Prabowo and his team are doing a great job balancing between leading players in the global systemic transition while crucially keeping Indonesia out of New Cold War intrigue. The world is in the midst of a global systemic transition from…
Andrew Korybko
Treating emerging markets as a monolith is a costly mistake. Utopia’s Alina Truhina explains how to leverage strategic arbitrage between emerging markets and GCC, and why local nuance is the ultimate sourcing advantage.
Heat risk is about more than temperature. A new Oxford study of 205 cities found that poverty, limited infrastructure and lack of access to cooling are key factors driving urban heat vulnerability, with most of the highest-risk cities in South and Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
By Chris Gilbert – Mar 10, 2026 Any theory should be adjusted when it conflicts
By Stansfield Smith – June 3, 2026 The US empire is in decline, we say.
(Moscow Bureau) – China and Russia are seemingly leaders in the emerging new economic architecture, underlining the end of unipolarity. But while China has set its economic presence worldwide, Russia faces limitations due its own restrictive and discriminatory policy. As…
Kester Kenn Klomegah
Abelardo de la Espriella—a far-right political upstart who promises to wield an “iron fist” against criminals and who emulates right-wing presidents, including Donald Trump in the United States—secured the most votes in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election and will advance to a second-round runoff, the country’s electoral authorities announced over the weekend. Leftist […]
Scientists say dominant climate and biodiversity models rely too heavily on existing economic systems and overlook inequality, Global South perspectives and Indigenous knowledge, calling for more transformative and inclusive scenario-building
This fossil of _Irritator challengeri_ , unearthed in Brazil and held in Germany, is considered the most complete spinosaurid skull ever found. Credit: Cisneros et al., 2022, https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210898, CC BY 4.0
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin used their Beijing summit on 20 May to reinforce the strategic partnership between China and Russia, extending their landmark friendship treaty while expanding cooperation across energy, trade, transport, technology and global governance. The meeting, held at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, came only days after […]
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By Carlos Martinez – May 18, 2026 In a recent article for Counterpunch, Joshua Frank
Egypt and India are intensifying efforts to transform their expanding political partnership into a broader geoeconomic corridor linking Asia, the Middle East and Africa, as both countries seek stronger positioning within evolving Global South trade networks and the wider BRICS economic framework. The renewed momentum was highlighted during meetings held in New Delhi on the […]
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Tens of thousands of Argentines took to the streets on Tuesday to protest against cuts to public universities championed by right-wing President Javier Milei. As reported by The Associated Press, demonstrators in Buenos Aires marched on the Plaza de Mayo toward the Casa Rosada to demand the government implement funding for public universities that was […]
By Cira Pascual Marquina – Apr 30, 2026 I was recently in an assembly in
Meta has once again found itself at the centre of a privacy storm, this time tied to its AI ambitions and the quiet human labour propping them up.
The LNG shock was underestimated. The foreign exchange and inflation feedback loop has proved more challenging than anticipated
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has called for enhanced cooperation among Indian Ocean nations to address global disruptions, emphasizing the region's role as a 'Global South Ocean.'
A country that exports minerals but imports industrial dependence is not sovereign in any deep sense. A country that sits on energy resources but cannot convert them into stable power, strategic reserves, industrial feedstock, jobs and technological upgrading is not sovereign in any deep sense
Liza Essers reflects on Goodman Gallery’s legacy, its global ambitions and the challenges of sustaining a space for art, conversation and community
By Silvana Solano – Mar 27, 2026 Cuban doctors have transformed public health systems from
Universities remain among the few institutions in society dedicated to the careful creation and stewardship of knowledge. If they respond to AI primarily through fear and control, they risk undermining the very intellectual curiosity they seek to protect
By Dmitri Kovalevich – Mar 14, 2026 The Iranian people are currently fighting off an
Por Oliver Vargas – 7 de marzo de 2026 Mientras las fuerzas estadounidenses e israelíes
Amid months of threats by US leaders to attack drug gangs in Mexico, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum slapped back Monday against President Donald Trump’s assertion that her country is the “epicenter” of cartel violence by urging him to stem the flow of illegal arms across the border—and domestic demand for illicit narcotics. “If the flow […]
Artificial intelligence is often presented as a triumph of human ingenuity: fast, efficient, and increasingly autonomous. But beneath this polished narrative lies a hidden global workforce performing the most disturbing, repetitive, and psychologically taxing tasks that machines cannot yet do. This labour is not randomly distributed. It is systematically outsourced to the Global South, where […]
Artificial intelligence is often presented as neutral, objective, and free from human prejudice. But recent research from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) challenges this comforting assumption. In a large-scale audit of ChatGPT, Oxford researchers found that the system repeatedly favours wealthier, whiter, and more Western regions of the world, while systematically placing poorer and…
By Pablo Meriguet / Peoples Dispatch The Mexican government of President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the shipment of 814 tons of milk, meat, beans, rice, and other foodstuffs to Cuba on Sunday, February 8. The move came days after Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced a series of emergency measures his government was adopting to mitigate the […]