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  • | Bhagavad Gita | MR Online

    Dangers of teaching the Bhagavad Gita in educational curriculums

    Originally published: Countercurrents on March 18, 2022 by Bhabani Shankar Nayak (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Mar 19, 2022)

    The Hindu right wing forces are planning for a while to make the Bhagavad Gita as a national scripture and access to absolute state power is allowing them to fulfil their long-time dream.

  • | When Thousands Are Evicted Each Day in A Land of Fabled Riches | MR Online

    When thousands are evicted each day in a land of fabled riches

    Originally published: Countercurrents on January 2, 2022 by Bharat Dogra (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jan 06, 2022)

    Recently on December 15 Eli Saslow wrote a very important feature in The Washington Post on the daily routine life of an elderly police constable Lennie who has been charged with the responsibility of evicting those families or persons from their homes who have not been able to pay their rent.

  • | Bidens Summit for Democracy International NGOs express concern that Summit will ignore Indias descent to fascism | MR Online

    Biden’s Summit for Democracy: International NGOs express concern that Summit will ignore India’s descent to fascism

    Originally published: Countercurrents on December 8, 2021 (more by Countercurrents)  |

    Groups extend offer to Biden to provide input to help make the summit a success.

  • | American Flag | MR Online

    Should one stand up for Western values?

    Originally published: Countercurrents on November 2, 2021 by Kim Petersen (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Nov 04, 2021)

    What are western values? One often hears a representative of a western country praising its western values. In a 2017 statement Canada’s prime minister Justin Trudeau adumbrated Canadian values as “openness, compassion, equality, and inclusion.”

  • | Capitalism and Alienation | MR Online

    Capitalism and alienation

    Originally published: Countercurrents on August 2, 2021 (more by Countercurrents)  |

    Capitalism is deeply unjust. It is a system under which labour power has itself become a commodity and is bought and sold on the market like any other object of exchange

  • | Marx | MR Online

    Critique of the misunderstanding concerning Marx’s base-superstructure spatial metaphor

    Originally published: Countercurrents on June 15, 2021 by Carlos L. Garrido (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jun 24, 2021)

    I think Marx offers us blue and red for us to make purple, indubitably the most beautiful color keeping with Plato. In essence, both misunderstandings are partly correct–the economic foundation determines the superstructure, but the superstructure can also influence the economic foundation.

  • | Sexed SemenWhy the Technology of Producing Only Female Calves Should be Opposed Firmly | MR Online

    Sexed semen—Why the technology of producing only female calves should be opposed firmly

    Originally published: Countercurrents on April 29, 2021 by Bharat Dogra (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted May 01, 2021)

    There is a fast increasing trend in cattle breeding towards sex semen technology which will result in birth of only female calves. 90 per cent success in ensuring success (in terms of having only female calves) is claimed by promoters of this technology.

  • | Military Spending | MR Online

    Amidst pandemic and economic sufferings, 2020’s global military spending reached highest level in decades

    Originally published: Countercurrents on April 27, 2021 by CounterCurrents Collective (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted May 01, 2021)

    In 2020, nations were struggling to support their economies through the times of hardships and lockdowns caused by the pandemic. Those efforts apparently did not prevent governments from spending more money on their militaries than ever before in more than three decades, the report said.

  • | The Pandemic Half a million lives lost in US more than the two World Wars and Vietnam War combined | MR Online

    The Pandemic: Half a million lives lost in U.S., more than the two World Wars and Vietnam War combined

    Originally published: Countercurrents on February 23, 2021 by Countercurrents Collective (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Feb 26, 2021)

    Over half a million people have died of coronavirus in the U.S. Grasping the enormity–half a million people gone–is difficult to visualize.

  • | The Dying Planet | MR Online

    The Dying Planet Report 2020

    Originally published: Countercurrents on September 23, 2020 by Robert Hunziker (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Sep 24, 2020)

    The report, released September 10th, describes how the over-exploitation of ecological resources by humanity from 1970 to 2016 has contributed to a 68% plunge in wild vertebrate populations, inclusive of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish.

  • | Britain Robbed India Of $45 Trillion Thence 18 Billion Indians Died From Deprivation | MR Online

    Britain robbed India of $45 trillion & Thence 1.8 billion Indians died from deprivation

    Originally published: Countercurrents on December 28, 2018 by Dr Gideon Polya (more by Countercurrents)  | (Posted Jan 15, 2019)

    Eminent Indian economist Professor Utsa Patnaik (Jawaharlal Nehru University) has estimated that Britain robbed India of $45 trillion between 1765 and 1938, however it is estimated that if India had remained free with 24% of world GDP as in 1700 then its cumulative GDP would have been $232 trillion greater (1700-2003) and $44 trillion greater (1700-1950).

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Struggle between the Future and the Past: Where Is Cuba Going?
    Editor | Cuban Flag Museum of the Revolution Havana Cuba 2012 | MR Online

    I have 2 favourite sayings. One draws upon the dialogue in Shakespeare’s Henry the VI part 2 when Jack Cade envisions that the effect of his plot will be that “all the realm shall be in common.” To this, comrade Dick responds, “the first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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