Paul Street
Image by Jade Koroliuk.
As we approach the second anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s worth reflecting on who bears the main responsibility for the subsequent “inter-imperialist US-Russia proxy war,” an epic slaughter that produced 500,000 deaths and injuries...
Walden Bello
Photograph Source: Marcin Monko – CC BY 2.0
When the first World Social Forum was held in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2001, it was meant as a counterpoint to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Davos was the...
Kottayam: The social audit of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme needs to be implemented with the assistance of an independent jury system to enhance its effectiveness, as emphasized by Dr. TM Thomas Isaac, former Finance Minister. He was...
There couldn’t be a better metaphor than what a Chinese analyst used to characterise the NATO while commenting on its secretary general Jens Stoltenberg’s recent remark that the West does not seek war with Russia but should still “prepare...
One of the regional heavyweights in South Asia after India, Pakistan is making headlines on the issues of political instability, economic crises and non-traditional security threats. A recent jail sentence of 10 years has been meted out to a...
Increasingly, the United States is caught in a Catch-22 with tension mounting in the Red Sea, Israel maintaining unabated its assault on the Gaza Strip, and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) possibly ruling that Israel may be committing...
ARGENTINA’S new president Javier Milei proposes to use US dollars as the currency of his country, while abolishing its central bank altogether. What is involved in this proposal is not just maintaining a fixed exchange rate between the dollar...
Israel has outlined plans for the post-Hamas Gaza Strip Administration. It wants total security to be ensured. Israel in this plan has proposed the Palestinian Authority to take charge of the territory with a multinational force to rebuild the...
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BEIRUT (ILO News) – At least 66 per cent of employment has been lost in Gaza since hostilities erupted on 7 October, equivalent to 192,000 jobs, revised estimates by the ILO and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics...
© Shutterstock/Juice Flair | Factory workers lifting a new solar panel from the production line.
An UNCTAD study released at COP28 examines how 60 developing countries have integrated trade into their national pledges under the Paris Agreement, known as Nationally...
