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‛The Lithium Frontier: Empire, Oligarchs, and the Struggle for the Salt Flats of the Andes’; ‛Lithium Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A New Mineral Rush Spearheaded by the United States, Europe, and Other Major Powers’.
The path offered by the IMF to Senegal’s debt crisis promises stability, but results in perpetual stagnation. The alternatives outlined in this article are more politically demanding, and more confrontational. But they open the possibility of a different trajectory: one in which development, rather than debt repayment, becomes the organising principle of economic policy.
Claudio Katz assesses the newfound prominence in Argentine politics of Workers’ Left Front – Unity (FIT-U) MP Myriam Bregman, and outlines some of the debates on the left. Katz also examines Argentina’s political situation, its economic crisis and President Javier Milei’s declining support, within a regional framework marked by events in Cuba, Venezuela, and Bolivia.
‛Empire in Uniform: A Literary Reflection on Pakistan’s Military State’; ‛The Women of Huda Jail: Conscience Behind Bars and the Enduring Baloch Quest for Dignity’; ‛Shattered Bottles, Shattered Dreams: Afghan Refugees in Limbo’.
This article looks at how new historical knowledge about agriculture in North America informs the debate on the mass death of indigenous people in North America in the early period of European settlement. Was it genocide, or were their weak immune systems to blame?
Climate collapse is no accident. This catastrophe is deeply entwined with the historical development of a system organized around competitive accumulation, structural growth, and incentivized abandonment of ecological responsibility.
This year marks the centenary of the birth of Marilyn Monroe. Despite the image cultivated by the misogynist Hollywood publicity machine, she was a highly politicised woman, a performer of sharp comic intelligence, a canny architect of her own image, and a woman who reshaped the possibilities for female stardom on screen.
‛Bharathiraja and the Cinema of Social Justice’; ‛Bharathiraja: A Human Rights Visionary’: Two tributes to the legendary filmmaker who brought rural Tamil Nadu to the silver screen.
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