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  • | Africa is a Country The core of Samir Amins politics | MR Online

    Beyond Eurocentrism

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on May 1, 2022 (more by Janata Weekly)  | (Posted May 06, 2022)

    With the publication of Orientalism in 1978, Edward Said would become one of the most influential scholars of our era. The book transformed the study of the history of the modern world, as it offered insights into how racist discourses created and maintained European empires.

  • | Indian Rivers are in ICUs Drying up FastWaterman Rajendra Singh | MR Online

    ‘Indian Rivers are in ICUs, Drying up Fast’ — Waterman Rajendra Singh

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on April 3, 2022 by Indra Shekhar Singh (more by Janata Weekly)  | (Posted Apr 06, 2022)

    “Twenty-one Indian cities are going to be waterless very soon,” Rajendra Singh tells me in an interview for NewsClick conducted last week in Delhi. Singh is alluding to a prediction in a Niti Aayog report on water. He says, “It means that the underground and surface water availability will become zero.” Another report says 72% of water reservoirs are in overdraft.

  • | The End of Growth | MR Online

    The end of growth? The capitalist economy & ecological crisis

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on January 30, 2022 by Conor Payne and Chris Stewart (more by Janata Weekly)  | (Posted Feb 07, 2022)

    Many ecologists, activists and academics argue that an obsession with economic growth is the cause of our current ecological crisis and a commitment to “degrowing” the economy is the solution.

  • | Kerala Scheme Shows How to Create Work Opportunities While Caring for the Environment | MR Online

    Kerala scheme shows how to create work opportunities while caring for the environment

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on January 16, 2022 by Seema Mundoli and Harini Nagendra (more by Janata Weekly)  | (Posted Jan 25, 2022)

    Environment and employment two fronts on which India has been besieged in recent years. Unemployment since 2011 has worsened in the aftermath of the COVID-19 lockdowns. About 100 million workers lost their jobs with women and the youth being more adversely impacted.

  • | A Place of Hope in a Time of Spiralling Crisis | MR Online

    A place of hope in a time of spiralling crisis

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on January 16, 2022 by Nigel Gibson (more by Janata Weekly)  | (Posted Jan 21, 2022)

    South Africa has many moments in its long history of struggle that are recognised internationally as turning points. These include the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, the Soweto uprising in 1976 and Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1990.

  • | Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists | MR Online

    Why neoliberalism needs neofascists

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on August 29, 2021 (more by Janata Weekly)  |

    It has been four decades since neoliberal globalization began to reshape the world order. During this time, its agenda has decimated labor rights, imposed rigid limits on fiscal deficits, given massive tax breaks and bailouts to big capital, sacrificed local production for multinational supply chains, and privatized public sector assets at throwaway prices.

  • | Pegasus Why the Booming Surveillance Software Industry Is Vulnerable to Abuse | MR Online

    Pegasus: why the booming surveillance software industry is vulnerable to abuse; also: Snowden interview

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on August 1, 2021 by Christian Kemp and David Pegg (more by Janata Weekly)  | (Posted Aug 05, 2021)

    The world’s most sophisticated commercially-available spyware may be being abused, according to an investigation by 17 media organisations in ten countries.

  • | Karl Marx March Ye Workers and the World Shall be Free | MR Online

    Karl Marx: March ye workers, and the World shall be free!

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on May 16, 2021 by Shubham Sharma (more by Janata Weekly)  | (Posted May 20, 2021)

    Exactly 203 years ago, Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany, on May 5, 1818 to a family of converted Christians belonging to the line of Jewish Rabbis which ended with Moses Lwow, Trier Rabbi from 1764 to 1788.

  • | Why the US Shouldnt Play Games with Cyberwarfare as Its Power Declines | MR Online

    Why the U.S. shouldn’t play games with cyberwarfare as its power declines

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on April 18, 2021 (more by Janata Weekly)  |

    Two major cyberhacks—of ‘SolarWinds’ and ‘Microsoft Exchange Server’—have affected a whole range of computer systems worldwide. Both are supply chain hacks, meaning that they appeared to be routine software upgrades for particular components in these systems instead of inserted malicious codes.

  • | When the Powers That Be Are in Contempt of the People | MR Online

    When the powers that be are in contempt of the people

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on August 23, 2020 by Radha Kumar (more by Janata Weekly)  | (Posted Sep 07, 2020)

    After decades, the issue of contempt has come alive. For this, we have to be grateful to Prashant Bhushan and the Supreme Court of India.

Monthly Review Essays

  • The Obama Line, Samantha Power, and U.S. Intervention in West Africa During the Ebola Epidemic
    Jean-Philippe Stone | © UN PhotoMartine Perret | CC BYNCND 20 | MR Online

    December 2013 marked the beginning of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Ebola, a severe hemorrhagic virus which causes muscle and joint pain, diarrhea, vomiting, and bleeding, spread from Guinean forests to the capitals of Liberia and Sierra Leone by the summer of 2014.

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin | State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv Ukraine | MR Online

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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