Davos and the Melting World Economy
As billionnaires meet in luxury, Oxfam publishes a staggering condemnation of capital’s failure to meet humanity’s needs.
Argentina: Shock Therapy, Resistance, and the Role of the Left
With Congress likely to approve Milei’s neoliberal agenda, the only limits to his onslaught will come through mass mobilization, coordinated strike activity, and other forms of social unrest.
Seeds of Life: Guatemala Beyond Elections
As a new government takes office despite repeated attempts to undermine its ascent, Indigenous leaders reflect on the indefinite national strike in defense of democracy and the struggles that still lie ahead.
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Sunsetting the War on Terror — Or Not: The Stubborn Legacy of America’s Response to 9/11
There is certainly one lasting lesson from the war on terror: once powers previously outlawed or at least restrained in the name of fair, just, and responsible laws and norms become codified and implemented, the road back to normalcy is tantamount to impossible.
2023’s Unexpected and Unexplained Warming – And What 2024 Might Have in Store
A discussion on why 2023 was so exceptionally warm and what that might entail for our estimates of where 2024 will end up.
Legendary Palestinian Resistance; World Rises in Support – 3 Articles
‘100 Days of War and Resistance: Legendary Palestinian Resistance Will Be Netanyahu’s Downfall’; ‘Israel’s War on Palestine and the Global Upsurge Against It’; ‘Hundreds of Thousands March for Gaza as World Demands Cease-Fire’.
‘We the People’: A Call to Remember What the Indian Constitution Stands For
The constitution that the people of India gave to themselves was a product of mass struggle, political compromises, idealism and commitment to every citizen.
The Chief Justice, the Father of the Nation and Saffron ‘Dhwaja’ – 3 Articles
‘The Chief Justice and the Father of the Nation’: What would Gandhi have thought of a serving chief justice making public visits to temples and giving interviews about it? Also: ‘Why CJI Chandrachud’s Statement on the “Saffron Dhwaja as a Unifying Symbol” Raises Red Flags’; and: ‘Must Justice Have a Colour?’.
NITI Aayog’s Unbelievable Poverty Statistics – 4 Articles
‘Everything Wrong with NITI Aayog’s Claim of 24.8 Crore Emerging Out of Poverty in 9 Years’; ‘Niti Aayog “Poverty” Stats: Serious Theoretical, Methodological, Empirical Questions’; ‘Three Charts: What the Modi Government Wants Us to Forget Before the 2024 Lok Sabha Polls’; ‘Hunger, Undernutrition Stalking India; Placed Worse Than Least Developed Nations’.
As PM, India’s Modi Secretly Tried to Massively Cut State Funds
Modi tried to force the Finance Commission to cut back on the amount of tax revenue meant for India’s states.