Farooque Chowdhury

Climate crisis generated increased insecurity is now boldly visible. IPCC, the global scientists’ panel on climate change, for the first time, has connected climate crisis to possibilities of conflicts.

Now the Davos elites have ‘raised’ the issue of rich-poor divide. The World Economic Forum (WEF, 22-25 January 2014) said that the growing rich-poor income gap is the biggest risk the world is facing for the next decade. Pope Francis told Davos to fight inequality, hunger. But Mr.

Capitalism in the US is exposing itself with renewed force as it invigorates self-contradictions and faces fracases with appearance of farce, and it fails to resolve these. One of the matured capitalist economies, and the Lord of the World, is presenting the show.

Waging war without any declaration is now facilitated by drones. But there are limits that drones can never cross, as machines can never handle sociopolitical contradictions. Initiating counter-moves against political maneuvers is beyond the capacity of machines.

Hugo Chávez won’t go. Class conflict-ridden history shall not allow Chávez to go. He is part of history, part of people struggling against dispossession, exploitation and poverty, part of people struggling for democracy and dignity.

Once again, the much told fact has been reiterated: workers get a thinner slice of pie. The International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) ‘Global Wage Report 2012/13: Wages and Equitable Growth’ records the fact. The bigger slice is always for capital.

Hundreds of indigenous women and girls were murdered in Canada. To many, it’s a baffling fact.

Recently, there were proposals in the UK parliament to expand the use of secret court hearings in civil cases.

In its recent report, the World Meteorological Organization said that the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere reached a record high – 390.9 parts per million in 2011, “which is a 40 percent increase over levels in 1750, the period humans began burning fossil fuels in earnest”.

Jimmy Carter, former US president, criticised the US administration for ‘clearly violating at least 10’ of the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He said these violations are ‘disturbing’.

Defiance in Latin America and a dynamics of decline within the Empire are now defining the US position in the Western Hemisphere. The reality was beyond imagination only a few years back. And, the reality is beyond imagination of many political leaders in other regions.