Wednesday, 27 November , 2024

India

Old hatreds fuel online misinformation about COVID-19 in South Asia

By Kamya Yadav, Isra Thange, Julia Ilhardt, Samikshya Siwakoti, Jacob N. Shapiro November 25, 2020 photo: Credit: ChocolateLr18. CC BY-SA 4.0. Since COVID-19 spread to South Asia,...

Massive state repression of protesters in West Bengal demanding jobs and...

The call to mobilization given by left students and youth organizations had also expressed its support for the ongoing farmers agitation against the pro-corporate...

COVID-19 Vaccine Developers Ask the SEC to Help Keep the Secret...

By Julia Rock 2/1/21 When the U.S. government awarded over $10 billion in contracts and advance- purchase commitments to drug companies working on COVID-19...

Venezuela: Oil Corporations Lobby Biden Administration for Sanctions Reversal

A removal of the ban on swap deals could boost Venezuela’s oil production and ease fuel shortages. Mérida, January 28, 2021 (venezuelanalysis.com) - US oil...

India’s defiant farmers resist attempts to evict them from protest site

The police and local authorities attempted to evict thousands of farmers from a protest site in Ghazipur on Thursday. However, the attempt has strengthened...

Yogi Adityanath, le moine-ministre qui effraie l’Inde progressiste

January 25, 2021 Il y a quelques semaines, plusieurs observateurs s’étonnaient de la manière dont s’est déroulée la visite d’Emmanuel Lenain, ambassadeur français à New...

Remembering Jan Myrdal, Who Stubbornly Refused to Change Ideological Leanings

Remembering Jan Myrdal, Who Stubbornly Refused to Change Ideological Leanings Bz Rajesh Joshi Nov. 27, 2020 When Swedish writer and Marxist intellectual Jan Myrdal died last month...

India: Farmers Hold Tractors-Rally on Republic Day

They seek to draw the government's attention towards their demand of repealing the three farm laws. To demonstrate their rejection of three pro-market laws, farmers are...

Neocon Plans for the West in 2021

We Need a Global Alliance to Defend Democracies by Richard Kemp December 31, 2020 Under a Biden administration, many will be mindful of the Obama-era...

Indian court suspends new agriculture laws after mass protests

Judges order committee to look into grievances, but unions vow further demonstrations until laws repealed Βy Hannah Ellis-Petersen Tue 12 Jan 2021 photo: Nandhukumar / pixabay India’s supreme...