Free trade is simply a euphemism for the corporate capture of international trade.
Regions / Africa
The late U.S. senator from Pennsylvania may have achieved his most visionary legacy as a teenager, when he founded a student movement for world federalism.
Chinese investment may come with strings attached, but Africa deserves an alternative to U.S.-led neoliberalism and militarization.
To keep U.S. troops in Syria now implies a forever war, with no realistic ending imaginable, and no authorization from Congress.
A "Trumpified" USAID will now rate countries's suitability for aid based on criteria developed by a far-right think tank... that wants to end development aid.
Corporate malfeasance saps the African continent of billions in badly needed funds each year — and the U.S. is a top destination.
Progressive legislators can help Zimbabwe embrace African-led solutions to poverty and corruption that put people ahead of corporations.
It's a war as brutal as the one in Syria. Will the Trump administration pay any serious attention to it?
Despite dire warnings, politically influential big banks continue to lend billions to the fossil fuel industry every year.
Long ignored by the media, the people of Chagos struggle relentlessly to reclaim islands that the U.S. and U.K. stole for a military base.