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  • | Image Courtesy Left Word | MR Online

    Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly, and the Rent Economy

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on September 9, 2023 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    Never before has society had the ability it does today to bring together different communities and resources in order to produce new knowledge. It is social, universal labour, and its private appropriation as intellectual property under capitalism stands in the way of liberating the enormous power of the collective to generate new knowledge and benefit people.

  • | Robert Oppenheimer | MR Online

    Oppenheimer Paradox: Power of science, weakness of scientists

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on July 29, 2023 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    The bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 heralded the atomic age and ushered in the military-industrial complex that took over the United States.

  • | Rape and revenge rape have become tools used to dishonour and diminish targeted communities especially during ethnic conflicts | MR Online

    Inexcusable Inaction: Manipur’s horrific video exposes sexual violence, Govt failure

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on July 20, 2023 by Aritry Das (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Jul 21, 2023)

    The police only swung to action after a video of the savage incident of two Kuki women being paraded naked on May 4 went viral and sparked political outrage.

  • | How a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions | MR Online

    How a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on May 23, 2023 by Alistair Walsh (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted May 25, 2023)

    Under current climate change policies, billions will face life-threatening heat. But a global network of heat officers are tackling the problem in their own cities.

  • | Courtesy Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Charles III coronation reminds of Britain’s bloody history of genocide, slavery, and loot

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on May 15, 2023 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    The coronation ceremony and centuries of plunder by the British Empire cannot be seen in isolation.

  • | Representational Image Image Courtesy Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    Biggest threat from Ukraine war: Last Nuclear Agreement suspended

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on March 5, 2023 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    War rarely stays within the boundaries set or desired for it. That makes returning to arms control crucial for the survival of humanity.

  • | Long COVID | MR Online

    One out of 10 SARS-CoV-2-infected people suffers Long COVID: Study

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on January 18, 2023 by Sandipan Talukdar (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Feb 23, 2023)

    Long COVID symptoms may include severe fatigue, brain impairment as well as nervous system dysfunction, nausea and shortness of breath.

  • | Representational use onlyImage Courtesy Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    ‘We’ve never been closer to nuclear catastrophe’: Activist Helen Caldicott

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on February 9, 2023 by Steve Taylor (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Feb 10, 2023)

    Australian anti-war and environmental activist Dr. Helen Caldicott warns that policymakers who understate the danger of nuclear weapons don’t have the public’s best interest at heart.

  • | Armageddon | MR Online

    Diplomatic cables prove top U.S. Officials knew they were crossing Russia’s red lines on NATO expansion

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on February 4, 2023 by Branko Marcetic (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Feb 06, 2023)

    U.S. officials were told that pushing for Ukrainian membership in NATO would not only increase the chance of Russian meddling in the country but also risked destabilising the divided nation.

  • | Representational use onlyImage CourtesyMaxpixel | MR Online

    Media in the digital age

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on January 2, 2023 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    The dramatic changes in the technology of mass communications should be brought in line with the larger goals of humanity and a more humane society.

  • | Image Courtesy ScienceOrg | MR Online

    Nuclear Bomb connection in United States fusion breakthrough

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on December 23, 2022 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    Neither clean energy nor lower temperatures, the latest scientific breakthrough is about testing the condition of the nuclear stockpiles of the United States.

  • | Climate Change | MR Online

    Climate change: Co-extinction will cause loss of a quarter of species by 2100, says study

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on December 19, 2022 by Sandipan Talukdar (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Dec 20, 2022)

    In a recent study published in Science, scientists analysed how the co-extinction of species accelerates the overall loss of biodiversity and predicted possible loss.

  • | Kim Petras | MR Online

    Kim Petras: How the trans artist made history

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on November 9, 2022 by Stefan Dege (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Nov 10, 2022)

    The first transgender singer to go number one in the U.S., German-born Kim Petras endured long rites of passage in her homeland before finding her voice abroad.

  • | Ambedkar Buddhism and Dalit Liberation | MR Online

    Ambedkar, Buddhism and Dalit liberation

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on October 15, 2022 by Ram Puniyani (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Oct 24, 2022)

    Events of the last few days indicate AAP and BJP worship Ambedkar purely for electoral gains and not from commitment to his ideas.

  • | Earth Is Burning | MR Online

    ‘Dangerous heat waves’ to be more frequent and more sustained in near future

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on August 31, 2022 by Sandipan Talukdar (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Sep 02, 2022)

    Dangerous heat waves to hit three times more often than today; tropical regions including India likely to face extreme heat conditions almost daily by the end of this century.

  • | Representational image | MR Online

    Record heat waves sweeping both Poles of Earth, climate scientists warn of danger

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on March 22, 2022 by Sandipan Talukdar (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Mar 23, 2022)

    While the world is concerned about climate change and almost irreversible global warming, the polar region is specifically important owing to their sensitive climatic conditions.

  • | Aijaz Ahmad 1941 2022 | MR Online

    The life of a great Marxist: Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022)

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on March 10, 2022 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) died at home on March 9, surrounded by his books and papers, and by the warmth of his children and his friends.

  • | President Joe Biden | MR Online

    Biden dials back belligerence toward Russia

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on February 14, 2022 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    The White House readout on Biden’s call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky is a marked departure from the U.S. pronouncements lately.

  • | Love Story | MR Online

    Not just a love story?

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on November 9, 2021 by Anish Tore (more by NewsClick.in)  | (Posted Nov 11, 2021)

    Sekhar Kammula’s new film deftly highlights the contradictions of living in neo-liberal India.

  • | Julian Assange | MR Online

    Why Julian Assange’s inhumane prosecution imperils justice for us all

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on November 2, 2021 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    The damage done to the Wikileaks co-founder in his decade of incarceration and uncertainty, including more than two years in Belmarsh is beyond doubt. But so, too, is his courage beyond doubt.

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