Introduction

Author’s Note: In March 2013, I wrote a commentary entitled, “The Dragon Eating the Eagle’s Lunch in Africa?”.

Beijing’s logo designers for this summit, perhaps unconsciously subversive, illustrated how the formerly overlapping, interlocking BRICS are now thin and flimsy, wedging themselves apart.

Venezuela, it seems, is a riddle to the audiences of the mainstream media. Yet the riddle conceals a fact.

The dominant media almost exclusively covers stories that portray this country positively while ignoring or downplaying information that contradicts this narrative. The result? Canadians are ignorant and confused about their country’s role in the world.

An independent committee of examiners, based in Tokyo, Japan, has recently accepted to investigate the conduct of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) over the controversial major agricultural project in Mozambique, ProSavana.

The lingering economic crisis of the global capitalist system is now intensifying geopolitical struggles and social conflicts all over the world.  Imperialist states, led by the U.S., are becoming ever more aggressive in capturing and controlling more territories as sources of raw materials

French voters went to the polls and chose Emmanuel Macron rather than Marine Le Pen to be France’s president.

Emmanuel Macron, who beat the fascist Marine Le Pen in the final round of the French elections, was the consensus candidate around whom most of the French capitalist ruling class and its political representatives rallied.

On 3 April 2017 the secretariat of 79 countries from ACP (Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific) issued a statement saying they would “speak with one voice” to negotiate the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU).