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Bolivian legislators demand an impartial investigation into leaked audio recordings allegedly detailing a plot to abduct former President Evo Morales, involving foreign agents and a cabinet minister.

A new Quaest poll shows Flavio Bolsonaro at 45% and Lula at 44% ahead of Brazil's October 25 runoff, leaving the candidates statistically tied within the margin of error.

Venezuela's central bank cut reserve requirements on bolívar term deposits from 73% to 50% while keeping demand and savings deposits at 73% and raising penalties for shortfalls.

A leaked 18-page agreement gives Washington discounted Venezuelan crude, a 35% stake in a private oil venture and a 50-year purchase priority, with no guaranteed benefits for Caracas.

A chemist explains nuclear weapons' physical consequences-explosive yields, persistent fallout, unequal radiation risks, and nuclear winter's threat to global food production-arguing that understanding these effects must precede security debate.

A Kyoto University symposium roundtable of seventeen scholars and journalists debates practical paths to preventing world war, from public education and nuclear disarmament to inequality, nationalism and coalition-building across ideological divides.

Warwick Powell argues that US power in East and Southeast Asia is declining, proposing an ASEAN-centred regional order built on neutrality, economic integration and alternative payment systems.

While US tech leaders call for AI regulation and cast China as a reluctant partner, Beijing has already built a staged system of algorithmic rules, generative AI measures and a frontier-risk safety framework.

Xi Jinping told a Beijing gathering marking the 90th anniversary of the Red Army's Long March victory that the Party's leadership and Mao Zedong's core position were decisive, calling for new achievements on the new Long March.

The UAE's intervention in Sudan's civil war serves a subimperial project built on gold smuggling, port and logistics dominance, political expansion, and fear of democratic contagion.

British MPs who criticised Palantir in parliament received letters from the spytech firm listing their remarks, which critics call an attempt to intimidate elected officials into silence.

Niger's Ministry of Mines signed a new agreement with MAMICO to raise state ownership and relaunch a key uranium project in the Agadez Region, advancing the country's sovereign path after French colonial exploitation.

Burkina Faso's President Ibrahim Traoré inaugurated RAFFINOR-BF, a $19 million state-owned gold refinery, as the country nationalises its resources and asserts sovereignty within the Sahel alliance.

Pro-Palestine organisers drive an RV convoy from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to speak with ordinary Americans about how U.S. funding of Israel is tied to their own unmet needs.

A live discussion pushing back on liberal-versus-left infighting, arguing that leftists should abandon fruitless debates with bourgeois liberals and instead build dual power and organise within their own communities.

A pro-Palestine RV convoy travels from Los Angeles to Washington DC to connect Palestine's oppression with the daily struggles of ordinary Americans under systemic corruption.

Professor Radhika Desai examines the crisis of world capitalism through her geopolitical economy approach. She argues that Western decline and China’s rise reflect a deeper struggle over production, imperialism and socialism. Drawing on Marx, Smith, Keynes and Gramsci, she challenges prevailing accounts of world war, fascism and neo-feudalism.

A decolonial reading of today's crises traces them to colonialism, capitalism and Western knowledge systems, arguing that prosperity for a minority has always depended on exploitation elsewhere and that solidarity, not new hierarchies, is the way forward.

Michael Hudson argues Europe's leadership is pursuing a losing war against Russia while US pressure on energy, tech and trade deepens European dependency and accelerates Western decline.

Michael Hudson argues that Europe's continued war in Ukraine is performative, serving as cover for corporate handouts and a class war on wage earners while the US pursues oil-driven rivalry.

Five years into the AUKUS pact, CND's vice president argues the nuclear submarine deal locks Australia into a US-led military build-up against China and calls for cross-border anti-war and trade union solidarity.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the Seventh CICA Summit in Baku as Xi Jinping's special representative, telling Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin the Palestinian question is the biggest historical injustice since World War II.

Ben Chacko reviews China's Foreign Policy and the Making of a Multipolar World, edited by Keith Bennett and Carlos Martinez, in which Andrew Murray contributes 'China, Cold War & Empire' and Danny Haiphong rebuts Western left claims of exploitative economics.

Cuban leaders denounce a Florida arrest warrant against Raúl Castro over the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue plane shootdown as an electoral stunt serving to justify the US blockade.

Dozens of families left homeless by Venezuela's June 24 double earthquake moved from a La Guaira shelter into new temporary housing units in Ciudad Caribia, as construction continues on hundreds more homes.

Cuba is converting state warehouses and bodegas into Neighborhood Markets managed by private operators, cooperatives or foreign investors, with tax breaks on essential goods as part of 176 approved reforms.

Venezuela's National Popular Consultation drew record turnout, with the government pledging to fund winning communal projects and scheduling a youth consultation for February 2027.

Reading Walter Benjamin's critique of progress against Venezuela's present, the essay argues the Bolivarian Revolution interrupted historical continuum and that popular struggle must reclaim its memory.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says the Florida arrest warrant against former Cuban leader Raúl Castro is politically motivated and tied to US electoral interests ahead of November.

Iran's president says Washington must lift threats and sanctions before any dialogue, citing US attacks during negotiations and broken commitments as reasons Iranians no longer trust America.

Arguing that artists who stay silent about Gaza and empire are themselves making a political statement, this essay insists real art must confront the horrors of a genocidal world rather than distract from them.

Guatemalan anti-corruption prosecutor Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa was shot dead in Guatemala City, a killing condemned by President Bernardo Arévalo amid fears for the country's justice system.

Ghana's President John Mahama commissioned the Phase III expansion of Zonda Tec's vehicle assembly plant in Tema, raising capacity to 3,000 vehicles a year to boost domestic production and jobs.

The US has lifted five-year-old sanctions on Eritrea, prompting questions about what changed since 2021 and what Africans should learn from Washington's shifting posture toward the continent.

Costa Rica's celebrated export-led model, built on structural adjustment and foreign investment, has produced a dual economy marked by inequality, fiscal strain, and democratic erosion.

Anwar Shaikh, the influential heterodox and Marxian economist at the New School, is remembered for rebuilding classical political economy and mentoring critical economists worldwide.

Over half a million protesters faced tear gas, water cannons and mass arrests across France, as a month of high school blockades grew into a nationwide uprising against Macron's austerity.

Kambale Musavuli explains what Blackwater founder Erik Prince's mercenaries are doing in eastern Congo, how a US-brokered minerals deal and Rwandan-backed M23 insurgency shape the conflict, and the Ebola crisis.