72 Mass Shootings in 46 Days in the United States: What are the Causes?
Violence on this scale has to be treated as a social and not an individual phenomenon. The society has itself become toxic and hazardous.
Documents Reveal Niti Aayog Pushed Govt to Privatise PDS, Slash Free Food Coverage, Subsidies; Also: 79% Indians Food Insecure
Niti Aayog has been the strongest opponent of expanding food security programmes. It has repeatedly sought to pare down and radically overhaul the public food distribution system, which gives subsidised rations. Also: 79% of Indian Households Experienced ‘Food Insecurity’ in 2021, Shows Survey.
Davos 2023: Capitalist Rulers Incapable of Resolving Global Crises
Davos is where the lords of transnational capital and their agents gather to hammer out annually how they are to maintain and expand their rule. This year, uncertainty over their ability to manage the crisis, maintain control, restabilize global capitalism was on full display.
How Car Economics Explains India’s Higher-Growth-Higher-Inequality Paradigm
The official poor count then stands at 62.5% of Indian households or 813.5 million Indians. At the same time, in January 2023, luxury car makers announced historic high sales of their luxury brands in 2022.
Three Workers Die Every Day in Indian Factories, Govt Data Show
India reported 1,109 deaths and more than 4,000 injuries in registered factories, on average, each year between 2017 and 2020. The largely informal economy and underreporting of incidents even in the formal economy mean these figures are huge underestimates, say experts.
Nikhil Dey on Budget Cuts to MGNREGA; Also: Does the Govt Want it to Become a Rotten Apple
The allocation has come down from Rs 1.11 lakh crore in FY’21 to Rs 60,000 crore for FY’24. The govt is destroying MGNREGA, to create a vulnerable population that could become modern forms of bonded labourers or, worse, enslaved people in a neoliberal economy.
Pakistan’s Economy on Verge of ‘Collapse’ as IMF Visits – 3 articles
Pakistan is gripped by a major economic crisis, with the rupee plummeting, inflation soaring and energy in short supply as International Monetary Fund officials visit to discuss a vital cash injection.
Ladakh Crisis: How Sonam Wangchuk Exposed Cracks in BJP’s Strategy for the UT
With no legislature, land and jobs even after three years of being a UT, many Ladakhis feel cheated and betrayed.
When the People Have Nothing More to Eat, They Will Eat the Rich
The insurrection in Brasília emerged from the same dynamic that produced the coup in Peru: wherein ‘centrist’ political forces are funded and brought to power in the Global South to ensure that their own citizens remain at the rear of the queue, while the wealthy tax-free bondholders of the Global North remain at the front.
While You Count Hours, They Count Billions
The richest 1% of the world now own nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together. These so-called ‘elite’ super-rich accumulated, or to be more precise, looted, nearly two-thirds of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020.