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For sure, there is a waft of fresh, soft scents in the air. US Defence Secretary Austin broke the ice on Thursday in consultation with British Defence Secretary Wallace and with Biden’s approval. And Russia voted for a US resolution imposing sanctions against yet another country in the Global South.
Past annual Global Rights Index reports issued by the International Trade Union Confederation have invariably shown that there is no country on Earth that fully protects workers’ rights and the 2022 edition is not only not an exception but finds that repression of labor organizing is increasing.
92% of the climate catastrophe engulfing the planet is caused by Global North, backed by the massive imperial army of NATO, that overthrows governments and brutally sanctions entire peoples who refuse to bow down. The climate movement in the Global North needs to realise this and embrace a path of international solidarity.
The empirical evidence is just not there for the ‘trickle-down’ theory or the Laffer curve.
“Culture has been and remains an essential element to deeply understand the meaning of the social project we are building,” says Cuba’s Minister of Culture, Alpidio Alonso Grau, in this interview.
Events of the last few days indicate AAP and BJP worship Ambedkar purely for electoral gains and not from commitment to his ideas.
As Rahul Gandhi strides (or sprints) forward to keep his tryst with Nehruvian and Gandhian ideals of pluralist, democratic India, he is rapidly evolving into the kind of leader who is feared by the Sangh Parivar; Also – A public health physician’s diary of a day-and-a-half on the long march of Rahul Gandhi.
Data from the NCRB on farmers’ suicides, when compared with data collected from the ground by the Punjab Agricultural University, shows a severe undercounting of the phenomenon in the country.
The World Bank’s latest poverty estimate delivers shocking news: India added a whopping 79% of new extreme poor to the world population in 2020. In absolute numbers, it says, the global population of extreme poor grew by 71 million and India added 56 million to this.
The imposition of Hindi is not only an insidious form of establishing cultural hegemony over non-Hindi-speaking states but also an attack on the federal nature of the Indian state. Also: “Kerala Against Hindi Imposition; Terms Recommendations Attack on Federalism and Diversity of Nation”.
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