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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 >>
Asking The Oppressed To Be Nonviolent Is An Impossible Standard That Ignores History
Friday, 17 February 2023, 9:50 am | Globetrotter
By Justin Podur In January 2023, after five police officers killed Tyre Nichols, President Joe Biden quickly issued a statement calling on protesters to stay nonviolent . “As Americans grieve, the Department of Justice conducts its investigation, and ... More >>
How Complicit Governments Support The Drug Trade
Wednesday, 8 February 2023, 11:28 am | Globetrotter
By John P. Ruehl The modern globalized world has made it easier and far more lucrative to facilitate and enable international drug networks , and several governments, or elements within them, actively work with criminal groups to support the flow of drugs ... More >>
Why A Small City In Ukraine Is A Focal Point In The War
Friday, 27 January 2023, 9:42 am | Globetrotter
By John P. Ruehl Since the Ukrainian army’s counteroffensive started gaining momentum in September 2022 , the Russian army has largely been on the defensive. Russian drone and missile strikes continue to target Ukraine’s major cities, but its military ... More >>
The U.S. Foreign Policy Establishment Proves In Ukraine That It Forgot The Lessons Of Vietnam
Friday, 27 January 2023, 7:09 am | Globetrotter
Friday, January 27th, marks 50 years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords by representatives from the United States, North and South Vietnam effectively ending American participation in the Vietnamese civil conflict. What the Georgetown University ... More >>
How Many Ukrainian Refugees Will Return Home?
Saturday, 14 January 2023, 5:49 am | Globetrotter
Millions of Ukrainians have fled the country since Russia’s invasion in February 2022. The longer the war continues, the less likely they are to return, with dire consequences for Ukraine. By John P. Ruehl Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine ... More >>
Why The Climate Justice March In South Korea Could Be A Game Changer For The Environment
Tuesday, 10 January 2023, 9:42 am | Globetrotter
By Alice S. Kim On September 24, 2022, more than 30,000 people occupied the main roads of downtown Seoul, South Korea, for the nation’s largest climate justice march. The sheer turnout of people from all walks of life and the participation by ... More >>
Moscow’s Leverage In The Balkans
Friday, 23 December 2022, 12:14 pm | Globetrotter
By John P. Ruehl Since September , Kosovo’s fragile stability that has endured since 1999, following intervention by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), has grown progressively precarious. Clashes between ethnic Serbians and Kosovo security ... More >>
Iran Punished For Treatment Of Women
Wednesday, 21 December 2022, 6:02 pm | Globetrotter
The U.S. initiates Iran’s expulsion from the UN women’s commission. By Evelyn Leopold The Islamic Republic of Iran was the first UN member ever to be expelled from the prestigious Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), tasked with protecting ... More >>
The U.S. Egged On The Coup In Peru
Thursday, 15 December 2022, 10:14 am | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad and José Carlos Llerena Robles On December 7, 2022, Pedro Castillo sat in his office on what would be the last day of his presidency of Peru. His lawyers went over spreadsheets that showed Castillo would triumph over a motion in Congress ... More >>
Sanctions Batter Russia As The Kremlin Attempts To Overcome Them
Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 1:10 pm | Globetrotter
By John P. Ruehl Immediately after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the U.S., the UK, and the EU placed major sanctions on Russia to constrict its economy and restrain its war effort. Having been updated several times since, these sanctions ... More >>
Cuba Goes On A Diplomatic Tour In An Increasingly Multipolar World
Monday, 5 December 2022, 5:19 am | Globetrotter
On November 27 morning, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, walked into a voting station in the Playa neighborhood to vote in Cuba’s municipal elections. He had landed in Havana an hour earlier from an intense tour of Algeria, Russia, Turkey, ... More >>
‘The Ax Always Falls On The Most Vulnerable’: Pakistan Demands Debt Cancellation And Climate Justice
Friday, 2 December 2022, 10:46 am | Globetrotter
By Tanupriya Singh Even as the floodwaters have receded, the people of Pakistan are still trying to grapple with the death and devastation the floods have left in their wake. The floods that swept across the country between June and September have ... More >>
Boaventura De Sousa Santos: 10 Suggestions For Lula, New President Of Brazil
Friday, 2 December 2022, 6:27 am | Globetrotter
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos Dear President Lula, When I visited you (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) in prison on August 30, 2018, in the brief time that the visit lasted, I experienced a whirlwind of ideas and emotions that remain as vivid today as they ... More >>
Could China Help Brazil To Overcome Its Economic Crisis?
Tuesday, 29 November 2022, 12:12 pm | Globetrotter
By Marco Fernandes The election victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the president of Brazil for a third term on October 30 is expected to revise the relations between Brasília and Beijing. Brazil is going through a serious economic , political, social, ... More >>
The Waters Are Running Red In Africa’s Great Lakes Region—A War Is Raging We Can’t Ignore Any Longer
Friday, 18 November 2022, 2:06 pm | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad In early November, foreign ministers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Christophe Lutundula Apala Pen’Apala, and Rwanda, Vicent Biruta met in Luanda, Angola, to find a political solution to a conflict that has been ongoing ... More >>
