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Can China And The United States Establish Mutual Respect To Lessen Tensions?
Thursday, 8 June 2023, 11:05 am | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad On June 3, 2023, naval vessels from the United States and Canada conducted a joint military exercise in the South China Sea. A Chinese warship (LY 132) overtook the U.S. guided-missile destroyer (USS Chung-Hoon) and ... More >>
LGBTQ+ Ugandans Face Deadly Threat As “Anti-Homosexuality Act” Signed Into Law
Wednesday, 7 June 2023, 11:03 am | Globetrotter
On May 29, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni gave his assent to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill (now Act). While same-sex relations were already criminalized under Uganda’s Penal Code, the new legislation goes much further, posing a grave threat to LGBTQ+ ... More >>
Taiwan’s Quest To Upgrade Its Battle Readiness Continues To Evolve
Saturday, 27 May 2023, 9:51 am | Globetrotter
Headline: Taiwan’s Quest to Upgrade Its Battle Readiness Continues to Evolve Russia’s war in Ukraine and China’s growing strength have accelerated Taiwan’s military overhaul. Taipei is exploring multiple ways to enhance its security, but unorthodox ... More >>
The Deplorable Work Conditions Behind Harrods’ $7,000 ‘Ambootia Snow Mist’ Darjeeling Tea
Thursday, 25 May 2023, 12:10 pm | Globetrotter
By Saurav Sarkar And Rupam Deb In 2015, after you were done gawking at the statue of Princess Di in the world’s largest department store, Harrods in London, you could head on over to the world-famous food halls where you could buy, among other ... More >>
Understanding The Controversy And Legality Of ‘Overseas Police Stations’
Tuesday, 2 May 2023, 9:33 am | Globetrotter
By John P. Ruehl The apprehension of two men in New York on April 16, 2023, marked the first known U.S. arrests in connection with Chinese overseas police stations. Both men were working in a building in Manhattan’s Chinatown rented by the America ... More >>
The Global South Is Done Waiting For The UN To Solve Humanity’s Challenges
Saturday, 15 April 2023, 8:24 pm | Globetrotter
Dag Hammarskjöld, the tragic second United Nations secretary general, once said the organization “was created not to lead mankind to heaven but to save humanity from hell.” Of course, this depends very much on what kind of hell you had in mind. ... More >>
How The War In Ukraine Is Shaking Up The Global Arms Industry
Thursday, 13 April 2023, 5:43 am | Globetrotter
The struggles of Russian weapons manufacturers have added to historic shifts in the global arms market. On March 21, 2023, India’s air force confirmed that a major Russian arms delivery would not occur, citing Russia’s logistical challenges stemming ... More >>
The World Bank And The BRICS Bank Have New Leaders And Different Outlooks
Saturday, 8 April 2023, 4:32 pm | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad In late February 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the United States had placed the nomination of Ajay Banga to be the next head of the World Bank, established in 1944. There will be no other official candidates for ... More >>
Global News Dispatches: 3 Stories - Syria | Peru | Ciudad Juárez
Thursday, 6 April 2023, 5:04 am | Globetrotter
Regional Isolation of Syria May End Soon Peru Announces Definitive Withdrawal of Ambassador From Colombia Tragedy in Ciudad Juárez Highlights Dangers Faced by Migrants Regional Isolation of Syria May End Soon Saudi Arabia may invite Syria to attend ... More >>
20 Years After Catastrophe In Iraq, The War Apologists Still Dominate U.S. Foreign Policy
Saturday, 1 April 2023, 8:55 pm | Globetrotter
In Warsaw last February, President Joe Biden condemned the lawless Russian invasion of Ukraine: “The idea that over 100,000 forces would invade another country—since World War II, nothing like that has happened.” One month later marked the 20th ... More >>
The Simple Reason Why The U.S. Wants ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ Of The Earth
Saturday, 1 April 2023, 6:45 pm | Globetrotter
Imagine the uproar if China or Russia—or any other country for that matter—said it aimed to exercise military control over land, sea, air, and space to protect its interests and investments. This amazingly has been the stated United States policy ... More >>
Why EU Strategic Autonomy Apart From The U.S. Is Currently Impossible
Friday, 31 March 2023, 11:30 am | Globetrotter
By James W. Carden Among the wreckage the riots that have convulsed Paris may leave in their wake include President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform; Macron’s ability to effectively govern for the next four years; and, quite possibly, the Fifth Republic ... More >>
Why Ukraine Is Increasingly A Nuclear Headache For World Powers
Friday, 31 March 2023, 11:27 am | Globetrotter
On March 20, 2023, the British government confirmed it would supply Ukrainian forces with tank shells made with depleted uranium, which can “penetrate tanks and armor more easily due to its density and other physical properties.” The affair quickly ... More >>
How The Cuban Government And Its People Collaborated On The Family Code
Friday, 24 March 2023, 6:14 am | Globetrotter
Revolutionary Havana youth describe the process of building legislation in dialogue with the people. By Natalia Marques On September 25, 2022, Cuba passed one of the world’s most progressive codes on families. All in one go, the small island nation ... More >>
Why China’s Actions Toward Ukraine And Russia Could Shape The Course Of Future
Friday, 17 March 2023, 11:23 am | Globetrotter
By John P. Ruehl Days before the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2023, U.S. officials claimed that China was considering providing Russia with lethal weaponry to support its military campaign. China denied the accusations ... More >>
Questions Grow About Tunisian Government Response To Yet Another Migrant Boat Tragedy
Friday, 17 March 2023, 10:20 am | Globetrotter
The latest migrant tragedy off the Tunisian coast, in which at least 14 people were killed during the first week of March, has led to further scrutiny of the country’s treatment of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the people who drowned on ... More >>
Why Sabotage Is A Growing Form Of Warfare In Ukraine
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 10:10 am | Globetrotter
By John P. Ruehl On February 8, Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. journalist Seymour Hersh published an article detailing the role of the U.S. and Norway in the September 26, 2022, Nord Stream gas pipeline explosions. U.S. officials denied the findings , while ... More >>
Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories from Jammu & Kashmir, Myanmar, Pakistan and Israel
Saturday, 4 March 2023, 2:01 pm | Globetrotter
In Jammu and Kashmir, Eviction Drive Sparks Anger and Protests From a Cross-Section of Society New International Sanctions Announced on Myanmar’s Junta as Airstrikes, Arrests Keep Country on Edge Pakistani Brothers Finally Leave Guantanamo Bay After ... More >>
5 Reasons Why Much Of The Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting The West In Ukraine
Sunday, 26 February 2023, 5:38 am | Globetrotter
In October 2022, about eight months after the war in Ukraine started, the University of Cambridge in the UK harmonized surveys conducted in 137 countries about their attitudes towards the West and towards Russia and China. The findings in the study ... More >>
The Case For Diplomacy In Ukraine
Friday, 24 February 2023, 11:17 am | Globetrotter
By Katrina vanden Heuvel and James W. Carden As 2023 unfolds, we fear that American policy will continue to be characterized by both mission creep and the absence of any sort of diplomatic engagement with Russia. Throughout the course of the war, ... More >>
