Opinion

What, where, how and why

Kavaljit Singh: ON MAY 23, US president Joe Biden officially launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity in Tokyo. Conceived and led by the United States, the IPEF has 13

Staggered reform to save Lanka from peril

Jehan Perera: THE 50th day anniversary of the Aragalaya took place in a generally calm manner. There were special events organised on Saturday including a march from Independence Square to

Sleepwalking into Armageddon?

US started the Cold War. This war had two major components, military and economic control of most of the world. NATO served the military purpose while dollar as reserve currency

Economy of tolerable massacres

Binoy Kampmark: SOCIETIES generate their own economies of tolerable cruelties and injustices. Poverty, for instance, will be allowed, as long a sufficient number of individuals are profiting. To an extent,

And then there was no more empire all of a sudden

Vijay Prashad: EMPIRE denies its own existence. It does not exist as an empire but only as benevolence, with its mission to spread human rights and sustainable development across the

Xi’s vision

by AG Noorani: PRESIDENT Joe Biden of the United States, on a recent visit to Japan as part of his first trip to East Asia after taking office, was most

A small bump or a major hurdle?

Pavel Nastin: TODAY, it is clear that the beginning of Russia’s special military operation on the territory of Ukraine on February 24 this year was a landmark moment in the

Ukraine war’s collateral damage

Michael Klare: THE war in Ukraine has already caused massive death and destruction, with more undoubtedly to come as the fighting intensifies in the country’s east and south. Many thousands