Will Colombian Oligarchy Fall? Amid Death Threats, Petro and Marquez Poised to Win Presidency
Colombians went to the polls this month and gave a huge victory to the left in Congressional elections. The presidential primaries are next and Left-wing leader Gustavo Petro is the front-runner. Petro’s progressive Black female running mate, Francia Márquez, has received death threats from paramilitaries but they aren’t backing down. Journalist Zoe Alexandra, co-editor of […]
China Reaffirms Closer Relations with Russia as Ukraine War Continues
Key international relationships are being profoundly tested by the war in Ukraine, especially the alliance between China and Russia – the two countries at the top of the U.S. empire’s hit list. How does China’s government view Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine? Will the relationship between the two countries grow closer or more distant as […]
Ukraine War, Food Shortages & Oil Shocks: Is the Global System Coming Undone? With Paris Yeros
The war in Ukraine is turning geopolitics upside down, in a global order that already seemed brittle. We have an oil shock, a financial shock, a cold war, a hot war, an ongoing global pandemic all at the same time. Now global supply chains, upon which modern human life depends, have been severed. Supplies […]
‘Russian Agent!’ McCarthyite Attacks on Anti-Imperialists, with Justin Podur & Rania Khalek
Mainstream media are whipping up a frenzy against leftists who oppose US imperialism and NATO, smearing them as “Russian agents” for trying to analyze this conflict and its causes with nuance rather than emotion or jingoism. With Western media exclusively focused on Ukraine, simply reminding people that Afghanistan is being starved due to U.S. policies, […]
German Military Makes ‘Largest Expenditures Since the End of WW2’ Says German Parliamentarian
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz recently announced the doubling of German military funding, which is expected to make its military the largest in Europe. Sevim Dağdelen, MP in the German Bundestag & Die Linke spokeswoman for international politics and disarmament, discusses when that’s happened before and why it can’t happen again.
ANC Youth League Rep: NATO, Western Countries ‘Are to Be Blamed; They Could Have Avoided This War’
The African continent has experienced NATO and US wars firsthand. Yet the US media has failed to cover, or explain, why prominent voices across the continent have taken issue with the mainstream western approach to the conflict. In particular as it concerns the US/NATO role in setting the stage for the conflict. Sizophila Mkhize, South […]
Does the US See Ukraine as ‘Another Afghanistan’ to Bleed Russia? With Anatol Lieven
Many experts on Russia and Ukraine are calling for de-escalation and genuine diplomacy but are being drowned out by a unanimous chorus led by the media and a cacophony of hawkish frauds demanding more war. To break through the war fervor, Rania Khalek spoke to Anatol Lieven, a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute […]
How Are Geopolitical Relationships Changing Due to the War in Ukraine?
India isn’t often discussed in the context of the Ukraine war, but India is the second largest country in the world by population, and has a relationship with both Russia and the U.S. Russia and India have a strong economic relationship, while the U.S. has been eager to have India as a political partner. How […]