India
After their attacks on climate science, industrial lobbyists target the scientific...
A nebulous coalition of industry-sponsored players, deregulation lobbyists and the far right has formed to deny or downplay the health impacts of air pollution,...
Make Peace, Frieden Schaffen!
A call for an immediate peace initiative by the German government has been addressed to Chancellor Olaf Scholz by some two hundred senior members...
Sri Lanka’s energy crisis and the geopolitics of Jaishankar, Nuland visits
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
Visits to Sri Lanka by two top foreign officials took place within a fortnight, recently. The optics of these tightly choreographed events...
Hunger and Poverty
October 23, 2022
THE Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 2022 has just come out, which shows India occupying the 107th position among the 121 countries...
US Chip War Version 2: Decoupling from China or Declaring War?
Prabir Purkayastha
October 23, 2022
THE US has gambled big in its latest, across-the-board sanctions on Chinese companies in the semiconductor industry, believing it can kneecap...
China Reaffirms ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Weapons Policy at UN
China and India are the only two nuclear-armed countries that have no first use policies
Posted on October 19, 2022
Categories China reaffirmed this week...
The Global South’s assertion in geopolitics
By Anuradha Chenoy (*)
The Global South has new agency in a changing world, with several countries finding that neutrality and strategic autonomy have become...
Before Insisting on Duties, the Modi Govt Better Realise Full Citizenship...
Under the Narendra Modi government, there has been a special thrust on citizens' duties over rights. But the former cannot be performed effectively unless...
How even a limited nuclear war would destroy the planet
According to a new study, an atomic exchange between India and Pakistan would result in mass starvation, killing billions.
by Jasmine Owens
August 19, 2022
There is no...
‘End War in Ukraine’ Say 66 Nations at UN General Assembly
It's time to stop this mass destruction," said Congolese Foreign Minister Jean-Claude Gakosso this week. "It's time to stop this war."
By Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S....