India
India reports almost 4,000 daily COVID-19 deaths as the country faces...
By Benjamin Mateus
May 7, 2021
The current surge in COVID-19 infections throughout India has no precedent in the entire course of the COVID-19 pandemic. A...
Asia emerges as a new epicenter of the global COVID-19 pandemic
By Alex Lantier
9 April 2021
As humanity faces a new upsurge of the pandemic driven by more contagious coronavirus variants, Asia is emerging as the...
‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’: Arundhati Roy on India’s...
It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile,...
WHO warns European governments of Covid spike if curbs are eased...
By Jon Henley
Apr. 29, 2021
The World Health Organization has warned European governments that relaxing Covid restrictions too soon could cause cases to spiral again,...
The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing
by Vijay Prashad
April 26, 2021
For Ashish Yechury (1986-2021), journalist
Photograph Source: Gwydion M. Williams – CC BY 2.0
It is difficult to overstate the grip of...
Democrats reintroduce bill to block US from using nuclear weapons first
By Rebecca Kheel
Apr. 15, 2021
A pair of leading Democrats in the House and Senate reintroduced a bill Thursday to make it U.S. policy not...
The international struggle of Amazon workers and its significance
A Worldwide Workers' Revolt Against Amazon Has Begun
By Luis Feliz Leon
April 15, 2021
The union drive at Amazon’s 885,000-square-foot warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, failed. But...
US’s Indian Ocean proxy war: Sri Lanka, Maldives in the crosshairs
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
Apr.3, 2021
Maldivian parliamentarians have been up in arms since the government’s signing of a defence agreement with India in February which, according...
The New Concert of Powers
How to Prevent Catastrophe and Promote Stability in a Multipolar World
By Richard N. Haass and Charles A. Kupchan
March 23, 2021
The international system is at...
‘A tsunami of cases’: desperation as Covid second wave batters India
Doctors speak of a new variant of the virus that appears to be spreading faster than ever before
By Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi
14 Apr 2021
Dr...