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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The fact that there are people profiting from mass slaughter has been expunged from our political consciousness. Not even the most lucid and disenchanted commentator would dare affirm, as Anatole France did in 1922, that ‘We think we are dying for our country; we are dying for the industrialists’.
The difference between the West and the Rest is not because of the spirit of discovery and its discovery of reason and, therefore, science. Instead, it is the story of loot, slavery and genocide. The British Crown is a reminder of its continuity, just like its 700 years-old coronation ceremony.
While outright expropriation, or robbery, is always present in capitalism, as an external basis of its existence, the inner dynamic of the system arises from the exploitation of labor power, a more hidden form of robbery.
The giant pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson has recently proposed paying $ 8.9 billion to settle thousands of legal cases relating to severe health problems including ovarian cancer being caused by its talcum powder products in North America.
Raising taxes on the rich, whether through the corporate profit tax or through a wealth tax, should be the obvious way of raising resources to finance government expenditure. But both Biden administration and the Republicans leave out this alternative in the current debate on US debt ceiling.
The prospect of the Chinese economy being a growth locomotive to lift the rest of the world from looming depression is virtually nil at this point. The massive BRI is mired in massive loans to countries unable to service the debt. Attempts to boost domestic China growth by relying on a consumer boom are also presently doomed.
‘Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island’ is the title of a newly-released documentary feature film directed, written and produced by award-winning filmmaker Heidi Hutner. It brilliantly connects the proverbial dots of the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant disaster.
A brief exploration of the life, times and legacy of one of the most distinguished cultural figures of modern Africa – the Senegalese trade unionist, writer and filmmaker, Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007), whose birth centenary is being observed this year.
The BJP’s defeat has proved that Modi can be beaten if influential regional leaders espouse fundamental issues of people.
‘I hate the idea of men taking women for granted and thinking they can get away with anything. It is time we all got together and put an end to this,’ says a supporter at Jantar Mantar.
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