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Foolish exclusions: China and the Bletchley Declaration on AI
At the conclusion of the Second World War, debates raged on how best to regulate the destructive power of the atom.
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The utter absurdity of BJP Govt’s take on unemployment
While handing over tax concessions to capitalists to ‘promote employment’, the Centre is not spending to fill the large number of government vacancies, or on MGNREGS.
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Mass walkouts by garment workers in Bangladesh
The cost-of-living crisis on top of the extreme exploitative conditions of the garment industry has erupted into a major outbreak of workers’ unrest, reports John Clarke.
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CITU asks Centre to not send Indian workers to Israel
The Israeli Builders Association plan to hire 50,000-100,000 Indian workers to replace 90,000 Palestinian workers who lost their work permits.
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Western Left and the U.S.-China contradiction
Significant segments of the non-Communist Western Left see the developing contradiction between the United States and China in terms of an inter-imperialist rivalry.
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Israel told U.S. it is modeling Gaza attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
“It became evident to U.S. officials that Israeli leaders believed mass civilian casualties were an acceptable price in the military campaign,” The New York Times reported on Monday.
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NYT has done great disservice to press freedom: Roy Singham on NewsClick funding row
I reject the allegation of fraudulent infusion of funds through a “complex web of several entities”, as mentioned in the Delhi Police FIR and in the New York Times article, says the American millionaire.
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U.S. opposes peace as Israel ethnically cleanses Palestinians, waging war on ‘entire nation’ of Gaza
Israel is ethnically cleansing Palestinians, trying to force them out of Gaza into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The U.S. and EU support Netanyahu’s scorched-earth war on the “entire nation”, and the State Department ordered diplomats not to call for peace, de-escalation, or a ceasefire.
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The globalisation of McCarthyism
The central government’s hounding of Newsclick reminds one of the children’s story about a tiger and a goat drinking water from the same stream.
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A reading list for the Delhi police from Tricontinental Research Services
On 3 October, the homes and offices of over one hundred journalists and researchers across India were raided by the Delhi Police, which is under the jurisdiction of the country’s Ministry of Home Affairs.
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How could a BRICS+ bank and settlement currency work? Economist Michael Hudson explains
Economist Michael Hudson details how BRICS could create a mutual settlement currency for payment imbalances among central banks and build an alternative to the financialized neoliberal model of the dollar/NATO bloc.
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Humor in the headlines over China in Latin America
Apparently in a grave threat to U.S. national security, the president of Honduras attended a state banquet and actually ate Chinese food. What’s next for the country the ‘Post’ affectionately describes as “long among the most docile of U.S. regional partners?”
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Agencies that promote nuclear power are quietly managing its disaster narrative
Let’s start with the total amount of radiation that the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant STILL contains today. The spent fuel at the site contains 85 times more cesium-137 than Chornobyl and 50,000 to 100,000 times more than the Hiroshima bomb.
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International uproar following mass raids and arrest of Indian journalists
There has been an outpouring of solidarity following the raid and arrest of journalists in India, who have been targeted as a result of baseless accusations published in the New York Times.
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Experiments with truth, India: Truth and dare in Bhima Koregaon
The Bhima Koregaon–Elgar Parishad ‘Maoist’ conspiracy case is a grand experiment with truth where the State is daring the people to stand up for justice.
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Statement by Newsclick on Oct 3 raids by Special Cell of Delhi Police
We have not been provided FIR copy, or informed about the exact particulars of the alleged offences. Electronic devices have been seized from Newsclick premises and homes of employees without any adherence to due process.
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Indian police raid major Left news website, detain journalists, based on New York Times article attacking left activists
Delhi police on Tuesday raided the offices of news media company NewsClick. The news media house has been under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from China.
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Destroying forests for profits: India
THE Modi government, ever solicitous of corporate interests, has launched a plan whereby real estate developers and other corporates will be allowed to destroy large swathes of India’s forest cover for starting projects that rake in profits. It is amending the Forest Conservation Act to remove those forest patches that are not deemed as such by the government from protection under the Act.
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“This fight is Global”: Workers around the World are standing with striking U.S. autoworkers
From Brazil and Mexico to South Africa and Malaysia, international labor solidarity is aiding the UAW’s fight to reverse the global race to the bottom.
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War of economic corridors: the India-Mideast-Europe ploy
The India-Middle East-Europe transportation corridor may be the talk of the town, but it will likely go the way of the last three Asia-to-Europe connectivity projects touted by the west-to the dustbin. Here’s why.