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1 week ago | 
countercurrents.org | Neha Saigal |Elias Akleh |Zane McNeill |Brett Wilkins
Palestinian Territory – The Israeli forces’ deliberate destruction of Gaza City’s Al-Ahli Arab Hospital reflects a broader intent to systematically dismantle essential aspects of life in the Gaza Strip.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Niles Niemuth |Thiago Doria Barral |Binoy Kampmark |Neha Saigal
California is facing what could be its most devastating wildfire in history, with fires burning uncontrolled throughout Los Angeles County. Images shared widely on social media show whole neighborhoods and city block after city block completely burned to the ground, amid reports that firefighters have been unable to even access water to extinguish the flames as their lines have run dry.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Thiago Doria Barral |Woochong Um |Binoy Kampmark |Neha Saigal
by Thiago Barral and Woochong UmRIO DE JANEIRO/NEW YORK – November’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, dubbed the “Finance COP,” left many deeply disappointed – for good reason. While the pledge to mobilize $300 billion in climate finance by 2035 is a good start, it falls far short of what is needed to accelerate the development of low-carbon energy systems in low- and middle-income countries.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Neha Saigal |Robert Hunziker |Bill Henderson
Climate change, like any crisis afflicting earth and humanity, is bound to bring out the best and the worst of a species that soils its nest, salts the earth, and poisons its nourishing rivers. For those benefiting from plunder and bounty, change is a hard thing to accept. Kleptocrats and the extractive industries, renters of land, and those wishing to make off with the earth’s booty take poorly to dissidents keen to point out this fact.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Neha Saigal |Denish Ogen Rwot |Vikas Meshram
Climate change has become a dollars and cents issue, especially for U.S. homeowners. It’s no longer easily ignored or brushed away as a ‘hoax.” Only a fool would suggest that to an American homeowner. Anybody who owns real estate knows how brutal climate change truly is. According to a report by the Federal Reserve Bank/Minneapolis: “Homeowners Insurance Costs are Growing Fast, but Coverage is Shrinking, August 28, 2024. This is every homeowner’s nightmare come true.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Neha Saigal |Denish Ogen Rwot |Vikas Meshram |Robert Hunziker
Aboubakar Alassane of the West Africa Peoples Organization (WAPO) explains how Nigeriens are enduring the consequences of unprecedented floods that have devastated their economy already crippled by sanctions. In the aftermath of the devastation left behind in the wake of unprecedented floods, Nigeriens are rebuilding their livelihoods and economy with the help of several relief measures instituted by the government to drastically cut prices of essential commodities and services.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Neha Saigal |Denish Ogen Rwot |Vikas Meshram |Robert Hunziker
Last week, I spent some time in dialogue with some brilliant minds on the potential framework and pathways for a gender just energy transition in India. But before I share a few of my reflections and perspectives on this issue, it is pertinent to define some of these concepts which are Western jargons which possibly make little or no sense to communities impacted by the climate crisis or its proposed mitigation in our contexts.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Manas Jena |Daron Acemoglu |Philip Farruggio |Neha Saigal
The three US based economists who got Nobel Prize for 2024 for their research on historical economic inequality among post-colonial states colonized by Europeans have laid focus on inclusive socio-political institutions practising democratic governance to ensure prosperity of nations.The increasing global inequality ,wealth difference between countries show a clear role of societal institutions that helped in shaping the growth and distribution trajectory of nations.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Daron Acemoglu |Julia Conley |Philip Farruggio |Neha Saigal
BOSTON – Tech billionaires such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk are not just among the richest people in human history. They also are exceptionally powerful – socially, culturally, and politically. While this is partly a reflection of the social status that our society attaches to wealth in general, that is not the whole story.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Hiren Gohain |Alix Underwood |James Gustave Speth |Neha Saigal
I find even popular writings by economists quite baffling.They begin beguilingly enough in brisk back-slapping language,but as you proceed with trust and hope they slip in some concept and term that makes sense only to economists.As though when you are led on by some agent of a stockbroker with rosy promises in plain intelligible language and you are getting mentally ready to part with some money in the hope of a fast buck,he suddenly slips in some mysterious quibble that only he and his...
