What Are the Real Reasons for the Global South Food Crisis?
Don’t ignore the role of financial speculation
The Dynamics of War Insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette
By Alfred de Zayas / CounterPunch Deliberate provocations of a nuclear rival, coups d’état, colour revolutions, broken promises, broken treaties, escalation of tensions, demonization, invective, double-standards — all this while…
From ICC to ‘Sportswashing’: West’s Self Serving Narratives Must Be Combated
By Ramzy Baroud / CounterPunch In March, the South Africa Communist Party (SACP) denounced what it described as the ‘imperialist bias’ of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The denunciation of…
US Legally Owes Nicaragua Reparations, but Still Refuses to Honor 1986 Int’l Court of Justice Ruling
37 years after a 1986 International Court of Justice ruling, the United States still refuses to pay Nicaragua the reparations it legally owes. Today, the Nicaraguan government is demanding that…
Can the Global South Build a New World Information Communication Order?
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research It is remarkable how the media in a select few countries is able to set the record on matters around the…
The IMF Debt Trap and How To Get Out of It
Political Economist Grieve Chelwa explains the reasons why countries of the Global South are forced to go time and again to the International Monetary Fund for aid.
Why Much of the Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting the West in Ukraine
By Krishen Mehta / CounterPunch In October 2022, about eight months after the war in Ukraine started, the University of Cambridge in the UK harmonized surveys conducted in 137 countries…
Havana Declaration Outlines Vision for Building Just World Economy
"What is the common vision to guide the Global South out of this crisis?" asked the Progressive International. "What is the plan to win it?"
Who Will Pay for an Overheating Earth
Unlike the northern powers largely responsible for the greenhouse gases that created this growing set of disasters, as Stan and Priti Gulati Cox explain, the countries of the Global South…
Chilean State to Address Historic Land Debt With Mapuche Indigenous Communities
The Mapuche Indigenous communities have been in conflict with the Chilean State over land in the country’s Araucanía region for over a century.
IMF Warns of ‘Wave of Debt Crises’ Coming in Global South, With War, Interest Rate Hikes, Overvalued Dollar
The IMF said a “wave of debt crises” may be coming in the Global South, and “the global economy is headed for stormy waters,” due to war, rising US interest…
EU Admits New Cold War is Not ‘Democracy vs. Autocracy’: ‘On Our Side, There Are a Lot of Authoritarian Regimes’
The European Union’s top foreign-policy official Josep Borrell admitted the West’s new cold war on China and Russia is not a conflict of “democracies vs. authoritarians,” conceding, “On our side,…
How Can the Global South Escape the ‘Austerity Trap’?
The IMF's surprise concern for increasing inequality in the UK offers a chance to look at inequality facing the rest of the world.
John Kiriakou: The Arms-Swapper
Antony Blinken has been foraging around for Russian weapons for Ukraine. He even asked Cyprus.
In Neocolonial Rant, EU Says Europe Is ‘Garden’ Superior To Rest of World’s Barbaric ‘Jungle’
EU foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell showed the West’s neocolonial mentality claiming “the world needs Europe” as a “beacon” and beautiful “garden” to civilize the barbarous “jungle” in the Global South.…