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‘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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Kemi Badenoch has entered the political thread at an international level with her comments about Nigeria. But there is more to this than Nigeria. First, she is quoted as saying: ‘“I saw what socialism is for millions. It’s poverty and broken dreams. I came to Britain to make my way in a country where hard work and honest endeavour can take you anywhere.” This statement which she has repeated many times is quite shocking. She is accurately describing the…

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