The U.S. wants to reorganise the mineral wealth of the Western Hemisphere around its own industrial and military needs while keeping China at arm’s length.
Vijay Prashad: Critical Minerals & the ‘Donroe Doctrine’
Category: Anti-Colonialism
The Meaning of Oct 7
The Hamas incursion was less Israel’s 9/11 and more a Palestinian Tet Offensive, says John Wight. No ugly oppression has ever given rise to a pretty resistance.
WATCH: TWTW — ‘Edge of the Abyss’
Putin warns of nuclear catastrophe; U.S. steams carrier to Iran; French students revolt and the barbaric U.S. death penalty. Ray McGovern, Patrick Henningsen. Sunday 9 a.m. EDT.
Vijay Prashad: The Future
Behind widespread youth uprisings lies a stark contradiction: an economic system that protects capital while stripping young people of dignified work, community and the confidence that tomorrow can be different.
Vijay Prashad: Modernization & Capitalism Aren’t the Same
For the Global South, development cannot be achieved by imitating the capitalist West; it requires breaking imperialist dependency and transforming social relations.
Defiant Iran Responds to Trump
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Donald Trump Iran will never stop resisting U.S. terror.
Animal Welfare in Gaza & the ‘Theater of Care’
Concern for animal welfare in Gaza reveals how international humanitarianism can function not as a remedy to colonial violence but as one of its modalities, writes Asmaa Abu Messed.
BRICS: A More Powerful Non-Aligned Movement
The Global South today possess economic power on a scale the Non-Aligned Movement didn’t have during the Cold War, writes Uroš Lipušcek.
Sliman Mansour & the Rise of Revolutionary Palestinian Art
Israel is afraid of Palestinian art, particularly art that preserves memory, asserts sumud, steadfastness, and speaks of revolution, writes Ramzy Baroud.
Vijay Prashad: Global South Needs an Industrial Policy
While capitalism confines the Global South to raw extraction and cheap exports, democratic planning can break dependence, claim technological control, and turn resources into collective economic power.