A legally-acceptable peacekeeping force can only be set up through the auspices of the United Nations Security Council and that would mean both sides of the war agreeing, writes Joe Lauria.
Getting the UN Involved in Ukraine
Category: Brazil
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.
Chainsaw Diplomacy
If Elon Musk is using Javier Milei’s Argentina as inspiration for his own mission with the Department of Government Efficiency that bodes extremely poorly for the U.S., writes Alan MacLeod.
Jonathan Cook: Monsters Among Us
Walter Salles’ new film on the disappearances of regime critics in 1970s Brazil is a powerful reminder that the ghouls who defend the slaughter in Gaza are biding their time.
WATCH: CN Live! — ‘BRICS Rising’
CN Live! previews the BRICS summit starting Tuesday in Kazan, Russia as Ukraine falters, the Mideast blows up and BRICS advances its alternate economic system. With Pepe Escobar, Scott Ritter and Mark Sleboda.
Vijay Prashad: ‘Progressive’ Sellout of Venezuela
Many countries with supposedly centre-left or left governments have joined the U.S. in proposals that seek to undermine Venezuelan democratic processes.
US-Led Military Exercises in Pacific Wreak Havoc
Hawaiian activists call on nations that condemn the genocide in Gaza to withdraw from the massive U.S.-organized RIMPAC military training illegally hosted on Hawaiian land.
Vijay Prashad: Brazil’s Floodwaters of Austerity
In Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul, millions are suffering from extreme flooding. Amid the waters, the Landless Workers’ Movement is focused on providing emergency relief.
Vijay Prashad: Landless Brazilians & Gaza
The mass food drive for Gaza was also a campaign to contest the growth of Christian Zionism in the country and deepen ties with the Palestinian struggle.
Despite Growth, Only Social Movements Will Bring Progress
A future that centers the well-being of humankind and the planet will not materialize on its own, writes Vijay Prashad. It will only emerge from organised social struggle.