Wealthy countries’ approach to climate change condemns hundreds of millions to suffer
A Green New Deal in the West is not going to be sufficient if this deal does not include trillions of dollars into the UN’s Green Climate Fund and the transfer of technology as a social practice and not for profit.
How to commit war crimes – and get away with it
If justice is to be sought, it is not at the level of someone like Edward Gallagher alone; it should be his superiors on the political side who need to answer questions about not just this or that war crime, but about the entire war and the crime of it all
A letter to intellectuals who deride revolutions in the name of purity
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Ana Maldonado, Pilar Troya Fernández, and Vijay Prashad respond to the comments by intellectuals against the progressive processes in Latin America
After Evo, the lithium question Looms Large in Bolivia
The overthrow of the elected leader cannot be understood without a glance at the nation’s massive reserves of this crucial mineral.
Lula Is Free.
Ana Paula Vargas and Vijay Prashad reflect on the importance of the release of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from prison and what it means for Brazil and Latin America
Who’s behind the growing racism against African migrants?
It’s Europe’s greedy lending to Africa that is driving the migration wave which is fueling the European Union’s xenophobic politics
Have you heard of the CIA’s Iran Mission Center?
The rash belligerence against Iran is driven by, among others, a group of organizations, including the CIA’s Iran Mission Center which have one central mission – a war on Iran
Vijay Prashad: My friend is in a prison in Ecuador
Vijay Prashad writes about the plight of his friend Ola BIni who has been unjustly imprisoned in Ecuador since April 2019
A US military base, a British occupation and a UN judgment for the decolonisation of Mauritius
The UK now says that the US military base ‘helps to protect people here in Britain and around the world from terrorist threats, organised crime and piracy’
Will the US end up putting sanctions on every country that doesn’t bend to its will?
The objectives of the “strongest sanctions” are broadly all the same—that the United States will suffocate a country’s ability to trade and access finance as long as it does not do what the United States of America asks it to do
Notes from the streets of Venezuela — the people are resilient in the face of foreign intervention
30 years after the Caracazo, when the poor of Venezuela took to the streets to wage a struggle against the government of the oligarchy, the toiling masses of the country remain firm in their commitment to the Bolivarian Revolution, which offered them right and a life of dignity
How the U.S. is strangling Haiti as it attempts regime change in Venezuela
Last week, the people of Haiti erupted in protests over fuel price hikes. Behind the protests lie a story of corruption by the elite, blatantly insensitive IMF policies, predatory pricing by US oil firms and the fallout of the economic war on Venezuela
- 40 more Palestinian prisoners go on hunger strike
- 1.5 million French workers take to the streets against Macron’s pension reforms
- Young healthcare professionals in Buenos Aires to stage massive demonstration today
- Berta Cáceres’ assassins are sentenced but true justice remains elusive
- Palestinians condemn Israel’s plan for illegal settlement in occupied Hebron
