• Dossier no. 82: How Neoliberalism Has Wielded ‘Corruption’ to Privatise Life in Africa
    Dossier no. 82: How Neoliberalism Has Wielded ‘Corruption’ to Privatise Life in Africa

    In Africa, the leading forces of capitalism have ruthlessly wielded a neoliberal conception of corruption to undermine states’ sovereignty and open the continent to plunder at the hands of Western multinational corporations.

    Imperialism and Culturalism Complement Each Other
    Imperialism and Culturalism Complement Each Other

    In this republished essay from 1996, Samir Amin gives his view of Samuel Huntington’s theory of “clash of civilizations.” His demonstration of why culturalism and imperialism reinforce each other, and how victims can be led to accept “difference” in place of equality and liberation, is today of potential utility everywhere.

    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.

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