of EU-China Investment Deal
The EU-China investment deal is as much rooted in China’s own urge to expand as in the EU’s own growing search for its own place, independent of the USA.
