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The World Food Program, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization on Wednesday called for urgent, coordinated action on food security, and appealed to countries to avoid banning food or fertilizer exports. In a joint statement, the leaders of the four institutions warned that the war in Ukraine was adding to existing pressures from the COVID-19 crisis, climate change and increased fragility and conflict, threatening millions of people worldwide.
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Avoid Banning Food Or Fertilizer Exports, WFP, IMF, World Bank and WTO Urge To Countries
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The World Food Program, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization on Wednesday called for urgent, coordinated action on food security, and appealed to countries to avoid banning food or fertilizer exports. In a joint statement, the leaders of the four institutions warned that the war in Ukraine was adding to existing pressures from the COVID-19 crisis, climate change and increased fragility and conflict, threatening millions of people worldwide.
Cooperation, not competition, to avoid disaster
by Ron Forthofer
President Biden talks about how future generations will write theses on what succeeded, democracy or autocracy. I believe he is wrong and that future generations will curse the leaders who wasted precious time and tremendous
resources on outdated ideas of competition instead of cooperating to find ways of dealing with climate change and preventing a nuclear catastrophe. These leaders are stealing the future from some current and all coming generations.
Biden, Russian War and Stagflation Economics
by Jon Kofas
When Trump left office, he had a personal low public opinion poll of 34% amid the January 6th quasi-coup attempt, whereas Biden in a middle of an enemy that most Americans love to hate, and have done for more than century, has approval rating 1% lower than Trump when the latter left office in January 2020. The question is why do only one-third of the voters polled approve of a president trying to blame Russia and/or China for all calamities befalling the US?
American Militarism, A Persistent Malady
by Andrew Bacevich
Putin Changed
the Subject, But Confronting Martin Luther King’s “Giant Triplets” Is More Urgent Than Ever
The West supports Israel, whether according to the theory of civilizations or as an imperial agent!
by Dr Salim Nazzal
In recent times, especially after Huntington’s book on the clash of civilizations, the categorization of the cultures considered Israel as a civilized extension of the West. If we go back in time, we find that Herzl, the founder of Zionism, said in his book (The Jewish State), decades before establishing the Zionist state, he aims to build a wall between the civilized West and primitive Asia.
Majoritarianism and Communal Polarization in India
by H Srikanth
At this stage of history, it is difficult to say whether the majoritarian regime can
realize its political and social goals. However, the regime could divide the people and polarize them on communal lines, like no other political regime could do in the history of India.
Environmental issues in Jammu and Kashmir need much more attention
by Bharat Dogra
In areas that experience more political tensions including those relating to conflicts, environmental problems tend to be sidelined and neglected. This can lead to less remedial actions than in other comparable areas, while problems continue to increase.
Dalit panchayat presidents face brazen discrimination in Tamilnadu, after a century of Periyarist politics
by Ramakrishnan
Of the 4,000 Dalit panchayat presidents elected in Tamilnadu state so far, 1,000 to 1,200 have
struggled with caste-based discrimination, says Rangaswamy Elango, Dalit-born former panchayat President of Kuthambakkam, very near to Chennai city
B.R. Ambedkar’s Views on Women Question and Current Electoral Politics
by Badre Alam Khan
To fight against this kind of narrow and communal electoral politics; it is necessary to build up the larger solidarity among the feminist, progressive forces and Ambedkarites in the civil society. While doing so, it is also necessary to challenge both brahmanical patriarchy and anti-women mindsets (of communal forces) that exist in both public and private spheres in times to come. Hence, keeping these above critical issues witnessed by subaltern women in mind, the fresh reading of Ambedkar’s views on women’s question needs to be genuinely explored on the said occasion.
Covid leaves trail of global poverty
by Megha Singh
A cartoon on Covid and poverty
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