Archive | November, 2024

As outgoing Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin embarks on his twelfth tour of the Indo-Pacific, the U.S.’s New Cold War on China shows no signs of slowing down, even under a second Trump presidency.

Donald Trump’s threat to force through his slate of far-right cabinet nominees as “recess appointments” without Senate confirmation votes marks a significant step in the de jure breakdown of constitutional forms of government.

Māori MP Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke captured global attention with a powerful haka performed to protest the controversial Treaty Principles Bill.

Despite 14 member states voting in favor, the U.S., as a permanent member, exercised its veto for the fifth time since October 2023.

In “the street”, in friends’ meetings, in the press… everywhere the population wonders about the veracity, depth and state of the division within the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS).

A vast network of ocean currents nicknamed the “great global ocean conveyor belt” is slowing down.

The 50-Year Evolution of the GOP.

The ATACMS missiles Ukraine had so far been allowed to fire, mostly against Crimea, have been carriers of cluster ammunition with a reach of some 160 kilometer.

After a damning revelation eight years ago, state leaders changed the make-up of the Parole Board to combat inequality. It didn’t help.

There’s a new trend in the world that’s working against the planet, you know, the one you’re standing on.

In a new study, led by the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics and published today (18 November) in Nature, an international group of authors who developed the science behind net zero demonstrate that relying on ‘natural carbon sinks’ like forests and oceans to offset ongoing CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use will not actually stop global warming.

Presentation at the International Symposium “Decolonization and Cooperation in the Global South”

Lindsey German on POTUS in the last chance saloon.

Composing a history of Detroit is an exercise in tying together many economic and social trends within a microcosm of class, race, and fraught politics. Mark Jay and Philip Conklin’s work discusses the 20th-century history of the city to offer a documentation of class struggle seen through the industrialization of the city in the early 20th century, the racial tensions of the post-World War II period, and, finally, the simultaneous processes of decay and development in the last three decades.

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor documented dozens of deliberate killings and new field executions carried out by Israeli occupation forces against numerous civilians in northern Gaza.

President Maduro called to “shake the foundations of the Venezuelan bourgeois state […] and build a communal, democratic state of the people.”

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?

In his first meeting with a foreign head of state, President-elect Donald Trump hosted fascist Argentine President Javier Milei at a gala dinner on Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

They embody a party that crossed over to the dark side years ago.

With spotlight on politicians and their pledges in Baku, fossil fuel lobbyists are racking up private meetings with Trudeau’s government.