It is quite astonishing how often Western dissidents simply fail to understand what is in front of them. For example, it is plain that Israel knew that Iran did not want to build a nuclear weapon so they wished to behave in such a manner that any sensible person would start to build a nuclear weapon. This was obvious. But more to the point is the complete failure to translate words appropriately. When the Western elite (WE) say something…
‘Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please;’ K Marx 1 Varoufakis makes a serious misreading of ‘capitalism’ and its sources. These errors are important to understanding the future. The first misreading is to assume ‘capitalism’ as currently conceived existed in the past and therefore has changed today towards techno-feudalism. A second error is not to see that the concept of ‘capitalism’ as an ‘epoch delimited idea’ whose true shadow is only revealed at…
Gerald Horne has indicated that he has been canvassing Palestinians to seek to attend an AU summit Sept 25. ( see timestamp 31ms of .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C56hRbUdUQs ). This is an excellent move in principle. However, there is a major issue: Arabs in general, Egypt specifically, have engaged in ethnic cleansing of Africans, and Islamic militants have shown no regard for African life. Afro-Palestinians have been subject to deep racism1. This is racism by Arabs against Africans, even those who fought…
Glaucon, in Plato’s The Republic, tells Socrates: “the highest reach of injustice is, to be deemed just when you are not. ” 1 If we consider the world today, when we would look at the redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich, Glaucon’s advice would be that it is necessary to make this look like absolute justice. Perhaps we would need to come up with a theory that states the rich are allocated their wealth by a…
One of the key issues in contemporary Western historiography is the assumption that Africa is not part of history and that all events in Africa today play no part in the contemporary flow of historical events. Let us look at the African experience of important treaties with the US. Angola/ Apartheid Fidel Castro sent an armed force to support the liberation movement in Angola at a time when apartheid South African troops were outside Luanda. A liberation movement would…
Western commentators have focussed on the role of open source as being free as in beer. BBC reported on DeepSeek R1: ‘ “In January, it released its latest model, DeepSeek R1, which it said rivalled technology developed by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in its capabilities, while costing far less to create. Its popularity and potential rattled investors, wiping billions of dollars off the market value of chip giant Nvidia – and called into question whether American firms would dominate the booming…
In an earlier speech at the Africa Centre I identified the key steps in British colonial strategy conceived as a long game (Note 1). This same strategy can now be seen as a template for the Ukraine war. This war was conceived strategically as: 2. Inflict a superior technology of war upon it 3. Drain it of its financial viability by the continuous long war with economic sanctions, 4. Promote division and hostility among its neighbours and promote their…
It is always interesting to read foreign ‘experts’ writing about Africa as an exercise in watching them assume they are writing for fools or children. However, in this case Lubin’s work is far more dangerous. This adviser, associated with Chatham House, is seeking under cover of sympathetic advice to deliberately ruin the Nigerian economy, foment division and cause the collapse of Nigeria. This is USAID on steroids. David Lubin has written a piece titled: ‘Nigeria’s economy needs the naira…
Why Trump attacked USAID Many commentators are puzzled why Trump has sought to attack USAID. BBC suggests that the US President is on a false chase of cost-cutting. ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyezjwnx5ko ) There is a more profound issue. USAID was heavily involved in ‘regime change’. Many critical commentators find Trump’s hostility strange given how successful USAID was in pursuing US interest in regime change. Trump however was faced with a complex issue. ‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?’ US has a myriad…
It is reported that: ‘Over a period of nine years, from July 2011 to October 2020, Dominique Pelicot, a man from Mazan in south-eastern France, repeatedly drugged his wife, raped her, and invited strangers to rape her while she was unconscious. Gisèle Pelicot, who was unaware of the abuse being perpetrated against her, was raped 92 times by 72 men while her husband filmed them’. But what if Pelicot had been Muslim? We would have had an immediate Western…
