By Ted Galen Carpenter* Acute tensions over Taiwan and Ukraine have largely eclipsed another troubling international news story. A nasty confrontation has developed in recent months between Belarus and NATO members Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia over Alexander Lukashenko’s campaign to encourage and assist Middle Eastern refugees to seek asylum in those neighboring countries. Lukashenko’s motive is to put pressure on ...
The Second World War broke out because of the unsolvable contradictions in the global capitalist system, for the sake of the interests of the dominant classes. In this sense, the war was inevitable as a part of the capitalist system’s evolution towards the globalist domination of the financiers. This does not mean, however, that we cannot separate events being the ...
The Northern Triangle Composed of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the so-called Northern Triangle of Central America (NTCA) constitutes the nucleus of the migratory conflict in the American continent. It exerts pressure on the US, but also generates serious problems for the local populations. According to a recent report from the US Congress (April 2021), more than 2 million people ...
It is well known that the mass migration issue is a widespread problem throughout the world. It is a phenomenon that exceeds civil society institutions, political parties and governmental capabilities. Crucial for capitalism in the 21st century, think tanks define it as a “global challenge” that threatens the established liberal order already in crisis. In Central America, there are several ...