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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Mega-corporations are all set to walk away with the keys to global governance of food and agriculture at the UN Food Systems Summit later this year. Pat Mooney talks about what is at stake and The Long Food Movement counterstrategy.
Neoliberalism has yielded specific forms of state intervention to discipline and normalize the surplus population and to regulate social insecurity – workfare, debtfare, and prisonfare. They have also enormously benefited the growth and profitability of Big Tech.
India began to align with the anti-Iran regional front that Trump was sponsoring, involving Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and with Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy against China. With Trump losing the election, and Biden deciding to engage with Iran, India is getting sidelined in the region.
US efforts to extradite Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab to the USA raises dangerous precedents in terms of extraterritorial judicial abuse, violation of diplomatic status, and even the use of torture to extract false confessions.
The reason for the Indian govt’s abysmal failure to tackle the second Covid wave lies in the fact that the Indian Republic – built as it is on the edifice of the British colonial state – is designed to work only on behalf of a tiny minority of Indians, leaving the vast majority to fend for themselves.
The US is a mere passive bystander while the two powerhouses in the Gulf – Saudi Arabia and Iran – are drawing close. One of them is Washington’s client state for almost 80 years while the other is an archetypal enemy for the past 40 years.
If the world, and the USA, are to implement their plans for a green energy future, Washington and Beijing have no option but to cooperate. Otherwise, they can revert to the oil wars of the past. On an already overheating planet, that would lead to a civilizational fate worse than death.
A discussion of the evolution of the share possessed by the richest 10 percent and 1 percent between late 18th century to 2010, based on evidence gathered by Thomas Piketty.
The historic China-Iran agreement signed on March 27 in Tehran during the visit of China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is going to affect geopolitics hugely. The West Asian region is all about geopolitics — starting from oil and jihad to petrodollars.
Women’s participation in the workforce has hugely declined over the period 2004-05 to 2018-19. The work participation rate (WPR) of women in the 15-59 age group has declined by 19.2 percent over this period, and there is a nearly 50 percentage point gap between males and female WPRs.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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