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‘What the Forbes’s 40th Annual World’s Billionaires List Reveals About Our World?’; ‘“A System Rigged”: Untaxed Wealth of Richest 0.1% Is More Than Assets of World’s Poorest Half’; ‘It’s Time to Tax the Rich’.
‘Washington Wants Out. Iran Isn’t Opening the Door’: Eleven days into Operation Epic Fury, Washington faces a problem it created for itself: how to exit a war it cannot win. Also: ‘Mojtaba’s Message to Trump: “Bring It On!”’; and: ‘Iran-US Conflict Turns into Prolonged Attrition’.
As we bid farewell to the holy month of Ramadan, however, something of Ramadan has survived. The small act of gathering and praying side by side in tiny tent mosques, the unamplified calls to prayer, and the laughter we still manage when someone loses their balance on the uneven floors, make this holy month worth living and are a reminder of the spirit of the people of Gaza.
‘Falling in Love Again: The Extraordinary Politics of Alexandra Kollontai – Book Review’: Kollontai’s writings on women’s oppression and their struggle for liberation are as clarifying and brilliantly relevant today as they have always been. Also: ‘The Right’s War on Women’.
‘Invisible Hands, Unrecognized Labour: India’s Domestic Workers and the Limits of Women’s Empowerment’; ‘Women Without Work: Capitalism, Care Labour and India’s Failed Growth Model’: India has one of the lowest female labour force participation rates among major economies.
The Prime Minister went to Jerusalem for partnership gains, leaving the country’s plural memory and Palestinian solidarity behind. Days later, Israel and the US struck Iran. India’s West Asia balancing act may never be the same.
Simply put, the US exposed the present Indian ruling elite as frauds and comprador elements—basically, cowards and cynics. At one point, when Trump’s theatrics reached the high noon, he even boasted he could “end” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political career.
Strategic petroleum reserves not very comfortable, Modi government’s surrender of energy choices to the US, and not passing on savings from cheaper Russian oil, mixing ethanol or low prices between 2014-2022, has cost Indian people dearly already. Also, extract from: ‘Modi: “India Stands with Israel” – Iran Briefing’.
The bogey of ‘forced’ conversion and the introduction of anti-conversion laws (strangely called ‘Freedom of Religion’) are part of a well-oiled strategy of the ‘Sangh Parivar’. These laws are blatantly unconstitutional. On 5 March, Maharashtra became the 13th state to enact such a law.
‘Hollowing Out the Uniform of the Armed Forces’: The risk is not that military officers are religious, but that the institutions they man are beginning to look religiously positioned. Also: ‘Military Veterans Express Concern Over Serving Officers Publicly Associating with Godmen, Religious Events’.
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