The following article is syndicated in partnership with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). Remigia Ferrel Vallejos, a Bolivian union executive from Chimoré, in the coca-grower ...

Sri Lanka has no officially accepted regional/rural development policy in black and white, but it is not a new phenomenon like in most other developing countries. The government’s support for it has ...

Each airline has a slogan. Some of these are quite uplifting: “ a great way to fly; a symbol of freedom; a tradition of warmth; above all, we care! bringing nations together; catch the spirit.” When I ...

Boris Yeltsin and his “free market reformers” were part of one of the most hidden and most criminal looting operations in CIA history. It was the rape of Russia by a corrupted circle of treasonous ...

To be out of sync with the contemporary life anywhere at anytime becomes indeed a despairing situation. That was the tragic predicament of the Austrian writer of the inter-war period, Stefan Zweig, ...

US policy towards Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict has long been guided by the comforting notion that Tamil self-government within a decentralised Sri Lankan state would satisfy the legitimate needs of ...

In life, there are many paradoxical truths. One of these, true for over 2,000 years, is that if you wish to enjoy peace, you must prepare for war. It is all too easy for us in Asia to be influenced by ...

In 1861, Karl Marx made one of his rare post-exile visits to his native Germany. While there, he renewed an acquaintance with Friedrich Köppen, one of his student friends from the days of the Young ...

“If we want to make peace with the other, we must first make peace with ourselves.” – Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf With failing economic policies, a botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and impediments to ...

Inasmuch as the most fecund outcome of the “Aragalaya” - as the social uprising in Sri Lanka is called – has been its resounding success in deposing without the use of force an unacceptable regime, ...

At the close of the May 2023 Group of Seven (G7) summit in Hiroshima (Japan), the foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States and the High ...

The Hindutva ideology, as propagated by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has been likened to the supremacist ideology of the Nazi Party. Just as the Nazi regime targeted Jews and non-Aryan races ...