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• Putting all eggs in the same basket: Crisis of Non Covid Health in Rural India during Covid -19 Pandemic | Atanu Sengupta, and Asish Kumar Pal

  11 July

  The rural poor people are suffering from so many problems due to prolonged lockdown for combating the spread of current coronavirus pandemic. Along with economic crisis they are deprived from health services from public sector. The middle income group and richer people also are in trouble for out break of the covid -19. They confess to be in fear in case of emergency patients of the families. In this time the government has moved to emphasize on covid related treatment such as testing, isolating and research and development on covid patients. In our daily lives there are so many non covid related diseases that have taken a backseat. The vulnerable households who are unable to take the scope of private medical treatment due to poor economic condition are in most deplorable condition now. WHO has already warned that this neglect in general health can become fatal. This paper attempts to show all the rural households including several type of patients have faced so many difficulties from this crisis. We have also focused in this paper the comparative situation between rich and poor. This study wants to say the people are afraid of death by not being infected of covid positive but non covid related health problems which are not adequately available in rural India.

• A Letter to Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Chairman, Executive Board, World Health Organization | Anil Chamadia

  11 July

  I am writing this open letter regarding a major concern and a possible solution to it. The “HV” (Human Value) Pledge. This a possible suggestion regarding our Coronavirus warriors who, due to circulation of fake news on their mobile devices are not able to fulfill their duty in a free and fair manner.

• Giving Marx to our leaders

  11 July, by T J S George
  IMPRESSIONS
  July 5, 2020
  Karl Marx summed up a complete philosophy when he set forth the precept, ’From each according to his ability?’ This was not communism. It was simply the acceptance of a guiding principle of life, that every  (...)

• Revisiting the concepts of Panopticon and Synopticon: An inquiry into naturalisation of totalitarian surveillance in the name of covid19 pandemic | Gopal Krishna

  11 July
  by Gopal Krishna
  Introduction 
  Both ideas and ideologies have decisive killing effect.Derived from two Greek words which means "all-seeing", the original idea of panopticon was that of a prison conceived and designed to ensure perfect  (...)

• Devoid of morality Indian media crawling before rulers | Arun Srivastava

  11 July

  Integrity and credibility of the media has degenerated to such an extent that now the police, not the judiciary, will issue its firman (diktat) whether it has the right and enjoys the privilege guaranteed by the constitution to criticise the government and question its action.

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  Alarming Increase in Lightning Deaths in Bihar | Bharat Dogra

  11 July
  Between June 25 and July 4 as many as 120 persons died in Bihar due to lightning strikes. In addition there were several other deaths due to the same cause during the same period in neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh. Several others were injured  (...)

• Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian lands are under greater threat in Brazil during COVID-19 | Elielson Pereira da Silva, Diana Cordoba

  11 July

  The far right-wing government of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil has used the COVID-19 pandemic as a smokescreen to undo environmental regulations and undermine the territorial rights of Indigenous Peoples and traditional Afro-Brazilian communities in the Amazon.

• Rogue States Sanction the International Criminal Court | Richard Falk

  11 July

  Even Orwell would be at a loss to make sense of some of the recent antics of leading governments. We would expect Orwell to be out-satirized by the American actions to impose penalties and sanctions on officials of the International Criminal Court

• Russia’s Amendments to The Constitution - Official Version Vs Opposition Response | R.G.Gidadhbli

  11 July
  by R.G.Gidadhbli
  On 3rd July Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that will bring into force a sweeping package of constitutional amendments that were approved overwhelmingly by Russians. According to Russia’s Central Election  (...)

• The development of Trotsky’s analysis of the Soviet bureaucracy | Thomas M. Twiss

  11 July

  In his presentation, Paul Le Blanc has provided a brief account of the darkening situation in the Soviet Union in the years following the revolution, of the heroic resistance by members of the Left Opposition, and of the “deep black night” of Stalinism in the mid-late 1930s. He also summarized for us Leon Trotsky’s final theory of Soviet bureaucracy and — I think appropriately —emphasized its value for understanding that history. What I want to do is to briefly sketch the development of Trotsky’s analysis of the problem of Soviet bureaucracy in order to get a deeper understanding and appreciation of his final theory, with all of its strengths and limitations.

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