Progressives’ support for a multilateral world often ignores how much the emerging new world is similar to the old one, a point also missed by Jeffrey Sachs in speaking of a “new international order,” writes Asoka Bandarage.
The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight.
Phil Miller reports on efforts to spur the Labour government to investigate British complicity in a massacre of Sikh pilgrims by Indian troops 40 years ago.
Antony Loewenstein on Israel’s role in developing the military tools of imperial control around the world.
Literacy gives us the power to build a collective life — it allows us to see our history with clarity, be critical of our present and demand the impossible of the future.
Global South writers and policymakers have imagined and created futures beyond colonialism and environmental destruction.
The Gaza genocide portends a dystopian world where the Global North’s industrialized violence sustains its hoarding of diminishing resources and wealth, argues Chris Hedges.
CN Live! previews the BRICS summit starting Tuesday in Kazan, Russia as Ukraine falters, the Mideast blows up and BRICS advances its alternate economic system. With Pepe Escobar, Scott Ritter and Mark Sleboda.
In the dialectical spiral of culture, poems, songs, and stories inspire us to act and depict our actions, which in turn inspires others to do the same.
The murder of a young female physician in Kolkata has mobilized health workers, medical unions and women’s movements across India.