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Black Agenda Report at the Belt and Road Journalism Forum in China
The 2025 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in China was an opportunity for Black Agenda Report to join an international group of journalists working to promote meaningful dialogue on world issues.
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What is BRICS and where is it going?
How internal divisions and geopolitical realities are shaping the bloc’s role in a rapidly transforming global order.
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The Costs of Covid
The Covid pandemic’s onset prompted speculation that the disease had been created in a lab in China, specifically as a weapon against the United States. This new and highly contagious virus did wreak profound socioeconomic trauma and widespread suffering, borne disproportionately by the disadvantaged. Initially it caused nearly 1.2 million deaths in the United States. […]
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Who says a chicken feather can’t fly up to Heaven?: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2025)
China showcases a number of promising developments in the construction of socialism–though not without challenges and contradictions.
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China strikes Diabetes
Diabetes is a silent epidemic, causing death and suffering on an unimaginable scale.
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China is not a monolith
The Communist Party and socialist construction.
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The New Silk Road and the threat to American domination
The little-reported opening of a major rail link between China and Iran may upend the strategic calculations behind U.S. imperial policy in the Middle East, argues Kevin Crane.
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Russian and Chinese Military cargo planes shuttling weapons, missiles, supplies into Iran
Russian and Chinese Military Cargo Planes are shuttling “support” to Iran: Weapons systems, air defenses, missiles, and so forth.
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Nicaragua and China break ground on landmark Solar project to power water access and energy sovereignty
Nicaragua, with Chinese financing, launches its largest solar plant to date—powering water systems, cutting energy costs, and deepening South-South cooperation on infrastructure for social good.
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U.S. demands Asian allies prepare for “imminent” war against China
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth laid down the law to military allies and partners throughout the Indo-Pacific: “Dramatically escalate your military build-up and put yourselves on a war footing for conflict with China.”
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Is China finally breaking the U.S. stranglehold?
The U.S. is in desperate economic and military “competition” with China and has lost a lot of ground fast.
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After Trump’s Harvard ban, China invites students with offers
Harvard faces legal and political turmoil after Trump revokes its ability to admit foreign students, but China responds with open offers.
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Don’t believe the New Cold War lies, China is leading the world in climate solutions
At the time of the 1949 revolution, China was largely an agrarian society with widespread poverty, famine and lack of infrastructure.
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Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time
For the first time, the growth in China’s clean power generation has caused the nation’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to fall despite rapid power demand growth.
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As U.S. military prepares for war on China, Silicon Valley tech oligarchs are profiting
The U.S. military is preparing for war on China. It has missile systems in the Philippines aimed at major Chinese cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is turning “Japan into a war-fighting headquarters”. Silicon Valley Big Tech oligarchs are making hugely profitable investments.
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Absolute car crash
As a trade tariff war erupts across the globe Kevin Crane examines the prospects and challenges of the UK and European vehicle manufacturing sector.
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Smashing walls, building firewalls, and breaking the digital siege
On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—a mass breakout from the open-air concentration camp in which 2.3 million people had been confined by seventy-five years of Zionist colonialism and sixteen years of unrelenting siege.
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US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]
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Trump imposes 104 percent tariff on China, as financial turmoil grows
A week after U.S. President Trump launched his economic war against the world under the banner of so-called “reciprocal tariffs,” China will have a tariff of 104 percent imposed on its goods starting today.
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Russia–Iran–China: All for one, and one for all?
Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a U.S. war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump’s war is singularly directed at the transformational global ‘changes they are driving together.’