West Africa is in the grip of a wave of coups, popular protests and fierce geopolitical struggles. Amy Niang argues that declining western hegemony in the region goes hand to hand with intensified competition for access and control of Africa’s natural resources....
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The U.S. uses double standards in International Affairs: Sanders
“Russia, like the U.S., has an interest in the security policies of its neighbors. Recognizing this fact is not a sign of weakness, but of an understanding," Senator Bernie Sanders pointed out.
2022 begins with the environment crying for help
Heat waves, floods and prolonged droughts show how climate change is already present; Check the interview with Marcio Astrini, Executive Secretary of the Climate Observatory.
What is anti-capitalist feminism?
IWDA’s Content Coordinator Annelise Lecordier dives into the world of anti-capitalist feminism and shares the resources helping her learn more.
China’s Foreign Ministry: position on Russia & Ukraine
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Russia relations, Ukraine, Humanitarian Aid, Taiwan, China-EU relations, China-Central Asia relations, sanctions, differing views of democracy, and European security.
She, we… on the road to equality
In Cuba, we are fortunate to be part of a social project in which women have been protagonists and beneficiaries of the transformations achieved.
National Endowment for Democracy deletes records of funding projects in Ukraine
Deletion needed to preserve big lie of an unprovoked Russian invasion
Impacts of warming faster and more severe than expected says IPCC
Ecosystems everywhere are altered by climate change. For some of them, the limits of adaptation are exceeded (especially in polar and equatorial regions) – they will not be able to regenerate naturally.
Transgender rights: China advances while U.S. backslides
The Republican evangelical right scapegoats trans people as their latest “culture war” to mobilize far-right support and secure corporate interests.
Burning Globalist structures to save the Globalist ‘Liberal Order’
Biden, finally, has his foreign policy ‘success’: Europe is walling itself off from Russia, China, and the emerging integrated Asian market.
America shoots its own dollar empire in economic attack on Russia
Empires often follow the course of a Greek tragedy, bringing about precisely the fate that they sought to avoid. That certainly is the case with the American Empire as it dismantles itself in not-so-slow motion.
What is the Fetishism of Commodities?
Towards the end of the first chapter of Das Kapital, after having established the validity of the labor theory of value, Marx has a section on the “Fetishism of Commodities”.











