THE IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva has now openly admitted that the year 2023 will witness the slowing down of the world economy to a point where as much as one-third of it will see an actual contraction in...
New coalition government has outlined its policy priorities and programs in 21 point content based issues comprising headings of preamble, citizenship and Nepali identity, policy related and structural reforms, democracy, good governance and quality civic service, sustainable economic development...
Newly appointed Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal instructed 30 points of direction to the senior bureaucrats of the permanent government. Governance, public service delivery, and people's living situation-related issues were covered in the directive policy in Singhadurbar,...
Roberto J. González – David Price
Photo by Lianhao Qu
With the rapid growth of metadata and political and corporate surveillance in America during the last two decades, anthropologists Roberto J. González and David H. Price—long-time contributors to CounterPunch—have been studying...
Nepal witnessed two important electoral events in 2022 – local elections on May 13 and provincial and federal elections on November 20. The results of both elections are disturbing given the political equation developing in the country among mainstream...
Ceylon Today 30 December 2022
If one were to write the customary ‘Year That Was’ as circa 2022 draws to a close, it should be titled, as it is: “The Year That Should Not Have Been”. Yes, this is one...
The United States government held the US-Africa Leaders Summit in mid-December, prompted in large part by its fears about Chinese and Russian influence on the African continent. Rather than routine diplomacy, Washington’s approach in the summit was guided by...
THERE has been much discussion in public about the index of industrial production for October 2022 being 4 per cent lower than the index for October 2021; and quite rightly so, since no obvious explanations like a Covid-induced lockdown...
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government has approved three security documents—the National Security Strategy (NSS), the National Defense Strategy, and the Defense Construction Program—to strengthen Japan's defense capabilities. Japan is amid an increasingly volatile security environment. The Japanese government has...
Photograph Source: Kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0
Wars that do not end tend to escalate and spread. This is the message of the missile blast in Poland that killed two people, regardless of whether or not the missile was Ukrainian...
