Over a Billion People in the World Suffer from Mental Health Ailments
Over one billion people suffer from mental disorders, mostly in the poorer nations, yet mental healthcare remains heavily unprioritised and underfunded.
If You Don’t Want to Confront Oppression, Your Role as an Intellectual Is Pointless
Berta Cáceres, a Honduran leader in the struggle for indigenous and environmental rights, was killed in 2016 – a price too often paid by those who fight for human dignity…
It Would Be Fine to Help Make Mexico a Happy Place
With the promise of the Mexican revolution and the sweeping reforms of cardenismo long erased by decades of neoliberalism and dependency, can Morena’s Fourth Transformation restore dignity and sovereignty to…
The United Nations Turns Eighty
At eighty, the United Nations is bogged down by structural limitations and political divisions that render it powerless to act decisively – nowhere more clearly than in the Gaza genocide.
Unilateral and Illegal Sanctions – Mainly by the United States – Kill Half a Million Civilians Per Year
A study in The Lancet estimates that unilateral sanctions have caused as much death as wars, with an estimated half a million deaths per year.
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.
Peace and Development Are Better Than Austerity and War
As military rhetoric and spending by the US and its allies continue to intensify, it is clear that the world must stand up and carve out an alternative path –…
Who Says a Chicken Feather Can’t Fly up to Heaven?
China showcases a number of promising developments in the construction of socialism – though not without challenges and contradictions.
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…
The People Want Peace and Progress, Not War and Waste
As NATO’s secretary general urges member nations to ‘shift to a wartime mindset’, now more than ever it is clear that this aggressive alliance poses a threat to peace on…
Please Ensure That the Planet Does Not Burn
The climate and environmental crisis we live in are driven by the predatory nature of capitalism. Can COP30 and other multilateral initiatives reverse the trend?
How the International Monetary Fund Underdevelops Africa
Once plundered of both its wealth and people by colonial powers, Africa now faces IMF-imposed austerity, obscene debt, and forced underdevelopment.
A Language of Blood Has Gripped Our World
Sudan’s forgotten civil war has killed at least 150,000 and displaced nearly 13 million. Understanding its political details is key to tracing the causes and potential solutions to the conflict.
Crimes in the West Bank
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In 1948, the newly proclaimed Israeli government seized 78% of Palestinian land and expelled more than half of the population (750,00…