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  • No Respite for France as a ‘New Africa’ Rises

    No respite for France as a ‘New Africa’ rises

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on September 1, 2023 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    Like dominos, African states are one by one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. Chad, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and now Gabon are saying ‘non’ to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic, and security affairs.

  • Credit: The Cradle

    Syria: a tale of plunder and resurrection

    Originally published: The Cradle on July 31, 2023 (more by The Cradle)  |

    While the wholesale theft of Syria’s natural resources continues under the watch of illegal U.S. troops, the Russian project of resurrecting ISIS-destroyed Palmyra stands as a stark reminder that ruins can rise again-if Syria’s friends help pave the way.

  • BRICS

    BRICS problems, BRI solutions

    Originally published: The Cradle on July 24, 2023 (more by The Cradle)  |

    While the five original BRICS states have their geopolitical differences, they are finding enormous common ground on the geoeconomic front as trade volumes surge and trade routes multiply.

  • Photo Credit: The Cradle

    De-dollarization kicks into high gear

    Originally published: The Cradle on April 27, 2023 (more by The Cradle)  |

    The U.S. dollar is essential to U.S. global power projection. But in 2022, the dollar share of reserve currencies slid 10 times faster than the average in the past two decades.

  • Credit: The Cradle

    In Moscow, Xi and Putin bury Pax Americana

    Originally published: The Cradle on March 22, 2023 (more by The Cradle)  |

    In Moscow this week, the Chinese and Russian leaders revealed their joint commitment to redesign the global order, an undertaking that has ‘not been seen in 100 years.’

  • Credit: The Cradle

    Sergey Glazyev: ‘The road to financial multipolarity will be long and rocky’

    Originally published: The Cradle on March 13, 2023 (more by The Cradle)  |

    In an exclusive interview with The Cradle, Russia’s top macroeconomics strategist criticizes Moscow’s slow pace of financial reform and warns there will be no new global currency without Beijing.

  • How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

    Nord Stream terror attack: The plot thickens

    Originally published: Internationalist 360° on February 16, 2023 (more by Internationalist 360°)

    Seymour Hersh’s bombshell report on how the United States government blew up the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea last September continues to generate rippling geopolitical waves all across the spectrum.

  • The failed coup in Brazil

    Why the CIA attempted a ‘Maidan Uprising’ in Brazil

    Originally published: The Cradle on January 11, 2023 (more by The Cradle)  |

    The failed coup in Brazil is the latest CIA stunt, just as the country is forging stronger ties with the east.

  • Credit: The Cradle

    The Global South births a new game-changing payment system

    Pepe Escobar

    Challenging the western monetary system, the Eurasia Economic Union is leading the Global South toward a new common payment system to bypass the U.S. Dollar.

  • Putin - Biden

    Who profits from Pipeline terror?

    Originally published: The Cradle on September 29, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Secret talks between Russia and Germany to resolve their Nord Stream 1 and 2 issues had to be averted at any cost.

  • Photo: The Cradle

    The real U.S. agenda in Africa is hegemony

    Originally published: The Cradle on September 21, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Forget development. Washington’s primary interest in Africa today is keeping the Chinese and Russians out.

  • NATO vs Russia

    NATO vs Russia: what happens next

    Originally published: The Cradle on May 24, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    In Davos and beyond, NATO’s upbeat narrative plays like a broken record, while on the ground, Russia is stacking up wins that could sink the Atlantic order.

  • Leading Russian economist Sergey Glazyev says a complete overhaul of the western-dominated global monetary and financial system is under works. And the world's rising powers are buying into it

    Russia’s Sergey Glazyev introduces the new global financial system

    Originally published: The Cradle on April 14, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    The world’s new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.

  • Xi and Putin cruising into a multipolar world- Aurora Cruiser Museum (Wikipedia)

    The Unipolar Moment is over

    Originally published: Consortium News on June 10, 2019 (more by Consortium News)  |

    The Russia-China strategic partnership, consolidated last week in Russia, has thrown U.S. elites into Supreme Paranoia mode, which is holding the whole world hostage.

  • Luladinejad

    Pepe Escobar

      Lula from Brazil and Ahmadinejad from Iran.  What is this — the new axis of evil?  No — Luladinejad is a new axis of business. In the latest round of the increasingly warm embrace between Latin America and the Middle East, Lula and Ahmadinejad, meeting in Brazil, signed agreements on energy, trade and agricultural […]

Monthly Review Essays

  • Ruy Mauro Marini’s Contribution to the Political Economy of Imperialism
    Torkil Lauesen

    In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.

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