The Russian invasion of Ukraine is producing secondary crises. Some are well publicised, such as the threat to world food supplies because the war has prevented Ukraine exporting millions of tons of grain from its Black Sea ports. The...
BY SANDY SMITH-NONINI
On February 24, as Russia invaded Ukraine, Guardian reporter Fiona Harvey posed the interesting question: “Is Putin’s Invasion About Fossil Fuels?” Indeed, modern warfare is enabled by fossil fuels. Historians have remarked on the decisive role that access...
ADAM Smith and David Ricardo had been haunted by the idea of capitalism ending up in a “stationary state”, by which they meant a stable state of zero growth. Marx used the term “simple reproduction” to describe such a...
Independent of the strong rebuttals by the ministry of external affairs, which rightly distinguished party politics from governmental policy in theoretical terms, the avoidable controversy over Prophet Mohammed, triggered by two Bharatiya Janata Party spokespersons, has the potential to...
A statesman famous to some and infamous to others, Henry Kissinger, a nonagenarian doyen of diplomacy invites curiosity and criticisms of his global policy posture. I came to know about his name for the first time from my Professor...
HE chancellor of the exchequer of Britain, whose official residence is only next door to the British prime minister’s, is Rishi Sunak, a person of Indian origin. Britain’s home secretary is Priti Patel, also of Indian origin. The US...
Amid continuing pandemic, international agencies come out with reports of increasing poverty and inequality globally, even as the number of billionaires has gone up across the world. The latest report by Oxfam International says that the combined crises of...
by Richard Falk
Photograph Source: Mvs.gov.ua – CC BY 4.0
The deepening current Ukraine Crisis is properly linked to the Russian aggression that commenced with a massive military attack against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and has continued to ravage the...
Photo credit: Al Jazeera
RUSSIA and Ukraine together account for 30 per cent of the world’s wheat exports. Many African countries, in particular, are heavily dependent on them for their food supplies, which are now getting disrupted because of the...
Nepal's bilateral relations with the United States were forged in 1947 during the petering out of the Rana oligarchy in the post-War World. The U. was one of the four countries besides Britain, India, and France to tie up...
