Left Review Online June 29, 2020
Seventy years have passed since the war broke out on this land. The Korean war forced by the United States left painful scars and inflicted tremendous human and material losses upon the Korean people. The suffering of national division whereby kinsfolk of the same blood are compelled to...More
The Trump administration's intent to unseat China as the mainstay of global supply chains may be just pie in the sky, observers said, noting that China ought to open its economy even further while driving indigenous innovation to propel growth. The Trump administration is pushing to rip global...More
The people of Yemen suffer man-made starvation. According to UN Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock, 14 million people are now at risk of famine. Of a population of 29 million, more than 22 million are in need of humanitarian assistance, and nearly half of children under the...More
2020 marks the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the United Nations (UN) and is bound to be an extraordinary year for the UN. The US reportedly denied Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif a visa to attend the UN Security Council meeting on the theme of upholding...More
November 1, (Granma). At 12:20pm, in the United Nations General Assembly, the international community once again almost unanimously condemned the U.S. blockade of Cuba, voting 189 in favor of the Cuban resolution, two against (U.S. and Israel), with no abstentions. (Source: Granma)More