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Despite the rise in cost of living in Pakistan and a law fixing the minimum wage at just 140 US dollars per month, many factory owners have slashed wages, citing global market troubles.

The strategic issue today is not who controls our future but who controls it now. This is the larger strategic battle being waged in the chip and energy wars today.

Between capitalism in decline, expressed in wars and neo-fascism, and the left calling for reconstruction, people resist.

As of August 2025, 10,800 Palestinian political detainees and political prisoners languish in Israeli jails. Since 1967, 320 political prisoners have died inside Israeli prisons.

The raison d’etre of neoliberalism is the moving away from all efforts at self-reliance, which necessarily makes a country like India vulnerable to imperialist arm-twisting.

Taking power in 2011 with the help of French military intervention, 83-year-old President Alassane Ouattara is attempting to grab office for a fourth term by barring both main contestants from running for the upcoming election in October.

Religious minorities in Pakistan face various forms of discrimination and persecution because of social and institutional biases allegedly preserved and promoted by elements in society and the state.

Workers organized by Haqooq-e-Khalq and other unions have demanded that the minimum wage be revised as current wages are inadequate to meet their basic needs due to inflation.

If the Indian government doesn’t opt for diversifying trade, and strategic relationships with the rest of the world, there’s danger of strategic autonomy being decisively undermined.

India’s future demands resolve, realism, and the discipline to ground its power in its own achievements—not in the borrowed light of another’s convenience.

Unable to pay rent, thousands have returned to their villages, whose subsistence farming-based economy cannot sustain their families. Desperate, many have taken the dangerous road across the border to the illegal mining enterprises in South Africa.

Al Jazeera Media Network has strongly condemned the targeted killing of its journalists, labelling the incidents as "assassinations" and "blatant and premeditated attacks on press freedom".