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Ecological sovereignty: from mutual annihilation to true planetary longevity?

Sabrina Fernandes12 November 2025

When fossil fuel expansion is justified in the name of national sovereignty, you know states have lost touch with the climate reality. A couple of years ago, I published a short piece named “Sovereignty and the polycrisis” to reflect on how limited this framework has been in contexts of global disaster: wars, pandemics, climate change. […]

COP 30 IN BELEM DO PARA, BRAZIL – Adaptation or Prevention?

Michael Löwy12 November 2025

1. As we know, COP 30, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, will be held this year in November in Belém do Pará. It inspires hope, as it will be held in a country governed by the left, under the aegis of President Lula. But it must be noted that the planet’s biggest polluter, the United States, will be absent, as Donald Trump – a fanatical climate change denier – has withdrawn his country from this international forum

BRICS and Israel: Who’s Arming the Genocide?Who is Cutting Ties?

Dr. Karim Bettache11 November 2025

We are witnessing something unprecedented in human history—not merely another genocide, but the complete paralysis of global civilization in the face of mass slaughter. Every nation condemns the systematic extermination of Palestinians. Every leader speaks of international law and human rights. Yet not a single country—neither the imperial powers nor their supposed opposition—has managed to stop contributing to the killing machine grinding through Gaza.

On ‘wartime Pan-Africanisms’ and insurgent geographies – An interview with Lazare Ki-Zerbo

ROAPE22 October 2025

Burkina Faso’s streets and classrooms have long been laboratories of revolt. From the 1916 Bani-Volta anti-colonial war to the 2014 uprising that toppled Blaise Compaoré, Burkinabè politics pulse between civic defiance and military power.

The Death of the Nobel Peace Prize

Atilio Boron21 October 2025

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado is the culmination of a long process of moral and political decay that has irreparably damaged the prize.

Conservatism and democracy – the gulf between leaders and the working class

Zwelinzima Vavi20 October 2025

We must sound the alarm. Conservatism, distorted transformation, spatial cleansing, the collapse of faith in democracy and dangerous nostalgia are the fertile soil in which fascism grows.

A Bitter Account, Two Years into the Catastrophe

Gilbert Achcar8 October 2025

An account of two years of genocidal war and its potential outcome: Despite Israel’s strenuous attempts to commemorate the tragic events of 7 October 2023, and the overwhelming Western sympathy it received in the wake of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, what dominates the global conscience today – two years after the operation – is primarily the […]

Trump is in Deep Trouble

Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale6 October 2025

Trump is in deep trouble. Look at the photo. Those are the 800 generals and admirals Hegseth and Trump summoned from all over the world to meet together and be admonished. Look at their faces. They are angry.

Ramaphosa got the memo wrong: The crisis is in the municipal structure

Siyabulela Mama19 September 2025

The ANC still hasn’t got the memo about municipalities’ failure. Two years ago, my good friend Tony Martel and I co-authored an article headlined Follow the Money, published in Africa is a Country. That piece was written in response to an attack by the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber after we exposed the reality of “water racism” in […]

The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk

Chris Hedges12 September 2025

The assassination of Charlie Kirk presages a new, deadly stage in the disintegration of a fractious and highly polarized United States. While toxic rhetoric and threats are lobbed across cultural divides like hand grenades, sometimes spilling over into actual violence — including the murder of Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband and the two assassination attempts against Donald Trump — Kirk’s killing is a harbinger of full-scale social disintegration.

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