Called the “American Rescue Plan,” the legislative proposal would meet Joe Biden’s goal of administering 100 million vaccines by the 100th day of his administration
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The newly declassified 2018 Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific, made public by the Trump administration in its last week in office, underlines how prominently what it describes as “strategic competition between the U.S. and China” set Washington’s regional policy over the past four years, as well as President Donald Trump’s mixed record in effectively addressing that challenge.
At its meeting on textbook reforms on Wednesday, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education heard presentations from right-wing organisations and educationists, including the man at the centre of a debate on the “saffronisation” of textbooks under the Vajpayee government. They argued that Mughal history is being whitewashed in Indian textbooks, and crowding out space for history from the Vedic era.
Remember Kristallnacht: Schwarzenegger Reminds Americans to Consider the Dark Lessons of History
The actor-politicians speaks of how ordinary people participated in the âmost evil regime in history.â
Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks about the riot at Washington on January 9, 2021. Photo: YouTube screengrab
World13/Jan/2021
Of the many analyses published and the many hours of television discussions to make sense of the events in Washington D.C., one has stood out â the short video done by actor and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger.Â
America is deeply shocked at the manner in which mobs â armed and well prepared â stormed Capitol Hill, the bastion of the countryâs democracy and, till they were finally subdued, held sway over sacrosanct chambers. It has been called an insurrection and even a coup attempt. âHow did it happen here,â has been the most common reaction, partly because of a sense of American exceptionalism