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Colombo Conference: ‘Hands Off Asia Means Socialism Today’

July 17, 2026 BreakThrough News. , , ,
Asia is home to about 60% of the world’s population and is increasingly the motor of the world’s economy. The continent also has a long tradition of revolutionary national liberation struggles and left and progressive movements. Today the people and governments of Asia today find themselves in the crosshairs of a New Cold War, gasping for breath under the yoke of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and bearing the burden of tens of thousands of US troops stationed in close to 400 bases spread across the region. In this context, what does genuine sovereignty mean for the people of the continent, and how can progressive organizations join hands to construct this sovereignty?

The Revolt Against US Payment Monopolies

July 17, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. , , , ,
On July 15, 2026, Washington announced a new 25% tariff on Brazilian goods, taking effect July 22 — a punishment aimed at protecting U.S. payment monopolies. Pix, Brazil’s public instant-payment system, cuts Visa and Mastercard out of millions of transactions. In July 2025, Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods in a failed attempt to stop the prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was later sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup. When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down those tariffs in February 2026, Washington tried again.

For Africa To Have Digital Sovereignty, It Must Control Data

July 15, 2026 Nicholas Mwangi, Breakthrough News. , , ,
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the defining technologies of the twenty-first century. Governments, corporations, and international organizations present it as the engine of a new industrial revolution capable of transforming healthcare, agriculture, education, finance, and governance. But the optimism in the Global South is confronted with major realities and questions surrounding infrastructure capabilities, ownership of data, and power over the technology in the context of geopolitics and development. For Africa, this question is particularly urgent.

Sovereignty Is The Foundation Of Democracy

July 12, 2026 Nicholas Mwangi, Breakthrough News. , , , ,
When Burkina Faso’s transitional President Captain Ibrahim Traoré argued earlier this year that democracy cannot exist without sovereignty, international headlines were quick to conclude that he had rejected democracy altogether. Across much of the Western media, his remarks were presented as further evidence that the military-led governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger were abandoning democratic governance in favor of authoritarian rule. But supporters of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) insisted that Traoré’s intervention was being misunderstood.

Leonard Peltier: Nothing To Celebrate At America 250

June 29, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. , , ,
On July 3, fireworks will burst over Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe (the Six Grandfathers), the sacred Lakota mountain the settlers renamed Mount Rushmore. The four presidents blasted into the rock will glow above the Black Hills — land the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty set aside for the Lakota Nation. The U.S. seized Pahá Sápa (the Black Hills) in 1877, after gold was found there. In 1980 the Supreme Court ruled the taking illegal. The Lakota refused the money the court offered and demanded the land back. They are still waiting. The monument was another conquest.

‘Board Of Peace’ For Gaza Working To ‘Crush’ Palestinian Statehood

June 24, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza is working to “crush” the prospect of Palestinian statehood and “force a Palestinian surrender,” according to documents obtained exclusively by Drop Site News. The documents originate from recent negotiations between the Trump-led Board of Peace and Palestinian negotiators.  The first document contains the Palestinian team’s amendments to the Board of Peace's roadmap for disarming Gaza's resistance, while the second is a reply from the Board of Peace director and ex-Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, issued last week.

Why Bolivia Is Exploding

June 18, 2026 Teri Mattson, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
As road blockades spread across Bolivia and labor unions bring major transportation routes to a standstill, the country’s political crisis has become impossible to ignore. Fuel shortages have disrupted daily life. Supply chains have been strained. Protesters have erected more than one hundred blockades across the country, demanding the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz less than a year after he took office. At first glance, the unrest appears to be another chapter in Latin America’s long history of economic turmoil and political instability.

Security Crises Around The Sahel: Nigeria And The Alliance Of Sahel States

June 11, 2026 Francis Phillip, Black Agenda Report. , , , ,
Security crises in West Africa cannot be understood in isolation but as reflections of a state’s prioritization of popular sovereignty or foreign alignment. Unlike Nigeria, the African masses in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are strategically organized to bolster national security and Pan-African unity. From April 25-26th, the Islamist terrorist group Jama’at Nusrat al Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), in coordination with the Tuareg separatist movement the Front de libération de l’Azawad (FLA), conducted attacks on several cities across Mali.

