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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Both the strengths and limitations of early post-independence policies in Africa offer a wealth of lessons for today’s struggles for control over Africa’s resources. The clarity in that period around the importance of African state control over natural resources offers a path forward for contemporary efforts.
A flagship commune in Venezuela responds to the US blockade by diversifying its production.
Unlike in the 1930s, now it is globalised capital, with which domestic big business is integrated, confronting the nation-State.
While a handful of companies control almost everything the Western world consumes in regard to media, a report by the Swiss Propaganda Research center says that all these media companies are tied to a single organization—the Council on Foreign Relations.
Spyware like Pegasus is not just dangerous as it wrests complete control over an infected phone. It is menacing also because it introduces the skills and knowledge of nation-states into the civilian sphere.
Cuban government officials and activists have reiterated their demand for an end to the blockade imposed by the US which over six decades has cost Cuba $147.8 billion in damages.
For members of ‘nou pap Dòmi’, a collective within Haiti’s petroChallengers movement, the anti-corruption struggle is a space to imagine the kind of society they seek to create.
Capital’s absolute disregard for life once again surfaces in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, where 52 workers have been burnt to death on 9 July 2021, after they were denied exit when fire broke out in the food-processing factory which had almost no fire-safety mechanisms installed.
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.
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.
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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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