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In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein presents a searing account of how disasters were used as cover to steamroll market fundamentalism by authoritarian regimes in Chile and Argentina, among others. A parallel – with some variants – of this can be seen in what the Modi regime is doing in India.
Besides thousands of lives lost, working people are faced with a dark future as earnings dwindle and a hostile government tries to crush their voices. Also: Press Statement by Joint Platform of India’s Trade Unions – Covid 19 Crises & Govt’s Anti-People Policies.
Sharing spurious information about the Covid-defeating powers of gaumutra, mental vibrations, or neem toothpaste is a profoundly un-Hindu, un-Indian, and unethical act. Also article: UP Govt Orders Help Desks, Medical Equipment for Cows in Each District.
A forum of scientific advisers set up by the government warned Indian officials in early March 2021 of a new and more contagious variant of the coronavirus taking hold in the country; despite the warning, the Modi government did not take forceful steps to stop the spread of the virus.
No construction is allowed in Delhi’s lockdown unless workers live on site. But 180 vehicles have been given permission to bring workers to the Central Vista.
To pretend this is the only form of distraction available to keep people’s minds off the nightmare they’re living is quite unscrupulous.
In the tradition of proletarian internationalism, working women and farmers from Tanzania express their solidarity with the women farmers of India who have been engaged in struggle for the last several months against pro-corporate farming bills of the Modi-led government.
In response to a request by the Indian government, Twitter has withheld from public view around 50 tweets in India, a good chunk of which criticised the manner in which the Narendra Modi government has handled the COVID-19 pandemic. Also an extract from an article in The Wire.
Humanity’s transgression of ecological limits has caused widespread damage, including a climate emergency. Earth abuse is also at the root of the Covid-19 pandemic and the grim likelihood that new pathogens will continue to emerge from other animal species to infect humans.
As rich nations stockpile COVID-19 vaccines, China is providing a lifeline to Global South nations spurned by Western pharmaceuticals and excluded by the West’s neocolonial vaccine nationalism. The vaccines being developed by Cuba will also soon be available to the poor countries.
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