Canadian Imperialism and the Underdevelopment of Burkina Faso
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Canadian Imperialism and the Underdevelopment of Burkina Faso

ByOwen Schalk

Walter Rodney wrote, “The development of Europe [was] part of the same dialectical process in which Africa was underdeveloped.” In recent decades, Canada has played an outsized role in this process of underdevelopment – particularly in Burkina Faso.

Let’s Reinvent the U.S. Military for Real National Defense
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Let’s Reinvent the U.S. Military for Real National Defense

ByWilliam Astore

Collectively, we need to imagine a world in which we as Americans are no longer the foremost merchants of death, in which we don’t imagine ourselves as the eternal global police force, in which we don’t spend as much on our military as the next 10 countries combined.

In Line of Fire: The Korean Peninsula in U.S.-China Strategy
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In Line of Fire: The Korean Peninsula in U.S.-China Strategy

ByTim Beal

We need to move beyond U.S. myopia and analyze U.S.-Korea policy in terms of “deep rationality.” That is, the underlying reasons for behavior not articulated by the actors, perhaps out of prudence, but also quite likely because they are not aware of them themselves.

Interview with Angela Rangad – an Activist Whose 10-Day Dharna Forced Govt to Yield
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Interview with Angela Rangad – an Activist Whose 10-Day Dharna Forced Govt to Yield

BySangeeta Barooah Pisharoty

Angela Rangad’s extraordinary solo protest ended with the Meghalaya government calling her for consultations on better implementation of the Chief Minister’s Relief Against Wage Loss scheme.

How Haunani-Kay Trask Shaped Her People’s Struggle for Independence
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How Haunani-Kay Trask Shaped Her People’s Struggle for Independence

ByAnne Keala Kelly

The Hawaiian movement for self-determination was forever changed by the fierce and unapologetic leadership of the late Haunani-Kay Trask. This loving obituary written by one of Trask’s mentees explores her powerful legacy.

Haiti and Cuba in the Caribbean’s Hour of Crisis
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Haiti and Cuba in the Caribbean’s Hour of Crisis

ByVijay Prashad

What unites the West Indian islands is not language and culture, but the wretchedness of slavery, rooted in an oppressive plantation economy. Both Haiti and Cuba are products of this ‘peculiarity’, the one being bold enough to break the shackles in 1804, and the other able to follow a 150 years later.

In the Shadow of the Blockade: Stories of Resistance from El Maizal Commune
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In the Shadow of the Blockade: Stories of Resistance from El Maizal Commune

ByCira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert

A discussion with seasoned communards of one of Venezuela’s flagship communes about how they see the country’s situation, the solutions they have learned through experience, and the future they project for the besieged country.

Debate: Sudheendra Kulkarni on Bhagwat’s Speech of 4 July; and Two Responses
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Debate: Sudheendra Kulkarni on Bhagwat’s Speech of 4 July; and Two Responses

BySudheendra Kulkarni; Ram Puniyani; and Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay

Opinion: Bhagwat’s Glasnost in RSS-Muslim Ties Is Welcome, But Can He Rein in Modi and Adityanath?; Counterview: The RSS’s Age-Old Agenda Is the Same, No Matter What Mohan Bhagwat Says; The Burden of Being ‘Bharatiya’ in Mohan Bhagwat’s Hindu Rashtra.