This forgotten civil war has killed at least 150,000 and displaced nearly 13 million. Understanding its political details is key to tracing the causes and identifying solutions.
Vijay Prashad: Sudan & the Language of Blood
Category: Africa
Burkina Faso’s 37-Year Old Leader Draws US Ire
Ibrahim Traoré took power in a military coup in September 2022 and since then he has been drawing criticism from Western governments, not least the U.S., writes Alan MacLeod.
US Adds to Long Hospital-Bombing History
This brief rundown of the past five decades shows that last month’s attacks on the Al Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Yemen are far from an aberration, writes Alan MacLeod.
Jeffrey Sachs: Birthing a New International Order
The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight.
Vijay Prashad: Beyond a World of Debt
With the churning of the global order, there might now be an opportunity to create new financial strategies for development.
Vijay Prashad: Pan-African Revolutionaries
From Andrée Blouin to Flora Nwapa there is a rich tradition of female writers on the African continent who have played key roles in publishing and national liberation movements alike.
Vijay Prashad: Freeing Women From Labor Inequality
In the month of International Working Women’s Day, a look at how debt-austerity regimes and climate change impact women farmworkers across the Global South.
Jeffrey Sachs: The Geopolitics of Peace
The author explains manipulative U.S. post-war foreign policy to European MPs, explodes myths about Ukraine and urges an independent European foreign policy.
Trump Reboots Manifest Destiny
The U.S. president wants to return the world to 1900, when America was nakedly grabbing everything it could, writes William J. Astore.
WATCH: A History of Expansion
CN Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria joined the Rachel Blevins Show to discuss the incoming Trump regime in the context of a history of U.S. territorial expansion in a world that increasingly opposes it.