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Atilio Borón The Bolivian tragedy eloquently teaches several lessons that our peoples and popular social and political forces must learn and record in their consciences forever. Here, a brief enumeration. First, no matter how much the economy is managed in an exemplary way as the Evo government did, growth, redistribution, flow of investments are guaranteed…
Naomi Oreskes It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time. Scientists have been seriously investigating the subject of human-made climate change since the late…
Prabhat Patnaik (This article was written before the Indian government announced that it was not joining the RCEP. It continues to be relevant, as there is enormous pressure on the government to join the trade agreement– Editor.) On October 24–25, there were widespread peasant protests all over the country against the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership…
Ana Paula Vargas & Vijay Prashad Just before 5 p.m. on Friday the 8th of November, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked out of his prison in Curitiba, Brazil. Lula went to prison in April last year on a 12-year sentence. Five-hundred and eighty days of prison are now over, as the…
Courtesy: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research [Developed country multinational firms are engaged in plunder of Africa’s resources at a colonial scale, which is to also say that these countries do not have sovereignty over their own resources. Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research recently spoke with Gyekye Tanoh, head of the Political Economy Unit at the…
Robert Hunziker It is the fastest-growing environmental movement ever. As such, it is only too obvious that “people get it” when it comes to climate change/global warming because they’re jumping aboard like swarms of locusts. In fact, XR’s truthful exposure of the climate crisis/global warming is single-handedly turning average citizens of the world into fighting…
Sandeep Pandey, Yugal Kishore Shashtri and Lubna Sarwath With the exception of few, every leader of political or social importance is making an appeal to the common people to maintain peace and communal harmony in the wake of Supreme Court judgement in the Ram Janambhumi-Babri Masjid case as part of which the entire 2.77 acres…
Akash Bhattacharya, Debaditya Bhattacharya and Swati Moitra In response to the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s invitation for “inputs and suggestions” from citizens on the Draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019, we would like to register our observations and opinions on the vision of higher education reform proposed therein. While the former HRD minister’s message…
B. Arjun Six years back, Prime Minister Modi embarked on selling the “great power” dream to the Indian masses. In 2014, Modi announced his intention to make India a “leading power” in the international order. He assumed that the country was in a perfect position to manage global affairs to serve national interests. Many Rashtriya…
Bharat Dogra While social, economic and technological progress has made possible significant improvements in health to a certain extent and within certain limits, at the same time it cannot and should not be ignored that several regressive factors have also been in at work and in some contexts these have been becoming more dangerous…
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