It is hardly a revelation to savvy people that the American media lie and omit important news 24/7, and so it is now with the BIGGEST strike in history, as 250 million farmers and workers are on the streets of India protesting the rightwing government's cave-in to multinationals economic gangsterism. But, again, as we said earlier, the average American never heard of it, his mind swamped, as usual, with all sorts of stupid, highly misleading and irrelevant "news".
Other alternative sources also covering this event.
DEMOCRACY NOW
And this report by RJ Eskow:
Prof. Richard Wolff: India's Historic General Strike
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