The dynamics between Europe and Russia have gone so south that mending fences looks like an uphill task—even as the US swings between sanctions and olive branches.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
Love this paragraph:
“Yet, to pretend the war was fought to build democracy is a self-serving fiction. The Soviet Union dismantled German death camps but ran its own system of Gulags that claimed millions of lives. The US was an Apartheid nation, and Britain’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was an unrepentant defender of imperialism. These truths, though, are not allowed to intrude on the invention of Normandy as a war for freedom.”
Love this paragraph:
“Yet, to pretend the war was fought to build democracy is a self-serving fiction. The Soviet Union dismantled German death camps but ran its own system of Gulags that claimed millions of lives. The US was an Apartheid nation, and Britain’s Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, was an unrepentant defender of imperialism. These truths, though, are not allowed to intrude on the invention of Normandy as a war for freedom.”