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Daily Times April 8, 2021 In view of predominantly rural character of population, the task of rural development assumes vital significance in Pakistan’s national Socio-economic Development effort. It involves mobilization of resources with a view to eradicating rural poverty improving the quality of life in rural areas. The Objectives under the new strategy for rural development includes: (1) Increased Productivity; (2) equitable distribution of wealth and equal opportunities; (3) Improving s...

With the end of the war approaching, Project Safehaven, an American intelligence operation thought up by Roosevelt, was created to track down and confiscate Nazi assets that were stashed in neutral countries. It was rightfully a concern that if members of the Nazi German elite were successful in hiding large troves of their wealth, they could bide their time and attempt to regain power in the not so distant future. It was Allen Dulles who successfully stalled and sabotaged the Roosevelt operati...

Chicago Sun and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Lasches were determinedly secular, and read American history as it had been written by Charles and Mary Beard and the progressive historians—the struggle of a resolutely enlightened people against the lies and malevolence of the wealthy and powerful. The social legislation of the New Deal years confirmed Zora and Robert’s belief that American history proceeded in a straight line, its occasional jaggedness entirely the result of temporary acc...

Legacies of Cold War Liberalism To promote democratic and egalitarian ideals today, we need to break with the anxieties that drove U.S. politics during the Cold War. President-elect John F. Kennedy with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. on January 9, 1960 (Bettmann via Getty Images) If war is a force that gives us meaning, as Chris Hedges famously wrote, what purpose remains when the ultimate battle has been won? This question plagued many American intellectuals af...

When I think of the tasks before the labor movement, I think of what it will take to organize Walmart and Amazon and now Google.

for the full episode. There are these numbers that I can’t get out of my mind about how women are getting crushed in the COVID economy. Women have lost over 12 million jobs since February, more than 150,000 of them in December alone. We’ve lost jobs in the service sector, the hospitality industry. Ninety percent of civil servants who lost their jobs in December were women. On Thursday’s episode of What Next, I spoke to sociologist Jess Calarco, who’s been doing a study following hundre...

“In his new book, Hope & Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics, historian Michael J. Brown adeptly probes questions such as these as he delves into ‘the uncertain role of intellectuals in a democracy.” What is the rightful role of the intellectual in a democratic society? In a polity premised on human equality and committed to majority rule, what exactly are intellectuals, those peculiar elites committed to the life of the mind and the health of the body politic, to d...

A pick between dark politics or collective resistance Updated: Updated: January 23, 2021 00:47 IST The democratic world has a choice — either accept the politics of violence or kindle the urge to resist the status quo Share Article AAA The democratic world has a choice — either accept the politics of violence or kindle the urge to resist the status quo “ All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.” — C. Wright Mills Donald Trump’s drive to upend a...

Part Two in a three-part series. Read Part One here. “What Jacob Burckhardt said of ‘great men’ most Americans might well say of their elite: ‘They are all that we are not.’” (C Wright Mills, The Power Elite ) “People who know only economics do not know much about economics.” (John Kay and Mervyn King, Radical Uncertainty ) Among environmental groups, there is an eagerness to insert green recovery plans (like the Build Back Better campaign, which rings hollow in countries with h...

Most Americans dont like Wall Street too much, but their bovine allegiance to capitalism—sold as "the American Way of Life"— remains strong With an excellent critique of Robert Reichs dated "social democratic" interpretation of modern finance capitalism and the reformist solutions no longer feasible under the present global regime.  John Bellamy Foster is best-known as author of Marx’s Ecology (2000; in which he corrects the popular misapprehension that Marx did not ‘get’ environmen...