Geography Archives: Global

The BRICS bloc’s New Development Bank, an alternative to the U.S.-dominated World Bank, is de-dollarizing its loans, promoting local currencies, and adding new members: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, and Zimbabwe.

‘Experts’ from defense industry funded think tanks are flooding the media, pushing for more arms without disclosing their benefactors.

Or is Eternal Energy = Eternal Damnation?

In May 1979, the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles hosted a symposium titled The Political Economy of the Black World. We are publishing, for the first time, Walter Rodney’s thoughtful presentation at this symposium.

Stuart Jordan responds to criticism of his article on ecology and entropy in Solidarity 672

How can we organise a global resistance to the criminal capitalist system and the devastating imperialism that has ravaged entire countries?

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus had said “You cannot step into the same river twice.”

The G7 meeting reveals the gaps between the United States and its allies (Europe and Japan), but these differences of interest and opinion should not be overestimated.

On December 7, 2022, Southwest Airlines announced that it would reinstate its quarterly dividend payments, which had been legislatively suspended under requirements in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).

Imperialism and militarism have always disguised and justified themselves as the defense of freedom.

A review of Daniel Goldhaber’s film adaptation of Swedish author Andreas Malm’s polarizing book ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’.

Under current climate change policies, billions will face life-threatening heat. But a global network of heat officers are tackling the problem in their own cities.

During La Nina events, sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific are lower than the long-term average, causing cooler global temperatures and vice-versa for El Nino.

Workers’ Liberty organises a monthly Marxist ecology reading group. This month they discussed a chapter on “Entropy and ecological economics” from ‘Marxism and Ecological Economics’ by Paul Burkett.

It is remarkable how the media in a select few countries is able to set the record on matters around the world.

This year marked the 75th anniversary of the WHO. But as the UN agency approaches its yearly assembly in Geneva, it is still struggling to secure adequate resources for functioning independently of the private sector and pressures from high income countries.

We are, right now, living in a dangerously warmed climate.

You can’t talk about how many bases the United States has without talking about what those bases actually represent — U.S. imperialism. With about 750 bases overseas, in 80 countries and colonies, the U.S. has more foreign military bases than any empire, people or country in world history. #Military #War #UnitedStates

I was first introduced to the power of far-right ideologies within feminism through the work of so-called feminists who were dead set on criminalizing sex work, even if it cost women their lives. Back in 2004, I was new to sex work organizing, spurred by the massacre of street-based sex workers on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Talk about the dangers of artificial intelligence, actual or imagined, has become feverish, much of it induced by the growing world of generative chat bots. When scrutinising the critics, attention should be paid to their motivations.