As in all systems without democratic accountability or effective legal impunity for the elite, frustration and resentment among the general population has built naturally.
At the 80th anniversary of the attack, the Navy command was slow to alert the community while the state quickly issued a notice not to drink the water, Ann Wright reports.
Many viewers of the hugely popular series may not realize how the fantastical vision of wretched worker suicides is rooted in South Korea’s recent union history, writes Minsun Ji.
The political violence against India’s left that just occurred in Tripura, a state in the north-east, has become a normal facet of democracy in our times, writes Vijay Prashad.
The movement against climate chaos is running up against intense repression funded by private corporations as well as the federal government, writes Shea Leibow.