Russia Sends $62M to Cuba, Crippling U S Blockade Strategy
The name of the site is a little weak, but the video is clear and to the point. Great for posting to FB for your uninformed friends.
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Category: Global Trade
Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Reverse Globalization or Resurrect America’s Dying Industrial Base
by Jon Jeter, published on Black Agenda Report, April 2, 2025 Throughout history, trade restrictions have reshaped economies for good or for ill. As Trump increases tariffs across industries, it is clear that this move will not revitalize the economy as he claims. Rather, it stands to create further hardship for Black and working class people. While it was not[…]
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Say No to Trump’s Tariffs and Anti-China Policy
by Mick Kelly, published on Workers World, March 20, 2025 The following statement has been issued by the Friends of Socialist China U.S. Committee in response to the Trump administration’s announcement of new tariffs on Chinese imports. The statement was posted on socialistchina.org on March 14, 2025. The [Donald] Trump administration’s decision to slap additional tariffs on the People’s Republic[…]
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Socialists in Canada, the United States and Mexico say NO to Trump’s Imperialist Bluster
by Socialist Action, March 20, 2025 Workers, women, youth, and allies – Take Direct Action to Stop the Trade War! American President Donald Trump fosters chaos. His aim is to enrich himself and his corporate cronies, even turning against America’s erstwhile capitalist allies. The working class and low-income folks are sure to suffer the most in Trump’s infernal tariff war. […]
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The West is Goading Georgia: Tbilisi Has Been Ensnared by Nato Hypocrisy
by Thomas Fazi, published on Defending Democracy, November 2, 2024 This is a little out of date but the story is pretty much, Ukraine redux. And, since this was written, the pressure has been rising. Looks like in Georgia, its pizza rather than cookies. ~jb Food. Churches. Chacha. This is what Georgia has long been known for. But now this[…]
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Peru’s Choices Between a New Deep-Water Port and Used Metro Cars
*Featured Image: “We are building inclusive economic growth,” Biden said. | Source: EFE/Presidency by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, November 25, 2024 The Imperial Center, once again, embarrasses itself with offers that are insulting to our friends in the Global South. Meanwhile, this is the conservative U.S. supported president who came to office by sidelining and jailing the popular left-leaning[…]
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How Did China Lose 1.4 Billion People’s Soybean Market to the US?
from The China Academy, published on the Orinoco Tribune, July 26, 2024 Editor’s note: This article is rather long, but it lays out the aggressive business practices of giant U.S. Corporations, showing how they take over entire global industries and undermine the economies of competitor countries. These practices are used to dominate many resource rich third world countries, but as[…]
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Is the Reign of the Dollar Coming to an End?
by Vijay Prashad, printed in TriContinental Institute Newsletter, June 20, 2024 Though the Dollar-Wall Street regime remains significantly powerful, de-dollarisation and possibilities of a shifting global order are being driven by US economic weakness, the aggressive use of illegal sanctions by the US and its Global North allies, and the growing political and economic strength of the Global South through[…]
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China-Syria Strategic Partnership Faces the US Imposed Stalemate
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Syria Support Movement, September 27, 2023 Interesting update. I, for one, was unaware that that many of the Syrian oil fields currently occupied by the United States were taken over by China’s state owned oil company just 2 years before the U.S. pulled the trigger on the Syrian terrorist war. Sinopec had also recently bought[…]
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Is Intellectual Property Turning into a Knowledge Monopoly?
by Prabir Purkayastha, produced by Globetrotter, September 6, 2023 When the settlers came to the United States, they usurped the common property of the native tribes and parceled it out for money. The same is being done to our common store of knowledge. When greed drives science, it cannot be science. [jb] The twentieth century saw the emergence of public[…]
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