Zimbabwe is in the grips of a wave of violent protests, which so far have been crushed by the police. President Robert Mugabe says there is a new desperation by the opposition to remove his…
READ MORE →SEPTEMBER 12 is perhaps one of the less celebrated international days, it is the United Nations (UN) Day for South-South Cooperation – a notion of solidarity, where countries forego some aspects of national interest in…
READ MORE →By Franck Kuwonu Most news headlines from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have one thing in common – their focus on conflict, particularly in the eastern part of the country. True, conflict is…
READ MORE →Former Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Varoufakis’ crusade to help save the 60 year old European Union from a growing potential disintegration is intriguing. He, and the other activists talk ultimately about the collapse of Western…
READ MORE →Dilma Rousseff and Jacob Zuma at the 2014 BRICS summit in Brazil. GovernmentZA / Flickr Our new issue, “Between the Risings,” is out now. To celebrate its release, international subscriptions are $25 off, and limited…
READ MORE →Rwanda has ambitious plans to improve its electricity output in the next few years. James Akena/Reuters Only 16% of Rwanda’s households are connected to the grid. But it’s not all doom and gloom. The…
READ MORE →Self-congratulatory rhetoric keeps springing from the lips of World Economic Forum elites – at the expense of reality. Software executive Brett Parker claims that “Africa will probably remain natural resources-driven for the next two decades…
READ MORE →(Citizens for Global Solutions)— When you think of Ethiopia, images of starving children probably come to mind. But the East African nation has come a long way since the 1984-1985 famine, which claimed over…
READ MORE →When it comes to food justice, environmentalism and ecological practices, Thomas Sankara was way ahead of his time. Thomas Sankara helped Burkina Faso become self-sufficient before in basic foodstuffs in just a few years before…
READ MORE →The memorial service for Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, who died on February 25, 2014. Lumumba spent 40 years working as an attorney and black nationalist activist before becoming mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, in 2013. Photos by…
READ MORE →Thanks to investigative reporters, whistleblowers and international media collaboration, the issue of tax havens is being brought to the fore. Overlooking Panama City. Credit: Carlos Adampol Galindo. With the Panama Papers exposé perhaps we can now say…
READ MORE →Reflecting on struggles everywhere, we came to the conclusion that a people can’t be sovereign if they don’t have the right to vote. No people can retain their dignity if their vote does not count.”…
READ MORE →The Dream of Europeans is to transform the whole continent into South Africa or Kenya, where a white minority owns and controls the local economy, while Africans are just good like consumers or their servants.…
READ MORE →In this statement, written right before the postponement of the January 24th presidential “run-off” election, 68 grassroots organizations in Haiti issue an urgent call for solidarity with their struggle for free and fair elections, dignity…
READ MORE →“As in the past, the United States is taking great interest in how elections in Haiti are unfolding,” a State Department spokesperson announced a few days ago; “The United States reaffirms its support for credible,…
READ MORE →The Ecologist, Countercurrents, CounterPunch, Global Research, RINFRead this article in Italian hereRead it in French here The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is dangerously and unaccountably distorting the direction of international development, according to a…
READ MORE →We all know what happened. Donald Trump, that bumbling tycoon suddenly thrust into the political limelight, called for a wall to keep the immigrants – the Mexicans, the Muslims, the Syrians and the whoever else,…
READ MORE →Photo courtesy Waging NonviolenceThe Chipko movement (which means “to cling”) started in the 1970s when a group ofpeasant women in Northern India threw their arms around trees designated to be cut down. A version of…
READ MORE →Are European leaders forcing their own migration agenda on Africa? Why are they conflating development aid with migration policy? What is wrong with introducing more safe and legal migration routes? **A truck of smuggled migrants…
READ MORE →Tens of millions of European and North American immigrants, legal and illegal, have been flooding both the cities and countryside in Asia, Latin America, and even Africa.Western migrants are charging like bulls and the ground…
READ MORE →Nelson Mandela Foundation This is an edited transcript of economist Professor Thomas Piketty’s address to the 13th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, which took place at the University of Johannesburg’s Soweto campus on 3 October 2015.…
READ MORE →Mr. Vice-President, Mr. Speaker, Honorable Members of Congress, Dear Friends, I am most grateful for your invitation to address this Joint Session of Congress in “the land of the free asnd the home of…
READ MORE →The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is holding its tenth Ministerial Conference (MC10) in Nairobi from 15 to 18 December. This is the first of six blogs I intend to write before the conference. The objective…
READ MORE →What is Polite White Supremacy? Polite White Supremacy is the notion that whites should remain the ruling class while denying that they are the ruling class, politely. Affectionately, it’s called #PWS for short.…
READ MORE →In 2012 Africa became the fastest growing continent in the world with the highest number of new millionaires. There are now more than 100,000 millionaires in Africa and about 20.000 new millionaires will be added…
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