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The dollar system is crumbling under its own contradictions, yet alternatives from the Global South have stalled because the world majority's elites park their speculative wealth in dollar assets.

Dedollarization is unfolding as the dollar system strains under its own contradictions, yet alternatives from the Global South have stalled because the world majority's elites keep their speculative wealth parked in dollars.

Brazil's October 25 runoff pits Lula against Flávio Bolsonaro, who took 47% to Lula's 45% in the first round; Lula's May 2025 Beijing visit won 36 agreements, while Flávio pitched Brazil at CPAC as Washington's critical-minerals fix amid a 'Trump Corollary'.

A tribute to Ghanaian diplomat Kojo Amoo-Gottfried, a Pan-Africanist and Marxist who served as ambassador to Cuba and China and built solidarity movements with socialist states.

Venezuela's National Assembly sent a draft partial reform of its 2017 Anti-Hatred Law to the Supreme Court, proposing decriminalization, clearer definitions, and safeguards against misuse before debate and public consultation.

A 34-member Venezuelan delegation of engineers and specialists arrives in Panama to assess earthquake-damaged schools, roads and bridges, reciprocating Panama's earlier rescue support after Venezuela's June quakes.

An investigation traces how Fernando Cerimedo's Miami-based media and lobbying network links Latin American right-wing parties, including Mexico's PRI and Sí Por México, to US interventionist strategies.

Sally Rooney says her books can no longer be sold in the UK after her support for the banned group Palestine Action, with publisher Faber halting British sales and royalties.

Canada's NDP leadership avoids Jean-Luc Mélenchon and La France Insoumise, largely because of their opposition to NATO, even as the French left builds a mass anti-capitalist movement.

Students at Venezuela's UNEARTE fine arts campus protested deteriorating facilities, registration failures and missing grades, prompting Culture Ministry talks and a proposed commission with weekly meetings.

A whistleblower recovering from an assassination attempt describes how disinformation operative Fernando Cerimedo allegedly worked with the Bolsonaro family and Meta to suppress Lula's visibility in Brazil's election.

Monthly documentation of Israeli attacks in Gaza and the West Bank during September 2026, recording fatalities, a nominal ceasefire's collapse, settler violence, detentions and systematic torture of Palestinian prisoners.

October 7, 2023 is framed as the culmination of generations of Palestinian resistance, with Al-Aqsa Flood presented as a courageous act that hastened the decline of US empire and Zionism.

Families of people killed by police in France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and the UK will gather in London to present testimonies and plan an international strategy against police violence.

A theoretical critique arguing the U.S. left fails to connect anti-imperialism to domestic organising, tracing how neocolonialism, neoliberalism and primitive accumulation bind U.S. workers to global extraction.

African men must confront patriarchy and male dominance as central obstacles to Pan-African liberation, taking direction from African women's organisations and rejecting the divide-and-rule logic of capitalism.

Five EU states plan to send irregular migrants to partner countries outside Europe by 2027, a roundup also covering Burkina Faso's textile factory, Gulf kafala abuse and US influence operations in Africa.

Neo-colonial powers outsource divide-and-rule to puppet elites, turning governance failures into xenophobia while Africa's resources and currencies remain under Western control.

The US is escalating military operations across Latin America, sending 600 troops to Panama, moving Reaper drones to Colombia, and using the war on drugs as cover for intervention.

Historian Mohamed Hassan argues Saudi Arabia cannot win its war in Yemen, as Ansar Allah strikes Riyadh and internal contradictions sharpen, while the UAE and Israel destabilise the Horn of Africa.

US corporate media and human rights groups portray Jeffrey Jarquin as a tortured political prisoner, ignoring his 2018 conviction for terrorism during the violent US-backed coup attempt against Nicaragua's Sandinista government.

Lebanese journalist Radwan Mortada discusses his documentary The Trap, which investigates Israel's deadly pager attacks in Lebanon and the cover-up he says continues today.

Two social workers join the host to argue that US militarism, the expanding security state, and ongoing genocide are deliberately eroding Americans' mental health, calling for decolonized wellness and reparations instead of individualized self-care.

Two social workers discuss decolonising wellness and staying politically engaged amid genocide, an expanding security state, and militarism, asking how the wellness community's silence on ICE, Gaza and data centres affects mental health.

Venezuela rejected Uruguayan Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin's demand that restored diplomatic ties depend on political change in Caracas, calling it unacceptable interference in its sovereignty.

Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly beat Lula on October 4, 2026 with 47.1% to 45%, a gap of about 2.5 million votes; he promised to bring Brazil into the Shield of the Americas, which with Colombia and Peru would give Washington sway over almost 80% of the tropical forest.

Yemeni Armed Forces ordered civilians and personnel to evacuate areas around Saudi Aramco facilities, declaring the energy infrastructure a legitimate target; Brigadier General Yahya Saree warned any attack on Sana'a would bring a harsh response in Riyadh.

Corporate coverage of Jeffrey Isaac Jarquin's 1 October 2026 deportation and imprisonment omitted his November 2018 terrorism conviction and over 16-year sentence; reports also ignored evidence that occupied UNAN was used to torture people.

Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani revealed state revenues fell 42 percent in the first half of 2026 while expenditure dropped 14 percent; Iranian strikes put two of Qatar's 14 LNG trains offline, and monthly gas output fell about 67 percent.

Flávio Bolsonaro won the first round against Lula on October 4, and the runoff will decide which simulacrum holds the monopoly on violence and grace, as the right wins through fictions while the left clings to nostalgia.

Venezuela and Italy signed a memorandum of understanding to reestablish air connectivity, inked on October 13 by ambassador María Elena Uzzo and ITA Airways' Jörg Eberhart, with three weekly flights offering over 90,000 seats.

Venezuela's eighth National Popular Consultation will see 5,418 communes vote on 37,205 community projects, with residents prioritising water access, school and health repairs, roads and sports facilities.

China and Botswana elevated ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership during President Duma Gideon Boko's October 12-17 state visit; the two marked 51 years of diplomatic relations and 45 years of Chinese medical teams, while Togo and China will celebrate 55 years of ties next year.

Myriam Kane of the Black Liberation Alliance told the Socialist China Conference 2026 that her September 2025 visit to China, as one of more than 70 African delegates to a China-Africa youth festival, showed engagement breaking the old colonial design.

Yemen's missile strike on Riyadh's airport and Iran's mining of the Strait of Hormuz escalate regional tensions, as Israel and the US weigh new attacks on Iran and its allies.

Alex Krainer argues that British imperial power persists through international banking networks, tracing debt, oil concessions and corporate finance from Yugoslavia's breakup to Bosnia and Enrico Mattei's case.

Former Maltese foreign minister Evarist Bartolo argues that small states can defend sovereignty through neutrality and diplomacy, drawing on Malta's removal of foreign bases to critique NATO, nuclear risk and Europe's foreign policy.