While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society.
Vijay Prashad: Social Power Is Built Before It Is Seen
Category: Asia
Vijay Prashad: Profiting Off Food Kills Children
Every year in the for-profit food system, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of food-borne disease.
Vijay Prashad: Two Ways for East Asia
Contradiction has struck East Asia: the countries most deeply integrated into China’s vibrant economic system are also drawn into military preparations to confront it.
Vijay Prashad: Building a New Asia
Economic growth alone cannot secure genuine sovereignty in Asia; a platform for coordination is vital to safeguard the region against imperialism and neocolonialism.
How the Gas Crisis Impacts the Most Populous Country
The LPG shortage in India following Iran’s wartime blockage of the Hormuz Strait is leaving people and businesses in India frightened and suffering real losses, Betwa Sharma reports.
Is Trump Deluded About India No Longer Buying Russian Oil?
Donald Trump announced a trade deal with India in which Delhi is supposed to stop buying Russian oil. But India has said nothing about it, writes Betwa Sharma.
Vijay Prashad: APEC — A Creature of Its Time
The U.S. retains at least two instruments to exercise power in the Asia-Pacific. RIMPAC provides a military instrument. For economic leverage there is APEC, which meets on Friday
West Asia is Lurching Toward War
Indications are that Israel with the support of Washington is spoiling for a fight with Iran as the E3 moves for snapback sanctions against Tehran, writes M. K. Bhadrakumar.
US & China: India’s Sticky Situation
While Modi has deepened ties with the U.S., he’s been careful to preserve India’s strategic autonomy, stopping short of aligning too closely with Washington, writes Betwa Sharma.
Trade Wars: The Decline of America
Instead of judiciously adapting to America’s relative decline by carving out a new place for itself in the emerging multipolar world, U.S. leaders have pursued the fantasy of endless dominance, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.