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• Selected Quotes from the Writings of M N Roy

  25 March 2023

  Four Excerpts from Writings of M N Roy selected by ND Pancholi *
  (1) Political religion of Nationalism
  “They speak grandiloquently of national interest, national honour and national spirit; behind all these high-sounding phrases are hidden the selfish interests of the minority. Drugged by the political religion, called Nationalism, a people becomes the Nation which claims and obtains the effacement of individuals composing the people. Rising and capturing power on the authority of the (…)

• UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - 6 Assessment Report (March 2023)

  25 March 2023

  the full PDF version of the report is here: https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6syr/pdf/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf
  see also:
  Headline Statements from the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report, released on March 20, 2023.
  UN Climate Report: Scientists release survival guide to avert climate change - BBC report https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65000182

• After Macron’s move to force through pension reform, all eyes are now on France’s trade unions | Michel Wieviorka

  25 March 2023

  by Michel Wieviorka *
  March 16, 2023
  It was the nuclear option Emmanuel Macron’s government was hoping not to have to resort to. Speaking at the National Assembly over boos and chants of the national anthem, on the afternoon of Thursday 17 March, France’s prime minister, Elisabeth Borne, announced that the government would force through its controversial pension reform plans without a vote, a procedure enabled by article 49, paragraph 3 of the French constitution.
  The latest scenes of (…)

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  All India Trade Union Congress Press Release - March 23, 2023

  25 March 2023

  All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC)
  Press Release
  The following statement was issued to the press by AITUC Secretariat today-23rd March 2023
  AITUC condemns the draconian and vindictive Govt. Instructions to ban the struggle of Central Govt. Employees against the No Guarantee NPS !
  The entire Central Govt. Employees, Paramilitary Forces, State Govt. Employees and Teachers are in a nationwide movement against the no guarantee pension scheme introduced by the BJP Govt. in 2003. After (…)

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  CPI on the detention of Opposition MPs and on the Disqualification of Rahul Gandhi

  25 March 2023

  Communist Party of India
  New Delhi,
  March 24, 2023
  Press Release
  The National Secretariat of the Communist Party of India issued the following statement today (on March 24, 2023):
  The Communist Party of India condemns the detention of Members of Parliament belonging to opposition parties who wanted to meet the President of India with several issues. The action of the Delhi Police, under direct control of Union Home Ministry, detaining prominent leaders of the opposition including (…)

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  The Arrest of Kashmir based journalist Irfan Mehraj - Press Statement by the Editors Guild

  25 March 2023

  PRESS STATEMENT
  Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned about the excessive use of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against journalists, most recently, in the case of the arrest of Irfan Mehraj, a Kashmir-based journalist, by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). According to reports, on the afternoon of March 20, Irfan was called by an investigator on his mobile phone and told to come for a few minutes to the local NIA office in Srinagar. Thereafter he was arrested and (…)

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  Representation to Karnataka CM - Protect Farmers, Pastoralists, Dalits of North Bengaluru | 24 Mar 2023

  25 March 2023

  Press Release
  About 2500 people from across the 17 villages impacted by the development of Dr. K Shivaram Karanth Layout, as well as from across various parts of India have signed a representation to the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Karnataka, Sri. Basavaraj Bommai, urging him to immediately issue an ordinance to protect the fundamental rights of farmers, pastoralists, dalits, backward classes and other communities of 17 villages in the Bengaluru North Taluk, who are adversely impacted by the (…)

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  Who Will Dominate the World? Democrats or Dictators? | M.R. Narayan Swamy

  25 March 2023, by M R Narayan Swamy

  BOOK REVIEW __0__
  Defeating the Dictators: How Democracy can Prevail in the Age of the Strongman by Charles Dunst Hodder & Stoughton Pages: 428; Price: Rs 799
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  A world increasingly in turmoil is locked in a bitter battle of ideas: democracy versus autocracy. There was a time when it seemed that democracy would simply overwhelm the world barring isolated spots. No more. As international affairs specialist and author Charles Dunst points out, autocracies and dictatorships of (…)

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  Review of Smith, Jessica M., Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility

  25 March 2023

  Reviewed by Sarah Stanford-McIntyre (University of Colorado Boulder)
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  Extracting Accountability: Engineers and Corporate Social Responsibility
  by Jessica M. Smith
  Engineering Studies Series
  Cambridge: MIT Press
  2021. Illustrations. 328 pp. (paper), ISBN 978-0-262-54216-6; (e-book), ISBN 978-0-262-36242-9 free (open access), ISBN 978-0-262-36615-1.
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  Published on H-Environment (February, 2023)
  Extracting Accountability is an account of how engineers in the mining (…)

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  Cartoon: No One is Raising Their Voice About Air-Quality | Hemant Marporia

  25 March 2023