“Domestic Debt Restructuring in Sri Lanka: Forcing the Poor to Pay the Debt of the Rich”
The IMF programme in Sri Lanka is devastating the common people of Sri Lanka, especially the most vulnerable and marginalised among them.
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China | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
Maldives Explores Life Outside Indo-Pacific
A massive western media barrage was to be expected caricaturing the election result of the runoff in the Maldives presidential poll in binary terms as China’s “gain” being India’s “loss”. Both assumptions about Muizzu are deeply flawed.
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How CIA and NSA Created Google
Google is what it is today – indeed, exists in the first place – due to funding and sponsorship from the CIA and NSA. That history has not only gone untold by the mainstream media, it has been systematically suppressed by the company, and the spying agencies involved over the past 25 years.
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Capitalism | Economy | Online Blog | USA
Poverty in the USA – 2 Articles; Also: Poverty Is a Natural By-Product of Capitalism
New US poverty data show a record jump in poverty. Poverty always increases when capitalism is in crisis. Also: “The U.S. is a Nation of Savage Inequality”.
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China’s Health and Health Care in the “New Era”
What is the state of health care in China? Wei Zhang analyzes the deep institutional issues that plague China’s health care system. Despite its timely and effective efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis, the system still faces deep-seated challenges, many of which can be traced directly to the marketization of hospitals and medical care.
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Degrowth – How Anti-Worker Would it Be?
Many of the accusations against degrowth have been answered. One accusation still seems to lack an adequate response: Is the US working class inherently anti-degrowth because it would mean a massive loss of jobs?
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The Prioritization of Human Health, Development and Self-Activity in Chavez-era Venezuela
The beginnings of two important programs of the Bolivarian Revolution, led by Hugo Chávez, are discussed: one, the missions, a new form of social services created to bypass recalcitrant bureaucrats and enable people’s participation; and two, the commune, to enable people to organize at the grassroots level.
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Revolutions Begin With ‘No’. And This Journey Starts with Asking Questions
It has never been easy to ask questions in human history. Those who have questioned have been persecuted, hounded, punished and even killed. Science has progressed because of the courage people had to say no. Philosophical movements and religions, too, began with questioning.
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Economic Miracle or Poverty in Greece
Letter from Greece: A Greek Immigrant Responds to the NYTimes
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Terrorising Journalism
‘Raiding’ an entire media organisation and snatching the electronic devices of journalists without due process is a bad omen for a free press but a worse signal for the continuation of democracy.
