With a population of 1.2bn people, many believe that India is the arena where the future direction of humanity is being played out. However, the future of humanity may not be determined in India, but by events in a much smaller country - Syria, writes Colin Todhunter.
Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don't collectively challenge Western influence in the region, writes Ramzy Baroud.
David Eade discusses Spain's 'Valley of the Fallen' where to this day the bones of those who perished under the Nationalist onslaught in the Civil War still lie on the ground
'Freedom' within the confines of what increasingly resembles an open prison isn't much to celebrate. The actual reality in Britain is economic meltdown and social crisis, writes Colin Todhunter
The model is dead; long live the model. Austerity programmes are extending the crises they were meant to solve, yet governments refuse to abandon them and the UK provides a powerful example, writes George Monbiot.
In 1920 Lenin expressed his views on the international significance of the Russian Revolution. A lot of water has gone under the bridge in the last 92 years. Thomas Riggins asks are any of Lenin's views on this issue relevant today?
As ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steel company, invests 19.2 million pounds of steel to construct a monument marking London's Olympic Games, a disturbing story is emerging about the refusal to memorialise a former concentration camp in Bosnia it owns today
Felix McHugh, author of the book Damned Scroungers, is back with more stories about his daily struggle to ensure disability claimants receive the money to which they are rightly entitled
Uri Avnery discusses the origins and the future of Zionism
George Monbiot says that the Countryside Alliance's campaign against a ban on lead shot strikes him as motivated by the age-old attitude of reactionary members of the landowning classes: that they will not be subject to the laws or considerations that affect lesser members of society.