After being plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt and forced underdevelopment.
Instead of judiciously adapting to America’s relative decline by carving out a new place for itself in the emerging multipolar world, U.S. leaders have pursued the fantasy of endless dominance, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
For the second year in a row, military outlays rose in all five of the world’s geographical regions amid world-wide tensions, finds the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Ullekh NP reports on fears in Moldova that the Zelensky government in Ukraine, in its search for hydro power on the lower Dniester River, is starting to claim a chunk of its neighboring ally.
Trump is looking for ways to save money — an excellent idea given that the U.S. federal budget is hemorrhaging $2 trillion a year. Here’s where to start.
With the expansion of the group to more countries of the Global South, a revival of the “Bangdung Spirit” is taking place, but not without its contradictions.
Progressives’ support for a multilateral world often ignores how much the emerging new world is similar to the old one, a point also missed by Jeffrey Sachs in speaking of a “new international order,” writes Asoka Bandarage.