⚖️ Geopolitics

The New Atlas

US midterm elections serve to distract from unelected corporate interests that drive foreign and domestic policy, ensuring continuity of wars against Russia, Iran and China regardless of who voters choose.

The Grayzone

Argentina's Central Bank lost over $1 billion in gold reserves as nearly 11 tons of gold left the country without public consent, raising questions about national wealth and economic sovereignty under Milei.

Friends of Socialist China

China and Botswana elevated ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership during President Duma Gideon Boko's October 12-17 state visit; the two marked 51 years of diplomatic relations and 45 years of Chinese medical teams, while Togo and China will celebrate 55 years of ties next year.

African Renaissance Podcast

An investigation into right-wing Afrikaner lobbying of the White House, foreign-funded Volkstaat ambitions, and claims of genocide examined against data, framed as destabilisation of South Africa.

Neutrality Studies

Former Maltese foreign minister Evarist Bartolo argues that small states can defend sovereignty through neutrality and diplomacy, drawing on Malta's removal of foreign bases to critique NATO, nuclear risk and Europe's foreign policy.

The Tricontinental

A Marxist critique of unipolarity and multipolarity, arguing that counting great powers obscures the class relations, imperialist chains, and transnational capital that actually constitute the world order.

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

A former US Army officer and media analyst explains how Western intelligence agencies deploy AI, bot networks and skewed databases to shape public opinion, citing the Maidan operation and secret disinformation contracts.

African Renaissance Podcast

Prof. Barney Pityana examines right-wing Afrikaner lobbying in Washington, arguing it serves to bolster Trump's voter base while undermining South African sovereignty and social cohesion.

Empire Watch Media

Journalist Laith Marouf argues that dismantling Israel would not end US imperialism, discussing West Asian resistance, Lebanon's crisis, the China-Iran land corridor, and fractures within imperial societies.

Orinoco Tribune

Brazil's 2026 election pits Flávio Bolsonaro's far-right machine against Lula amid US and Israeli interference, while Putin's Valdai silence on Gaza and Yemen's Ansarallah resistance expose the hollowing of multipolarity.

The Electronic Intifada

The Green Party of England and Wales voted to declare itself an anti-Zionist party committed to Palestinian liberation, prompting backlash from British media, Labour politicians and the Israeli government.

India and Global Left

Trita Parsi challenges claims that Iran is on the verge of collapse, arguing that internal pillars of state power and legitimacy matter more than immediate military metrics in assessing the conflict.

Sovereign Media

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's shift from democratic socialist campaign rhetoric on Palestine and billionaires to funding antisemitism programmes and cooperating with Trump raises questions about whether his uncompromising politics was a governing blueprint or merely a route to power.

The New Atlas

US-backed strikes target Russian data centres and energy infrastructure while diplomatic and oil deals buy time, as Russia, Iran and China prepare for further confrontation.

Neutrality Studies

Economist Mark Weisbrot examines Washington's long history of election meddling and regime change across Latin America, focusing on Brazil's election, dollar sanctions, IMF lending and economic sovereignty.

Orinoco Tribune

Over 300 commune members from more than 30 Venezuelan communes gathered in Caracas to launch a promotional committee aimed at building a communal federation and confederation.

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

Oil tankers suffer catastrophic damage in the Strait of Hormuz as Saudi Arabia keeps bombing Yemen, while Washington's Ukrainian proxy is humiliated and $15 billion in Canadian aid to Ukraine goes missing.

Geopolitical Economy Report

Marco Rubio's Athens speech praising colonialism and Western supremacy is fact-checked, arguing that the idea of a unified 'Western civilization' is a political myth used to justify US imperialism and erase colonial history.

African Renaissance Podcast

An investigative series examines a Thabo Mbeki Foundation monograph on US-South Africa relations, tracing right-wing Afrikaner lobbying, Volkstaat funding, and genocide claims against empirical data.

Dr. Radhika Desai

Warwick Powell argues that large language models are open-ended probabilistic systems whose financial backers face a profitability crisis, driving doomsaying and regulation talk while Chinese open-access models undercut Western firms.

India and Global Left

Journalist Laith Marouf examines how corporate platform dependence, Zionist lobbying and supra-legal tech power shape digital censorship, and what a genuinely free-speech internet would require.

The Grayzone

A leaked CIA report warning of unprecedented Israeli civil strife is examined against the backdrop of elections, Gaza's destruction, and growing ultra-Orthodox defiance of conscription laws.

Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris

Yemeni strikes on Saudi airports and the kingdom's largest oil field, plus escalating Iranian attacks on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, are examined as signs that the Saudi regime is in deep trouble.

Neutrality Studies

Ambassador Chas Freeman argues that US power is retreating as wars, sanctions and depleted arsenals expose the limits of dominance, examining Iran, Yemen, Saudi autonomy, China's gains and NATO's failures.