Subjects Archives: Globalization

Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick’s book, “Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power,” offers a powerful critique of how the Israel Lobby subverts democracy at home and ensures U.S. support for Israeli aggression, apartheid, and genocide abroad.

Trump’s strategy envisages the U.S. extricating itself from the neo-liberal regime while forcing the global south to remain entrapped within it.

Matt Kennard’s Irregular Army is a forensic account of how the War on Terror remade the American military, normalising the barbarism and abuses that we see today.

Militarization is increasing, transforming the Arctic from a once largely peaceful “exceptional” region into an additional front in Cold War Two, and a new arena for U.S. imperial ambition.

Venezuela’s oil won’t be decided by fine print. It will be decided by power. Who can enforce terms. Who can resist. Who can reverse what is imposed.

The death of James Petras—the American sociologist whose writings influenced generations of critical thinkers across continents—passed through the world almost like a whisper. A scholar who spent his life exposing the violence of power, the inequalities of global capitalism, and the illusions of empire left this world with little noise beyond small circles of readers […]

U.S. Southern Command reported a new extrajudicial execution against a small vessel in the Eastern Pacific on Monday, February 9.

The 47th Summit of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN), held in Malaysia in October 2025, was a pivotal moment in the ongoing attempts by the United States to redefine the socioeconomic trajectory of Southeast Asia. While much analysis of the Summit has focused on the impact of US tariffs, there has been less […]

The United States has launched a full-frontal attack not only against Venezuela, but against all of Latin America–and even against the basic concept of sovereignty. Donald Trump ordered the U.S. military on January 3 to bomb Venezuela, to kidnap its constitutional President Nicolás Maduro, and to send him to New York to be subjected to […]

An uprising against Daniel Noboa’s far-right agenda exposes how Washington fuels violence across Latin America.

‘Anti-Communism Week’ is a legal blueprint for crushing dissent. By labeling social justice activism as terrorism and empowering a new national task force, the state is preparing for the most intense domestic political crackdown in decades.

Addressing the International Bar Association’s annual conference in Toronto, veteran lawyer Nancy Hollander said the U.S. Department of Justice had become the ‘department of retaliation’ under Trump.

ON October 11 in New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi advised Indian farmers to grow more “export-oriented crops”.

1. The Revival of the Big Stick and the Monroe Doctrine Since Donald Trump’s reelection as president of the United States, the world has watched in shock as US foreign policy has grown increasingly unilateral and aggressive, raising deep concerns about the future of international politics. These concerns stem not only from the record of […]

BRICS+ is contradictory, uneven, and fragile—but in its openings, the Global South carves space for sovereignty and struggle Multipolarity Emerges from Crisis, Not Consensus The story they sell is that “order” was built by reasoned men in sensible suits. The story we live is different. Multipolarity did not grow out of seminars or summits; it […]

VP: “Marxism, which is an ever-evolving field of analysis, is the most accurate critique of capitalism. As long as capitalism remains with us, Marxism must remain until another form of critique—better than Marxism—appears.”

Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Western imperialism’s key military alliance, describe recently announced increases in European arms spending as a collective effort to “safeguard our freedom and democracy”.

Economist Michael Hudson describes how China created an alternative to the Western neoliberal order, and how the Global South can challenge the rent extraction of US-centered financial colonialism.

From Gaza to Tehran, a multi-front strategy of surveillance, subcontracted occupation, and permanent containment.

Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees– stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.