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Prabir Purkayastha
Prabir Purkayastha is the founding editor of Newsclick.in, a digital media platform. He is an activist for science and the free software movement.
US chip ban on China: A declaration of computer-age ‘war’?
Sanctions can at best slow China from taking the global lead in chip manufacturing. At their worst, they will raise the chances of chip wars spilling into a physical or economic…
The West is using COP27 to shift blame – private greed prevails over humanity’s survival
Rich nations have devised a system to hide the facts and put the blame for global warming on poorer nations
Queen Elizabeth II is dead but the apology for massacres, slavery, famines and looting never came
Led by the royals, British colonialists committed every form of cruelty imaginable – and those who suffered are angry about the homage paid to the queen
Greed and profits trump vaccinations for all
The health of all people is being sacrificed to Big Pharma profits and rich countries’ sabre-rattling sanctions. Meanwhile, other countries are capable of meeting the world’s…
Is this the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency?
The West’s actions against Russia since the war in Ukraine could signal an emerging new order that shuns the US for weaponising the dollar