Taiwanese president Lai Ching Te says he hopes to have healthy and orderly exchanges with Beijing
New Year's Eve celebrations and fireworks around the world rang in 2025, as more than a million revelers crowded into New York City's Times Square for performances and the traditional midnight ball drop.
When Syrian rebels roared into Damascus after a lightning advance on the capital, they exalted in their triumph over President Bashar Assad and rejoiced at the sudden end of a 14-year civil war that laid waste to much of the country.
This article will be released in full online January 6, 2023.
Craig Medlen draws on decades of data to reveal how the creeping stagnation of the past half-century has led to the increasing consolidation of corporate monopoly power and concentration of firms by way of mergers and, importantly, the free cash that funds them. This stunning rise in free cash, fueled in part by government deficits, starkly reveals how the ruling class continues to enrich themselves and strengthen their position on the top of the economic heap. Читать дальше...
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Troy Stecher scored 20 seconds apart in the second period as the Edmonton Oilers shut down the 2024 calendar year with a 4-1 v
This article will be released in full online January 13, 2023.
In this interview with Claudia Antunes of Brazilian magazine Sumaúma, Ian Angus takes stock of our current planetary crisis, from its origins in Marx’s ecological thought and the present debate over its designation to the future of human civilization as we know it. “The key question is,” he concludes, “Are we going to see large number of people moving for change?” | more…
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Dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes roamed the vast rolling hills of the Midlands around 252 million years ago - and their very existence would not be uncovered until centuries later
The Arab mediators said that a hostage-Gaza ceasefire deal is unlikely to be completed by the time US President Biden leaves office.
US President-elect Donald Trump sided with ally and tech billionaire Elon Musk over the ongoing H-1B row and said America needs "smart people" coming into our country.
Colorado becomes the second state to allow psychedelic therapy this week after two years of rulemaking
This article will be released in full online January 20, 2023.
In this talk given at Peking University in October 2024, John Bellamy Foster shares ten theses describing both the roots and contemporary manifestations of the idea of ecological civilization. Relating the concept’s origins in the writings of Marx and Engels to its expression today in Chinese society, Foster reveals the inherently socialist nature of eco-civilization and the necessity of a worldwide ecological revolution to shift toward sustainable human development. Читать дальше...
Mimcol’s offices in Sliema. Photo: Jonathan Borg
Wi-Fi extenders are a relatively cheap way to eliminate Wi-Fi dead zones, but they won't work as well as a full-fledged mesh system.
As of 30-Sep-2024, promoters held 39.98 per cent stake in the company, while FIIs held 26.73 per cent and domestic institutional investors had 9.39 per cent.
The winning numbers in Tuesday's drawing of the "Texas Pick 3 Night" game were: 1, 2, 4, Bonus: 5
A man was allegedly found dead at his residence in Delhi on Tuesday evening, with the cops suspecting it as a death by suicide.
Zack Nelson of the popular YouTube channel JerryRigEverything has just announced his least — and most — durable phones of 2024.
In the entire 2024, the Sensex jumped 5,898.75 points or 8.16%, and the Nifty surged 1,913.4 points or 8.80%.
This article will be released in full online January 27, 2023.
Against a backdrop of political turmoil and a popular uprising, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar examines how the contradictions of liberal democracy have played out in Pakistan. Exploring the dynamic between the U.S.-backed, militarized Pakistani political elite and the rise of reactionary politician Imran Khan, Akhtar shows how Khan has employed empty anti-imperialist rhetoric to mobilize a discontented populace—and how this could be counteracted... Читать дальше...
In a year saturated with politics in an ever more polarised world, where the obituary many feared they’d be reading would be that of democracy itself, one death seemed to encapsulate the historical moment we’re in: that of Alexei Navalny.
The winning numbers in Tuesday's drawing of the "Texas Daily 4 Night" game were: 0, 1, 4, 5, Bonus: 2
The winning numbers in Tuesday's drawing of the "Texas All or Nothing Night" game were: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 14, 16, 19, 21, 22, 24
The 30-share BSE Sensex was up 57.93 points at 78196.94
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue missed its revenue collection target by nearly Rs386 billion in the first half of the current fiscal year, as a decline in imports and lower-than-expected inflation impacted tax receipts.
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