‘How Many Minutes to Midnight?’
As we enter the 70th year of the Nuclear War Era, we should be contemplating with wonder that we have survived. We can only guess how many years remain.
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As we enter the 70th year of the Nuclear War Era, we should be contemplating with wonder that we have survived. We can only guess how many years remain.
‘The Costs of Covid’: The theory that the disease had been created in a lab in China as a weapon against the USA is fictitious. It blends ignorance, bigotry and denial with what the historian Richard Hofstadter called the “paranoid style” in American politics: “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy.” Also: ‘Covid-19 was 99% Likely from the US’.
Farooq Sulehria discusses the crisis along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the misconceptions within Pakistan’s military establishment, and the shifting global and regional power landscape.
The author reflects on the evolution of her intellectual political relationship to China, a journey that began with limited knowledge of a seemingly far-away land and ends with a nuanced understanding grounded in her on-the-ground experiences as a visiting professor at Peking University.
The atrocities committed by Western imperialist countries against people all over the world over the last several centuries have been so horrendous that using the term “civilization” to cover such behavior appears grotesque.
Centuries of plunder, forced labour and extraction built the wealth of Europe while impoverishing the Global South. The debt owed is not symbolic; it is measurable, moral and political. Reparations are not charity—they are justice long overdue.
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