Geography Archives: Global

Any time we use to debunk the irrational ideological arguments of privileged people in privileged societies is time lost for serious exploration for how to respond to reality.

BRICS keeps expanding, adding 9 partner countries in January 2025, after admitting 4 new members in 2024. It now makes up roughly half of the global population and more than 41% of world GDP (PPP). It’s an economic powerhouse, with top producers of key commodities like oil, gas, grains, meat, and minerals.

Several obituaries of Amiya Kumar Bagchi have appeared since his death on November 28, covering his remarkable achievements.

A study came out in December that made me cry.

All this however is still in the realm of mere possibilities; what is more certain is the 10 per cent tax on global imports and the 60 per cent tax on imports from China.

Since the 1990s, Western Marxists have replaced imperialism with global capitalism that is untethered to Western imperialism. Western Marxists have also deemed socialist projects as a betrayal of their utopian views rooted in the Hegelian “purity fetish.”

“This exceptional year of extreme weather shows how dangerous life has already become… and highlights the urgency of moving away from planet-heating fossil fuels as quickly as possible.”

With a year marked by genocide and conflict almost behind us, we welcome the new year with struggle; may it bring us closer to a socialist world where the dreams of humanity can finally awaken.

Mark Rutte said the alliance needs to adopt a ‘wartime mindset’ and suggested cutting spending on pensions and healthcare.

The evolution of the Pentalasia has been and continues to be central in defining the Middle East and the entire geopolitical Rimland. To whom the control of Pentalasia will go, will probably go the control of the entire Rimland.

Do not buy the fossil-fuel industry’s hype about carbon-capture technology, even the schemes that work cannot be scaled up to the necessary levels, explains John Clarke.

Behind the confusion and debates about fascism lies a simple truth: it’s a power game driven by economic elites. Communists recognized that fascism’s form is shaped by class dynamics—an insight we shouldn’t forget.

A fast track effort underway since 2022 aiming to forge a global Treaty to control plastic pollution by regulating all aspects of the life cycle failed at the fifth, and hoped for last, UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee Meeting (INC-5) held in Busan, South Korea, on 25 November – 1 December 2024 under the aegis of the UN Environmental Programme (UNEP).

Oil companies have long lied about the impacts of burning their fuels. They also lie about the plastic they produce. The treaty talks were no exception.

The Romanian Constitutional Court’s decision to nullify the election results based on unfounded allegations of Russian interference sets a terrifying precedent.

The Global North and its corporate executives have wielded the concept of ‘corruption’ to underdevelop the Global South, whose social wealth it instead injects into the Continent of Sleaze.

We are all familiar with the charge that some policy or decision is a case of ‘political correctness gone mad’, part of the rhetoric of the ‘culture wars’, but we may not have thought a great deal more about it.

At the 2017 March for Science in Washington, DC , Dr. Lydia Jennings wore a T-shirt that read, “Strong Resilient Indigenous,” and held a sign saying, “Traditional Ecological Knowledge Is Science Too!”

In an unpublished 1989 letter, Palestinian American scholar Edward Said calls on his Jewish counterparts to take a stance against Israel’s abuses of Palestinians.

In his new book, Alvin Finkel tells the story of the 99% who have constantly sought to live in a society of equals