2022 was the Year World Turned Against Strongman Politics. Bharat Jodo Is India’s Chance
From Brazil to the US to UK, this was the year mass democracies shifted the playbook of politics. India could be next in line to do that.
Media in the Digital Age
Digital media is increasingly taking over our lives—whether it is social media, digital classrooms or OTT platforms like Netflix. The dramatic changes in the technology of mass communications should be brought in line with the larger goals of humanity and a more humane society.
India’s Creeping Industrial Stagnation
The sharp and apparently intriguing fall in industrial production in October, and feeble post-Covid recovery, points to a deep-rooted malaise in the Indian economy.
Extractivism in the Anthropocene
In the Anthropocene, extractivism has become a core symptom of the planetary disease of late capitalism/imperialism, threatening humanity and the inhabitants of the earth in general.
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Peace Is Not Our Profession: The Madness of Nuclear Warfare, Alive and Well in America
Collectively, it seems that we may be on the verge of returning to a nightmarish past, where we lived in fear of a nuclear war that would kill us all, the tall and the small, and especially the smallest among us, our children, who really are our future.
I Witnessed the Truth about Nicaragua
The author went on a 10 day journey, and witnessed the reality of modern agriculture in Nicaragua and also celebrations commemorating the 43rd anniversary of their revolution. She writes about her experience.
Nicaragua’s Humane Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
Nicaragua has achieved one of the lowest rates of excess COVID-19 deaths in Latin America, the highest rates of COVID-19 vaccinations in Central America and one of the highest GDP growth rates in the region and world.
How to Defeat the Collective Imperialism of the Triad
An oligarchy is ruling all capitalist countries – the United States, Germany, France, Great Britain and Russia as well. It has converted all economic activity productions into subcontractors of monopoly capital.
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How Capitalism, Not a Few Bad Actors, Destroyed the Internet
Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today’s regime of surveillance advertising, and only public pressure and policy can undo it.
Why Foxconn Workers in China Walked Off the Job
In late October, rumours about mass infections of COVID-19 led to workers at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou jumping over factory walls to escape and head home. Eli Friedman talks about the history of Foxconn’s treatment of workers in China, and says that the exodus is a form of collective action in the absence of independent unions.