By Bitania Tadesse* and David Mulet* – IPI Global Observatory (International Peace Institute) In February 2025, African heads of state gathered in Addis Ababa to announce a bold challenge to the global financial order: the continent will launch its own credit rating agency. The…
By Patrick Bond* – ZNetwork The U.S. now assumes leadership of the G20 until the Miami summit ends on December 15, 2026 – but not without having lost some crucial soft power. In the wake of Donald Trump’s farcical attacks on the host of last week’s G20 summit in Johannesburg…
By Vijay Prashad* – Peoples Dispatch Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics. The far right in Latin America is angry.
By Joe Lauria* – Special to Consortium News* A history of U.S. bullying — from a broken promise not to expand NATO to deceit over Minsk — shows that U.S. leaders since the Cold War’s end have ignored J.F.K.’s dire warning not to humiliate a nuclear power. In his momentous speech…
By Nesrine Malik* – The Guadian Broken ceasefires, bombing, ground incursions and mounting deaths: Israeli imperialism is now expanding across the region. It is clear now that the ceasefire in Gaza is only a “reducefire”. The onslaught continues.
By Ramesh Jaura* – rjaura.substack.com A Shock That Had Been Building for Months. Six months ago, a meeting in Washington set the stage for the geopolitical rupture now unfolding. In one of the year’s most contentious diplomatic encounters, U.S.
Harris* – John Perry* – CounterPunch It’s increasingly obvious that the US military threats against Venezuela have a wider agenda. Their game plan is regime change, but not only in Venezuela.
By Ivan Krastev* – Foreign Affairs How America’s Weaponization of Ideology Could Backfire. In the ten months since U.S.
By Ramzy Baroud* – CounterPunch The so-called Gaza ceasefire was not a genuine cessation of hostility, but a strategic, cynical shift in the Israeli genocide and ongoing campaign of destruction. Starting on October 10, the first day of the announced ceasefire, Israel…
By Soumaya Ghannoushi* – Middle East Eye Leaks show how a foreign influence network governs the world’s most powerful nation through seduction, dependence and capture. The Epstein leaks have reopened a door many in Washington hoped would remain sealed. Not the door of gossip -…
