Since the birth of the nation-state, corruption has manifested in one form or another. The intrinsic nature of corruption has created a tremendous burden on the state and society. It has caused strain and stress on maintaining the national...
Former US national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski warned in 2002 that Israel was losing its global standing as Israeli-Palestinian violence escalated during the second Intifada or uprising against Israeli occupation.
At the time, Brzezinski, the former advisor to US Presidents...
THE fact that the world economy has slowed down since the financial crisis of 2008 is beyond dispute. In fact even conservative American economists have started using the term “secular stagnation” to describe the current situation (though they have...
By Lirar Pulikkalakath and Aleena Chacko
Photo credit: RABIH DAHER/AFP via Getty Images.
Introduction
West Asia sadly remains a tinder box of interrelated and multiple conflicts that could explode at any moment if the state and non-state actors continue their aggressiveness. The...
Posted on October 5, 2024 by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
The US president Joe Biden sprang a surprise during a press gaggle with reporters outside the White House on Thursday when he essentially didn’t rule out a potential meeting with his...
Photo by Bianca Berg
At a campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Trump invoked a chilling convergence of law, order, and violence—a cornerstone of what can only be described as his politics of disposability. By referencing The Purge, a dystopian film...
By Kenneth Surin
Frederic Jameson in conversation at Fundacíon Juan March.
I have known Fred Jameson for 38 years, and was his colleague for 31 of those years. Many would say 90 is a ripe old age, but the loss of...
BY Ramzy Baroud
Image by Mohammed al Bardawil.
The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in south Lebanon is that the Lebanese are hiding long-range missile launchers...
A GOOD deal of analysis of the recent political upheaval in Bangladesh has focussed on the high-handedness and authoritarianism of Sheikh Hasina’s government; it has either missed altogether, or generally underplayed, the change that has occurred in the economic...
What sets Israel’s war on Gaza apart is not only its violent military operations, marked by the indiscriminate killing of women and children, but also its relentless assault on dissent, criticism, and even the mildest opposition to its internationally...
