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Numerous Western political leaders and media outlets have blamed the Sri Lankan crisis on a supposed Chinese “debt trap”. In reality, the vast majority of the South Asian nation’s foreign debt is owed to the West.
Sri Lanka’s citizens’ movement known as the Janatha Aragalaya (Peoples’ Struggle), notched its most significant victory yet, when Gotabaya Rajapaksa announced that he would quit on 13 July. The Rajapaksas have tumbled. The system that spawned them has not.
An interview with the former president of Bolivia about a range of subjects — including the British-backed coup of 2019, Julian Assange, NATO and transnational corporations — at Morales’ house deep in the Amazon rainforest.
Why have Tory MPs lost their heads and defenestrated one of their very few leaders capable of galvanizing popular support? It appears to be a galloping case of the post-imperial entropy diagnosed by Tom Nairn many decades ago, through which ‘the English conservative Establishment has begun to destroy itself.’
A conversation with Jamie Martin about the imperial origins of the world’s economic governance, imagining an alternative to these institutions, and his new book, ‘The Meddlers’.
In this recent interview, Jacques Baud speaks about what is now happening in Ukraine, and the enthusiastic warmongering that still persists in the West.
What is crucially being overlooked by most diagnoses of the current food crisis is how the problem does not lie in a lack of supply, or lack of market integration, but instead in how the food system is structured around power.
The current crisis in Sri Lanka is not only a political crisis; it is also a structural breakdown of the way in which neoliberalism has sought to legitimise its own regime of accumulation. This presents an opportunity to propose radical solutions that could reconstruct the State on more egalitarian grounds.
The global food crisis is being blamed on the war in Ukraine. Certainly, this war has been a catalyst for the recent spikes in food prices—but seeing that as the only cause is not just simplistic; it risks policy inaction to address some of the other factors, that can be controlled.
Agricultural competition over land use between the U.S. and Russia—two gigantic capitalist countries with the most powerful nuclear arsenals in the world—is a neglected but important force driving the war in Ukraine.
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