Davos and the Melting World Economy
As billionnaires meet in luxury, Oxfam publishes a staggering condemnation of capital’s failure to meet humanity’s needs.
Argentina: Shock Therapy, Resistance, and the Role of the Left
With Congress likely to approve Milei’s neoliberal agenda, the only limits to his onslaught will come through mass mobilization, coordinated strike activity, and other forms of social unrest.
Seeds of Life: Guatemala Beyond Elections
As a new government takes office despite repeated attempts to undermine its ascent, Indigenous leaders reflect on the indefinite national strike in defense of democracy and the struggles that still lie ahead.
Legendary Palestinian Resistance; World Rises in Support – 3 Articles
‘100 Days of War and Resistance: Legendary Palestinian Resistance Will Be Netanyahu’s Downfall’; ‘Israel’s War on Palestine and the Global Upsurge Against It’; ‘Hundreds of Thousands March for Gaza as World Demands Cease-Fire’.
After Threat of Coup and Nine Hours of Delay, the President of Guatemala Is Sworn in
Attempt to weaken the new president’s parliamentary group backfires as his Semilla Party assumes presidency of Congress.
Decoding Iran’s Missile, Drone Strikes
The stunning missile and drone strikes on three countries — Syria, Iraq and Pakistan — over a period of 24 hours and Tehran announcing its responsibility for the attacks conveyed a very big message to Washington that its stratagem to create a coalition of terror groups in the region surrounding Iran will be resolutely countered.
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It Could Be That Ukraine Is Losing the War with Russia
When it comes to the war in Ukraine we in the US, like the Ukrainian people themselves, have been sold a bill of goods. Ukrainians, however, are a step ahead of Americans in that the overwhelming majority of them are rejecting the lies their government is dishing out to them.
In Bangladesh’s Sham Election, the Only Real Contest Is Geopolitical
With the victory of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League a foregone conclusion, the big question is how India, China, Europe and the United States will be configured in relation to Bangladesh.
The Baluchistan Imbroglio
The author discusses the background to the latest strikes – first Iran targeted the base of an armed-separatist group, the Jaish al-Adl, in Baluchistan; two days later, Pakistan unleashed a drone attack against Baluchi-militant ‘terrorist hideouts’ on the Iranian side of the border.
South Africa’s Case Before the International Court of Justice on Genocide in Gaza – 3 Articles
‘Genocide in Gaza’; ‘International Court of Justice Hears Devastating Presentation of Israeli Genocide in Gaza’; ‘Why We Have to Make the Jewish Ghetto Comparison’.