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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


Trump 2.0 – The View from China
Donald Trump, 22 February 2025 -- Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Wang Wen Donald Trump’s second term may not be...
Michael Laxer
Mar 3, 20253 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 3, 20254 min read


A Cruel Hoax: The Political Economy of Anti-immigration
Deportation Flight to unknown "country of origin" from the United States by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on January 23,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 27, 20257 min read


Sri Lanka’s New Government Struggles to Increase Public Investment Amid IMF Constraints
The maiden budget by Sri Lanka’s new government reflects the limitations of austerity and the need to reinstill confidence in ideas of...
Michael Laxer
Feb 25, 20256 min read


‘Only the People Can Save the People,’ Say Migrant Workers
The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of “solidarity, not charity,” in both fire relief and immigrant...
Michael Laxer
Feb 21, 20255 min read


Making Erhai Lake Bloom Again: A Story of China’s Ecological Transformation
View of the Erhai Lake in September 2023 -- Nishino Asuka, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Tings Chak On a clear morning in June...
Michael Laxer
Feb 18, 20255 min read


Why Education Reformers Will Find a Home in the Trump Administration
Trump’s inclination to mix policymaking with business deals and profiteering is an ideal situation for education reformers like his...
Michael Laxer
Feb 16, 202512 min read


Trump International Hotel and Tower, Gaza
Public domain image of Trump at the Super Bowl, February 9, 2025 By Vijay Prashad Donald Trump spoke to reporters for over three hours...
Michael Laxer
Feb 14, 20255 min read


A New Military Strategy of French Neocolonialism in Africa: Reorganizing Under the Cover Retreat
Left parties of West Africa warn that announcements of withdrawal of troops by France-backed regimes in its former African colonies are...
Michael Laxer
Jan 27, 202511 min read


That Strong Spirit of Palestinian Emancipation
Celebration in Gaza as the ceasefire is announced -- image via X By Vijay Prashad It is impossible to bottle this sensibility. All of...
Michael Laxer
Jan 21, 20254 min read


United States in 2025: Social Problems Denied via Rhetorics of Refusal
Public domain image from November, 2024 By Richard D. Wolff Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their...
Michael Laxer
Jan 17, 20257 min read


The Possibility of a War Against Iran
Public domain image By Vijay Prashad In early January, most of the major military forces of Iran participated in a large military exercise...
Michael Laxer
Jan 15, 20256 min read


The Colonizer’s Mask Has Slipped to the Floor
French troops in Mali - Cover photo by France 3 Grand Est, CC-BY-3.0, accessed via Wikimedia Commons. By Vijay Prashad A decade ago, on a...
Michael Laxer
Jan 14, 20255 min read


How the World Hides Liability for Climate Deaths
Unfair family planning regimes have stalled progress in the climate fight and prevent children from having a fair start in life. People...
Michael Laxer
Jan 4, 202513 min read


The Banana Road From South America to China
Representational image. By Vijay Prashad In November, Álvaro Noboa, the father of Ecuador’s president Daniel Noboa, had a heart attack....
Michael Laxer
Jan 3, 20256 min read


US Political Economy Contradictions as We Lurch Into 2025
President Joe Biden meets with President-elect Donald Trump, Wednesday, November 13, 2024, in the Oval Office -- public domain image By...
Michael Laxer
Dec 20, 20245 min read


The Genocide Grinds On
By Vijay Prashad It has become background noise. We know it is happening, but we can almost forget that it continues at a barbaric rate....
Michael Laxer
Dec 19, 20245 min read


Sovereignty, Modernization, and Cooperation Championed at Global South Academic Forum in Shanghai
A screenshot from one of the panel discussions. By Shiran Illanperuma Panelists and attendees championed the cause of sovereignty,...
Michael Laxer
Dec 12, 20245 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
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