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Why Jammu Is High On Terror Radar Since 2021 India-Pak Ceasefire? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lMGNGf6BgA NDTVJammu and Kashmir witnessed a drop in locals joining terrorist groups this year. According to the police, only 31 local terrorists are now active in the region. But with local militancy dwindling, battle-hardened foreign terrorists are filling the gap. High on the terror radar is Jammu - especially Poonch, Rajouri district. The region that was largely free from militancy has become the main theatre of violence. While the recent ambush on army and the civilian deaths in army custody brought challenges to the fore, the problem began after the India-Pakistan ceasefire in February 2021.

Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy? GBH Forum Network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevtdp1WQ 

Is capitalism dead? Yanis Varoufakis thinks it is – and he knows who killed it https://theconversation.com/is-capitalism-dead-yanis-varoufakis-thinks-it-is-and-he-knows-who-killed-it-213992 November 8, 2023 “now computers speak to each other, will this network make capitalism impossible to overthrow? Or might it finally reveal its Achilles heel?”  Varoufakis’s new book Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism  argues that we no longer live in a capitalist society; capitalism has morphed into a “technologically advanced form of feudalism”.

Traditional capitalists, he proposes, have become “vassal capitalists”. They are subordinate and dependent on a new breed of “lords” – the Big Tech companies – who generate enormous wealth via new digital platforms. A new form of algorithmic capital has evolved – what Varoufakis calls “cloud capital” – and it has displaced “capitalism’s two pillars: markets and profits”.

Markets have been “replaced by digital trading platforms which look like, but are not, markets”.

Access to the “digital fief” comes at the cost of exorbitant rents. Varoufakis notes that many third-party developers on the Apple store, for example, pay 30% “on all their revenues”, while Amazon charges its sellers “35% of revenues”. This, he argues, is like a medieval feudal lord sending round the sheriff to collect a large chunk of his serfs’ produce because he owns the estate and everything within it.

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In is address to the Cambridge Forum in Massachusetts, Economist and fierce EU critic Yanis Varoufakis considers the need for a radically new way of thinking about the economy, finance and capitalism.