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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
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.
Federal interferences with state rights have been there for decades both in US and India, but the sheer brazenness and the dizzying pace of the current assaults on federalism are unprecedented.
‘The UN Embraces Colonialism: Unpacking the Security Council’s Mandate for the U.S. Colonial Administration of Gaza’; ‘Why Did Russia Abstain From the Latest UNSC Resolution on Gaza Instead of Veto It?’; ‘Weapons of Willpower: Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Trump’s Gaza Plan’.
The struggle against fossil capitalism is inseparable from struggles for justice in the Middle East.
‘Syria Comes In from the Cold’; ‘Trump Meets with Former al-Qaeda Leader Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House’: In reality, the regime headed by al-Sharaa is a bloody Islamist dictatorship, operating in alliance with US imperialism and in de facto alliance with Israel.
‘How Military Keynesianism Works’: How capitalism generates war and civil conflict. Also: ‘Capitalism and Endless War’: Europe is on the war path with grandiose plans for building a war economy akin to the American military-industrial complex.
Can Ukrainian President Zelensky survive a kickback scheme involving the state nuclear company that enriched associates and possibly even ministers in his own government, asks the author.
Jayati Ghosh illuminates how capitalism has exacerbated inequality not only due to market forces, but as a result of how wealthy countries and firms based within them have tilted the scales toward themselves, disenfranchising the rest of the world in the process. This pervasive economic inequality undermines the idea and practice of true democracy.
‘Big Loss for US Empire: Ecuador Votes to Reject Foreign Military Bases’: Ecuador’s Trump-backed right-wing oligarch President Daniel Noboa tried to rewrite the constitution to allow US military bases in the country’s territory. 61% of Ecuadorians voted against it. Also: ‘Ecuadorian People Deal a Crushing Blow to Neoliberalism in Noboa’s Referendum’.
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