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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The conference ended with a disheartening “compromise” deal on the climate. In this interview, leading intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin offer their assessments of what transpired at COP26 and share their views about ways to go forward with the fight against the climate crisis.
Supported by America and other foreign forces, including elements within United Nations agencies, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front are attempting to overthrow the democratically elected Government of Ethiopia and regain power.
Pakistan is one of the 52 countries facing severe debt crisis. The most critical problem faced by the country’s economy is repayment and servicing of external debt. Persistent borrowing creates a spiral with more borrowing generating an impending economic crisis.
Next week, Barbados will remove the British Queen as its head of state. Many young Barbadians are not content with the simple tokenism of having a Barbadian head of state. They believe it is the time to begin a process of deeper social reform and write a new constitution.
The World Health Assembly Special Session in November will be considering the benefits of developing a new international instrument on pandemic preparedness and response. Rich countries are using the opportunity to sideline discussions on equity in public health.
US Security state media has generated an avalanche of propaganda about the imminent collapse of the Ethiopian state this week. Black Agenda Report talks to Abraham Wodaje Kebede, an Ethiopian software engineer who lives in Seattle and frequently travels to Ethiopia.
There is an all-round realisation amongst the key protagonists – China, Uzbekistan and Pakistan –that regional connectivity and long-term peace and stability in Afghanistan are interlinked.
There are many foreign news channels who propagate that the corona pandemic has been spreading in China in recent times. But that is because the Chinese use the words “resurgence of covid” even when there are only a few Covid cases in China. The Chinese are following a zero tolerance policy.
The job of socialists is to engage with public policy from a class perspective, informed by a socialist understanding of contemporary capitalism—not to reform it, but to abolish it.
As part of the Vietnam War, US military sprayed more than 20 million gallons of herbicide on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia – the campaign destroyed five millions acres of forest and untold millions of acres of crops (including rice). It continues to impact these countries till today.
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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