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‘Trump’s Moment of Truth in New World Order’: The brevity of the Trump-Xi meeting in South Korea compared to Trump’s anticipated three to four hours, was a sobering reminder that the mistrust between the two world powers still runs deep. The meeting’s outcome appears more like a truce that is fragile. Also: ‘No Big Deal: The Trump-Xi Meeting in Korea’.
‘France in Crisis: An Interview with Jean Luc Melenchon and La France Insoumise’; ‘Between Macron’s Crisis and Le Pen’s Threat: France’s Left Seeks a Way Forward’: Seven years of Macronist neoliberalism have created the conditions for either genuine left-wing transformation or authoritarian breakthrough.
The BRICS countries support the preservation of the existing international financial architecture, with the IMF and the World Bank at its core, and the international trade system (WTO, free trade agreements, etc).
Isn’t Islam inherently violent? What stopped the Islamic world having an Enlightenment? Why are some Muslims so into head-chopping? And isn’t Hamas the same as Islamic State?
In these troubling times, when many countries experience the unlimited abuse of people’s civil liberties, it is useful to remember the value of individual acts of human courage.
Hurricane Melissa is the strongest hurricane to hit Cuba in the last 150 years. As of now, no lives were lost in Cuba, and that is due to its national unity and preparedness that was able to evacuate over 700,000 people and their belongings out of harm’s way before the storm arrived.
5 November 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Operación Carlota, Cuba’s internationalist mission in southern Africa, which was pivotal in securing Angola and Namibia’s independence and hastening the fall of apartheid South Africa.
‘Ritwik Ghatak: Reaching Out to a Lonely Rebel’: This year marks the birth centenary of the famous film director Ritwik Ghatak. It is a daunting effort – trying to fathom the depths of Ritwik Ghatak’s tortured soul and the times in which he lived, which alone can explain his films. Also: ‘Ritwik Ghatak: Shunned in His Lifetime, Proven Right at the End of it All’.
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