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O.P. Rana

Senior journalist with extensive editorial experience across leading international journals and media organisations.

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News · 20 Sep 2026

The World Today and the Politics of Capital: Part-2

The US’ policies and actions also weakened and eventually helped extinguish a popular democratic movement in Iran in the 1950s. This US strategy to expand its market and capital has not changed except that it has been modifying its tactics depending on the prevailing conditions. The Chinese economic development model today carries within it many of the destructive tendencies of capital accumulation. The ecological crisis is increasingly a crisis of human survival.

News · 20 Sep 2026

The World Today and the Politics of Capital: Part-1

Slowing economic growth, persistent poverty, high income and wealth disparities, large employment gaps and underemployment, and worsening environmental and ecological degradation are but some of the markers of today’s world. For such governments and giant corporations, the agenda of continuously increasing their profits to consolidate their control over society is supreme, a quest that is fed and driven by mainstream media and parts of social media.