France seeks to rebrand itself as a partner of African sovereignty rather than as a custodian of neocolonialism while the living legacy of anti-colonial resistance across Africa remains a decisive force.
Vijay Prashad: France’s Shadow Over Africa
Category: Economy
WATCH: The World This Week — ‘The War: Putin’s View’
In St. Petersburg this week, the Russian president spoke frankly about Ukraine, NATO and the course of the war: there’s no end in sight. With Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence. Watch the replay.
The World After America
Alfred W. McCoy on the the causes and consequences at home and abroad of U.S. global decline.
Michael Brenner: Hegemony?
Vijay Prashad: The Necessary Future
Dark forces seek to colonise the future to ensure it remains subordinate to accumulation, not dignity. Talk of the future is not utopian fantasy but affirmation that the current order is intolerable and impermanent.
Armed Robbery of the World’s Energy Supply
A forensic investigation into how Washington leveraged the war in Iran to replace Nord Stream, save the dollar, and establish total command over the world’s fuel from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean. Richard Medhurst reports.
Hedges Report: Will the Iran War Cause a Global Depression?
The U.S. war on Iran is leading the world to a global depression. Professor Richard Wolff places the current crisis in the context of the capitalist system and the decline of U.S. hegemonic power.
WATCH: The Trump Crime Family
Regis Tremblay interviews Joe Lauria, editor of Consortium News, about the Trump crime family and what it means for Gaza, Iran, Ukraine and the rest of the world.
Taming the Military-Industrial Beast
Washington’s current U.S. buildup of the military industrial complex will certainly prove devastating — not just on U.S. foreign and domestic policies but also on the economic prospects of average Americans, writes William Hartung.
Vijay Prashad: The Petrodollar & the War on Iran
The illegal U.S.-Israeli war on Iran is exposing the Oil-Dollar-Wall Street complex that binds oil, financial markets, and dollar power, with consequences that reach far beyond the region.