Ashley Smith provides the background for understanding the latest twists and turns in the developing superpower conflict between the U.S. and China.
OUR DAILY newsfeeds are filled with stories about the spiraling conflicts between the U.S. and China: They’re poised on the precipice of a trade (...)
Major trends of changing geopolitics impact Asia and Europe and provide space for positive interventions from peace movements for people’s security. Even as the rise of Asia is seen as impacting international geopolitics the current reality in the Asian Continent is as follows: 1. Most riven (...)
Rivalry escalates amid concerns over trade, as warships nearly collide and an FBI trap angers Beijing.
The US and China have shrugged off rules and constraints that have kept their 21st-century global rivalry in check, opening the way for an escalating conflict on many fronts that neither side (...)
Think of it as the most momentous military planning on Earth right now. Who’s even paying attention, given the eternal changing of the guard at the White House, as well as the latest in tweets, sexual revelations, and investigations of every sort? And yet it increasingly looks as if, thanks to (...)
Ashley Smith analyzes the Trump administration’s further lurch toward warmongering and “America First” nationalism—and what the consequences might be.
THE TRUMP administration has taken a decisive turn toward an even more militarist “America First” strategy.
Over the past few weeks, the billionaire (...)
During the 2016 US election campaign Donald Trump promised an end to pointless foreign wars and attacked “useless” and massively expensive new military equipment, like the $1.5 trillion Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighter. But the Trump presidency has ushered in a new era of militarism, as the (...)
This resolution presented to the World Congress by the outgoing International Committee was adopted by 109 votes for, 5 against, 1 abstention, 0 No votes.
Introduction
The “theses” that follow do not claim to be exhaustive or to present finished conclusions. Their main purpose is to nourish an international process of collective reflection. They often rely on already shared ideas, but try to push further the discussion of the implications of these analyses. To this end, at the risk of (...)
This resolution presented by the outgoing International Committee was adopted 108 votes for, 5 against, 1 abstention.
Chapters
I. Some analytical elements
1 / What is the evolution of the situation of the working class and the exploited worldwide?
2 / Evolution also of the worldwide rate (...)
The most fluid arena in the modern world-system, which is in structural crisis, is arguably the geopolitical arena. No country comes even near to dominating this arena. The last hegemonic power, the United States, has long acted like a helpless giant. It is able to destroy but not to control (...)
Two documents published by the US government in the past two months spell it out loud and clear: the US is on the warpath against emerging big power rivals China and Russia.
The National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy, released in December and January respectively, reflect the (...)
Religion, gender dynamics, place and cultural identity – all inform rising authoritarian populism in rural areas, alongside class interests and inequalities. Mobilising alternatives to capture by regressive political forces is not straightforward.
Authoritarian populism is on the rise. Whether (...)
Elite commandos deployed to 149 countries in 2017.
“We don’t know exactly where we’re at in the world, militarily, and what we’re doing,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in October . That was in the wake of the combat deaths of four members of the (...)
Transcript of Interview with Noam Chomsky by Pervez Hoodbhoy
Pervez Hoodbhoy: Noam! There’s a whole lot of things that I want to talk to you about, but let me start with this. It appears as if the world is retribalizing. We are going back to our primal tribal loyalties – to religion, to (...)
Failure to honour terms of the 1970 nuclear non-proliferation treaty has helped create ground for Kim Jong-un’s recklessness.
North Korea’s defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons capabilities, dramatised by last weekend’s powerful underground test and a recent long-range ballistic missile launch over (...)
The Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa summit in Xiamen from September 3-5 is already inscribed with high tension thanks to Sino-Indian border conflicts. But regardless of a new peace deal, centrifugal forces within the fast-whirling world economy threaten to divide the BRICS.
Beijing’s (...)
After 16 years of the so-called war on terror, people feel no more secure than in the aftermath of 9/11.
The Barcelona attack followed a pattern that has developed over nearly three years and stems from the start of the intense US-led air war against ISIS which began back in August 2014 . That (...)
The era of amnesia is over—if we needed a wake-up call, the North Korean ICBM test supplied it with a vengeance.
If ever we needed a wake-up call, the North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test on July 4 supplied it with a vengeance: The era of nuclear amnesia is over. Ever (...)
In regard to the charges about Trump‘s collusion with Russia to throw the election his way, and Russian meddling in the elections, we can mention that the list of the elections in all the countries Washington meddled in is far too long to for this post. In fact, the U.S. is the world’s meddler in (...)
US-China relations have taken on a disturbing new dimension under Donald Trump, writes Dorothy Guerrero.
In 2016, US exports to China totalled $116 billion, while its imports reached $463 billion. The $347 billion deficit accounts for almost 70 per cent of America’s total trade deficit. Donald (...)
The balance of power is changing as US influence declines. Amid a nuclear crisis and a fractious G20 summit in Hamburg, who will win the struggle for succession?
The overt US threats of punitive military action that followed last week’s provocative test-firing of a potentially nuclear-capable (...)
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