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In rural Maharashtra when a vaccination camp was organized in Girgiti village near Chikhaldara in the first week of May, hardly two persons could be vaccinated there, while the population of this village is about one and a half thousand. The same situation prevails in many nearby villages like Varud, Anjangaon, Paratwada and Achalpur
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They fear vaccines more than Covid
by Shirish Khare
In rural Maharashtra when a vaccination
camp was organized in Girgiti village near Chikhaldara in the first week of May, hardly two persons could be vaccinated there, while the population of this village is about one and a half thousand. The same situation prevails in many nearby villages like Varud, Anjangaon, Paratwada and Achalpur
Spend $50bn to end COVID, suggest IMF, World Bank, WHO and WTO
by Countercurrents Collective
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO) and World Trade Organization (WTO) on Tuesday made a rare and what they called “extraordinary” plea for international cooperation and investment. A roadmap created by the coalition aims to accelerate and fairly distribute health tools around the world. The groups said a $50bn finance package could drive $9trn in additional global output by 2025. A failure to invest will mean continued waves and explosive outbreaks of
COVID19, the groups warned, as well as more transmissible and deadly virus variants.
Swept into a Covid Hell of Profits-The Great Forgetting, Part 2
by Nina Burleigh
My sense is that the emergency created by the insurrection at the Capitol last January and the desperate need of the new Biden administration to have palpable policy achievements in order to do well in election 2022 has taken the steam out of any inclination to dig deeper into the profiteering, cronyism, political scheming, and chaos with which the Trump administration met the Covid-19 virus. It went far deeper than an article like this can possibly indicate, leaving so many hundreds of thousands of potentially unnecessary deaths in its wake. Think of it as a memory hole, still brimming with schemes and money.
Ivermectin: WHO’s Chief Scientist Served with Legal Notice for Disinformation and Suppression of
Evidence
by Colin Todhunter
On 25 May 2021, the Indian Bar Association (IBA) served a 51-page legal notice on Dr Soumya Swaminathan, the Chief Scientist at the World Health Organisation (WHO), for “her act of spreading disinformation and misguiding the people of India, in order to fulfil her agenda.” The legal notice says Dr Swaminathan has been: “Running a disinformation campaign against Ivermectin by deliberate suppression of effectiveness of drug Ivermectin as prophylaxis and for treatment of COVID-19, despite the existence of large amounts of clinical data compiled and presented by esteemed, highly qualified, experienced medical doctors and scientists”
A Syria-story: Limit of the Empire’s power
by Farooque Chowdhury
Changes are appearing.
Russia’s role in Syria has torpedoed the empire’s initial plan – install a lackey in Damascus. Russia forcefully stood against the empire’s intervention in Syria. The proxies the empire mobilized found their guns and dynamites turning ineffective. The proxies’ “democracy” slogan and the MSM’s “poison” story couldn’t be successfully marketed. In contrast, the proxies, their slogan, and the toxic stories were exposed. Now, with developments in the eastern Mediterranean coast country, the empire’s limit of power is getting exposed.
US has been Spying on Major European Powers
by Naveed Qazi
There have been reports that Denmark’s military agency has helped the United States to spy, on leading European politicians, including Angela Merkel. The European Union is now demanding answers. Danmarks Radio, a Danish public broadcaster, said that US National Security Agency (NSA), whose
alleged tapping of Merkel’s phone was made known by Edward Snowden in 2013, also used Danish Defense Intelligence Service (FE) to spy on officials in Sweden, France and Norway
Backward ClassReservation after Supreme Court judgement on Maratha case: who is to gain or lose?
by Mubashir VP
On May 5 Supreme Court quashed Maharashtra State Reservation for Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Act (SEBC Act) of 2018, providing reservation to Maratha community in public services and educational institutions. This judgement is significant in multiple ways thanks to the increasing lobbying power of reservation politics, both at centre and state
The BJP government is incapable of governance
by Javed Iqbal Wani
The onslaught of the pandemic and its consistent
mismanagement by the government have created multiple emergencies in quick succession. The rising number of deaths due to Covid19, followed by the unavailability of hospital beds, ventilators, oxygen cylinders and essential drugs, led to national anxiety created by the lackadaisical attitude of the government. The second wave of the pandemic hit so bad that many on the side of the ruling party had to concede that the water had gone way over the head.
Saving Water, Ensuring Its Reach to the Poorest
by Bharat Dogra
In conditions of high land inequalities, how can benefits of irrigation be taken to weaker sections? Generally the biggest, more powerful and resourceful landowners also try to grab more water. Even if due care is taken to ensure that the smaller farmers are not left out, not much can be done if most of the village households are landless workers
Zionist-Subverted Australian ABC Bans
Use Of Term “Apartheid” To Describe Israel
by Dr Gideon Polya
Orwellian domination by Zionists and the Zionist-beholden US means that the Mainstream media of the so-called “Free World” of Western US Alliance countries (the Anglosphere and the EU NATO countries) are not so free when it comes to reportage on Apartheid Israel. By way of example, the Zionist-subverted Australian ABC (the Australian equivalent of the UK BBC) has recently officially banned use of the term “Apartheid” in relation to Israel, the world’s most egregious Apartheid rogue state.
Circa,modern day thoughtfulness
by Daibee Das
A feminist musing by a young student
The Tragedy of Thousands of Migrant Workers Dying on Railway Tracks
by Bharat Dogra
It has been revealed in recently released statistics that over 8700 persons died on railway tracks during 2020. Officials have also stated that most of them are likely to be migrant workers walking along railway tracks while returning home.
Suicidal Games: Tokyo’s Coronavirus Olympics
by Dr Binoy Kampmark
A pandemic crisis. A state of emergency. Overwhelming public opinion bristling with alarm. Notwithstanding these factors, Tokyo is still on track to host the Olympics that was cancelled last year in response to the global pandemic. The first sports team – Australia’s softball crew – has touched down. Is all this folly, bravery or self-interest?
The Fumbling King of Palestine: Palestinians are Defeating the Oslo Culture
by Dr Ramzy Baroud
The political discourse of Mahmoud Abbas, the head of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, is similar to that of an ineffectual king who has been isolated in his palace for far too long. The king speaks of prosperity and peace, and tirelessly counts his innumerable achievements, while his people are dying of starvation outside and pointlessly begging for his attention.
The Mission of Poetry
by Moin Qazi
This is Sanjiv Bhatla’s maiden collection of poems. He has several authoritative and scholarly works on religious and spiritual subjects also to his credit. His poems are equally brilliant and bear out the finer sensibilities in him.
Suez Canal Blockade & Global Trade Troubles
by Naveed Qazi
Global economy was on its
knees, as trade ramifications from Suez Canal started to appear when the trade artery in Egypt was blocked, almost for a week, after a giant container ship, called Evergreen, owned by the Taiwanese company, Evergreen Marine ran around on the bank, of the canal, after apparently being deviated by high winds, on 23 March 2021. This scenario reflected the many vulnerabilities of global shipping.
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