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A recently published report ‘Merchants of Poison: How Monsanto Sold the World on a Toxic Pesticide’ tells a story going back to 2012 about how pesticide and processed food companies spent $45 million to defeat a ballot initiative to label GMOs (genetically modified foods) in California.
Timor-Leste represents a new case in the dawn of the twenty-first century on how the IMF imposed a top-down neoliberal macroeconomic infrastructure and reform project from scratch.
There is not a single case of China pressuring countries to take unsustainable loans; nor does China use national assets as collateral. In fact, China’s loan conditions are typically far less onerous than those of the West.
Mahatma Gandhi consistently maintained that India ought to be a Republic. Dr BR Ambedkar and Nehru carried forward the Republican sentiment, which is confronting an existential crisis today on account of majoritarianism, growing inequality and criminalising of dissent.
PM Modi has stressed that India will use its full capacities to address humanity’s biggest crises, including climate, terrorism and pandemics. The question is: will our actions match our stated intentions? What does India’s recent past and present tell us?
The sharp and apparently intriguing fall in industrial production in October, and feeble post-Covid recovery, points to a deep-rooted malaise in the Indian economy.
There is a growing need to discuss the constitutional immunity to reservations that the private sector has enjoyed, even as it has deepened caste cleavages in India.
The increasing misuse of ED as an instrument of power is borne out by a steep 95% rise in its actions since Modi came to power. The central probe agencies are being used to engineer defections from Opposition parties like never before.
Surely, the Centre doesn’t know; had that not been the case, it wouldn’t be giving multiple sets of data, all of which contradict each other.
A recent report from Oxfam points the finger at the wealthiest individuals for causing climate change through their individual carbon footprints as well as their investments in polluting industries. But what is missing from this report is that the system of capitalism is the root cause.
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