comments feedBy Justin Podur AUTHOR BIO: This article was produced by Globetrotter. Justin Podur is a Toronto-based writer. You can find him on his website at podur.org and on Twitter @justinpodur. He teaches at York University in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. SOURCE: Globetrotter De-dollarization is apparently here, “like it or not,” as a May 2023 video by the Quincy […]
The bewildering vote in Chile that rejected a new constitution
September 12, 2022 by Leave a Comment
By Taroa Zúñiga Silva and Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter On September 4, 2022, more than 13 million Chileans—out of a voting-eligible population of approximately 15 million—voted on a proposal to introduce a new constitution in the country. As early as March, pollsbegan to suggest that the constitution would not be able to pass. However, polls had hinted […]
The most important election in the Americas is in Brazil
August 31, 2022 by Leave a Comment
By Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter Former Brazilian President Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) runs about on stage at the Latin America Memorial in São Paulo. He was there on August 22, 2022, speaking at a book launch featuring photographs by Ricardo Stuckert about Lula’s trips around the world when he was the […]
Cuba should be removed from the U.S. List of State Sponsors of Terrorism
July 9, 2022 by Leave a Comment
By Roger Waters, Vijay Prashad and Manolo de los Santos / Globetrotter The United States maintains a list of countries that it considers as “state sponsors of terrorism.” There are currently four countries on that list: Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria. The basic idea behind this list is that the U.S. State Department determines that these […]
How Cuba is eradicating child mortality and banishing the diseases of the poor
July 6, 2022 by Leave a Comment
To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few decades is an extraordinary feat. By Vijay Prashad and Manolo de los Santos / Globetrotter Palpite, Cuba, is just a few miles away from Playa Girón, along the Bay of Pigs, where the […]
Why don’t we treat all refugees as though they were Ukrainian?
March 5, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Masses of refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and elsewhere have faced racially motivated hostility in Europe. Now, Ukraine’s refugee crisis is revealing Western double standards. By Sonali Kolhatkar / Independent Media Institute It was inevitable that when brown-skinned Afghan refugees fleeing war were turned away from European borders over the past few years, the callous […]
Tension rising in Iraq after Assassination Attempt on Prime Minister
November 7, 2021 by Leave a Comment
From VOANews BAGHDAD — The failed assassination attempt against Iraq’s prime minister at his residence on Sunday has raised tensions following last month’s parliamentary elections where the Iran-backed militias were the biggest losers. Helicopters circled in the Baghdad skies throughout the day, while troops and patrols were reinforced on the streets and near the capital’s […]
Qasem Soleimani: Iran vows ‘severe revenge’ for top general’s death
January 3, 2020 by Leave a Comment
From BBC Iran’s supreme leader has vowed “severe revenge” on those responsible for the death of top military commander Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani was killed by an air strike at Baghdad airport early on Friday ordered by US President Donald Trump. The 62-year-old Soleimani spearheaded Iran’s Middle East operations as head of the elite Quds Force. […]
Saudi oil attacks: US says intelligence shows Iran involved
September 16, 2019 by Leave a Comment
From BBC The United States has issued satellite images and cited intelligence to back its allegation Iran was behind attacks on major Saudi oil facilities. Iran denies involvement in Saturday’s air attacks, which were claimed by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen. But unnamed US officials speaking to US and international media say the direction and […]
US evacuates some government employees from Iraq over Iran threat
May 15, 2019 by Leave a Comment
From Newsmax Washington ordered the departure of non-emergency American employees from its diplomatic missions in Iraq on Wednesday in another show of concern about alleged threats from Iran. President Donald Trump’s administration is applying new sanctions pressure on Tehran and sending additional forces to the Middle East to counter what it says is a heightened […]
