Resumption of nuclear explosive testing is absolutely unacceptable. Even discussing nuclear testing again is dangerously destabilizing. Yet according to news reports1 such discussions have recently been held in the Trump White House. US resumption of nuclear testing would lead to testing by other states – possibly China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and DPRK. It would accelerate the emerging nuclear arms race, and damage prospects for nuclear arms control negotiations.
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Absolutely Unacceptable: Resumed Nuclear Explosive Testing - Statement of the Annual Meeting of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons
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Denis Goldberg Man of Integrity: South African Freedom Fighter, anti-Zionist Jew and True Mensch | Ronnie Kasrils
30 May 2020One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. - Chinua Achebe by Ronnie Kasrils
Integrity and defence of the truth, whatever the personal cost, was a choice Denis Goldberg made from a tender age, and stuck to (...) -
Modi government ill-treats the labourers, creators of modern India
30 May 2020by Arun Srivastava
May Day, the day which symbolises the unity of the workers and their political and economic empowerment has been buried under the debris of the labour reforms carried out by Modi’s saffron government on the plea of fighting (...) -
Tale of a Migrant
30 May 2020Far away from his native village, deep in the south, he was making both ends meet, working as a labourer in a factory situated at the outskirts of the city. Suddenly a killer virus came from nowhere, spreading its murderous fangs, darkening (...) -
Right to Privacy versus Technology Based Surveillance
30 May 2020by Sri Hari Mangalam
INTRODUCTION
“Privacy is not an entitlement; it is an absolute pre requisite”—Marlon Brando
The current day and age sees’ an explosion of technological advancements. The rapid growth of the applied sciences industries and (...) -
Table of Contents Mainstream - Lockdown Edition no9 | May 23, 2020
23 May 2020MAINSTREAM, VOL LVIII NO 23, NEW DELHI, MAY 23, 2020 - Contents: 1. Letter to Readers - Mainstream 23 May 2020 - Lockdown Edition no9 2. Um-Phoon Exposed Man’s Helplessness Before Nature’s Fury ; Barun Das Gupta 3. Exodus as resistance ; Ajaz (...) -
Letter to Readers Mainstream, 23 May 2020 - Lockdown Edition no9
23 May 2020Super-cyclone Amphan of 21 May 2020 has caused serious damage to land and life in Eastern India and Bangladesh. Why the massive devastation in Bengal and Bangladesh after the cyclone has found practically no coverage on national television is (...) -
Um-Phoon Exposed Man’s Helplessness Before Nature’s Fury
23 May 2020, by Barun Das GuptaSuper-cyclone Um-Phoon that hit southern Bengal on May 20 at a velocity of 160 kilometres per hour left a trail of death and devastation behind. It is south Bengal – East and West Medinipur and South and North 24-Parganas — which had to bear (...) -
Exodus as resistance | Ajaz Ashraf
23 May 2020May 18, 2020
by Ajaz Ashraf ; Mumbai
Bob Marley’s imagining of leaving a corrupted Babylon for the fatherland in his song Exodus, is today the reality of lakhs of migrant workers rejecting the Indian state and returning home
Migrants walking (...) -
It’s a Hobson’s Choice for Labour
23 May 2020by Chittarvu Raghu (...)
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