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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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Joe Biden Triggers Paralysis in the Production of Strategic Semiconductor Chips

by Prof Michel Chossudovsky, published on Global Research, July 23, 2023 Semiconductors constitute a strategic commodity, used in a variety of sectors including electronics, medical devices, electronic and communications networks etc.  There is evidence of manipulation, which has led to artificial shortages of semiconductors affecting a number of key sectors of the global economy. There are geopolitical implications: US Confrontation[…]

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German Deindustrialization Continues Unabated Due to Berlin’s Suicidal Energy Policies

by Drago Bosnic, published on InfoBRICS, July 25, 2023 For close to a year and a half, the German economy has been going through a sort of unraveling, primarily due to suicidal subservience to its masters in Washington DC. Since the start of Russia’s counteroffensive against NATO aggression in Europe, Berlin has been experiencing a plethora of major economic problems[…]

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As Yellen Dictates Terms to China What We Defend, What Wall Street Wants to Destroy

by Sara Flounders, published on Workers World, July 21, 2023 What is the material basis of the growing hostility on every level of the U.S. ruling class toward China? No great struggle is based on the personalities or aspirations of individuals. At the root is a very concrete, material basis that drives the conflict. Otherwise, meetings, discussions and diplomacy would[…]

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Multipolar Maneuvering in Indo-Pacific

by M.K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, July 19, 2023 On Monday, while delivering the keynote address at the annual China Business Summit held in Auckland, New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins weighed in on the power dynamic in the Indo-Pacific. New Zealand’s estimation matters because it is a small country in Southern Pacific, heavily dependent on trade with China[…]

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World Hunger and the War in Ukraine

by Vijay Prashad, produced by Globetrotter, July 19 2023 The header image gives a little perspective.  It says that Ukraine is not in the same class as Russia in terms of the amount of grain it exports.  In fact The U.S., Canada, Australia and France all export larger quantities of wheat than Ukraine, but significantlu less than Russia.   [jb] On[…]

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