Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who’s once again in the running for the presidency, says that “God willing” he hopes to see the creation of a Latin American currency capable of overcoming the region’s dependence on the dollar.
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Solomon Islands PM warns of invasion by Australia and U.S.
Responding to a series of threats of intervention by the U.S. and Australia, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare warned on Tuesday that his small Pacific islands country was in danger of invasion by the allied powers.
Beyond Eurocentrism
With the publication of Orientalism in 1978, Edward Said would become one of the most influential scholars of our era. The book transformed the study of the history of the modern world, as it offered insights into how racist discourses created and maintained European...
Donziger: A tale for our times
Texaco operations in Ecuador from 1962 to 1994 dumped 70 billion litres of “wastewater”, heavily contaminated with oil and other chemicals, into the Amazon rainforest, plus over 650,000 barrels of crude oil. They polluted over 800,000 hectares.
Fall-out of the Ukraine conflict on India’s economy
The Problem Is Actually At Home
Supreme Court’s draft opinion on abortion sends jolt through U.S.
If the justices do not uphold the "Roe v. Wade Decision," abortion would immediately become illegal in 13 states, while Republican-led states are already moving to enact restrictive laws.
The poor people’s campaign and the moral dilemma of liberalism
The demands for justice at home and abroad must not be sacrificed on the altar of what is called pragmatism. The false choices presented by liberalism can undermine the movement altogether.
PayPal blocks multiple alternative media figures critical of U.S. empire narratives
In what appears to be yet another escalation in Silicon Valley’s redoubled efforts to quash dissident voices since the beginning of the Ukraine war, PayPal has just blocked the accounts of multiple alternative media voices who’ve been speaking critically against...
Out of Africa: Rich continent, poor people
KUALA LUMPUR: Capital flight from the global South is immense, with widespread adverse effects. A new book proposes measures to curb, even reverse capital flight from Africa. It also offers pragmatic lessons for many developing countries.
Indonesia, not the EU, needs to make its palm oil sustainable
Importers must step up support for sustainable palm oil, and producers be bold in revoking the licences of illegal palm estates, writes Andre Barahamin.
This is the real face of the Ukraine war – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on imperialism, democracy and porn in parliament.
Ukrainian strike on Donetsk Market was a terrorist act
When artillery hit a busy public space in Donetsk, it brought flashbacks of attacks in Gaza and Syria.