India:
Largest Strike in World History : Over 200 Million Workers and Farmers
Protest against Poverty and Unemployment Triggered by Covid Lockdown
The
general strike occurred in the context of the devastation brought about
by the coronavirus pandemic in India. Added to this are the millions of
people who have lost income and who now face increased poverty and
hunger, in a country where even before the pandemic 50 percent of all
children suffered malnourishment.
Some
are newly aware that the misguided over-reach mandating face masks,
social distancing and a limit on gatherings have done nothing to reduce
the spread of Covid and that compliance with mandatory face masks is
only a beginning stage for what the future holds.
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Washington’s
China bashing started with Obama through his Asia Pivot policy,
reinforced by Trump and Biden might go even further than Trump. So far,
China bashing does not seem to be beneficial to Washington. Even in the
long run, there is no guarantee that it will bring any positive results.
In fact, it will hurt not only the economies of the two rivals but also
the global economy.
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On
December 1, 2020, the ex-Pfizer head of respiratory research Dr.
Michael Yeadon and the lung specialist and former head of the public
health department Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg filed an application with the EMA,
the European Medicine Agency responsible for EU-wide drug approval, for
the immediate suspension of all SARS CoV 2 vaccine studies.
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The
United States of America has been a world power for almost a century.
This century saw the highest level of technological progress but it was
also the most brutal century in terms of wars, human deaths and
suffering.
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French protesters
clashed with police in Paris and other cities including Marseille,
Lyon, Rennes and Nantes yesterday as tens of thousands took to the
streets in further mass demonstrations against an authoritarian new
security law.
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The
US under both right wings of the one-party state is waging a long war
on Russia by other means — and all other nations unwilling to bow and
scape to its imperial demands. US aggression includes endless smashing
of Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and at times Iraq.
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Paranoia,
disregard for evidence and over-the-top rhetoric to encourage hate. And
I’m not talking about Donald Trump’s Republicans. Progressive Canadian
should counter a wave of McCarthyite Sinophobia sweeping this country’s
politics.
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The
way the federal government can kill death row prisoners will soon be
expanded to ghoulish methods that include hanging, the electric chair,
gas chamber and the firing squad. Set to take effect on Christmas Eve,
the new regulations authorizing an alternative to lethal injections
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In
1997, Don DeLillo, the author of seventeen novels, published what many
consider his masterpiece, Underworld. It was a prophetic book in many
ways, especially with its focus on the World Trade Towers and the way
the book’s cover, front and back, pictured the towers shrouded in smoke
or clouds with what seemed like a large bird approaching it at its upper
floors.
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