Juan Cole, Trump and the Return of the White Man’s Burden
Intro by Tom Engelhardt, Article by Juan Cole Once again, the “President of Peace” Donald Trump who, while running for office in 2016, announced that “regime change is a proven,…
The Global South Needs Productive Employment
India’s liberalisation beginning in the 1990s has led to a steady decline in manufacturing. To reverse this trend and expand productive employment, industrial policy must address structural issues of dependence…
How Human Rights Watch Shattered Yugoslavia
By Kit Klarenberg Substack On August 25th 2025, this journalist documented how the 1975 Helsinki Accords transformed “human rights” into a highly destructive weapon in the West’s imperial arsenal. At…
Oil, Power, and Empire: Why the U.S. Is Targeting Venezuela Now
“What the United States is telling the rest of the world is that it believes it has the right to overthrow any government it doesn’t like.” on the latest Geopolitical…
The Right to Development Is an Inalienable Human Right
Sixty years after the Tricontinental Conference, the right to development – the material basis of dignity – remains the horizon of socialist revolution and national liberation.
Global South Is Now 1/3 of Major EV Markets, Leaving US in the Dust
When we say that people in the Global South are buying EVs hand over fist, alas, we aren’t saying that they are buying Chevy Bolts or Nissan Leafs or Teslas.
How the US empire creates chaos to disrupt multipolarity
By Daniela A. Rodríguez for the Geopolitical Economy Report With the return of Donald Trump for his second term, diplomacy increasingly resembles a battlefield, rather than a paved road to…
Honduras Accuses Trump of ‘Electoral Coup’ Interference as U.S. Seizes Venezuelan Ship
Joshua S Honduras is facing a deep political crisis as President Xiomara Castro warns that an “electoral coup” is unfolding, accusing powerful business and political elites of trying to block…
The Earth Is Unhappy with the Capitalist Climate Catastrophe: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2025)
By Vijay Prashad Republished from theTricontinental: Institute for Social Research During the closing plenaries of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…
Seven Theses on the Gen Z Uprisings in the Global South
Gen Z-led uprisings across the Global South point to long-term socioeconomic and environmental crises caused by neoliberalism. Yet they have often been coopted by entrenched social classes. Can their energy…
Can the Poorer Nations Build a New Architecture for Development and Sovereignty?
Though still weighed down by debt and austerity, developing countries are beginning to chart alternative paths as a new mood takes hold in the Global South.
Can We Build Robust Public Administration Institutions in the Global South?
Amid IMF-imposed cuts to public administration schools and the myriad economic disadvantages imposed by neocolonial structures, countries like the US often run laps around Global South countries in negotiations.
The Global North Lives Off Intellectual Rents
Despite rapid technological innovations, Global South countries remain trapped in Global North-dominated intellectual property regimes designed to extract endless rents through patents and licensing fees– stripping them of wealth and…
A New Asian Triad: ASEAN, China, and the Persian Gulf Align
As western trade wars squeeze the Global South, the first ASEAN–GCC–China summit signals a new economic realignment built on shared development goals and strategic autonomy.
Vijay Prashad: Historic 1955 Anti-Colonial Bandung Conference Inspired New Era in Global South
The 1955 Bandung Conference announced the arrival on the world stage of peoples from the Global South, and it marked the birth of what would later become the Non-Aligned Movement…