Global South

Despite Growth, Only Social Movements Will Bring Progress

January 13, 2024 UNAC Editor China, Economics, Europe, Global South

by Vijay Prashad, published on Consortium News, January 10, 2023 In October 2023, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published its annual Trade and Development Report. Nothing in the report came as a major surprise. The growth of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) continues to decline with no sign of a rebound. Following a modest post-pandemic[…]

Declaration of the Summit of Heads of State of the G77 and China

September 24, 2023 UNAC Editor Global Alliances, Global South

The summit held in Havana was attended by more than 1,300 participants from 116 countries and 12 organizations and agencies of the United Nations system. Thirty-three nations from Latin America and the Caribbean, 46 from Africa, 34 from Asia and three from Europe were represented. Thirty-one heads of state and government, 12 vice presidents, dozens of ministers from multiple portfolios[…]

BRICS Bloc: No Alternative to US Imperialist World Order

September 18, 2023 UNAC Editor BRICS, Capitalism, Global Alliances, Imperialism

by Jeff Mackler, published on Socialist Action, August 25, 2023 Meeting amid the gleaming glass towers of Johannesburg’s business district, the mostly billionaire heads of state had no clear agenda other than perhaps a major expansion of BRICS membership aimed at increasing its influence on the world capitalist marketplace. China’s President Xi Jinping mysteriously skipped the opening session, but[…]

Oxfam Report Highlights Deep Harms of IMF ‘Austerity Drive’ in Poor Nations

April 27, 2023 UNAC Editor Austerity, Economics, Human Rights, International Aid and Debt, Poverty

by Jake Johnson, published on CommonDreams, April 13, 2023 Austerity is the flip side of sanctions. For the global south, economic interactions with western financial institutions are “austerity” vs “sanctions” which amounts to “Damned if you do; Damned if you don’t” The entire western economic structure is geared to extraction, and its prescriptions permeate the global south like poison. [jb][…]

On the International Day of Peace, The US/EU/NATO Axis of Domination Reaffirmed its Commitment to the Weapon of War

October 3, 2022 UNAC Editor Imperialism, New World Visions, Political Analysis, Racism, United Nations, White Supremacy

by Ajamu Baraka, published on Black Agenda Report, September 28, 2022 “End Racism: Build Peace” was the theme of the 2022 International Day of Peace. That noble sentiment can’t be realized when powerful white supremacist structures are committed to practicing hegemony. It is not a cruel irony but imperial consistency that on September 21, 2022 the United Nations International Day[…]

Strength of Anti-Russian Propaganda Limits Public Calls to Block Weapons Shipments to Ukraine

July 21, 2022 UNAC Editor NATO, U.S. Aggression, Ukraine

by Dee Knight, published on Covert Action Magazine, July 12, 2022 As the U.S. and its NATO allies met in Spain and Germany during the last week of June in the midst of four full months of war in Ukraine, they were confronted with frustration and hard choices. Russian and Donbas militia forces now control most of the Donbas region[…]

Global Solidarity Is Needed During The Pandemic To End Medical Apartheid

March 10, 2021 UNAC Editor Healthcare, Political Analysis, Rights of Opressed Peoples

by Margaret Flowers, published on Popular Resistance, February 21, 2021 Some of the truths the COVID-19 pandemic is exposing about the United States are its racial disparities in health and access to health care. Black and Indigenous people are more likely to be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 than white people. They are two to three times more[…]