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How the global food economy is killing children

7 min read VIJAY PRASHAD

VIJAY PRASHAD
Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million cases of illness and 1,5 million deaths; children suffer almost a third of these. This is the predictable result of a food economy organized around profits, not the right to food.

Nearly one in nine people worldwide become ill from consuming contaminated food, and the regions of Africa and Southeast Asia together account for almost three-quarters of all foodborne illnesses and 60% of deaths worldwide.

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Artificial intelligence threatens to increase inequality

5 min read STEVEN SEAMAN

STEVE SEAMAN

A quarter of the world's population, 2.200 billion people, still lack internet access, according to data from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). This digital divide risks widening with the rise of Artificial Intelligence.

In 2025, 85% of urban residents used the internet, but almost half of the rural population (58%) still did not. The digital divide also exhibits a marked gender bias: it affects 52% of women compared to 42% of men. These inequalities are exacerbated by geographic, socioeconomic, and educational factors.

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Western Sahara: neither a turning point nor a historic vote

7 min read ISAIAH BARREÑADA 0 comments

ISAIAS BARREÑADA
On October 31, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution on Western Sahara (S/RES/2797) which, as with previous resolutions, extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) for one year and outlined a series of guidelines for resolving the conflict. The difference from previous resolutions is that it gave greater prominence to Morocco's proposal for autonomy in the territory.

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Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of people are dying of hunger.

7 min read VIJAY PRASHAD 0 comments

VIJAY PRASHAD
I've written this article before. In fact, I could write it every year when a new Global Report on Food Crises is published. The report is based on four points:
1. The number of people suffering from hunger is higher now than last year.
2. The amount of food produced this year is greater than that produced last year.
3. There is enough food to feed the entire world's population, and more.
4. How do we explain why there are people who suffer from hunger?

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Aníbal Garzón: The Western media strategy against the BRICS is based on censorship and contempt

9 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Aníbal Garzón is a political analyst specializing in international relations. He has worked as a volunteer in several African and Latin American countries for more than 5 years. He has just published BRICS. The transition towards an alternative world order (Akal, 2024), where he analyzes the importance of emerging countries in this changing world.

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A ghost is haunting the financial world: BRICS Pay

9 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
BRICS Pay will be a digital platform that would allow consumers and businesses in partner countries to make payments and transfer funds across borders with ease – precisely what we do now with SWIFT, except that they would not do so under Western domination. More than 50 countries have already expressed interest in joining this initiative ahead of the 2024 BRICS summit.

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China and the time of the BRICS

10 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
There is a virtually unanimous perception of a worsening of the major international dilemmas, whether we are referring to issues of peace or development, manifesting itself in open discontent with the different yardsticks applied to certain conflicts and the persistence in preserving an exclusive hegemony that does not take into sufficient consideration the changes that have occurred in recent decades in the international economy and society.

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Morocco tries to “bypass” the UN in Western Sahara with the help of the West

5 min read RICARD GONZALEZ 0 comments

RICARD GONZALEZ
In recent years, Morocco has succeeded in getting several Western powers to change their position on the Western Sahara conflict to align themselves with Rabat's theses, albeit to varying degrees. The first was the United States under Donald Trump, and the last was France under Macron, both of which have gone furthest in recognising Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara.

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US athletes were allowed to cheat, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency

2 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

JAYRO SANCHEZ
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said this week in a statement that its American counterpart, USADA, has allowed doping among the athletes it supervises for years. Its management team has also admitted that it was aware of these events since 2021.

The North American organization justified its actions before WADA by assuring that it was going to use the cheating athletes to obtain incriminating evidence against the rest of the people involved in these acts.

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Alex Anfruns: we are witnessing the collapse of neocolonial architecture in France

21 min read PASCUAL SERRANO 0 comments

PASCUAL SERRANO
In recent years, three West African countries, in the Sahel region, have experienced coups d'état with a common denominator: the national and sovereign uprising against France, its former metropolis, still dominant in the economy, defense and international relations. These are Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger.
We spoke with Alex Anfruns, author of the book “Niger: another coup d'état… or the pan-African revolution?”

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Rwanda, the new Fachoda complex between France and Great Britain

8 min read Jayro sanchez 0 comments

JAYRO SANCHEZ
The main European states that colonized Africa, France and Great Britain, still want to maintain some kind of influence on the continent. The former has sheltered for decades several Rwandan war criminals involved in the genocide against Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994, and the latter maintains good relations with President Kagame despite the fact that his regime has been repeatedly accused of not respecting human rights.

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Climate chaos: the world warms as Europe faces a new Ice Age

6 min read JULIAN CRIBB 0 comments

JULIAN CRIBB
The hottest month of January ever recorded in the history of humanity has passed, without governments around the world and the international media having given so much as a wink.