• Seven Decades of China-Brazil Friendship: Cultural Diplomacy, Agrarian Reform, and the Cold War
    Seven Decades of China-Brazil Friendship: Cultural Diplomacy, Agrarian Reform, and the Cold War

    This year, Brazil and China celebrate fifty years of official diplomatic relations. The importance of the Sino-Brazilian relationship cannot be underestimated in the context of the rise of the Global South, the decline of U.S. hegemony, and the emergence of a New Cold War. With a look back into the history of bilateral relations, how can we understand the importance of these two countries in the current conjuncture in pushing forward changes unseen in a century?

    An Outside View of the US 2024 Presidential Election
    An Outside View of the US 2024 Presidential Election

    Deborah Veneziale provides a useful analysis of the 2024 US elections.

    Nursery rhymes and politics: Berlin Bulletin No. 229, November 16, 2024
    Nursery rhymes and politics: Berlin Bulletin No. 229, November 16, 2024

    Billions were spent both on aid to the Zelensky government…as an urgent defense necessity to counter "the Russian threat." This threat has appeared and reappeared in Germany in 1914, the 1930s, after 1945 and now again, louder than ever, with similar barked Prussian commands: "Achtung! Die Russen kommen!" as dangerously false as ever, and often followed by eastward expansion, invasion and, far too often, catastrophe, with atomic annihilation an added danger this time around.

    The Kazan summit of BRICS
    The Kazan summit of BRICS

    The BRICS declaration presumes that the international institutions in their current state are flawed because they are dominated by imperialist countries and are not representative enough; but they are flawed because their very essence is flawed, no matter how they are governed.

    Fascism, from The Theory of Capitalist Development
    Fascism, from The Theory of Capitalist Development

    Unearthing the chapter on fascism from Paul Sweezy’s The Theory of Capitalist Development (Monthly Review Press, January 1942).

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