Japan’s Dangerous, Immoral, Illegal, Radioactive Dumping – 2 Articles
“Japan’s Insane Immoral, Illegal Radioactive Dumping”. Also: “Is the Release of Radioactive Contaminated Water from the Fukushima Nuclear Site to the Sea Acceptable? Is it Safe?”
Drone Warfare: Killing in the Name of Precision – 2 Articles
The strategists and proponents of drone warfare promised a kind of war that would leave the 3D—“dull, dirty, and dangerous”—aspects of combat to machines. Instead, they have brought us to a point where despair, destruction, and disorder have emerged as the most tangible outcomes.
Petro’s Government One Year In
The election of Colombia’s first leftist president marked a fundamental shift in the country’s political landscape. Has Petro’s administration fulfilled its pledges one year into office?
Whither China?
This short exchange between Isabel Crook and Harry Magdoff that took place in end-2002 reflects the complex ways in which dedicated socialists sought to address changes in China and the clarity of the ideas expressed.
Segregated & Unequal: New Research Reveals How Public Services are Restricted, Denied to Muslims, Dalits in Ghettoised Localities
A study finds Indian Muslims to be systematically disadvantaged, less likely to have public schools, clinics, sewerage, water supply and closed drains than in non-Muslim areas, a misallocation of government services that is comparable to the current situation of blacks in the United States.
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The BRICS Have Changed the Balance of Forces; BRICS and India – Two Articles
“The BRICS Have Changed the Balance of Forces, But They Will Not by Themselves Change the World”; Also: “India, the Reluctant BRICS Traveller”.
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Who’s Afraid of Prigozhin and Wagner?
Without doubt, there is a congruence of interests between the Ukrainian intelligence and its western mentors to destroy Wagner and eliminate it from the geopolitical chessboard altogether.
Remembering Thomas Sankara – Two Articles
“Thomas Sankara Remains a Global Icon”; Also: “Speech by Thomas Sankara: ‘Imperialism Is the Arsonist of Our Forests and Savannas’”.
Independence Day Speech, 1957
“We have completed one journey of consolidating our freedom, the foundations of which were laid a hundred years ago by our people with their blood, sweat and tears… We have today to remember the lessons of unity, religious tolerance and fellow feeling taught by Mahatma Gandhi and other great sons of India and go forward in a united and determined manner.”
Shooting the Messenger: Adverse Health Trends Revealed in the NFHS (5) 2019-2021
In a bizarre development, the government has ‘suspended’ the director of the institute responsible for carrying out the periodic NFHS. The fifth report of the Survey, relating to 2019-21, showed substantial worsening of some health indicators for children and women in particular.