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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Unlike in the 1930s, now it is globalised capital, with which domestic big business is integrated, confronting the nation-State.
When it comes to Africa, France has always been clear about its plan to dominate and exploit. Also, while other western powers, including the U.S. have participated in neo-colonial projects, French efforts have included an extra dose of nasty. But now the situation seems to be changing.
Walter Rodney wrote, “The development of Europe [was] part of the same dialectical process in which Africa was underdeveloped.” In recent decades, Canada has played an outsized role in this process of underdevelopment – particularly in Burkina Faso.
Collectively, we need to imagine a world in which we as Americans are no longer the foremost merchants of death, in which we don’t imagine ourselves as the eternal global police force, in which we don’t spend as much on our military as the next 10 countries combined.
We need to move beyond U.S. myopia and analyze U.S.-Korea policy in terms of “deep rationality.” That is, the underlying reasons for behavior not articulated by the actors, perhaps out of prudence, but also quite likely because they are not aware of them themselves.
The Hawaiian movement for self-determination was forever changed by the fierce and unapologetic leadership of the late Haunani-Kay Trask. This loving obituary written by one of Trask’s mentees explores her powerful legacy.
What unites the West Indian islands is not language and culture, but the wretchedness of slavery, rooted in an oppressive plantation economy. Both Haiti and Cuba are products of this ‘peculiarity’, the one being bold enough to break the shackles in 1804, and the other able to follow a 150 years later.
A discussion with seasoned communards of one of Venezuela’s flagship communes about how they see the country’s situation, the solutions they have learned through experience, and the future they project for the besieged country.
It was in Cuba that Hemingway wrote his iconic novel ‘The Old Man and the Sea’. That book won him the Nobel Prize in October 1954. “This is one prize that belongs to Cuba, because my work was conceived and created in Cuba,” he said.
We don’t need billionaires out to “conquer space.” We need to conquer inequality.
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