The US is planning a future in which pilotless drones do the killing, remotely controlled. It looks and plays like an Xbox game, but it’s for real. It may not defeat its intended enemies, though.
The global market for drones was worth around £4.4bn in 2009, the lion’s share of which (70%) went to US companies such as Northrop Grumman and General Atomics.
Noam Chomsky is the west’s most prominent critic of US imperialism, yet he is rarely interviewed in the mainstream media. He gave a speech on Human Rights and discussed global issues last week in London at SOAS.
This month the UN will publish the findings of its inquiry into Israel’s possible war crimes in Gaza in 2008-9. These are unlikely to lead to legal proceedings, so there are calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions to force Israel to comply with international law
ndia is modernising fast to face the perceived threat of China, not just on its northeastern borders but across the Indian Ocean. And within the army, Nehru-inspired traditions of non-aligned ‘moral diplomacy’ are giving way to pragmatic realism
Few countries have remained so opaque to objective scrutiny, so resistant to coherent analysis, as Iran. Recurrently characterized as the most hostile of all Middle Eastern regimes to the West.
The mass of recent literature on the ‘rise of Asia’ largely focuses on the implications of this development for the West. It rarely stops to consider the impact on inter-relations between the Asian states themselves.
Identifying Fredric Jameson’s literary style as one of his signal achievements, Eagleton asks whether his formal emphases also serve to stave off questions of content: morality, sexuality, subjectivity.
Will the present crisis issue in a new phase of accumulation, or a growthless ‘stationary state’? Gopal Balakrishnan charts epochal trends in world capitalism, and their imbrication with the debt-fuelled imbalances of the long downturn.
Renowed historian from Pakistan, Hassan Jafar Zaidi, presented this paper at the annual meeting of “Hulqa-e-Irbab-e-Zauq” at the Independence day of Pakistan, 14th Aug 2009, highlighting dialectical basis of the creation of Pakistan to debunk the idealistic fallacies on this subject still continuing after 60 years.