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The UK prime minister Boris Johnson has said UK plans to increase its nuclear arsenal by 40%, but China should be brought into international efforts to reduce the world stockpile of nuclear weapons. Speaking on Tuesday, as the British government published its Integrated Review of Security, Defense, Development and Foreign Policy, the UK prime minister highlighted China as posing a “great challenge” to Britain.
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UK commits to increasing its nuclear arsenal but Boris calls on China to reduce
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Countercurrents Collective
The UK prime minister Boris Johnson has said UK plans to increase its nuclear arsenal by 40%, but China should be brought into international efforts to reduce the world stockpile of nuclear weapons. Speaking on Tuesday, as the British government published its Integrated Review of Security, Defense, Development and Foreign Policy, the UK prime minister highlighted China as posing a “great challenge” to Britain.
Bolivia: right wing threatens the recovery of democracy
by Francisco Dominguez
Francisco Dominguez writes: After a full year of racist and repressive horror perpetrated by a de facto government resulting from a coup, the people of Bolivia went to the polls on October 18, 2020 and stunned their own country and the world by giving Evo
Morales’ MAS-IPSP party candidate, Luis Arce, a landslide. The coup d’état that installed a racist regime led by Jeanine Añez, was engineered by OAS secretary General, Luis Almagro, carried out by fascists in November 2019, and of course, supported by the US.
Anti-China slander by Western and Indian agencies on Covid-19 exposed by WHO and international team of experts
by Countercurrents Collective
The slander campaign in India was meant to vitiate the atmosphere and undermine efforts for peace and friendship, and to aid the imperialists’ trade war against china, with India as a junior partner.
Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union stages protest in Bathinda on March 15th
by Harsh Thakor
With resolute determination the Punjab
Khet Mazdoor Union representing the dalit landless agricultural labour, continues to flash the torch of resistance. The agricultural labour are merciless victims of the Agricultural bills and engripped by the ruler’s policies which patronise neo-colonial slavery. On the invitation of Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union State Committee, thousands of farm labourers men and women on March 15th protested against agricultural laws, amendments in labour laws and oppression on Dalits in the local grain market.
The Ongoing Calamity: US Collective Punishment of the Venezuelan People Must End
by Dr Ramzy Baroud
Recent statements made by US officials suggest that Washington will continue to pursue a hardline policy on Venezuela. The new Biden Administration, however, needs to urgently rethink its approach.
On January 6th, the U.S. Became a Foreign Country
by Kevin Tillman
Just about everyone was shocked by what happened at the Capitol building on January 6th. But as a former soldier in America’s forever wars, horrifying as the scenes were, I also found what happened strangely familiar, almost inevitable. I thought that, if only we had taken our country’s imperial history seriously, none of us would have found that day either shocking or unprecedented
Agenda of An Important Year of Climate Change Negotiations Should Include Tackling Difficult Questions
by Bharat Dogra
This year 2021 is widely regarded as an important year for climate change negotiations. The more obvious reason for this is of course that the 26th Conference of Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change could not be held as per
schedule last year due to Covid related factors and is now scheduled to be convened in November this year at Glasgow. The return of the USA to these negotiations is another important development this year. In addition there will be important preparatory meetings in the build-up to the bigger November event, for example a summit of major emitting nations called by US President Biden as early as April 22.
If the World Can Save Its Farmers, Then Farmers Can Save the World
by Bharat Dogra
In many countries we see a similar worrying situation that most small and medium farmers are facing increasing problems and stress. For several of them this culminates in losing the land and independent livelihood of the family for this as well as perhaps the next generation as well. So the number of family farms and independent small farmers ( working on their own or in groups or cooperatives )
is declining. A very large number of rural families have become landless in recent times, in addition to those who were already landless. For some even the rural home is not secure.
NO MORE Sympathy for the Devil(s)
by Philip A Farruggio
Socialism is the only cure to not only stave off but ostracize those Devils among us. Wake up Trump Thumpers, Republican and Democratic Party supporters, and realize as Cassius put it so succinctly: ” The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.”
Bitcoin, Nature’s Money That Can Save Our Civilization
by Nozomi Hayase
The Covid-19 pandemic that blazed across 2020 has thrown the world into disarray. Economic damage that has triggered the breakdown of the system signals a dire need for change. As the old system is getting dismantled and global leaders jump in to
fix the problems, Bitcoin is now gaining traction, increasing in price and welcoming new users everyday.
Environmental Ethics
by Dan Corjescu
A Kingly creature; now creatureless King
An Empire out of breath while breathless doing
Air, water, land all three commanded
to remain in place and serve
They wilt under the lash of gentle commerce
Corruption in Pakistan – NGOs, the U.S.A.
by Syed Ehtisham
An Overview
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