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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The United States Department of State is observing with great concern that movements in Latin America have begun to take place that go beyond its control and that could affect its system of regional domination.
European monuments to historic slavers and colonizers are the latest victims of rising protests for justice.
For members of ‘nou pap Dòmi’, a collective within Haiti’s petroChallengers movement, the anti-corruption struggle is a space to imagine the kind of society they seek to create.
As the US withdraws its troops from Afghanistan, those supporting the US intervention justify it by pointing to the 9/11 attacks. But that is not true. Pre-9/11 interventionism is what brought about the 9/11 attacks, which were then used as the excuse for more interventionism.
Capital’s absolute disregard for life once again surfaces in Narayanganj, Bangladesh, where 52 workers have been burnt to death on 9 July 2021, after they were denied exit when fire broke out in the food-processing factory which had almost no fire-safety mechanisms installed.
Japan is currently wrestling with a coronavirus upsurge and less than 3 percent of the population is vaccinated. According to polls, as much as 80 percent of the country does not want to host the games, for fear of it exacerbating this omnipresent public health crisis.
One of the worst economic theories that has been forced upon poor countries is known as comparative advantage. This says that each country should specialise in what it can make, grow or do ‘best’. This theory is nothing but propaganda, to favour the developed countries.
China is the world’s second-largest economy and the world’s main industrial producer and exporter. How can we characterize the economic and social transformations that have marked China’s development over the past four decades?
There is a widespread belief that supporting “alternative energy” (AltE) allows everyone on Earth to pursue a lifestyle of endless consumerism. It avoids the real problem, which is capitalism’s uncontrollable drive for economic growth.
While conflict and war have written much of modern human history, they offer an incomplete narrative. Anthropological evidence suggests war is not innate to humanity. An interview with Doug P. Fry about his work studying peace systems and their potentially global implications.
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