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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Why is much modern food of inferior quality? Why is health suffering and smallholder farmers being forced out of agriculture? Mainly because of the likes of Larry Fink of BlackRock – the world’s biggest asset management firm – and the economic system they profit from and promote.
The emergence in our time of a New Cold War has naturally raised the question of whether the Old Cold War ever actually ended—or, from today’s perspective, how the New Cold War reemerged out of the embers of the Old.
A look at the Venezuelan communes — a key force in an extended process of national liberation and social emancipation.
Everything that was criticised about the USSR, including the worst mistakes and unresolved problems of ‘real socialism’, are today the constant in the society we live in, magnified and multiplied many times over by the degeneration of the modern neoliberal capitalist world.
The Los Angeles Times reports that U.S. government to attempts to restore democracy suffered a “spectacular failure” in Venezuela. What it considers a “democratic” setback consisted of failing to impose unknown US security asset Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s president!
Data suggests that US dollar reserves in central banks are dwindling, as is the influence of the US on the world economy. This presents a unique opportunity for regional currencies and alternative payment systems to enter the vacuum.
Israel is putting together an aggressively racist rightwing government under the leadership of the unprincipled Benjamin Netanyahu. It is a logical outcome of a national point of view—represented by Israel’s Zionist state ideology—which has always been fundamentally racist.
Once the producer of 90% of the world’s soybeans, China today has become the world’s biggest importer. This change is the result of manipulation of soybean production, supply and marketing chain by multinational food magnates.
If only we could see ourselves just as human beings in all the richness that term describes. We are all part of the human community. We contain multitudes, as Walt Whitman said.
The far right continues to grow in Europe, with extremist parties gaining ground in Italy, France and Sweden.
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