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Japan is currently wrestling with a coronavirus upsurge and less than 3 percent of the population is vaccinated. According to polls, as much as 80 percent of the country does not want to host the games, for fear of it exacerbating this omnipresent public health crisis.
One of the worst economic theories that has been forced upon poor countries is known as comparative advantage. This says that each country should specialise in what it can make, grow or do ‘best’. This theory is nothing but propaganda, to favour the developed countries.
China is the world’s second-largest economy and the world’s main industrial producer and exporter. How can we characterize the economic and social transformations that have marked China’s development over the past four decades?
There is a widespread belief that supporting “alternative energy” (AltE) allows everyone on Earth to pursue a lifestyle of endless consumerism. It avoids the real problem, which is capitalism’s uncontrollable drive for economic growth.
While conflict and war have written much of modern human history, they offer an incomplete narrative. Anthropological evidence suggests war is not innate to humanity. An interview with Doug P. Fry about his work studying peace systems and their potentially global implications.
It is imperative to ‘be unreasonable’ in a dark time! Not only does it keep hope alive in oneself, but it also inspires it in others, too. Despair may be contagious, but courage is much more so.
In Mexico, as transnational companies have seized control of the country’s agriculture, the loss of food sovereignty has induced catastrophic changes to the nation’s diet and many small-scale farmers lost their livelihoods. It should serve as a warning to India, as that is what the three farm laws will lead to.
Rice from the Food Corporation of India will be sold at a subsidy to private distilleries while India fares badly on hunger indicators.
Prices of basic sources of protein like meat, eggs, pulses, and cooking oils have zoomed up, as has the cost of cooking gas.
In 2018, PM Narendra Modi was awarded the United Nations ‘Champion of the Earth’ award. This, despite the fact that among the first things the Modi government set to work on after assuming office for the first time in 2014 was dismantling the laws that protect the environment.
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