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Dec 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Alex Lantier |Countercurrents Collective |John Ruehl |Sandeep Banerjee
Yesterday, a 332-seat majority of the National Assembly’s 577 deputies voted to censure the Social Security budget (PLFSS) proposed by French Prime Minister Michel Barnier, bringing down his government. The vote was strictly along party lines: deputies of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) and the New Popular Front (NFP) coalition led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon voted against Barnier. Macron announced last night that he would begin a rapid search for a new prime minister.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Mark Dummett |Amit Sengupta |Sandeep Banerjee |Amir Nour
We should never forget that Dow Chemical was behind the infamous 1984 chemical leak in India. Neither should we forget the courage of those who have never stopped fighting for justice on behalf of the victims.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vijay Prashad |Bharat Dogra |John Ruehl |Sandeep Banerjee
Between November 15 and 16, 2024, the government of Peru hosted the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum. This 21-country gathering that first started in 1989 brings together the major countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) with the major countries that ring the Pacific Ocean, including the United States and China. There was nothing dramatic at the APEC forum itself, whose Machu Picchu Declaration could have been written at any of the previous forums.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidyadhar Date |Neeraj Jain |Sandeep Banerjee |Bharat Dogra
To Shri T V Somanathan Cabinet Secretary Dear Shri Somanathan, I have come across an pressure release issued by the Security Exchange Commission (SEC) of the USA (https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024-181) saying that “ SEC Charges Three Senior Executives in Two Actions Alleging Massive Bribery Scheme Involving Indian Energy Companies Adani Green and Azure Power……Adani Green’s note offering raised $175 million from U.S. investors while bribery scheme was in progress……..The...
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Jagmohan Singh |Sandeep Banerjee |Manas Jena
by Bharat Dogra and Jagmohan SinghThe rural discourse in Punjab has not given the due attention to a very significant share of the population—the rural landless sections including farm workers who have the least resource base and hence constitute the most vulnerable and poorest segment of the population.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidyadhar Date |Neeraj Jain |Sandeep Banerjee |Sonali Kolhatkar
To Ms Leena Nandan Secretary Union Ministry of Environment, Forests & ClimateChange (MEFCC) Dear Ms Nandan, I understand that your Ministry has denied clearance for a 1,500MW Pumped Storage Hydroelectric project proposed by the Adani Group in the Western Ghats portion of Maharashtra, in view of the disastrous landslide that occurred recently in Wayanad in the stretch of Western Ghats in Kerala (https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/india/govt-halts-adani-project-in-western-ghats/) I welcome the...
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Jagmohan Singh |Sandeep Banerjee |Nilofar Suhrawardy
by Bharat Dogra and Jagmohan SinghPunjab is a very important state of India whose importance cannot be judged in terms merely of its area and population. This cannot be judged even in terms of the undoubtedly very important contribution to food grain self-sufficiency and procurement for feeding the public distribution system.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vidyadhar Date |Neeraj Jain |Sandeep Banerjee |Sonali Kolhatkar
It was good to see the documentary film Dharavi Ka Dada Kaun by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta , pubic spirited journalist and television personality , at the Press Club in Mumbai on Septembr 6. It features interviews with architects, activists, visuals and also has some music and dance.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Neeraj Jain |Sandeep Banerjee |Sonali Kolhatkar |Hiren Gohain
Out-of-the-way exemption granted by the Ministry of Power to the Adani Group to sell power to domestic consumers from its export-intended Godda power plant should not allow that group to profiteer at the cost of domestic consumersToShri Rajiv GaubaCabinet SecretaryDear Shri Gauba,Adani Group’s Godda power plant in Jharkhand had been granted several concessions, some perhaps undue, on the ground that power from that plant would be exported to Bangladesh.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Carlos L Garrido |Ellen Isaacs |T Vijayendra |Sandeep Banerjee
All around the country normal working-class Americans are asking themselves one question: why? Why is it that I am struggling to make ends meet at the end of the month? Why is the price I paid for the same groceries a couple years ago doubled today, while my wage or salary has stagnated? Why is it that I was forced to go into drowning debt for getting sick, daring to get an education, wanting a home for my family?
