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The First International issue of Wenhua Zongheng is a landmark event for the Global Left
Wenhua Zongheng is a newly launched international publication bringing together articles originally produced in the Mainland China magazine of the same name in Chinese. It is jointly published in English, Spanish and Portuguese, by Wenhua Zongheng, the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, and Dongsheng—which produces the newsletter News on China.
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Thomas pushed to kill disclosure laws while getting secret billionaire gifts
“This court should invalidate mandatory disclosure and reporting requirements,” wrote Clarence Thomas, who did not disclose years of gifts from a billionaire.
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So much lying from the International Monetary Fund: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2023)
Remarkably, during her visit to Ghana in late March 2023, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the US Treasury Department’s Office of Technical Assistance will ‘deploy a full-time resident advisor in 2023 to Accra to assist the Ministry of Finance in developing and executing medium- to long-term reforms needed to improve debt sustainability and support a competitive, dynamic government debt market’.
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Starbucks ‘workers and consumers have the same foe’
CounterSpin interview with Saurav Sarkar on Starbucks organizing.
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France’s Macron opposes U.S. cold war on China, wants independent Europe–but is it just rhetoric?
France’s President Emmanuel Macron told Xi Jinping that he opposes the U.S. war drive against China and wants an independent Europe with “strategic autonomy”. But he has made comments like this before, and failed to challenge Washington’s hegemony.
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Black people used to attack revolutionary governments
The question of how Black people fare in a particular country can be a legitimate issue or a ruse used in the furtherance of U.S. regime change plots.
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History has its course and timing
Western sanctions imposed on Iran, Russia, Syria, and in fact any country that refuses to be driven by Western will, have motivated many countries in the world to search seriously for ways and means to liberate their destinies from Western hegemony.
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Russia: Tossing rice at the marriage of the oligarchs with the State
Everyone who has ever heard rice go snap, crackle, and pop! knows that eating the grain is good for your energy.
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The CIA knows Ukrainian officials are skimming U.S. aid
Hersh says the CIA estimates at least $400 million was embezzled last year in funds earmarked for diesel payments.
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Dossier no. 63: Life or debt: The stranglehold of neocolonialism and Africa’s search for alternatives
Before the pandemic was announced by the World Health Organisation in March 2020, the poorer nations of the world already struggled with seriously high—and unpayable—levels of debt.
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Women’s work is not valued properly
In an interview with The Hindu, Ghosh talks about gender blindness of official policies, inequalities in society, the state of women empowerment and why women face multiple disadvantages in India.
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Socialist Party of Zambia attacked by members of ruling party, Dr. Fred M’membe arrested
According to the Socialist Party, their party members were attacked at a campaign meeting ahead of a by-election in the Serenje district and SP President Dr. Fred M’membe was later arrested.
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A review of “White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa” by Susan Williams
Africa has long been looked at by outsiders as a continent that is hopelessly mired in corruption and incapable of social and economic development.
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The urgent need to repudiate debt
It is now time to react concerning the issue of debt cancellations and repudiations.
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America’s first dark money ballot line
The latest scheme to launch a centrist, third-party “unity” ticket comes from a dark money front for corporate interests.
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Argentinians protest visit from head of U.S. Southern Command
The protesters denounced the neocolonial role of the U.S. general and the White House towards Latin America and the Caribbean, exemplified in the military command organization SOUTHCOM.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee cravenly rubber stamps CIA plan for more coups, assassinations, drone strikes, kidnappings and torture to save America from fabricated foreign enemies
March 28 Hearings Provided a Platform for the CIA’s “Nice Guy” Public Face, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and the Violent Coup Plotters and Regime Changers That it Supports.
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100 days of Lula’s presidency: what has changed in Brazil since January 1st?
New directions in politics generate expectations due to the contrast to Bolsonaro’s management.
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Five years ago in Nicaragua: A coup attempt begins
In the first few months of 2018, Nicaragua hardly appeared to be a strong candidate for an attempted coup. Daniel Ortega’s government had an 80 per cent approval rating in a poll a few months earlier.
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Co-opting the revolutionary history of MLK
I often think about how one of the most revolutionary black men in history can be completely altered; completely reconstructed; undergoing a kind of magical jolly negro transmorgification?