Our Struggle for Reparations: Recognitions, Apologies and Other Stories

Sungu Oyoo Prisoners from the Herero and Nama tribes during the 1904-1908 war against Germany. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository In this phase of the struggle for reparations, our generation is unapologetically pointing out historical facts and demanding reparative justice. At a future date, African people will again demand for reparations relating to…

While Thousands of Venezuelans Died, Chrystia Freeland Called for Sanctions with ‘More Bite’

Owen Schalk Lima Group heads of diplomacy Chrystia Freeland (center) and U.S. Ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft appeared before reporters at the end of their meeting. THE CANADIAN PRESS / SEAN KILPATRICK Sanctions have caused widespread harm and exacerbated the region’s migration crisis Sanctions have become the most common weapon of war used by the…

The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions

Francisco R. Rodiguez Executive Summary This paper provides a comprehensive survey and assessment of the literature on the effects of economic sanctions on living standards in target countries. We identify 32 studies that apply quantitative econometric and calibration methods to cross-country and national data in order to assess the impact of economic sanctions on indicators…

Lie, Cheat, and Steal: The CIA’s Disastrous Scientific Legacy

Owen Marshall Seena Mavaddat As the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) marks its seventy-fifth anniversary, it has made conspicuous efforts to rebrand itself as a progressive force for scientific and technological change. Facing the retirement of its notoriously “pale, male, and Yale” Baby Boomer cohort, it has awkwardly adopted the language of neurodiversity and intersectionality…

Who Does Francia Márquez Work For?

Misión Verdad Following her tour in Africa, the vice president of Colombia, Francia Márquez, publicly thanked tycoon George Soros’ Open Society Foundations for the funding and logistical support of her high-level diplomatic visit to South Africa, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Over the last few days, controversy has grown around Márquez’s remarks, which, in the Colombian political…

‘U.S. Blockade Against Cuba Could Bring New Special Period’

Radio Sputnik’s “By Any Means Necessary” co-hosts, Sean Blackmon and Jacqueline Luqman (a Black Alliance for Peace [BAP] Coordinating Committee member), spoke to BAP member Musa Springer and BAP Coordinating Committee member Erica Caines on the impact of the criminal U.S. blockade against Cuba. The pair commented on what many observe as a second Special…

Slavery and Prior Accumulation in Venezuela

Cira Pascual Marquina Enrique S. Rivera is a historian, journalist, and documentary film producer. He teaches at UCLA, and his recent book, The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution (2021), focuses on the 1795 anti-slavery rebellion in the west of what we now know as Venezuela, but it also examines the origins of…

Rafael Correa’s Shadow Back on Ecuador’s Horizon

Yunus Soner PIA Global and United Word International share this exclusive interview with Ricardo Patiño Aroca, former foreign minister and minister of economy and defense in the government of Rafael Correa (in government 2007 – 2017). Aroca presents us an analysis of the current situation in the brotherly Andean country. In the session that began…

Economy Must Be ‘at the Service of Life’: Resisting Debt and Neocolonialism in Africa

Tanupriya Singh An image from the music video ‘IMF’ by Seun Kuti and Egypt 80 (Knitting Factory Records) featuring Dead Prez’s M1, directed by Jerome Bernard and produced by Duck Factory A dossier and accompanying discussion hosted by the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research interrogates the vicious cycle of debt rooted in neocolonial extraction that…

Cognitive Warfare: Hate and Fear in the Electoral Communication Menu

Fernando Buen Abad Domínguez Since the ruling class wants the “new” war scenarios to be the brains directed by NATO they also want the “new generation” ideological communicational armaments to be installed there, for hybrid and unrestricted demoralizing conflicts; they also want us to be fond of them, to accept that they have always been…

The Splendor of a Thousand Suns: Hiroshima and Imperial Forgetfulness

Gonzalo Armúa Underwater atomic test carried out at Bikini Atoll in 1946. Photograph: United States Government Navy Joe Biden’s visit to Hiroshima in the framework of the G7 once again brings to the surface the cynical memory of an empire that 78 years ago unleashed the power of “a thousand suns” on a defenseless population….

A Humanist Response to the Reactionary Advance of the Far Right

Javier Tolcachier The electoral victories of Gustavo Petro, Xiomara Castro, Gabriel Boric, Pedro Castillo, the return of MAS to the Bolivian government and Lula to the Brazilian presidency, together with the electoral victories of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Alberto Fernández inaugurated a new wave of progressive governments in Latin America. As a result of…

The Roots of Cowardice of Today’s Subaltern Intellectuals

Yusuf Serunkuma Yusuf Serunkuma slams the cowardice of intellectuals today, who display self-censorship and contentment with the status quo, in contrast with an earlier generation of activists and subaltern scholars. Serunkuma argues that this did not happen overnight, rather it has taken years of manufacturing conformity and consent. There is a less discussed component about…

A Fraternal Hand: The American Tradition of Socialist Democracy and Chinese Socialism

Carlos L. Garrido There is a glaring paradox at the core of the American project. On the one hand, it proclaims its national self-determination with the values of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, right to revolution, and to a government of, by, and for the people. On the other hand, the rights to life, liberty,…

US Empire of Debt Headed for Collapse

Pepe Escobar Prof. Michael Hudson’s new book, “The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point” is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and geoeconomic order is dying and the new one is being born at breakneck speed. Prof. Hudson’s main thesis…

China is Governed in the Interests of Working People, the US in the Interests of Capital

In this interview with Global Times, Sara Flounders – a contributing editor to Workers World and a member of our advisory group – shares her analysis of the escalating New Cold War and the US’s global hegemonic project. Comparing the West’s approach of war, sanctions, coercion and destabilisation with China’s vision of a human community with…

Liberia and the Challenges of US Imperialism

 Djibo Sobukwe For those who are concerned about the US interference and its debilitating colonial and neocolonial impact on Africa, the study of Liberia is instructive. As professor Niels Hahn argues in his book, Two Centuries of US Military Operations in Liberia, Challenges of Resistance and Compliance: “Liberia is the country in Africa where the United…

Liberal Democracy in Africa

Nicholas Mwangi March 20, 2023 saw major street protests held in Kenya, Tunisia, and South Africa. The latter was aimed at a total shutdown of the economy and the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa amidst the energy crisis and load shedding. The protests were led by the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party. In Kenya and Tunisia, the…