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The COP26 global climate summit marks a critical juncture in the struggle to avoid climate catastrophe. Prof Chomsky talks on the roots of our current dire predicament and on humanity’s prospects for emerging from this crisis into a livable future.
The Kalash Yatras, which started from Lakhimpur Kheri on October 12, are in progress in several states of India. In response to rail roko call by SKM on Oct 18, thousands of farmers squat on rail tracks, affecting over 290 trains across states.
While agricultural output is said to be doing well, that does not mean those who work in agriculture, i.e., peasants and agricultural labourers, are doing well. As a larger number of people desperately looked for ways to earn a living, the income per person working in agriculture actually declined.
Union defence minister Rajnath Singh recently claimed that Savarkar had written mercy pleas to the British government on Mahatma Gandhi’s advice. Rajmohan Gandhi, the well-known historian and the Mahatma’s grandson, sets the record straight on this claim. Full transcript of interview.
Separating electricity from the wires that transmit is a crazy dream of a few market fundamentalists. The Modi government is attempting this failed policy again, and state-owned distribution companies and consumers will suffer.
Amartya Sen in ‘Poverty and Famines’ attributes starvation to many other variables rather than just a decline in availability of food. He uses the failure of exchange entitlements to study famines. We can apply this theory to explain the hunger crisis in India.
2 articles: Profits Before People: The Facebook Papers Expose Tech Giant Greed; and: Internal Documents Show Facebook Wavered in Checking Misinformation, Hate Speech in India: Report.
A survey of what Afghanistan looked like when “global Britain” first showed up on the streets of Kabul, and the nearly two centuries since, could help clear up some muddled thinking about Afghanistan today.
In order for AfricanBlack people in one part of the Horn of Africa to be free, we need the entire region and, frankly, all African peoples to be united. As Pan-Africanists, HOA PALS understands that we have a responsibility to each other as African Black people.
As the pandemic continues to devastate America’s poorest, coalitions of unhoused people are finding inspiration in the powerful history of homeless organizing.
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