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• Saudi moderation has its limits | James M. Dorsey

  12 February 2021

  by James M. Dorsey *
  Two recent reports documenting significant Saudi progress in countering ingrained religious anti-Jewish, anti-Christian and anti-Shiite supremacism as well as anti-Western and other xenophobic attitudes suggest the kingdom’s receptivity to external pressure as it endeavours to position itself as the leader of a vaguely defined ‘moderate’ form of Islam.
  So does the fact that several Saudi government websites, including the Saudi defence ministry’s English and Arabic (…)

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  Audio: Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn’t going away (Sean Illing talks to Prof Jason Stanley) | Jan 28, 2021

  12 February 2021

  Vox’s Sean Illing talks to Yale professor and author Jason Stanley about why American democracy provides such fertile soil for fascism, how Donald Trump demonstrated how easy it was for our country to flirt with a fascist future and what we can do about it.

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  Isyana Sarasvati - Opera Arias - Frühlingsstimmen - Walzer, Op. 410 - Johann Strauss II | Jakarta Concert Orchestra

  12 February 2021

  ("Spring’s Voices," or commonly "Voices of Spring") is an orchestral waltz, with optional solo soprano voice, written in 1882 by Johann Strauss II

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  Table of Contents, Mainstream, Feb 6, 2021

  6 February 2021

  * The Union Budget 2021-22: Conceals more than reveals? | P S Jayaramu
  * Farmers writing a new script | Amit Bhaduri and Chaman Lal
  * Lenin and Gandhi: A missed encounter? Étienne Balibar

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 6, 2021

  6 February 2021

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, Feb 6, 2021
  In the past years, the Narendra Modi led BJP Government at the centre and in many of the BJP ruled states has treated all political and civil society opposition with disdain. The Central Government has steamrolled major decisions and brushing aside all contestation and regularly used the pro-government media to denounce opposition (often also bordering on the character assassination of specific opposition figures). Other arms of the (…)

• The Union Budget 2021-22: Conceals more than reveals? | P.S. Jayaramu

  6 February 2021

  by P.S. Jayaramu
  The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman, was prepared under the shadow of two pandemics, largely the Covid pandemic, going by the attention the Budget gives to the health sector and the economic pandemic which preceded the onset of the corona virus in India. Influenced to a certain by the global economic slowdown, the GDP growth has contracted to 7.7 percent during 2020-2. The World Bank as well as many desi economists feel the country will (…)

• A Budget That Does Not Meet the Real Needs of Economy and People | Bharat Dogra

  6 February 2021, by Bharat Dogra

  When a budget is presented at a time when the economy is going through a very serious crisis people have very high expectations and these were raised further by the remarks made by the Finance Minister regarding the great importance of this year’s budget a few days before the actual presentation of the budget. However the budget has failed to fulfill the hopes of people, particularly the sections facing the worst difficulties in this crisis relating to decline of income and livelihoods.
  A (…)

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  The Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD) demands public health expenditure to be increased by three times in this budget

  6 February 2021

  Indian doctors for peace and development (IDPD)
  Date: 30.1.2021
  Indian doctors for peace and development (IDPD) notes with concern growing inequities in healthcare to our population. In a statement Dr S S Soodan - President, Dr Arun Mitra - Senior Vice President and Dr Shakeel Ur Rahman have said that this has become more evident after the COVID-19 Pandemic and has exposed lack of preparedness of the government to deal with such situations. Considering the massive public health crisis (…)

• The unraveling of a script in two parts and writing a new script by farmers | Amit Bhaduri and Chaman Lal

  6 February 2021

  by Amit Bhaduri and Chaman Lal*
  The script of collaboration is in two parts. The first part was written long ago when the once revolutionary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was released after long years from prison in the Andamans. He collaborated with the British as he had promised in several petitions for mercy he had written to the British authorities from jail. In what psychologists describe as ‘transferred anxiety’ he seemed to have transferred his hatred of the colonial British power to a (…)

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  Public statement by the Gandhian fraternity of the country about the farmer’s agitation | January 30, 2021

  6 February 2021

  GANDHI PEACE FOUNDATION
  30.01.2021
  Farmers agitation has been going on since several months. All along, they have shown exemplary transparency, restraint and peacefulness. The chaos that took place on 26 January, in the name of farmers movement, has deeply pained the democratic and peace loving citizens of the nation like us. It is not a question of supporting or opposing any movement, it is a question of respecting and following the Gandhian heritage and democratic values of the (…)