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The Bewildering Vote In Chile That Rejected A New Constitution
Sunday, 11 September 2022, 5:24 am | Globetrotter
By Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter On September 4, 2022, more than 13 million Chileans —out of a voting-eligible population of approximately 15 million—voted on a proposal to introduce a new constitution in the country. ... More >>
France’s Influence In Africa Faces Strains From Locals And Foreign Competitors
Saturday, 10 September 2022, 6:26 pm | Globetrotter
The recent visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to Algeria is an attempt by Paris to hold on to the economic and cultural control it once had over its former colonies. By John P. Ruehl / Globetrotter On August 25 , French President Emmanuel ... More >>
Is The U.S. Legal System At War With Its People?
Friday, 2 September 2022, 6:32 am | Globetrotter
Incarcerations, brutality, and torture are common in the U.S. Activists claim that this amounts to a war waged against racially marginalized, poor, and working-class people. By Natalia Marques / Globetrotter The very laws and government agencies created ... More >>
Washington Wants A New Cold War—But That’s A Bad Idea
Tuesday, 16 August 2022, 7:00 pm | Globetrotter
As China unleashed live-fire military exercises off the coast of Taiwan, simulating a real “ reunification by force ” operation in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ceremonial visit to the island last week, the bipartisan fervor for a ... More >>
Ukraine Is A Wake-Up Call For Europe
Friday, 12 August 2022, 7:05 am | Globetrotter
It is becoming clear that U.S. neoconservatives have succeeded in creating a warmongering, anti-Russian mood in Europe through an unprecedented information war, the consequences of which will take some time to assess. It is, however, possible to identify the ... More >>
South Africa Is On A Knife Edge As Xenophobia Escalates
Wednesday, 10 August 2022, 9:58 am | Globetrotter
By Richard Pithouse / Globetrotter Xenophobia is a global crisis, but in South Africa, it takes a particularly violent form. The day-to-day accumulation of insult and harassment from within the state and society periodically mutates into open-street violence ... More >>
How Maasai Women Are Resisting Land Grabs
Tuesday, 2 August 2022, 7:20 am | Globetrotter
In Mwanza, Tanzania, Nairukoki Leyian-Naisinyai tells me that here, “Corporations come with papers from the government claiming that they have the right to our land.” She points to the large corporations that have entered the lands of the Maasai people ... More >>
Will The Ukraine Conflict Turn Private?
Friday, 15 July 2022, 6:14 am | Globetrotter
The expanding use of private military and security companies in recent years suggests that they may take a leading role as the Ukraine conflict develops. By John P. Ruehl / Globetrotter Since the turn of the century, private military and security companies ... More >>
How Cuba Is Eradicating Child Mortality And Banishing The Diseases Of The Poor
Thursday, 7 July 2022, 9:59 am | Globetrotter
To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few decades is an extraordinary feat. More >>
The United States Extends Its Military Reach Into Zambia
Thursday, 30 June 2022, 6:27 pm | Globetrotter
An interview with Dr. Fred M’membe of the Socialist Party By Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter On April 26, 2022, the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) announced that they had set up an office in the U.S. Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia. According to AFRICOM ... More >>
The Era Of Northern Hegemony Over Mexico Is Coming To An End
Monday, 27 June 2022, 6:26 am | Globetrotter
By Rodrigo Guillot / Globetrotter In 2010, Cuba’s former President Fidel Castro said : “López Obrador will be the person with the most moral and political authority in Mexico when the system collapses and, with it, the empire.” He was referring ... More >>
The Wide Role Brazil’s Military Has Played In The Destruction Of The Amazon
Thursday, 23 June 2022, 10:43 am | Globetrotter
By Pedro Marin In the Brazilian Amazon, as deforestation reaches record levels and rivers are increasingly polluted , the illegal gold mining contributing to these problems continues largely unabated. The response of the government has been to increase ... More >>
Why Does The United States Have A Military Base In Ghana?
Thursday, 16 June 2022, 6:31 am | Globetrotter
An interview with Kwesi Pratt Jr., a journalist and leader of the Socialist Movement of Ghana. By Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter In April 2018, the president of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, said that Ghana has “not offered a military base, ... More >>
Why Peace And Disarmament Are At The Heart Of Nonalignment
Tuesday, 14 June 2022, 6:47 am | Globetrotter
By Kate Hudson / Globetrotter As our world spirals toward the catastrophe of nuclear war, there has never been a greater need for a new global balancing, a rejection of great power war, exploitation, and aggression. Now more than ever, we need to ... More >>
Storms At The Summit Of The Americas
Friday, 10 June 2022, 9:16 am | Globetrotter
By Rosa Miriam Elizalde June 7 was a bad day for Luis Almagro , secretary-general of the Organization of American States (OAS). During the ninth Summit of the Americas, a young man declared to him what he is: an assassin and puppet of the White House, ... More >>
The Role Of Energy In Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine
Thursday, 9 June 2022, 9:52 am | Globetrotter
By John P. Ruehl After Russian forces seized Ukraine’s Kherson region at the beginning of its invasion, a Ukrainian official named Kirill Stremousov was installed as the new government’s deputy head . In a YouTube video posted in May, Stremousov stated ... More >>
Colombia Needs Democracy, Plain And Simple: An Interview With María José Pizarro
Wednesday, 8 June 2022, 6:47 am | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad and Taroa Zúñiga Silva / Globetrotter On May 29, 2022, a political earthquake struck Colombia: the left-leaning Historical Pact’s presidential candidate, Gustavo Petro, and vice-presidential candidate, Francia Márquez, won the first round ... More >>
Rejecting War Is Not Enough—Racism Curdles Peace
Tuesday, 7 June 2022, 9:08 am | Globetrotter
By Claudia Webbe / Globetrotter War and racism have always been violently, tragically inseparable. For centuries, the most devastating and brutal conflicts in the world have been driven by destructive notions of racial superiority and murderous assertions ... More >>
Is This The End Of The French Project In Africa’s Sahel?
Friday, 20 May 2022, 6:39 am | Globetrotter
By Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter On May 15, 2022, the military junta in Mali announced that it would no longer be part of the G5 Sahel platform. The G5 Sahel was created in Nouakchott, Mauritania, in 2014, and brought together the governments of Burkina ... More >>
India Has A Key Role To Play In A Possible New World Order
Tuesday, 17 May 2022, 6:47 am | Globetrotter
By Prasanth Radhakrishnan / Globetrotter In the first half of April 2022, India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar made some revealing remarks at a press conference in Washington, D.C. He was standing beside U.S. Secretary of State ... More >>