Build The New Asia Of Our Dreams

June 5, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. , , ,
On 15 April, I had the great honour of speaking in the Gedung Merdeka (Independence Hall) in Bandung, Indonesia. I was struck not by nostalgia, but by urgency. Bandung is not our museum piece, but a living political inheritance. The questions raised in that hall in 1955, at the gathering of leaders from 29 African and Asian countries, remain unresolved. Can the nations of the Global South act together with sovereignty and dignity? Can they build institutions that serve their peoples rather than global capital? Can they create forms of cooperation beyond military alliances and market dependency?

We Shall Not Host Our Executioners

May 29, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. , , , ,
On 11–12 May, at the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, French President Emmanuel Macron stood in front of more than thirty African heads of state and announced, ‘We are the true Pan-Africanists’. This was an extraordinarily obnoxious comment that was sandwiched between bureaucratic banalities about ‘growth’, ‘innovation’, and ‘partnerships’. In an open letter, Togolese writer Farida Bemba Nabourema responded that ‘Pan-Africanism is, at its most fundamental, the political philosophy that said no to everything France spent three centuries saying yes to: slavery, colonialism, and neocolonialism’.

‘Sovereignty Will Be Consolidated’, Reiterates Malian President

May 1, 2026 Pavan Kulkarni, People's Dispatch. , , ,
Barely four days after repelling the coordinated terror attacks by an Al-Qaeda affiliate and a northern separatist group on six different cities, the government of Mali, whose collapse the Western media has long been prophesying, is pressing on with developmental projects. Electricity supply, healthcare, education, and the state of livestock and fisheries were among the matters discussed at the cabinet meeting in the Presidential Palace on April 29, while the military continued “mopping-up” with search-and-secure operations.​

The Commune And Popular Sovereignty In Times Of Imperialist Siege

March 30, 2026 Cira Pascual Marquina , Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
I write these lines at a particularly difficult moment for Venezuelan sovereignty. The imperialist attack of January 3 and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and Congresswoman Cilia Flores marked a new escalation in an aggression that now spans more than twenty-six years against the Bolivarian Revolution. This is not an isolated episode. It is a new chapter in a broad and multifaceted strategy aimed at taking away the Venezuelan people and government’s power of decision and, ultimately, reversing the political path inaugurated in 1999.

The World Says: Cuba Is Not Alone

March 14, 2026 Irais Maria García Portelles, Vanguardia. , , , ,
The world knows this, which every day, from different geographical points, demands its end. Washington's economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba is a criminal and genocidal way of besieging a sovereign country. Knowing this, the city council of the Italian city of Turin approved a Resolution that condemns it and demands the implementation of concrete projects to help the population of the Caribbean nation, Prensa Latina reported. The initiative, presented by councilors Claudio Cerrato and María Grazia Grippo, of the Democratic Party (PD), denounces the serious effects of pressure from the U.S. government.

Attack On Iran Also An Assault On United Nations

March 3, 2026 Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares, Consortium News. , , , ,
On Feb. 16, one of us (Jeffrey Sachs) sent a letter to the U.N. Security Council warning that the United States was on the verge of tearing up the United Nations Charter. That warning has now come to pass.  The United States and Israel have launched an unprovoked war against Iran in flagrant violation of Article 2(4) of the Charter, without authorization from the Security Council, and without any legitimate claim of self-defense under Article 51. They are trying to kill the U.N. Charter and the international rule of law, but they will fail.

IADL Condemns The Joint US-Israeli Illegal Aggression On Iran

February 28, 2026 International Association of Democratic Lawyers. , , ,
The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) condemns in the strongest terms the joint attack by the United States and Israel on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched on the morning of Saturday, February 28, 2026, amid the holy month of Ramadan. These attacks constitute another example of the crime of aggression, in blatant violation of article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter and the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity of states, good neighborliness and the peaceful settlement of disputes. International law clearly prohibits both the use of force and the threat to use force against the territorial integrity of any state, and it is also clear that the United States and Israel have deep disregard and contempt for these principles.
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