Ben Norton: The world-renowned political economist Samir Amin passed away on the 12th of August at age 86. He left behind a radical legacy that profoundly influenced the globe.

Samir Amin walks along peoples struggling against exploitation, against imperialism in countries. Samir Amin transcends all borders capital creates to divide peoples struggling against exploiters, against all divisive politics, against all sectarian ideologies, which serve imperialism.

After a privileged youth in Egypt as the child of two medical practitioners, Amin attended university in Paris where his PhD offered a scathing Marxist analysis of South-to-North “unequal exchange.” Amin returned to his homeland, but after testing the limits of Nasser’s Arab nationalism – as an a

The imperialist operation is moving in full swing as Daniel Ortega, the democratically elected president in 2006, is facing weeks of rightists’ violent acts, which have almost paralysed the economy.

Ann Garrison: In your Medium essay “Kagame’s Nuclear Power Plant Is a Joke,” you say that the cost of a nuclear power plant would be equivalent to Rwanda’s national budget fo

Introduction

Imagine President Trump of the United States of America meeting with Uganda’s President Museveni on terms laid out by Museveni!

Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and his wife Ri Sol Ju paid yet another visit to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) President Xi Jinping on 19 June 2018.

In order to acquire an appreciation of the events surrounding United States-Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) relations it is first necessary to place the upcoming summit [[i]] meeting between Marshall Kim Jong-un and President Donald Trump in

I can add a list of other countries and places where I could never stay for an extended period of time. I cannot live in Bombay and Delhi for more than a month. I would be sick – literally and metaphorically. I am not attached to Hyderabad where I lived for the most part of my life.

Recent discussions and exchanges among members of a research network on Africa-China relations about the diversity of participants at a conference that very network is organising brought me back to this idea I had a few years ago to write about Africa-China relations being discussed without Afric