Tag Archive: Asia/India

Chomsky and Prashad: Why Neoliberal Leaders Who Failed to Protect Their Countries From COVID-19 Must Be Investigated

Released for Syndication: 01/21/2021

Warnings that the oxygen supply was running out in the city of Manaus, Brazil, came to local and federal government officials a week before...

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Why Are People Going Hungry in India Despite a Massive Grain Surplus?

Released for Syndication: 01/12/2021

Editor’s Note: Since late November, braving the bitter cold, hundreds of thousands of farmers have set up protest camps at various points on the...

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Chomsky and Prashad: Three Major Threats to Life on Earth That We Must Address in 2021

Released for Syndication: 01/05/2021

Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence...

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Millions of India’s Farmers Are in a Fight for Their Economic Lives

Released for Syndication: 12/18/2020

India’s Hindu fundamentalist government has pushed through a deregulatory agenda for years. Now it has taken on farmers who have nothing left to lose and who are refusing to back down.

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India Can Already Afford a Welfare State—It Just Needs to Tax Its Wealthiest Citizens

Released for Syndication: 12/17/2020

Two taxes—inheritance and wealth—alone, levied only on the top 1 percent of the population, would be $196 billion and finance a welfare state in India.

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Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times

Released for Syndication: 12/11/2020

On this bicentenary of Friedrich Engels, we need to understand the struggle of ideas he was engaged in during his lifetime, and what significance it holds today.

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The World’s Biggest Trading Bloc Does Not Include the United States

Released for Syndication: 11/25/2020

On November 15, 15 Asian and Pacific countries signed an agreement known as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) that unites 30 percent of...

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How the Privatization of Medicine in India Is Accelerating Its COVID-19 Death Toll

Released for Syndication: 11/24/2020

Health care profiteering in COVID times.

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Why Biden Will Keep the U.S.-Imposed Cold War Rolling

Released for Syndication: 11/17/2020

Much will certainly change in the world of U.S. foreign policy when Joe Biden enters the White House. There will be a more measured...

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Why Google Is Facing Serious Accusations of Monopoly Practices

Released for Syndication: 11/05/2020

The tech monopolies are increasingly being acknowledged as a danger to people, other companies, and even to democracy. The regulatory worm seems to be turning in many countries, even in the U.S. where it had gone into hibernation.

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