Author: Dilip

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Gordon Brown: A new Covid variant is no surprise when rich countries are hoarding vaccines

Despite the repeated warnings of health leaders, our failure to put vaccines into the arms of people in the developing world is now coming back to haunt us. We were forewarned – and yet here we are. In the absence of mass vaccination, Covid is not only spreading uninhibited among unprotected people but is mutating,… Read More Gordon Brown: A new Covid variant is no surprise when rich countries are hoarding vaccines

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Aryaman Jain, Irina Cheema – Farmers’ Movement in India: A Moment for Collective Introspection / Gallery: One Year of Kisan Andolan

With the Narendra Modi government, the American empire finally has at India’s helm, a reliable handyman unperturbed by factors such as the sufferings of common people. What previous governments since 1991 had failed to deliver… Modi has delivered with decisiveness. Since 2014, the government has dutifully gone about following the diktats of a fraudulent ranking… Read More Aryaman Jain, Irina Cheema – Farmers’ Movement in India: A Moment for Collective Introspection / Gallery: One Year of Kisan Andolan

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Winners of the 2021 Historical Photographer of the Year contest

This annual contest recognizes photos of some of the world’s most historic spots. Click through to see the rest of 2021’s acclaimed images. Entries were judged on “originality, composition and technical proficiency” as well as the context of the image and the story behind it. The year’s overall winner was Steve Liddiard’s image of Wales’ Whiteford… Read More Winners of the 2021 Historical Photographer of the Year contest

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RAJARAMAN SUNDARESAN: How Odisha Government Kept The Public Out Of A Public Hearing For A Bauxite Mine

How is this a public hearing? Who are they hearing? The police or the barbed wires they have put to keep us out?   See video “In Mali Parbat we grow ice, mandia, kaangu (millets), harvest roots, tubers. Because of its mountain streams, our paddy ripens, our millets ripen.  We are able to collect firewood and produce to take… Read More RAJARAMAN SUNDARESAN: How Odisha Government Kept The Public Out Of A Public Hearing For A Bauxite Mine

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BRAD REED: The walls appear to be "rapidly closing in" on Donald Trump / Chris Hedges – America’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy

Investigators are ramping up criminal probes into former President Donald Trump, and two legal experts argue that Trump may not even be able to count on his few remaining lawyers to help him. Writing in the Washington Post, legal experts Donald Ayer and Norm Eisen argue that Trump’s decades-long evasion of legal accountability may now finally be coming to… Read More BRAD REED: The walls appear to be "rapidly closing in" on Donald Trump / Chris Hedges – America’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy

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संयुक्त किसान मोर्चा : श्री नरेंद्र मोदी, प्रधानमंत्री, भारत सरकार – राष्ट्र के नाम आपका संदेश और आपके नाम किसानों का संदेश

21 नवंबर 2021 श्री नरेंद्र मोदी, प्रधानमंत्री, भारत सरकार, नई दिल्ली.  *विषय: राष्ट्र के नाम आपका संदेश और आपके नाम किसानों का संदेश* प्रधानमंत्री जी, देश के करोड़ों किसानों ने 19 नवंबर 2021 की सुबह राष्ट्र के नाम आपका संदेश सुना। हमने गौर किया कि 11 राउंड वार्ता के बाद आपने द्विपक्षीय समाधान की बजाय एकतरफा घोषणा… Read More संयुक्त किसान मोर्चा : श्री नरेंद्र मोदी, प्रधानमंत्री, भारत सरकार – राष्ट्र के नाम आपका संदेश और आपके नाम किसानों का संदेश

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Bharat Bhushan – 'Entire political science' lesson: Peoples' power trumps people in power

The farmers’ greatest weapon against the police and its ideological militia was non-violence    Prime Minister Modi, who was unbeatable in Parliament – and used his party’s brute majority to push through the farm laws without proper debate–has been subdued in the street by peoples’ power. The Central government’s climb-down on the three controversial farm… Read More Bharat Bhushan – 'Entire political science' lesson: Peoples' power trumps people in power

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P. Sainath: Farmers win on many fronts, media fails on all / रवि आजाद BKU HARYANA | Kisan Ekta Morcha

The edits invariably ended on the appeal: but do not withdraw these laws, they’re really good. Did any of these publications once tell their readers – on the standoff between farmers and corporates – that Mukesh Ambani’s personal wealth of 84.5 billion dollars was closing in fast on the GSDP of the state of Punjab… Read More P. Sainath: Farmers win on many fronts, media fails on all / रवि आजाद BKU HARYANA | Kisan Ekta Morcha

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