Sentiments in Bolivia for and against the coup d’etat of November 2019 are predictably along class lines. Those from more affluent sections felt that the socialist policies of the government of President Evo Morales (which was in power from 2006 to 2019) were eating into their authority. But these sections could not oust Morales at the ballot box because his policies of redistribution were wildly popular among the mass of the population.

President Joe Biden’s domestic policies, especially on the economic front, are quite encouraging, offering plenty of hope for a better future. The same, however, cannot be said about the administration’s foreign policy agenda, as Noam Chomsky’s penetrating insights and astute analysis reveal in this exclusive interview for Truthout.

Film and TV piracy are under increasing pressure in China. The void they’re leaving behind will be hard to fill.

They face a tough battle. Once elected, the so-called populists enact repressive, pro-corporate, and anti-worker laws.

It only shows ignorance on the part of the U.S. and its allies who believe that vilifying Russian and Chinese vaccines with a return to Cold War rhetoric is enough for people to wait indefinitely for “superior” Western vaccines, that too at prohibitive prices. India and other countries in the Global South would be better off with a foreign policy of strategic autonomy than tying themselves to the U.S.’s vision of the containment of China. Fighting the pandemic demands that all nations cooperate rather than play a zero-sum game to determine who wins and who loses with each other.

From Haiti, Lautaro Rivara unpacks the tired trope of “poor rich Haiti,” highlighting the role of foreign capital and local elites in the destruction of life in the countryside

Open-source, publicly funded, research radically alters the structure of incentives. The incentive is to try to have research results spread as widely and quickly as possible in the hope that others can build on them. And, there is no incentive or opportunity to push drugs that are unsafe or ineffective. This is a big deal.