2021 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide Rises Again
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2021 Latin America and the Caribbean in Review: The Pink Tide Rises Again

The balance between the US drive to dominate its “backyard” and its counterpart, the Bolivarian cause of regional independence and integration, continued to tip portside in 2021 with major popular electoral victories in Chile, Honduras, and Peru.

Co-lending: Another Bonanza for Private Capital
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Co-lending: Another Bonanza for Private Capital

The State Bank of India recently announced that it had entered into a partnership with Adani Capital. Like with all public-private partnerships under capitalism, the public sector will bear the risk while the private sector will share the rewards generated largely by the investment of public capital.

The US Still Doesn’t Know How and Where It Will Store Its Growing Nuclear Waste
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The US Still Doesn’t Know How and Where It Will Store Its Growing Nuclear Waste

The US has no coherent plan in place to manage nuclear waste from weapons manufacturing piling up at more than 150 sites. The estimated cost of handling has gone up to $512 billion at last count; and, the waste will have to somehow remain safely stored for 10,000 years or more …

UN and AU Endorse Sudan’s Coup Government, the Streets Do Not
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UN and AU Endorse Sudan’s Coup Government, the Streets Do Not

Protesters are not convinced by the UN and AU’s position that democracy can be won by accepting a government where the real levers of power are held by the military while a cabinet of technocrats is paraded before the international community to maintain the facade of ‘joint military-civilian rule’.