After years of calling Venezuela’s economy a dismal failure that demonstrates the dangers of socialism, Western media is now lauding its recovery for ’embracing capitalism’ — but this is not accurate, argues Francisco Dominguez In its intensely biased coverage of Venezuela during the hard years of 2014-21 the mainstream media wheeled in every imaginable academic pundit to “demonstrate” that the[Read More…]
The world has been stunned by a double wonder: Bolivarian Venezuela’s political survival and its miraculous economic recovery: the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean has reported that it expects the Venezuelan economy to grow for the first time since 2014, by 5 per cent, one of the highest in the region. Venezuela’s rate of inflation has come[Read More…]
Men [and women]make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. – Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. A few days ago, when[Read More…]
Since a US-backed coup toppled Mel Zelaya in 2009, Honduras has faced a clampdown on democracy and serious human rights abuses. But the election of socialist Xiomara Castro is a chance to break the cycle. What appeared impossible has been achieved: the people of Honduras have broken the perpetuation, through electoral fraud and thuggish violence, of a brutal, illegal, illegitimate,[Read More…]
Francisco Dominguez writes: After a full year of racist and repressive horror perpetrated by a de facto government resulting from a coup, the people of Bolivia went to the polls on October 18, 2020 and stunned their own country and the world by giving Evo Morales’ MAS-IPSP party candidate, Luis Arce, a landslide. The coup d’état that installed a racist regime led[Read More…]
When in 1868, Cuban slave-owner Manuel de Céspedes embarked on a 10-year nationalist uprising against Spain, the colonial master, he did not imagine he would be building not only the political bases of an independent Cuba but also the ideological blocks of a new Cuban identity. Scholars correctly point out that Ten Years War (1868-78) turned out to be the[Read More…]
Sale of talcum powder to be stopped globally by Johnson & Johnson 
This Is No Time for Climate Complacency 
A Military Rich in Dollars, Poor in People 
RSS’s International Wing Defeated at Californian City of Manteca 
European Imperialism and How India and Pakistan Won and Lost August 14-15, 1947 National Freedom 
Battle for possession of the Tricolour 
Finding new and unfamiliar voices to tackle the climate crisis 
How easy it is to be a patriot 
Taliban Break Up Afghan Women’s Protest in Kabul 
India: 75 Years of Independence 
Opposition to Laal Singh Chaddha is because its story doesn’t fit into BJP’s divisive agenda 
Europe Dries Up 
After 75-years of Independence 
Employees Pension Scheme: Not consistent with human dignity 
Fact-Finding Report of Himmatnagar and Khambhat Riots in Gujarat 
Whose FREEDOM@75? 
India’s position on the World Hunger Index has fallen and malnutrition and unemployment rising 
Azadi ka Amrit: Between compulsive flag-waving and conditional rations 
Condemn the brutal attack on Salman Rushdie 
Ideas 
Warmer Nights Could Lead To A 60% Increase In Global Mortality, Finds Study 
A Brief Outline of Strategy for the New Phase of Janatha Aragalaya 
5G Spectrum – Is it a distress sale? CAG may look at it carefully 
Information Overload: A New Challenge for a Modern Man to Tackle 
Sit-in protests by the families of the missing – 2000 days with no response from the Government 
The Inflation Reduction Act – Is it Enough Soon Enough? 
Two Most Important Crises of World Today and Their Inter-Connection 
The plight of homemakers, post-Covid-19 
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Independence – Why Gandhi-Nehru brothers RSS-BJP? 
75th anniversary of Indian Independence Part 2 -Post-1947 period 
What’s that decisive moment in art and life? Nafrat Chodo – Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan! 
Europe Faces Worst Drought In 500 Years 
This happens there in the US 
What ails the World of Medical Education? Caste Discrimination in the World of Medical Education 75th Anniversary of Indian Independence Part 1 –Analysis of pre-1947 to present 
Ukraine Is a Wake-Up Call for Europe 
Cosmology: Humanly Irrelevant 
The Inflation Reduction Act – just more time-wasting pretend mitigation? 
The Decline and Fall of Everything (Including Me) 
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