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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 14, 20255 min read


China’s Response to Trump’s Escalating Trade War
Image via X By Tings Chak Since US President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February to impose a 10% tariff on all imports,...

The Left Chapter
Apr 11, 20255 min read


Trump’s Tariffs Could Intensify Sri Lanka’s Debt Crisis
Trump with his tariff chart -- public domain image By Shiran Illanperuma On Thursday, 3 April, Sri Lankans woke up to the alarming news...

The Left Chapter
Apr 7, 20254 min read


What Will Tech Moguls Do With Their Wealth?
Tech billionaires are embedding themselves in U.S. economic systems while experimenting with new ways to manage their fortunes. Lacking...

The Left Chapter
Apr 2, 20257 min read


Serbia’s Political Deadlock: Do Students Have a Plan?
Protestors in Belgrade, March 14 -- image via video screenshot By Biljana Vankovska For nearly five months, Serbia has lived in a state...

The Left Chapter
Mar 31, 20255 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 27, 202512 min read


Can We Exit from a World of Debt?
By Vijay Prashad In the past two decades, the external debt of developing countries has quadrupled to $11.4 trillion (2023). It is...

The Left Chapter
Mar 26, 20255 min read


First, They Came for the Venezuelans
Trump is turning deportation into a weapon of mass destruction. None of us—undocumented immigrants, people with papers, naturalized...

The Left Chapter
Mar 25, 20255 min read


Bomb with Everything You Have: Israel Sets the Tone for the Genocide of the Palestinians
Hla.bashbash, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay Prashad On 5 March 2025, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi stepped down as chief of...

The Left Chapter
Mar 24, 20255 min read


How US News Reporters Are Being Deceived by Fake Groups of ‘Moms’ and ‘Parents’ Attacking Public Schools
These groups are the creation of deep-pocketed conservative networks, not “grassroots” advocates. By Maurice Cunningham “If your mother...
Michael Laxer
Mar 23, 202511 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 21, 20254 min read


Trump 2.0: US Revivalism Driven by Tech Oligarchy
Trump purchases a Tesla at the White House, March 11, 2025 - public domain image By Bappa Sinha Trump 2.0 has had a tumultuous start....
Michael Laxer
Mar 20, 20254 min read


Israel’s Hellish Attack on the Palestinians on 18 March
Gaza residents amid the devastation on March 18 -- image via video screenshot By Vijay Prashad On 18 March 2025, Israel unilaterally...
Michael Laxer
Mar 19, 20254 min read


Corruption and Greed Kill in Macedonian Fire
Image of the destroyed "club" from a news video -- image via video screenshot By Biljana Vankovska On 15 March 2025, at least fifty-nine...
Michael Laxer
Mar 18, 20254 min read


Participatory Budgeting Includes Community Members in the Public Funding Process
As governmental authoritarianism intensifies, citizens “double down on democracy” through the participatory model. Participatory budget...
Michael Laxer
Mar 13, 20254 min read


Israel Inflicts Revenge on Palestinians for Its Own Intelligence Failure
People trying to resume their daily lives in Gaza, February 22, 2025 -- Jaber Jehad Badwan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Vijay...
Michael Laxer
Mar 12, 20254 min read


Trump’s Address to Congress Highlights the Absence of Opposition
The relentless resistance that defined Trump’s first term has faded into an unsettling quiet. A perfect storm of factors has granted him...
Michael Laxer
Mar 11, 20256 min read


New Yorkers Protest Trump’s Arrest of Palestinian Student Activist
Protest in New York, Marc 10, 2025 -- Image via X By Saurav Sarkar As chants of ‘No ICE , No KKK , No Fascist USA!’ echoed through...
Michael Laxer
Mar 11, 20253 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 6, 20256 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 5, 20255 min read
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