Argentina joins China’s Belt and Road Initiative
The strategic agreement will allow Argentina to receive investment worth more than 23 billion USD from China, through different agreements
Argentina and China sign key agreements on cooperation and trade and other stories
Today we look at the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Argentina and China, the arrest of journalist Fahad Shah in Kashmir, and more
“Conflict between president and PM is a conflict between the Somali people and imperialist forces”
Parliamentary elections in Somalia are set to be concluded by February 25 amid tensions between the president and the prime minister. Mohamed Hassan, historian and former diplomat, explains the political situation, the role of foreign powers, especially the UAE, and the truth behind Shabaab
China and African countries take steps to enhance ties
Mikaela Erskog, a researcher with Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and a member of the Pan Africanism Today Secretariat, talks about the recent Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
‘UN WFP and USAID have been using humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia to prepare grounds for Western intervention’
Horn of Africa TV’s editor, Elias Amare, talks to Peoples Dispatch on the latest military developments in Ethiopia, the setbacks faced by the TPLF and the collusion of international aid agencies
Afghanistan tackles the Islamic State
All signs point to the fact that unlike the 90s, the Taliban is not inclined to officially permit extremist groups to operate in Afghanistan. The possibility of close economic ties with Iran and China is one reason for this development
“Regressive and conservative forces historically promoted by imperialist forces in Afghanistan have prolonged wars”
At a discussion organized by Tricontinental: Institute of Social Research, panelists pointed out that peace in Afghanistan can only be guaranteed through regional reconciliation led by regional players, independent of interference from the West
As the US withdraws from Afghanistan, China forges ties with the Taliban
With no end in sight to the internal conflict in Afghanistan, China has been meeting with regional players to build a strategy which seeks to guarantee peace and stability for all
The looming civil war that threatens Afghanistan, Pakistan and China
The great suffering and great waste of social wealth caused due to the war in Afghanistan is set to culminate with the Taliban’s return to power, and with terrorist groups, which are entrenched in parts of Central Asia, making a full return
The US is trying to light the match of Islamic extremism in China’s Xinjiang
The information war now conducted by the US against China centers on Xinjiang. Once again, the US uses longstanding problems—such as the rise of extremism in Central Asia (fueled to some extent by the US since the 1980s)—to create problems for its adversaries
Understanding the complicated politics and geopolitics of the coup in Myanmar
Is it a coup if the military was already in power? Vijay Prashad examines the recent military coup in Myanmar through a political and geopolitical lens
Dispatches from the Congo: When the US came calling
Kambale Musavuli from the Centre for Research on the Congo talks about the recent visit of two AFRICOM officials to the DRC and the agenda presented by the delegation.
- Women in Croatia say enough to conservative obstruction of right to abortion
- Belgian workers demand scrapping of Wage Margin Act of 1996
- Protests surge against US-Greece agreement on bases
- Colombia decriminalizes medically assisted suicide for critically ill patients
- Teachers in Morocco on strike to protest legal persecution by authorities over protests
