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• COVID Crisis and Cultivation: Looming Agrarian Disaster in India

  23 May
  by Annapurna and Navneet Sharma
  “Which scientist or doctor is not secretly praying for a miracle? Which priest is not – secretly, at least – submitting to science?” — Arundhati Roy
  The covid -19 and ensuing crisis, in all domains of human life  (...)

• Relief in the Package

  23 May
  by Suranjita Ray
  It is perturbing that it took a pandemic to realise that ‘right to life’ and ‘right to livelihood’ are not dichotomous. Though policy makers are struggling to balance the priorities of public health and economic well-being during a  (...)

• Empowering City Governments Is Key To India’s Fight Against COVID-19

  23 May
  by Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Simi Mehta
  The impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic have already laid bare the shortcomings of Indian cities in addressing urban densification and inadequate provision of urban basic services including  (...)

• COVID -19: Repercussions on the Human Security of Bangladesh

  23 May
  by Debtanu Majee
  Introduction
  The outbreak of COVID-19 in December at the Wuhan province of China escalated a new crisis of human security. Being a communicable disease it has spread globally and was termed as a pandemic by the World Health  (...)

• Impact of Covid-19 and OPEC+ on Russia

  23 May
  by R.G.Gidadhubli
  Russia occupies second place behind the United States in the world, in terms of total infections due to Covid-19 virus with confirmed cases numbering 272,043 on 17th May 2020 and death toll of 2,537. Hence from sixth rank in  (...)

• Progressive International - the new offensive against imperialism of neo-liberal finance capital

  23 May
  by Sankar Ray
  Progressives the world over — democrats, libertarians and the Left — look eagerly forward to the inaugural Summit of the Progressive International (PI) in Reykjavik, Iceland, hosted by the Prime Minister of Iceland and the  (...)

• US rhetoric about nuclear arms in Europe harms Russia-NATO relations — diplomat

  23 May
  TASS, 19 May, 20
  Earlier US ambassador in Warsaw Georgette Mosbacher said the US might redeploy its nuclear weapons from Germany to Poland
  MOSCOW, May 19. /TASS/. US rhetoric over the redeployment of American nuclear weapons from Germany to  (...)

• Parade’s End | Sadakat Kadri

  23 May
  by Sadakat Kadri
  11 May 2020
  Before the lockdown began, I had been hoping to celebrate VE Day in Belarus this weekend. Within a year of winning power in 1994, Alexander Lukashenko organised a march in Minsk to commemorate victory in the Great  (...)

• USA: An Open Letter to the New New Left From the Old New Left

  23 May
  Now it is time for all those who yearn for a more equal and just social order to face facts.
  By Former leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society
  April 16, 2020 
  “THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine  (...)

• is the Indian state proxying for the Hindutva project of militarization of the majority?

  23 May, by Shamsul Islam
  Presently, the Indian defence paraphernalia is ranked as the fourth mightiest army in the world after USA, Russia and China with Japan at the fifth place. It has approximately 3,544,000 on roll, 1,444,000 being on active duty with 2,100,000 as  (...)

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