For Many Indian Women, Lack of Toilet Access Poses Health Risks
For low-income residents across India, and particularly women, bathroom use is dictated by poor toilet infrastructure.
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Xi of Arabia and the Petroyuan Drive
It would be so tempting to qualify Chinese President Xi Jinping landing in Riyadh a week ago, welcomed with royal pomp and circumstance, as Xi of Arabia proclaiming the dawn of the petroyuan era. But it’s more complicated than that.
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Britain Stole Their Land to Plant Tea. Now They Want it Back
A colonial-era land grab in Kenya saw Britain evict half a million people. Now survivors are confronting some of the UK’s most powerful institutions, from Unilever to King Charles, in a bid to reclaim their land.
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Aruna Asaf Ali and Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: Revolutionary Women in the Freedom Struggle
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay and Aruna Asaf Ali were two prominent women in the freedom struggle who were near contemporaries. Examining their lives together uncovers an essential unity in their vision, which may not have been realized during their life-time but serves as an inspiration today.
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Ethiopia Nears Victory in its Civil War, U.S. Scrambles to Control the Outcome
War between Ethiopia and the TPLF may be coming to an end, but the US is using sanctions to have the final word despite the apparent defeat of its proxy.
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What’s Behind the Escalations in Korea?
For the first time in five years, tensions in the Korean peninsula are escalating. This comes in the context of a U.S. military buildup in the Pacific, driven by greater capitalist competition between the United States and China.
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Ukraine’s Revenge on the West
As the balance of power shifts again in Ukraine, its reverberations will impact the very unity of the EU project.
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Britain’s Forgotten War for Rubber
70 years ago the UK stepped up a brutal colonial intervention in Malaya, presenting it as a war against Chinese communism. British forces herded hundreds of thousands of people into fortified camps, heavily bombed rural areas and resorted to extensive propaganda to win the conflict.
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The Greatest Replacement
What is now called Israel, and should rightfully be called Palestine, is the result of the greatest replacement of the last centuries.
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Extreme Life
Hell on earth? That used to be nothing more than a phrase used for extreme situations, a first-class metaphor. Increasingly, though, it’s becoming an ever more accurate description of our lives on this planet and something we would have to get used to. Except that, for many of us in such a future, there would be no way to do so.
