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.
Washington has converted a military operation into a strategic endurance contest in which Iran possesses an exceptionally powerful economic weapon, writes Dan Steinbock.
People with disabilities are not marginal to society but central to it — and the injustices they face reveal the failures of a world that treats human dignity as subordinate to profit.
While industrialisation remains a top priority for Global South countries, debt-driven austerity, corporate dominance, wars and sanctions keep many poorer nations locked into dependency and underdevelopment.
Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s Labour government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.
At their summit in Brazil, members of the expanding Global South group condemned recent Israeli-U.S. attacks on Iran and Israel’s aggression against Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul Rahman reports.
In this excerpt from their book Silent Coup, Claire Provost and Matt Kennard go to the sources of a key legal mechanism used by multinational corporations to override governments around the world.
Exploiting a “trade finance” loophole, the bank dumped an estimated $3.7 billion into oil and gas projects in 2022, finds an analysis by the German research and activist group Urgewald.
At the time, 50 years ago on Monday, the coup was seen as not just an attack on the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende, writes Vijay Prashad. It was an attack on the Third World.
As is often the case in history, the actions of a dying empire create common ground for its victims to look for alternatives, writes Vijay Prashad.