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For the BJP, the Muslim is not just the message, it is the only message
The reason the party’s cartoon has evoked horror is because we have seen this sort of singular obsession with a targeted religious minority before and know where it leads.
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As U.S. threatens war with Russia, Biden administration unveils imperial strategy for Indo-Pacific that could lead to war with China
Already threatening war with Russia, the White House this month has unveiled a new imperial grand strategy for the Indo-Pacific that raises the prospects of war with China.
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Don’t believe the hype, big finance continues to threaten our survival
According to defenders of the status quo, the best response to our most serious problems is to let markets work their magic; government regulation of private business activity only makes things worse.
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MANN OVERBOARD – Review of Michael Mann’s ‘The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet’
Michael Mann is one of the world’s leading climate scientists, who has played a pivotal role in establishing what is happening to our climate and the forces driving that change.
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What accounts for Putin’s assertiveness on Ukraine?
What about this China factor? Why do Western pundits/savants pay so little heed to this game-changer? It should not require my half-century of studying/reporting on Russia-China relations to notice that China and Russia have never been so strategically close as now.
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Financialization at heart of economic malaise
COVID-19 has exposed major long-term economic vulnerabilities. This malaise–including declining productivity growth–can be traced to the greater influence of finance in the real economy.
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The capitalist imperative driving cruel and bipartisan U.S. migration policies
Capitalism’s need for labor is the determining factor in immigration policy. Its contradictions create a system that is consistently inhumane.
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India, China in Europe’s crisis
The key elements conform to a principled stance—and a balanced one. India’s stance so far has been one of a ‘standoffish’ attitude that basically absolves Delhi of the need to take a position on which its key ally the United States and the time-tested Russian friend have locked horns.
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To eradicate global poverty and cut global carbon emissions, rich nations must change their consumption patterns
Sometimes the aching injustice of human-caused climate change hits you square between the eyes. A new fact rears up that is potent, emotive and incontrovertible.
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Taking on the Philippine axis of evil
I was initially pushed to try to run for president. I really did not want to, because I felt somebody younger and more vigorous should. I am 76! – Walden Bello
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Where did the Dependency Approach go?
Capitalism, it seems, had been deemed too messy a concept to provide much use to researchers in explaining phenomena.
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War in Europe and the rise of raw propaganda
The war hysteria that has rolled in like a tidal wave in recent weeks and months is the most striking example. Known by its jargon, “shaping the narrative,” much if not most of it is pure propaganda.
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An unimaginable contrast
Much has been written about the immense increase in economic inequality that has occurred of late and various startling figures have been provided by bodies like Oxfam, which has just come out with a report titled ‘Inequality Kills.’
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Ukraine – Who is firing at whom and who is lying about it?
The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has an observer mission along the line of control between the government and rebel side in south east Ukraine.
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Talking to your kid about climate change
Emotions are at the heart of the matter ❣️
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The Maoist ‘Exceptionalism’ at the Heart of China’s COVID Strategy
Arguably the best known contemporary proponent of Chinese exceptionalism in the English-language is Martin Jacques, best known for his 2009 bestseller ‘When China Rules the World’, a tour-de-force in the repackaging of orientalist tropes for the 21st-century.
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Political prisoners in Cuba?
Can those prosecuted for acts of violence and recklessly endangering the public order, with no program, no proposals for positive change, be considered political prisoners?
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Anticolonialism
A. is based on recognition of the right of all peoples to dispose of an independent state.
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Truths and lies about pledges made to Russia
The information war surrounding tensions between NATO and Russia over Ukraine often leads to distortions of historical reality.
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The Battle of Billings Bridge
Ottawa residents’ blockade of the convoy is a model for confronting the extreme-right.