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Wed, 22 Jan 2025, 07:53 pm

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Reliance on repression will worsen Lanka crisis

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,

South Africa: politics of death

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

Tumultuous US-China relations over the centuries

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

The system is causing food crisis, not the war

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

A hall of mirrors

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

Afghanistan’s new focus on coal

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

Consolidating govt power at expense of people

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

We will probably be the last civilisation to collapse

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

All disquiet on the eastern front

HAVE you noticed the latest coming out of Eastern Europe — the Estonians, the Lithuanians, the Latvians, the Czechs, and let us not forget the Ukrainians? Suddenly everyone thinks it

AUGUST 1975: Historical consequences

THERE are many positions on the killings of August 15 but they are mostly politically partisan. Immediately after 1975, some groups even observed the day as ‘day of deliverance’ —