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Paweł Wargan: Africa’s Forgotten Colony In The Sahara
Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 1:54 pm | Globetrotter
By Paweł Wargan Since 1975 , thousands of Sahrawi people have lived in five refugee camps in the Algerian Sahara. They named these camps after cities in Western Sahara: Ausserd, Boujdour, Dakhla, Laayoune, and Smara. In a straight line, Smara the camp ... More >>
Lula Must Save Brazil From Savage Capitalism, Says Federal Deputy Juliana Cardoso
Friday, 11 November 2022, 9:45 am | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad and Zoe Alexandra Juliana Cardoso is sitting in her office in front of a lavender, orange, and yellow mandala that was made for her. She has been a member of São Paulo’s city council since 2008. On October 2, 2022, ... More >>
Japan’s Discomfort In The New Cold War
Tuesday, 8 November 2022, 2:06 pm | Globetrotter
Vijay Prashad In early December 2021, Japan’s Self-Defense Force joined the U.S. armed forces for Resolute Dragon 2021, which the U.S. Marines called the “largest bilateral training exercise of the year.” Major General Jay Bargeron of the U.S. ... More >>
Guinea’s Plight Lays Bare The Greed Of Foreign Mining Companies In The Sahel
Saturday, 29 October 2022, 7:42 pm | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter On October 20, 2022, in Guinea, a protest organized by the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC) took place. The protesters demanded the ruling military government (the National Committee of Reconciliation ... More >>
China’s Path To Socialist Modernization
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 7:28 pm | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak / Globetrotter The Communist Party of China (CPC) held its 20th National Congress from October 16 to October 22, 2022 . Every five years, the delegates of the CPC’s 96 million members meet to elect its top leaders ... More >>
How Europe Has Navigated Its Energy Crises
Tuesday, 25 October 2022, 11:19 am | Globetrotter
By John P. Ruehl / Globetrotter While European energy prices have eased slightly in recent months , stress continues to build across a continent that has long been dependent on access to cheap Russian energy. Protests related to high energy costs ... More >>
Charting The Rise Of Anti-French Sentiment Across Northern Africa
Tuesday, 18 October 2022, 9:16 am | Globetrotter
Vijay Prashad In November 2021, a French military convoy was making its way to Mali while passing through Burkina Faso and Niger. It did not get very far. It was stopped in Téra, Niger, and before that at several points in Burkina Faso (in Bobo-Dioulasso ... More >>
Cuba: A Tale Of Two Hurricanes
Friday, 14 October 2022, 10:52 am | Globetrotter
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde Ernest Hemingway learned in Cuba that the best way to get through a hurricane is to have your ears tuned to a battery-powered radio and keep your hands busy with a bottle of rum and a hammer to nail down doors and windows. ... More >>
Cuba In The Eye Of Washington’s Hurricane
Thursday, 13 October 2022, 8:38 am | Globetrotter
By Manolo De Los Santos Hurricane Ian lashed at western Cuba on September 27, 2022. I waited desperately for a phone call from my friends in Puerto Esperanza, a small fishing village on the northern coast of Pinar del Río. Over a crackling phone line, ... More >>
The Global Inflationary Tsunami Is Made In The U.S., Not Ukraine
Wednesday, 12 October 2022, 8:54 am | Globetrotter
By John Ross An inflationary tsunami is passing through the world economy , creating economic disorder—in some cases acute political crisis—in every country it touches. This is gathering momentum as the U.S., which is leading other Global North economies, ... More >>
Iranian And Turkish Moves To Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization Raises Its Profile
Tuesday, 11 October 2022, 5:36 am | Globetrotter
While far from an alliance, the SCO is increasingly utilized for managing Eurasian affairs without traditional Western mechanisms and organizations. By John P. Ruehl / Globetrotter Held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, from September 15 to 16, the 2022 summit ... More >>
How Cuba Is Dealing With The Devastation Of Hurricane Ian
Wednesday, 5 October 2022, 11:39 am | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad and Manolo De Los Santos / Globetrotter On September 27, 2022, a tropical cyclone—Hurricane Ian— struck Cuba’s western province of Pinar del Río. Sustained winds of around 125 miles per hour lingered over Cuba for more than ... More >>
The Electricity Crisis In South Africa Continues To Brew
Thursday, 29 September 2022, 7:31 am | Globetrotter
By Vashna Jagarnath / Globetrotter At the end of apartheid in 1994, only 36 percent of households in South Africa were electrified, with almost all white households having electric power and most Black households having no access to electricity. ... More >>
Four Straight Years Of Nonstop Street Protest In Haiti
Wednesday, 28 September 2022, 10:58 am | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad A cycle of protests began in Haiti in July 2018, and—despite the pandemic—has carried on since then. The core reason for the protest in 2018 was that in March of that year the government of Venezuela—due to the illegal sanctions ... More >>
Understanding Libya’s Relentless Destabilization
Monday, 26 September 2022, 7:58 am | Globetrotter
Libya’s competing domestic actors are being exploited by foreign powers seeking to downplay their role in the fragile country. By John P. Ruehl / Globetrotter After leading a military coup in 1969, Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi cemented his rule ... More >>
What Do Americans Care About? Not A Cold War With Russia And China
Friday, 23 September 2022, 5:31 pm | Globetrotter
By Katrina vanden Heuvel / Globetrotter The Biden administration will soon release its National Security Strategy, which is being revised in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The document will no doubt trigger a renewed debate about how ... More >>
What Do Americans Care About? Not A Cold War With Russia And China
Friday, 23 September 2022, 5:29 pm | Globetrotter
By Katrina vanden Heuvel / Globetrotter The Biden administration will soon release its National Security Strategy, which is being revised in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The document will no doubt trigger a renewed debate about how ... More >>
How Russians Read The Conflict In The Caucasus
Friday, 23 September 2022, 6:17 am | Globetrotter
By Dr. Pietro A. Shakarian / Globetrotter In the early morning hours of Tuesday, September 13, Azerbaijan launched an aggressive military assault along the borders of the Armenian Republic. Observers of politics in the post-Soviet space may be forgiven ... More >>
The Roar Of A U.S. Warplane Over A Civilian Irish Airport
Saturday, 17 September 2022, 6:40 pm | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter “This is not a regular airport,” Margaretta D’Arcy said to me as we heard a C-130T Hercules prepare to take off from Shannon Airport in Ireland after 3 p.m. on September 11, 2022. That enormous U.S. Navy aircraft ... More >>
Violence Against Indigenous Women Grows In Vancouver Amid ‘Apathy And Injustice’
Friday, 16 September 2022, 6:14 am | Globetrotter
Indigenous women and girls in Canada continue to face disproportionate levels of violence and insecurity rooted in colonialism. By Tanupriya Singh / Globetrotter Violence against Indigenous women is “escalating like never before,” the Union ... More >>
