ECONOMICS
Modi's
surgical strike on the Indian people
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's drastic action to combat 'black money' in India has caused
needless misery to the poor without really effectively tackling the problem.
By
Jayati Ghosh
Robots
could cause massive job losses in developing countries
Nearly
two-thirds of all jobs in developing countries could be lost as a result of automation,
says a UN report.
By
Chee Yoke Heong
WORLD
AFFAIRS
Empire
of chaos
With the 2016 US elections, the disorder that the
US has engendered abroad in its pursuit of empire has at last come home.
By
Tom Engelhardt
The
de facto US-Al Qaeda alliance in Syria
Buried deep inside the
29 October edition of The New York Times was a grudging acknowledgement
that the US-armed 'moderate' rebels in Syria are using their US firepower to back
an Al Qaeda offensive.
By Robert
Parry
Venezuela
on the brink?: A look beyond the spin
While there is no denying
that Venezuela is going through a difficult economic phase and its people are
having a hard time accessing food, the media coverage of the current situation
is extremely distorted.
By
Christina Schiavoni and William
Camacaro
South
Africa's deprivations and depravations
South Africa is currently
experiencing a period of political turbulence. The writer explains what is behind
it.
By Patrick Bond
HUMAN
RIGHTS
Pursuit
of profit undermining workers' rights worldwide - UN expert
A
UN rights rapporteur has reminded governments that 'Labour rights are human rights'.
By Kanaga Raja
Canadian
indigenous injustice - a colonial problem?
A legacy of colonial
injustice persists today for indigenous people in Canada subjected to unspeakable
abuse, violence and prejudice daily.
By
Rose Delaney
WOMEN
#NiUnaMenos:
Not one woman less, not one more death!
Recent protests against
femicide in Argentina reveal the deep roots and spreading branches of feminist
activism in Latin America.
By
Elisabeth Jay Friedman and Constanza Tabbush
TRIBUTE
The
voice of the Third World
Fidel Castro (1926-2016)’s speech
at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit) could
very well be his epitaph.
By
Vijay Prashad
POETRY
Dew
Linus Suryadi AG (1951-1999), who died tragically at the age of 48,
was a promising poet and prose writer. He belonged to a literary generation which
made Indonesian regional settings the focus of its writing.
By
Linus Suryadi AG
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