Subjects Archives: Strategy

BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These are the most important takeaways from the historic meeting.

A Lebanese security source has revealed the U.S. ambassador is calling on her allies to ‘do their part’ to destroy Hezbollah.

The media hawks are flying high, pushing out bellicose rhetoric on the op-ed pages that seems calculated to whip the public into a war-ready frenzy.

The 16th Summit of the BRICS organization is taking place this week in the Russian city of Kazan. President Nicolás Maduro was invited by the Russian president himself, Vladimir Putin, at the beginning of August, and is attending with a Venezuelan delegation.

An ugly glimpse into a dark future.

Book Launch: “The Dialectics of Ecology”

This article is the second in a series covering how the tiny Pacific Island nation of Kiribati has become enmeshed in the new Cold War. The country has a forthcoming election on October 25 and the U.S. and its allies are advancing a covert regime change operation designed to unseat President Taneti Maamau, who has aligned Kiribati with China.—Editors

Chinese scholar Wang Hui looks back at the twentieth century, which was born out of the multiple revolutions in the peripheral areas of the world, including China.

An increasingly assertive group of African nations are constraining the ability of Canadian companies to profit from resources.

The United States is waging an economic war against Venezuela.

Students are occupying more than 70 different faculties of 30 public universities across Argentina.

A socialist commune in the Venezuelan Amazon draws inspiration from the collective practices of its Indigenous members.

The inclusion of Cuba on the state sponsors of terrorism list has severely limited the island nation from accessing funds and the international market.

An interview with John Mullen of La France Insoumise.

A new UN report confirms that Israel’s targeting of Gaza’s healthcare amounts to crime of extermination, as hospitals in Palestine and Lebanon continue to face relentless attacks.

Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission–as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000–conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play and provide political and social movements with the materials to intervene to shape the future.

Bayer’s vision for agriculture in India includes prioritising and fast-tracking approvals for its new products, introducing genetically modified (GM) food crops, addressing labour shortages (for weeding) by increasingly focusing on herbicides and developing herbicides for specific crops like paddy, wheat, sugarcane and maize. 

Admiral Steve Koehler, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, visited Sri Lanka on October 10 in the wake of the election of Anura Dissanayake, leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and its electoral front, the National People’s Power (NPP).

The material changes ushered in under the aegis of artificial intelligence (AI) are not leading to the abolition of human labor but rather its degradation. This is typical of the history of mechanization since the dawn of the industrial revolution. Instead of relieving people of work, employers have deployed technology—even the mere idea of technology—to […]

The Australian Labor-Coalition political class has ignored, and by its actions rejected, UN decisions that Australia is legally obliged to stop its support for the Israeli settler-colonial project, to actively seek to stop Israel’s racial segregation and apartheid, and to cease military, diplomatic, economic, commercial, financial, investment, trade, political, and legal relations with the Israeli occupation.