At the Crossroads: Brazil in the Face of BRICS Expansion

Fabiano Mielniczuk The option for disengagement from BRICS is gaining adherents among Brazilian diplomats and is being actively promoted by sectors of Brazilian organized civil society, especially those NGOs and think tanks that receive financial support from European and American institutions. The engagement of these sectors in the G20 events during Brazil’s Presidency of 2024…

Xi’s Euro Trip: China-EU Ties Grows Stronger Despite US Meddling

BreakThrough News Chinese President Xi Jinping is on his first trip to Europe in five years, and the US corporate-owned media is seeking to portray the tour as a sinister attempt by China to drive a wedge between the US and EU. Tings Chak, a researcher at the Tricontinental Institute & a member of Dongsheng…

U.S. Dooms Itself to Defeat in Peaceful Competition with China

John Ross Janet Yellen awkwardly bows to CCP official during Beijing trip Superficially in the recent period the U.S. has attempted to display two apparently contradictory sides of its policy to China. First hand Treasury Secretary Yellen visited China, showing off her (possibly genuine) like of Chinese food, engaging in a normal human way with…

Washington’s Proxy War in Myanmar Continues Along China’s Borders

Brian Berletic Overshadowed by ongoing fighting in Eastern Europe and the Middle East as well as growing tensions between the US and China, the ongoing conflict in Myanmar nonetheless constitutes a critical component of what is a larger global conflict. Depicted by Western governments and Western media as an isolated, internal conflict between a “military…

Cooperatives in China: Current Status and Prospects for Significant Growth

The following article by Ali Al-Assam explores the issue of cooperatives in China, drawing on insights from the recent Friends of Socialist China delegation. Ali – who is Managing Director of the NewsSocial Cooperative, as well as being a lifelong activist in the communist, anti-imperialist and progressive movements in both Britain and Iraq – describes the…

Rise of China, Russia and Their Allies, Gradual Decline of the United States

Yoselina Guevara López Since 1991, with the fall of the Soviet Union, Washington had been able to exercise a strong and unique hegemony over the entire globe for at least two decades. However, since around the year 2000, the global balance began to change and it is no secret that the economic and political rise…

China, Latin American and Caribbean States Deepen Space Cooperation

In a significant step to enhance the unity and solidarity of the Global South and to promote economic, scientific and technological cooperation and development, China hosted the first China-Latin American and Caribbean States Space Cooperation Forum in the city of Wuhan, capital of the central province of Hubei, in the last week of April. Chinese leader…

DPRK Exposes US Military Strategy in the Pacific

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the official news agency of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), published two important commentaries in April concerning US strategy in the Asia-Pacific region, noting that its principal target is China. Writing on April 12, Jong Min, an international security analyst, focused on the US attempt to deploy…

Pepe Escobar: Russia and Iran Brace for War as Leaked Israeli F-35 Attack Shocks the World

Danny Haiphong Geopolitical analyst and journalist Pepe Escobar discusses his reporting on a leak that sent shockwaves across social media which detailed a possible Israeli nuclear attack on Iran. We discuss what this all means for the Middle East and the broader war to come. This is VERY serious. The subsequent facts on the ground…

The Russia–Iran–China Search for a New Global Security Order

Pepe Escobar While the collective west is in the grips of an existential legitimacy crisis, the RIC is devising its own security order to protect the rest of the world from the ‘genocidals.’ The Hegemon has no idea what awaits the Exceptionalist mindset: China has started to decisively stir the civilizational cauldron without bothering about…

The Latest Danger from China: Too Much Clean Energy?

This brief article by Friends of Socialist China advisory group member Stefania Fusero, originally published in Italian in Futura Società, brings some much-needed clarity to the question of US allegations concerning China’s “over-capacity”, particularly in green technologies such as renewable energy, electric vehicles and lithium-ion batteries. Stefania rightly points out that, by demanding that China curtail…

India as a Tool to Contain China

Chris Kanthan Four years ago, I wrote an article explaining how there were ulterior motives behind the US allowing Indians to become CEO’s of big American corporations. Now, India has gone further down that path and has almost definitely sealed its fate as a satellite of the US. The consequence will be that India will be stuck…

The Port of Chancay in Peru: Reason for a New War of the Pacific?

Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein The authorship of the project to build a large port on the country’s coast is attributed to Peruvian admiral Juan Ribaudo. To do that, he took on the task of looking for the most suitable site and chose a piece of land in the small fishing port of Chancay located 70 km…

US Congress Makes Downpayment on World War III: US President Proclaims Enduring Peace

Roger D. Harris President Biden on Wednesday announces the signing of a $95 billion military assistance package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. Ukraine says the aid is critical as it seeks to regain momentum on the battlefield from Russia. Evan Vucci/AP The US Congress authorized a $95 billion military aid package for continuing the wars…

Africa: A Captured Continent?

Muhammed Haron  Looking back: Colonialism – a diabolical divisive force When reflecting upon Africa’s social history, all the evidence reveal that this continent was cautiously conquered and slowly subjugated by the (proverbial) West’s cunning colonial forces (that is: United Kingdom [UK], Portugal, France, Spain, Germany, and Italy). These treacherous imperialist armies, which emerged over time…

Asian ‘NATO’ Encircles China

Fiona Edwards Ships from the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and from the America Expeditionary Strike Group transit the South China Sea, 2020 The US-steered Aukus military alliance is cranking up hostilities by inviting Japan into the anti-China pact Major new announcements this month indicate that the U.S. is intent on escalating its military interference…

Sy Hersh: They Knew There Was No Bomb

Larry Johnson commented, Sy and Pepe agree on one point — there was at least one Israeli jet that flew through Jordanian airspace and then something happened once the plane (or planes) crossed into Iraq or Syria. Here the accounts diverge. Pepe’s sources claim one Israeli jet, an F-35 was shot down. Sy’s source insists…

Israel’s Plot for a Nuclear Attack on Iran: All Three Major Powers Are Invested in Protecting Israel

“An F-35 loaded with a nuclear bomb was sent east over Jordan. The mission: cause a high-altitude detonation over Iran that would provoke a surge in the high-capacity power lines, crippling Iran’s electric grid, as well as disabling all electronic devices. An EMP attack. However… … As the Israeli F-35 was leaving Jordanian airspace it…