International

As the DRC's Ebola death toll continues to rise, the trail leads back to a network of foreign cash, conflict gold and armed groups that western governments are funding in the name of peace, says Mo Mohammed.

From Obama’s $850m gravitas block to Trump’s planned vaults, these libraries mock us with self-important, self-worship.

The Left Lane’s latest international news digest highlights the ongoing role of US colonialism in Africa, a community fight back in Arizona against the hated ICE, a mining disaster in China, Ukraine holding state re-burials for Nazis, the strikes in Bolivia and the rise of the global south shaping a new world order.

Continuing poverty in South Africa is fuelling a sense of grievance and the blaming of ‘foreigners’ and immigrants for the economic crisis leading to a rise in violent and xenophobic attacks, reports Rob Dyer.

The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the global south, says Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Chris Hedges in his latest Substack piece.

The Left Lane’s latest international news digest includes a news of a primary defeat for a Republican critic of Donald Trump, an analysis of the ‘China threat’ narrative in the US, the heatwave in India, an assessment of the US national security strategy and the conflict in Mali.

In this reprint from the US magazine Counterpunch, an anonymous Cuban surgeon paints a graphic and painful picture of how the current US oil and petrol embargo is killing his patients.

The Left Lane’s latest international news digest includes an analysis of how Israel is using dogs to abuse Palestinian prisoners, strikes in Italy in support of Palestine, anti-government protests in Bolivia, the arrest of a British communist leader in Nairobi, a socialist running for California governor, North Korea’s strategic alliances and the political reality for workers of post-Orban Hungary.

The Left Lane’s latest international news digest highlights stories on the truth about a purported nerve gas attack in Syria in 2018, whether Spain’s policy on Israel can shift EU opinion, China's ‘involution’ problem, Trump’s Iran fiasco and how OPEC oil pricing decisions affect us all.

Belgian workers are on the streets again demonstrating against public spending cuts and austerity measures being imposed by the governing coalition.