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Bachchan said: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, let us discover more of that which is impossible and then do it. Let us bring down the barriers that have blinded our view of the horizons.’ Also: Comment by Apoorvanand: “For Speaking an Unpleasant Truth, Will Amitabh Bachchan Now be Called an Enemy of the People?”
The quiet, unstated strength of the people flow out of the millions of incarnations of Mother India.
Since the first reservation implemented by the Maharaja of Kolhapur to the days of independence, quota in education and public services has been a mechanism to alleviate social degradation, not poverty.
It is going to have disastrous consequences for the crores of policy holders of the LIC; it is also going to adversely affect the Indian economy.
The insurrection in Brasília emerged from the same dynamic that produced the coup in Peru: wherein ‘centrist’ political forces are funded and brought to power in the Global South to ensure that their own citizens remain at the rear of the queue, while the wealthy tax-free bondholders of the Global North remain at the front.
The richest 1% of the world now own nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together. These so-called ‘elite’ super-rich accumulated, or to be more precise, looted, nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020.
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.
In 1967, Martin Luther King publicly denounced not only the US war in Vietnam but the militarism that enabled the war and undermined American society. King’s sermon, delivered on April 4, 1967, was both powerful and prophetic. Its meaning and value exist today as much as they did 55 years ago.
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.
Joan Roelofs’ new book The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States, starts with an important question: “Why is there so much acceptance and so little protest against our government’s illegal and immoral wars and other military operations?”
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