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  Cartoon: Manjul on the Balasore Train Accident and ’Nationalist’ Slogan Shouting While People Need Empathy | Mumbai Meri Jaan Series

  9 June 2023

  source: Facebook

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  International Call to Defend Democracy & Against the Soft Coup in Colombia

  9 June 2023

  "A soft coup is underway in Colombia"
  An urgent call from over 400 political and industrial leaders from around the world
  June 7, 2023
  Ever since the election of the country’s first progressive government — led by President Gustavo Petro, Vice President Francia Márquez, and the Historic Pact in Congress — Colombia’s traditional powers have been organizing to restore an order marked by extreme inequality, environmental destruction, and state-sponsored violence.
  Now, less than one year (…)

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  Photo: Tomasz Tomaszewski Sugar Town, Indonesia, 2011 Workers at Pangka sugar factory

  9 June 2023
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  Senegalese Music: Kora Summit Band / Ame Kora performance of Miniyamba

  9 June 2023

  Kora Summit Band performing with Amadou Fall is Andy Skellenger on percussion, and Mark Dudrow playing the cello

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  Video: Money, Power, Impunity - Bankers who stole the world | 2008 Banking Crisis ...

  9 June 2023

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  Money, Power, Impunity: The Bankers Who Stole The World | 2008 Bank Crisis & Recession Documentary by Java Discover | Free Global Documentaries & Clips https://youtu.be/PsFpFP8o1o8

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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, June 3, 2023

  2 June 2023

  * Thoughts for World Environment Day | S.G.Vombatkere
  * The Smart City: Some Critical Perspectives | Alruba Sheikh
  * India’s development strategies | Bala Ramulu Chinnala
  * Woman, Nature & International Division of Labour: interview Maria Mies | Ariel Salleh (1987)

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 3, 2023

  2 June 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, June 3, 2023
  From A to Z inauguration of the New Parliament in Delhi had arbitrariness written all over…
  On May 28, 2023, India’s new Parliament building was inaugurated with 21 opposition parties in the country boycotting the event. Everything should have been done by the Modi Government to take everyone along and make it a consensus-driven event. Not only was the opposition absent on this important day, even the President of India who is the head of (…)

• The global economy - threat to life on the Planet | S G Vombatkere

  2 June 2023, by S G Vombatkere

  Thoughts for World Environment Day
  World Environment Day is observed every 5th June, to encourage awareness and action for protecting the environment. It is a “global platform for inspiring positive change” , to address climate crisis caused by global warming (GW).
  Homo Sapiens population on Planet Earth was 0.3-billion in 1000, and under 2-billion in 1900. It is currently 8-billion-and-counting. It is only in the last two centuries, that humans have created and efficiently operated (…)

• The Smart City: Some Critical Perspectives | Alruba Sheikh

  2 June 2023

  by Alruba Sheikh*
  Abstract: Amidst the contemporary discussions on contestations of the idea, development and execution of the smart city projects, this paper highlights some key issues regarding the question of how transforming city spaces and increased technology interventions critically affect the urban life of city dwellers within the discourse of power, governance, capitalism and economy.
  Keywords: Smart Cities, Technology, Urban Life.
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  The advocates of contemporary Smart (…)

• India’s Development Strategies: Constitutionalism and Culminating Events | Bala Ramulu Chinnala

  2 June 2023, by Bala Ramulu Chinnala

  Abstract
  The Directive Principles of State Policy enshrined in the Indian constitution are directives to the governments for governance in general and for designing welfare and development strategies. The paper captures important dimensions of public policies in India and concludes that policies have the propensity to respond to better-off conditions rather than create those conditions for the effective implementation of progressive policies. Their failure has been the capacity to (…)