by Walden Bello
A few months before the coronavirus shut down the world, Chile exploded against neoliberalism. A World Bank economist, Sebastian Edwards, was on the ground to record the rebellion:
On Oct 18, 2019, and to the surprise of most...
Photograp Source: Vox España – CC0
The EU elections over June 6 to June 9 have presented a chaotically merry picture, certainly for those on the right of politics. Not that the right in question is reliably homogeneous in any sense,...
Photo by aboodi vesakaran
Each year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) releases its World Migration Report. Most of these reports are anodyne, pointing to a secular rise in migration during the period of neoliberalism. As states in the poorer...
by Monika Zgustova
Still from Orson Welles’ The Trial (1962).
In the late 1980s, still during the communist era, while visiting Prague, a friend gave me Franz Kafka’s ‘The Castle’ in Czech. It was an edition from the 1960s, the decade...
by Joshua Frank
Image by Nat and Upslpash+.
As Amal Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza, the echoes of explosions and artillery fire could be heard all around...
by Ramzy Baroud
Image by Tristan Sosteric.
Inadvertently, Israel has pressed the reset button on its war with the Palestinian people, taking back the so-called conflict to square one.
Save for a few self-serving Palestinian officials affiliated with the Palestinian Authority (PA),...
by Michael Hudson
Photograph Source: Irisoptical – CC BY-SA 4.0
The recent Congressional hearings leading to a bloodbath of university presidents brings back memories from my teen-age years in the 1950s when everyone’s eyes were glued to the TV broadcast of...
Cathlyne Joy Alvarez-Abarejo
Truth is vaguely conceived in the method of the Philosophy for Children (P4C) program’s Community of Inquiry (COI or CPI) either as “discovered,” implied as objective and universal, or even “generated” or something subjectively and relatively...
India's Human Development Index (HDI) value rebounded in 2022, rising from 0.633 to 0.644, placing the country in the medium human development category. Additionally, India has made progress in reducing gender inequality, with a Gender Inequality Index (GII) value...
This year’s US presidential elections are not the only potential hurdle confronting President Joe Biden’s multi-pronged vision for a Middle East peace once the Gaza war ends.
So is Israeli intransigence, the prospect of a long-term insurgency in post-war Gaza,...
