Western donors are cutting budgets, but the aid model they built—rooted in control and dependency —still shapes Africa’s development. As aid shrinks, the work ahead is not just to survive the cuts, but also to refuse the system that made them matter.
Two presidents have a warning for Trump
Something unprecedented is happening in Puerto Rico which, like the U.S., will hold its general election on November 5th. For the first time ever, the island could elect a governor who favors Puerto Rico’s independence from the United States.
US’ historical legacies of brutality in Somalia, connecting these patterns to the US corporate interests in extracting natural resources in Somalia, and the broader legacies of militarized accumulation, environmental destruction, and racist brutality
Unrest spreads across the continent
The Global South produces 26% more manufactured goods than the North but accounts for 80% less income per capita. The assertion that inequality is due to the lack of development of productive forces in the South thus becomes nonsensical.
The only just future for my home is not statehood, but full independence from the United States. But the future of a free Puerto Rico doesn’t need to be utopian, or easy, to be just.
Four health organizations, working closely together, spent almost $10 billion on responding to Covid across the world. But they lacked the scrutiny of governments, and fell short of their own goals, a POLITICO and WELT investigation found.
Africa and neocolonialism, division in Die Linke, focus on Myanmar's fight for democracy, and more
Moscow - along with Beijing - is preparing for a long-term geopolitical confrontation in Africa.
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