Archive | December, 2023

While a geopolitical tussle between Washington and Beijing over Zambia’s debt default has received significant international attention, Canada’s contribution has been largely ignored.

The 2019 Global Climate Strike—in which more than 6 million people from 150 countries partook—is a misnomer.

Faina: “I have said many times that the war for me began on June 2, 2014, with the bombing of the Lugansk Regional State Administration by Ukrainian aircraft. And now comes another anniversary, already the ninth.”

Last month, the U.S. National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, outlined the international economic policy of the U.S. administration. This was a pivotal speech, because Sullivan explained what is called the New Washington Consensus on U.S. foreign policy.

The Venezuelan researcher offers her reflections on Chávez’s geopolitics and the reactivation of the Union of South American Nations.

The UK Labour Party’s latest corporate mega-donor is a pro-Israel businessperson whose firm profiteered from South African apartheid.

Citizen activism to bring about changes in how brutal wars are conducted is extremely difficult, but not impossible.

According to the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal, which had the “honor” of putting the lie into circulation, there is an agreement between Cuba and China, in military matters, for the installation of an alleged espionage base.

European economies are reeling from inflation and the spectre of de-industrialisation-fuelled by self-imposed foreswearing of all imports of cheap Russian energy.

“This crisis shows us the weakness of our society”

Big agribusiness and ‘philanthropic’ foundations position themselves as the saviours of humanity due to their much-promoted plans to ‘feed the world’ with ‘precision’ farming’, ‘data-driven’ agriculture and ‘sustainable’ production.

Right-wingers don’t have any answers for the issues that matter, so they’re viciously attacking a vulnerable minority.

TRADE unions marching in defence of Colombia’s first left-wing president need support, solidarity and publicity from their British counterparts.

After less than a year, Warner Bros Discovery has ousted CNN chair and CEO Chris Licht.

President Biden condemned anti-gay laws in Uganda but forgot to blame the actual guilty party.

As the Wikileaks founder is brought “dangerously close” to being extradited to the U.S., Assange and his family will attempt a last-ditch effort with a renewed appeal to the UK High Court.

In 2021, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) noted that Argentina remains ‘a major exporter of agricultural products’, which, at that time, accounted for nearly two-thirds of the country’s exports (as of April 2023, agricultural goods accounted for 56.4% of the country’s exports).

The collective push to replace the U.S. dollar as the world reserve currency has much to do with Washington’s “weaponization of the dollar through the use of sanctions.”

A New York Times’ reporter’s job this week is to persuade us that all those Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi insignia and marching through Kiev in Klan-like torch parades are not what you think.

The following is a revised and expanded version of an interview with Benjamin Abelow, author of ‘How the West Brought War to Ukraine: Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe’, originally published in Italian translation by the Italian news and commentary site, QuotidianoWeb.