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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Is the increasing influence of China in international affairs a threat to world order? The US thinks so. The US is a declining power, and its decline is “mostly from internal blows.” What’s next for US imperial power, and will be its impact on the world stage?
The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.
Interview with Black Agenda Report editor Margaret Kimberley about George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, 246 years after they signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. She discusses the personal and institutional hypocrisy which allowed those who said, “All men are created to equal,” to be slaveholders.
Saudi Arabia is one of the top destinations in the world for human traffickers, slave labour and sex trafficking. It is out of control.
Panama has been paralyzed by huge protests for more than three weeks. The uprising is rooted in rising prices and worsening inequality. Finally, in July-end, the government signed agreements to cap fuel prices, medicine prices and increase the education budget.
Book Review: John Feinstein, ‘Raise a Fist, Take a Knee: Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports’. This book is a storehouse of inspiring anti-fascist and social justice stories.
Cuba has moved from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few decades, an extraordinary feat indeed. Also: Reminiscences of E.P. Menon from his visit to Cuba in 1966 as a part of an Indian delegation to the first ever Tri-Continental Conference.
Economic exploitation is only one aspect of capitalism. The crisis of humanity and the crisis of the earth system are inseparable.
Sahir’s lyrics for the Hindi film ‘Didi’ (1959) continue to have great contemporary relevance.
English translation of Pakistani poet, human-rights activist and feminist, Fahmida Riaz, oft-quoted nazm, “Tum bilkul hum jaise nikle”.
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