In 1960, the US economist Walt Whitman Rostow published The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. The subtitle revealed the book’s purpose. Rostow did not merely describe economic development; he offered an
Dr. King touched all the themes of the day, only better than anybody else. He was full of the symbolism of Lincoln and Gandhi, and the cadences of the Bible. He was
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Editorial Note: This article, originally published in TomDispatch, examines humanity’s survival in the nuclear weapons era and the persistent risks posed by state policies. If some extraterrestrial species were compiling a history
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Last week I described a new class of revolutionaries taking power in the United States. The aim of revolution, I argued, is not so much the creation of a new order but the perpetual
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If you look at the news, the media treats the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum more like a gala than a policy forum about regional economic policies. Despite high level meetings
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“It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
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The US State Department’s latest Human Rights Report condemns Venezuela for serious abuses. Weaponizing human rights, accusations are selectively applied to serve a destabilization campaign. In this article, a mirror is held up to
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“[Stalin] changed the old political and especially revolutionary belief expressed popularly in the proverb “You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs” into a veritable dogma: “You can’t break eggs without making
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In the months after the 1987 coupin Burkina Faso that killed President Thomas Sankara, screen printers in the capital, Ouagadougou, began to churn out shirts with Sankara’s face on them. The image
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A frozen front may be the best case scenario for both sides Russia and Ukraine and will also please the US President Donald Trump, but there are many caveats that will have
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What is behind Pakistan Army Chief’s nuclear bombast, no it is not only India but other failures at home including on the counter terrorism front. Pakistan’s Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir’s
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“Tyranny,” Hannah Arendt told Roger Errera in the final sentences of her last interview, “has been discovered very early, and identified very early as an enemy.” The Greeks coined tyrannos for rulers who seized
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On 21 November 1938, Hitler met with the South African defence minister Oswald Pirow and told him that the Jews would be killed if war broke out. The same month, an official
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In Arugam Bay, a sunny coastal town known for its pristine beaches in Sri Lanka, has now become the limelight of Palestinian solidarity movement condemning the Hebrew welcome signs and Israeli tourists
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This week marks the 50th anniversary of a landmark event in European diplomacy. In 1975, the leaders of 35 countries, including the United States, Canada, and almost all of Europe, gathered in
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Those who do not live in war zones or in suffocated countries are forced to live life as if there is nothing strange about what is happening around us. When we read
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