IMF reports on global economy: Political conclusions

IMF reports on global economy: Political conclusions 0
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- October 17, 2020
Nick Beams 17 October 2020 One of the most significant issues to emerge from the reports prepared by the International Monetary Fund for its semi-annual meeting conducted from Washington this week is the total dependence of the global capitalist economy and its financial system on the state. It was not the intention of their authors,
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North and East of Sri Lanka paralysed by mass anti-government protest 0
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- October 15, 2020
A series of protests are currently underway across the North-East today as Tamils across the homeland commemorated the death of LTTE’s Lt Col Thileepan, despite a Sri Lankan court ban and intimidation from the security forces. Politicians, including from the Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), joined civil society members and
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US Secretary of State Pompeo to visit Sri Lanka amid rising anti-China provocations 0
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- October 15, 2020
Vijith Samarasinghe 15 October 2020 Sri Lanka’s secretary to the ministry of foreign affairs Admiral Jayanath Colambage announced last weekend that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Sri Lanka during his scheduled trip to India at the end of this month. Pompeo and Defence Secretary Mark Esper are visiting New Delhi
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India’s Supreme Court punishes prominent lawyer for criticizing its role in assault on democratic rights 0
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- September 11, 2020
By Kranti Kumara 11 September 2020 Despite a public outcry, India’s Supreme Court has convicted and sentenced prominent Indian lawyer Prashant Bhushan for “contempt of court” for having accused it of complicity in the far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s assault on democratic rights. The court’s victimization of Bhushan for his trenchant remarks is a
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US airstrikes in Afghanistan hit ten-year high in 2019 0
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- January 29, 2020
By Niles Niemuth 29 January 2020 The US Air Force reported Monday that it carried out more airstrikes in Afghanistan in 2019 than any year in the last decade. Manned and unmanned aircraft dropped 7,423 bombs, topping the previous decade high of 7,362 in 2018. Nearly two decades into its criminal neocolonial occupation, the United
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The murder of Qassem Soleimani and assassination as state policy 0
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- January 4, 2020
4 January 2020 Bill Van Auken With its drone missile assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and seven others at Baghdad’s international airport in the early morning hours of Friday, the Trump administration has carried out a criminal act of state terrorism that has stunned the world. Washington’s cold-blooded murder of a general in the
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Iran, Russia and China hold joint naval drills in Indian Ocean amid US war threats 0
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- December 30, 2019
By Alex Lantier | 30 December 2019 | wsws Iranian, Russian and Chinese warships are finishing today a four-day naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman, near the Iranian coast and the oil-rich Persian Gulf. The exercise marked the first time that Moscow and Beijing sent warships for joint maneuvers with Iranian forces in the
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Indian army chief denounces mass protests against BJP government’s anti-Muslim citizenship law 0
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- December 30, 2019
By Wasantha Rupasinghe and Keith Jones | 30 December 2019 | wsws Echoing the lies of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders of the Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the head of the Indian Army, General Bipin Rawat, has accused the opponents of the BJP’s anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act or CAA of
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Mass protests erupt against Modi-led Indian government’s Hindu supremacist agenda 0
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- December 18, 2019
By Keith Jones 17 December 2019 Mass protests against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government’s Hindu supremacist “Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019” continued yesterday, spreading to cities across India. Many of the protests were led by university students angered both by the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the police’s violent assault on students at Jamia
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The “Afghanistan papers”: The criminality and disaster of a war based upon lies 0
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- December 10, 2019
10 December 2019 WSWS The publication Monday by the Washington Post of interviews with senior US officials and military commanders on the nearly two-decades-old US war in Afghanistan has provided a damning indictment of both the criminality and abject failure of an imperialist intervention conducted on the basis of lies. The Post obtained the raw
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As Trump threatens nuclear war on Iran: Chelsea Manning imprisoned without charge for six months for refusing to testify against Julian Assange 0
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- September 21, 2019
21 September 2019 The courageous whistleblower Chelsea Manning has now been held in a federal detention center in Alexandria, Virginia for more than six months. Manning has not been charged with or committed any crime. She was sent to jail on March 8, 2019 for refusing to testify before a secret grand jury that has
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India crows over US support for its assault on Kashmir 0
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- August 30, 2019
By Keith Jones 30 August 2019 India’s Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government and corporate media are crowing about the full-throated support Washington has given New Delhi in its assault on Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). On August 5, the Narendra Modi-led BJP government illegally abrogated J&K’s special, semi-autonomous status under Article 370 of the
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Sri Lankan PM backs Indian repression in Kashmir 0
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- August 29, 2019
By Wasantha Rupasinghe 28 August 2019 Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and other political leaders, including former President Mahinda Rajapakse, have voiced their support for the Indian government’s brutal lockdown of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). On August 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government abrogated articles 370 and 35 (A) of
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Indo-Pakistani conflict sharpens with New Delhi’s assault on Kashmir 0
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- August 9, 2019
By Keith Jones 9 August 2019 www.wsws.org Pakistan has taken a raft of retaliatory measures and issued war threats in response to India’s aggressive and patently illegal moves to tighten its control over disputed Kashmir. These moves, which Islamabad has labeled an “annexation,” have been accompanied by an unprecedented state of siege in Indian-held Jammu and
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