Aidan McQuade Theresa May, both as home secretary and prime minister, pushed for the UK to become a global leader in the international struggle against contemporary forms of slavery. Her vision was always a blurred one, in which she somehow reconciled championing the 2015 Modern Slavery Act alongside prosecuting victims of human trafficking for the… Read More Anti-strike bill: a step toward forced labour in the UK?
by Yorgos Mitralias The international media may say hardly a word, but that does not mean that these days France is not being shaken by the biggest social eruption of the last several decades! In particular, on Tuesday January 31st the demonstrations against Macron’s pension reform were the most massive in the country for 30 years (a total of… Read More France: towards a social explosion of historic proportions!
The upheaval rocking the Adani business empire is one of the dramatic global developments of the last week. I was delighted that The Wire saw fit to pick up and republish Chartbook #190. I’ve long harbored a secret ambition to join the ranks of the Wire-wallahs. Cam and I also featured the Adani story on the Pod… Read More Adam Tooze: Indian nation-building, Modi and Adani / Mihir Sharma: What Worries Indians About Adani’s Empire
डाउ जोन्स की सस्टेनेबिलिटी इंडेक्स से अदाणी बाहर | Adani dropped off Dow Jones’ Sustainable Index #ravishkumar #ravishkumarofficial #adani #dowjones #stockmarket #latestnews #news #bjp #lic #sbi #sebi #adanipower #sharemarket #sharemarketnews #hindenburgreport #adaniFPO #hindenburgresearch #sensex #nifty #nifty50 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0yX… Jairus Banaji: Indian Big Business
First posted June 19, 2016 Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism by Judy Wajcman Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age by Bernard E. Harcourt Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun Mood and… Read More In the Depths of the Digital Age: Edward Mendelson reviews five books on psychological life in the age of the internet / We Are Hopelessly Hooked: Jacob Weisberg
Moustafa Bayoumi Who remembers how, in 2018 and just days before the deadliest attack on Jewish people in US history, a prominent US politician tweeted: “We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg to BUY this election!”? The tweet was widely – and correctly – understood as dangerously antisemitic, particularly heinous in a period of rising anti-Jewish… Read More America’s Republicans have a serious antisemitism problem. It isn’t Ilhan Omar
“What Trump has done is quite arguably the worst crime against the United States that a president could commit.” Martin Pengelly in New York The conservative judge who convinced Mike Pence he could not overturn the 2020 election has predicted “the beginning of the end of Donald Trump” – the former president who incited the January 6 insurrection… Read More Judge who told Pence not to overturn election predicts ‘beginning of end of Trump’
Denise A. Herd As the video goes public of Black police officers in Memphis beating Tyre Nichols to death, it is a stark reminder of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. That set up the largest protests in U.S. history and a national reckoning with racism. But beyond any protests, every police killing – indeed,… Read More Pain of police killings ripples outward to traumatize Black people and communities across US
Muhammad Bezinjo Pakistan’s port city of Gwadar, the hub of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), is in a siege-like situation amid unrest caused by a crackdown against protesting citizens. The city faced a blackout of mobile and internet communications for almost a week. While the mobile networks have been restored, the internet has been shut down… Read More Pakistan’s Port City Gwadar in Chaos
Nesrine Malik According to Oxfam’s annual inequality report, released to coincide with the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, the richest 1% of people have captured nearly twice as much new wealth as the rest of the world combined since the pandemic. Their fortune soared by $26tn, increasing their share of new wealth from 50% to two-thirds. The… Read More Look at how the world’s super-rich are doing now, and tell me the system isn’t rigged
