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The US Ruling Class is In Deep Despair

IT is a fair question to ask: how does a ruling class that controls more money ($45 trillion), nearly twice the annual gross domestic product of its country, produce two men who should not be leading a country, let alone a country with the most powerful military in the world? When Joe Biden, the incumbent president of the United States, and Donald Trump, the former president, met to debate each other in late June, they confounded anyone who watched them.

Migrating Workers Provide Wealth for the World

A FEW weeks ago, the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) released its World Migration Report 2024. Most of these reports are anodyne, pointing to a secular rise in migration during the period of neoliberalism. As states in the poorer parts of the world found themselves under assault from the Washington Consensus (cuts, privatisation, austerity), and as employment became more and more precarious, larger and larger numbers of people took to the road to find a way to sustain their families.

Israel’s Unending Genocidal War on the Palestinians

AFTER seven months, the lead prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan KC, decided to announce that he would be looking into framing warrants regarding Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. With nearly 40,000 people dead and 10,000 missing, and with over two million people displaced and threatened with death from bombs or from disease, this war is one of the worst in recent years.

China and Cuba, For a Community of Shared Future

China is willing to work with Cuba as companions of socialism, good partners for common development and good comrades in strategic coordination IN 2013, President Xi Jinping put forward the concept of building a community of shared future of mankind, which represents the greatest common denominator of all peoples, in the desire to build a better world.It has far-reaching theoretical value and historical significance, and is showing increasingly strong influence, vitality and convening power.China and Cuba are joining together to build a Sino-Cuban community of shared future, injecting an im

Will the Palestinian Groups Create a New Palestinian Political Project?

IN Cairo, representatives from Hamas held indirect negotiations with Israel for a ceasefire. The sticking point for several of the rounds was the order of events. Israel wanted the hostages to be released before it would stop the bombing, while Hamas said that the bombing must stop first. Israel has called for the disarming and dismantling of Hamas, which is a maximalist demand unlikely to be met. Hamas meanwhile would like not only a ceasefire but an end to the war.

They Can Blow Up Bridges, But They Don’t Have the Will to Build Them

THE countries of the global north are awash with weapons systems that have the capacity to blow up the world many times over. Not only do the countries in the global north have armies that are lethal and dangerous, but they are the largest exporters of weapons to the rest of the world, fuelling conflicts that could be settled by diplomacy. The larger the arsenal of weapons, the greater the confidence that they will be the arbiter of disputes – and so, even petty problems that can be resolved by negotiations escalate rapidly into war.

Europe Sleepwalks Through Its Own Dilemmas

ON March 19, 2024, the head of France’s ground forces, General Pierre Schill, published an article in the newspaper, Le Monde, with a blunt title: ‘The Army Stands Ready’. Schill cut his teeth in France’s overseas adventures in the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, and Somalia. In this article, General Schill wrote that his troops are ‘ready’ for any confrontation and that he could mobilise 60,000 of France’s 121,000 soldiers within a month for any conflict.

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