What we have here, writes Vijay Prashad, is a government adhering to the religion of privatization and eager to cannibalize Visakha Steel THE long and distant epoch of pre-history, dated to
Today is the 46th anniversary of the death of the national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The death anniversary of Nazrul, widely known as the rebel poet, is observed in Bangladesh
The Lanka government seems prepared to disregard objections of the international human rights organisations that are lobbying for stricter sanctions against the country’s political leadership engaging in human rights violations,
LAST week the tenth anniversary of the massacre of striking miners at Marikana was marked in South Africa. The televised state murder became one of the ruptures in the flow
THE United States, with a GDP of $24.5 trillion and per capita income of $76,000 and China, with a GDP of $19.9 trillion and per capita income of $14,000, are
Small farmers are the world’s primary food providers. Adele says it’s imperative for policymakers to listen to them, not the big corporate WORSENING harvests, infertile soil and increasing food poverty are affecting
I HAVE long wondered whether our mainstream journalists, correspondents and commentators get dressed each morning in the same locker room, so similarly do they account for things. This has been
Taliban-ruled Afghanistan’s new golden age of coal reveals a country that is going back to old-fashioned ways, writes Rashmee Roshan Lall IN THE year since the Americans left Kabul, giving
ACCORDING to the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, the natural condition of mankind was a state of war in which life was ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’ because individuals were in
The archaeological remains of past civilisations, including those of the prehistoric Cahokia temple mound complex in Illinois, are sobering reminders of our fate, writes Chris Hedges I AM standing atop a