RSS Versus the Constitution
Hosabale wants “secular” and “socialist” out of the Preamble. But the Assembly debates show they were rooted in principle, not forced in by fiat.
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‘Twenty Rupees for Twenty Minutes’: What I Learned Working in India’s Gig Economy
A researcher becomes a ‘partner’ in a food delivery app for two months. What he experiences and learns from his fellow workers is that in the underbelly of India’s vaunted gig economy are low and volatile incomes, high insecurity, risks to health and little respect from customers.
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A Brief History of India’s Education System, Part 2: Education Policies During Nehruvian Period
The second part of a series of articles on India’s Education Journey from Macaulay to NEP: A review of education during the Nehruvian period, including a discussion of the Nehruvian model and its limitations, Nehruvian model and school education, and Nehruvian model and higher education.
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The Plunder and Loot by Private Healthcare in India
Profits take priority over the wellbeing of patients, turning the sector into a business for wealth accumulation by any means, even unlawful and unethical.
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Marital Rape: Confronting Religious Misinterpretations, Social Stigma, Despite Legal Clarity
From beautiful bride, to victim of marital rape, this is the story of Shanti, a 19-year-old Pakistani woman whose husband has been charged under the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act of 2013 (Pakistan).
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
Unilateral and Illegal Sanctions–Mainly by the United States–Kill Half a Million Civilians Per Year
According to the Global Sanctions Database, the United States, European Union and UN have sanctioned 25% of the countries in the world. The United States by itself sanctioned 40% of these countries, sanctions that are unilateral because they do not have the assent of a UN Security Council resolution.
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Capitalism | Online Blog | USA
America’s 25 Year Tax Cutting and Fiscal Train Wreck
The bigger picture about the Trump Tax Cuts is the looming fiscal crisis driven by the growing convergence of runaway tax cutting since 2001, chronic escalating defense and war spending, more frequent deeper crashes of the economy with slower economic growth between, and now since 2022 accelerating trillion dollar annual interest costs on the U.S. national debt.
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Capitalism | China | Online Blog | USA
China Challenging US Domination – 5 Articles on Global Politics
‘The New Silk Road and the Threat to American Domination’; ‘SWIFT’s Decline: How Global Powers are Escaping the Dollar Trap’; ‘Iran Ready to Ditch GPS for China’s BeiDou’; ‘Trump and China in Brazil’; and: ‘Iran Confronts Europe’s Trigger Mechanism–with Eurasian Allies at its Side’.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Latin America | Online Blog | USA
Trump’s Latin American Policies Go South
In Latin America and the Caribbean, the empire’s war on the world assumes a hybrid form, with the weapons taking the form of “soft power” – sanctions, tariffs and deportations. Resistance is growing, with new alliances bypassing Washington. As the empire’s grip tightens, so too does the resolve of those determined to break free from it.
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What Is Happening in Myanmar?
Since the 2021 coup, Myanmar’s civil war has escalated into its most violent phase in decades. The scale of the conflict is bewildering. Between 60-200 armed groups are now active, with members in total numbering between 150,000 to 300,000 individuals engaged in the world’s most prolonged revolution.
