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Friends of Socialist China

China's humanoid robot makers held more than 97 percent of global shipments in the first half of 2026; UBTECH opened a Liuzhou factory targeting over 10,000 robots a year, and Unitree's US$900 million IPO drew 8,000-fold retail demand.

Tricontinental Political Economy

Two Argentine economists pay tribute to Anwar Shaikh, whose Marxian reconstruction of national accounts and theories of competition and trade gave Global South scholars tools to study capitalism empirically.

The Red Nation

A review of the anthology "Beyond the Glittering World," discussing how Indigenous feminisms and futurisms imagine language revitalisation, kinship, and wholeness beyond colonial apocalypse.

Friends of Socialist China

John Moolenaar demanded Starbucks close its two new Urumqi stores; he voted for a US$26 billion Israel aid package, while the Trump administration prepares a US$2.8 billion sale of 60,000 heavy bombs.

Friends of Socialist China

At China Daily's 'Vision China' event in London on September 17, MEP Ondřej Dostál argued the West must see China as it actually is, citing an enormous gap between the real China and Western perceptions.

International Development Economics Associates

A heterodox critique of orthodox domestic resource mobilisation argues that money is endogenously created through sovereign fiscal and banking mechanisms, proposing a new financial architecture for Global South development.

Neutrality Studies

Former British diplomat Ian Proud recounts being detained at Heathrow after attending Russia's Valdai Club, discussing sanctions, foreign influence rules and Europe's shrinking space for dissent.

Neutrality Studies

Larry Johnson argues Iran has exposed weaknesses in US military power, from vulnerable Gulf bases to overstretched carriers, while discussing Russia's outlook, Ukraine's battlefield prospects, and risks of wider war.

Free Palestine TV

Residents and officials in southern Lebanese villages reopen a bombed intermediate school, restoring classes for hundreds of students despite destroyed buildings and ongoing insecurity.

Vocal Politics

A scholarly account of Hamas's October 7 operation argues the Palestinian prisoners' file was its central motive, tracing a long history of capture-for-exchange operations from the 1980s to the Tufan al-Ahrar deal.

African Renaissance Podcast

Dr Judy Dlamini discusses women's safety in South Africa, barriers facing Black women in leadership, inequality, medicine and health research, and why leadership should be a responsibility rather than a title.

Empire Watch Media

MI5's espionage alert against a Chinese research institute is debunked as baseless fearmongering, exposing a double standard where Western universities partner openly with military and intelligence agencies while Chinese civilian research is branded espionage.

Neutrality Studies

Two German lawyers advising mid-sized firms describe how energy costs, bureaucracy and succession problems drive deindustrialisation, foreign buyouts and the loss of industrial expertise across Europe's core economies.

Friends of Socialist China

John Ross, a British economist at Renmin University, calls the Xi-Trump summit positive mainly because the US launched no big attacks on China, though few substantial agreements emerged and the tariff truce ran only to January.

Neutrality Studies

A 21-year-old English literature student from Jabalia describes continuing his education amid displacement and destruction in Gaza, and the financial and visa barriers blocking Palestinian students from studying abroad.

The Red Nation

Ward Churchill's legacy is examined through decades of Indigenous challenges to his claimed Native identity, arguing that self-Indigenization is a colonial theft enabled by universities and media that ignore tribal sovereignty.

Caitlin Johnstone

Rising family estrangement in the US is driven less by TikTok than by parents who mistreat their children, as declining patriarchal pressure means parents must earn relationships through kindness.

Neutrality Studies

Professor Richard Sakwa argues that Western triumphalism after the Cold War weakened diplomacy and narrowed political imagination, and proposes a Charter Order grounded in international law and pluralism.

The Electronic Intifada

A Gaza engineering student describes travelling to a destroyed Islamic University campus for an in-person chemistry exam, and studying online amid power cuts, displacement and blockade.

International Development Economics Associates

A call for participants in an online reading circle on political economist Maria da Conceição Tavares, covering development, demand-driven growth and American hegemony across three Spanish-language sessions.

International Development Economics Associates

A lecture series on political economy research covers East Asia's economic miracles, rents and economic surplus, development policy history, and Latin American critiques of mainstream development economics.

Friends of Socialist China

Tings Chak, Asia co-coordinator of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, marks fifty years since Mao Zedong's death, noting Mao's Selected Works rose to first place on Tsinghua University's library borrowing list in 2019 and has repeatedly returned since.

Neutrality Studies

A report from the Penang Peace Dialogue describes growing confidence among Asian intellectuals that the region can shape its own future, while unresolved questions about Bandung, Taiwan and UN reform expose limits to multipolar solidarity.

Progressive International

Nous Group, an Australian consultancy dubbed 'Nousferatu', has restructured over 20 Canadian universities through staff cuts and centralisation, profiting from public-sector austerity while pushing institutions toward a corporate model.

Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs

Trump's response to AI safety warnings from industry leaders was framed as a race with China, exposing a US government devoid of technical expertise and unable to assess existential technological risk.

International Development Economics Associates

An open letter urges academics to back a UN International Panel on Inequality, modeled on the IPCC, to build consensus on the crisis and policies to reduce it.