International

Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution has been in the vanguard of the Global South. In contrast, President Javiar Milei’s government in Argentina represents the logical, though absurd, consequence of extreme neoliberalism, which he calls “anarcho-capitalism.” By Francisco Dominguez, Roger D. Harris and…

The final stages of Marco Cavallo’s journey have brought the blue horse to Brindisi and Bari, two strategic ports in southern Italy facing the Adriatic and looking towards Albania. From these shores, Italy is experimenting with the externalisation of borders…

Undoubtedly, after several tectonic praises for Africa, the continental organization (African Union) and its regional economic blocs, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, suddenly, changed his long-term political assessment and, most probably, perceptions over economic approach and leadership paradigm. The summit…

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize 2025 to María Corina Machado is the latest signal that the West has fallen even further than it has until today. To give the Nobel Peace Prize to a fascistic and violent Venezuelan trouble maker…

When Alfred Nobel created his celebrated prize in 1895, he imagined honoring those who ‘have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion…

“Illegal power is neither periphery nor shadow; it is a global system fed by formal politics and the formal economy” — inspired by Lucía Dammert Illegal power is neither accident nor exception. It is a parallel system spanning continents, sustained…

When I saw the headline Maria Corina Machado wins the Peace Prize, I almost laughed at the absurdity. But I didn’t, because there’s nothing funny about rewarding someone whose politics have brought so much suffering. Anyone who knows what she…

In Brindisi, Basaglia’s Twin “Blue Horses” Challenge the Adriatic Border A powerful symbol of the liberation of psychiatric asylums in the 1970s, Marco Cavallo, the celebrated “blue horse” born in Trieste, at the far north-eastern edge of the Italian peninsula,…

Decolonizing our worldview requires decolonizing our language—terms like ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’ obscure complexity and uphold colonial hierarchies. The term “Global South” gained popularity in the 1990s as a neutral alternative to “Third World,” which had become outdated and…

In the sharpest possible contrast to the US approach to climate change, in a very grown-up adult fashion, the EU has publicly stated: “EU officials warn climate breakdown and wildlife loss are ruining ecosystems that underpin the economy.” (Environmental Damage…