Despite the adoring support from Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Javier Milei’s radical-right free-market nightmare is unravelling, and the people are beginning to score major victories against the government in the streets and in elections, reports BEN HAYES

THE story of the remaining three quarters of the 21st century will be the phoenix-like rise of the Third World.
A key part of this new beginning will be the development of a new pan-Africanist movement to end what is increasingly being labelled as the 500 years of exploitation and humiliation faced by people of African descent.
It will also be an indispensable cog in the machinery that will build a new multilateral world.

ROGER McKENZIE argues that the BRI represents a choice between treating humans as commodities or as equals — an essential project when, aside from China’s efforts, hundreds of millions worldwide are trapped in poverty

The colonial mindset behind the governance of the UN is the reason for its inertia when it comes to conflict resolution, argues ROGER McKENZIE – but can China’s Global Governance Initiative point in a new direction of global equality?