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How U.S. Interference In Cuba Creates A False Picture Of Its Society
Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 10:23 am | Globetrotter
By Manolo De Los Santos And Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) appears to be obsessed with Cuba. Every few days he takes to social media or makes remarks to the press about his desire to overthrow the Cuban Revolution. ... More >>
Chile Is At The Dawn Of A New Political Era
Thursday, 21 October 2021, 12:24 pm | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter “It feels like we are at the end of an era,” Bárbara Sepúlveda tells me on October 12, 2021. Sepúlveda is a member of Chile’s Constitutional Convention and of the Communist Party of Chile. The era ... More >>
In U.S. Foreign Policy, Realists Are Finally On The Rise
Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 9:01 am | Globetrotter
The long unheeded and potentially bipartisan policy advocated by thinkers like the late Sherle R. Schwenninger, co-founder of the New America Foundation and my friend, may finally have its moment. By James W. Carden / Globetrotter During the autumn ... More >>
Afghanistan Tackles The Islamic State
Wednesday, 13 October 2021, 11:31 am | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad On October 8, a terrible blast struck the worshippers attending Friday noon prayers at the Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Mosque in the Khan Abad district of Bandar, the capital of Kunduz, one of Afghanistan’s largest cities in its northern ... More >>
Why The World’s Eyes Are On The Afghanistan-Tajikistan Border
Tuesday, 5 October 2021, 11:11 am | Globetrotter
Afghanistan and Tajikistan share a 1,400-kilometer border. Recently, a war of words has erupted between Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon and the Taliban government in Kabul. Rahmon censures the Taliban for the destabilization of Central Asia by ... More >>
Europe After Angela Merkel: Is The Atlantic Era Over?
Thursday, 30 September 2021, 9:35 am | Globetrotter
By James W. Carden / Globetrotter Just what shape Germany’s governing coalition will take is still unclear in the aftermath of the September 26 election, which saw the Social Democrats (SPD), led by finance minister Olaf Scholz, come away with just ... More >>
Afghanistan’s Impoverished People Live Amid Enormous Riches
Thursday, 30 September 2021, 8:45 am | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter On September 25, 2021, Afghanistan’s Economy Minister Qari Din Mohammad Hanif said that his government does not want “help and cooperation from the world like the previous government. The old system was supported by the ... More >>
How AUKUS May Damage NATO
Thursday, 23 September 2021, 9:55 am | Globetrotter
Only weeks after U.S. President Joe Biden courageously ended the war in Afghanistan—in the face of bitter opposition from the media and Congress—came the announcement of the formation of AUKUS, a new trilateral security alliance between the U.S., the ... More >>
Meet the Biden Advisor Who Wants a Cold War with China
Tuesday, 21 September 2021, 10:22 am | Globetrotter
By Koohan Paik-Mander / Globetrotter As a longtime Hawaii resident, I have always wondered how the former President of the United States, Grover Cleveland, was so ineffective when it came to foreign policy matters. His efforts to right the wrong ... More >>
Indigenous People of Brazil Fight for Their Future
Friday, 17 September 2021, 9:36 am | Globetrotter
By Nick Estes / Globetrotter Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has given new license to the killing of Indigenous people in Brazil. Before he came to power in 2019, it wasn’t clear what he wanted to build, but he knew exactly who and what he wanted ... More >>
US Failures in War and Fighting Racism
Monday, 13 September 2021, 11:26 am | Globetrotter
By Charles Xu / Globetrotter The United States’ Recent Failures in War and Fighting Racism Should Serve as a Warning to Its Allies On May 26, 2021, President Joe Biden ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to produce “analysis of the origins of COVID-19” ... More >>
Decades of Failed U.S. National Security Policy
Friday, 10 September 2021, 2:27 pm | Globetrotter
A reckoning with America’s failed national security policy is long overdue. More >>
What Next After 20 Years of War in Afghanistan?
Thursday, 9 September 2021, 10:12 am | Globetrotter
On Monday, August 30, at 3:29 p.m. Eastern Time, a C-17 transport plane took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, signaling the end of America’s longest war. More >>
Rwanda’s Military Is the French Proxy on African Soil
Thursday, 9 September 2021, 9:47 am | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter On July 9, 2021, the government of Rwanda said that it had deployed 1,000 troops to Mozambique to battle al-Shabaab fighters, who had seized the northern province of Cabo Delgado. A month later, on August 8, Rwandan ... More >>
Discovery of Natural Gas in Mozambique Produced Tragedies
Wednesday, 1 September 2021, 8:38 am | Globetrotter
Why the Discovery of Natural Gas in Mozambique Has Produced Tragedies, Not Economic Promise On February 18, 2010, Anadarko Moçambique—a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum ( bought by Occidental Petroleum in 2019)— discovered a massive natural gas field ... More >>
How the Taliban Chased the West Out of Afghanistan
Thursday, 26 August 2021, 9:58 am | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter Days after the Taliban drove into Kabul on August 15, its representatives started making inquiries about the “location of assets” of the central bank of the nation, Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB), which are known to ... More >>
