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Does Brazil Have an App That Can Upend Digital Finance?
Washington’s unease is rising as Brazil’s Pix bypasses U.S.-dominated payment networks. The country’s digital payment revolution may soon be impossible to contain as other countries adapt their own models. By John P. Ruehl The Trump administration’s July 2025 decision to have the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) investigate Brazil’s “ attacks on American social media companies as well as other unfair trading practices ,” followed by the launch of 50 percent tari

The Left Chapter
Oct 227 min read


A Scholar’s Quest to Find the Ancestral People of the Most Influential Language on Earth
Who and where were the Proto-Indo-Europeans? Almost 450 languages spoken by 4 billion people descend from their tongue—and J.P. Mallory...

The Left Chapter
Oct 77 min read


Charter Cities Attempting to Create a New Atlantis
From deregulated economic zones to experiments in private governance, charter city projects aim to reshape how we live. Their rise...

The Left Chapter
Sep 59 min read


Alaska Summit: Between Expectation and Illusion
Donald Trump in July, 2025 -- public domain image By Biljana Vankovska It is entirely understandable that, after such a long and bloody...

The Left Chapter
Aug 144 min read


The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation’s Hallucinations
Leaders photo at the NATO Summit, June 25 -- public domain image By Vijay Prashad By the end of the annual meeting of the North Atlantic...

The Left Chapter
Jun 305 min read


New Spider-Man Sequence: One Second Closer to Doomsday?
89 seconds to midnight announcement, January 28, 2025 -- image via video screenshot By Biljana Vankovska In 2022, I was invited to...

The Left Chapter
Jun 44 min read


Marshal Zelenskyy’s High Noon
May 10 in Ukraine -- Number 10, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska The past few days have felt like a decisive chapter...

The Left Chapter
May 134 min read


Eighty Years On: Remembering the Defeat of Fascism – or Witnessing Its Return?
Soviet War Memorial in Treptower Park, Berlin -- JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Biljana Vankovska As we...

The Left Chapter
May 85 min read


Russian Communists Rally Progressive Forces at Second International Anti-Fascist Forum in Moscow
Gennady Zyuganov speaking at the forum -- image via the CPRF By Shiran Illanperuma On 22 April, the 155th birthday of Vladimir Lenin, 164...

The Left Chapter
Apr 306 min read


The New Bandung Spirit Is About Industrial Development
Indonesia's Foreign Minister Sugiono at the BRICS Summit in Russia, 2024 -- image via X By Vijay Prashad In January 2025, Indonesia – the...

The Left Chapter
Apr 145 min read


Trump and His Impossible Return to the Past
Donald Trump announces tariffs on auto imports in the Oval Office, Wednesday, March 26, 2025 -- public domain image By Atilio A. Borón...

The Left Chapter
Apr 18 min read


Who Pays the Price for the Return of German Militarism?
The resurgence of German militarism, Europe’s arms fever, and the war rhetoric from Washington all point toward escalation. But as...

The Left Chapter
Mar 315 min read


We Will Not Move One Solitary Inch Towards Your Armageddon
Image from a Roger Waters concert, Portugal, 2023 -- Fronteira, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Roger Waters The following is a...

The Left Chapter
Mar 2712 min read


Germany and the EU Embrace Military Keynesianism
German armored personnel carrier in Bavaria, Germany, November, 2024 -- public domain image By Matthew Read Just days before its...
Michael Laxer
Mar 214 min read


What Was It Like for Our Sapiens Ancestors to Meet and Mix With Cousin Species?
Between 50,000 and 35,000 years ago in Eurasia, the disappearance of hominin species or their biocultural assimilation with anatomically...
Michael Laxer
Mar 167 min read


Donald Trump’s Reverse Kissinger Strategy
Putin and Trump in 2019 - Kremlin.ru , CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad US President Donald Trump called Russian...
Michael Laxer
Mar 66 min read


What Are the Possibilities for Peace in Ukraine?
Macron, Starmer and Zelenskyy, March 2, 2025 -- Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street, OGL 3, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad The...
Michael Laxer
Mar 55 min read


Europe Does Not Need a Domestic Trump Clone
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump Clash During Meeting, February 28, 2025 -- public domain image By...
Michael Laxer
Mar 34 min read


The Fall of the Assad Government in Syria
By Vijay Prashad As the rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Syria Liberation Committee) seized Damascus, Syria’s capital, on...
Michael Laxer
Dec 11, 20247 min read


Time for Truthful Narratives on Immigration
The “migrant crisis” was manufactured and is the fault of both Trump and Biden. We need to understand that the U.S. needs immigrants more...
Michael Laxer
Dec 6, 20246 min read
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