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There is a reason why the negotiators from the Global South are always failing. Due to the mythology of the Enlightenment, it has been spread throughout the world that states should be rational  and political actors should be rational. When Global South policy makers consider options they come up with scenarios which match mutual interest. Western policy makers also map out the world in terms of actors seeking rational self interest.  Western theorists never address the counterfactual? Why the…

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There is an aspect of the end of the Cold War that is overlooked and which is of great importance. Jack Matlock has clearly detailed how the actual process of ending the Cold War was a negotiated process. What is missing? An understanding of the key strategic changes that made the developments possible. We need to retell a story to reveal this. Step1 was the fact that at the end of WW2  the Soviet Union was a devastated country….

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We read in ‘The Week’: ‘Criminologists identified  a ‘Minneapolis effect’, whereby protests led to both a reduction  in police brutality, as police trod more softly, and a clear spike in crime and homicides (often badly affecting black communities).’ ( The Week 21 June 2025 p.9) https://african-century.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Blmblm_cropped.svg_.png This is a comment of the most vicious and inhumane kind. The author is implying that  as the police ‘trod more softly’ that led to ‘a clear spike in crime’ including homicides. First…

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by Dapo Ladimeji There is a popular image of the Enlightenment reflected by passages such as: ‘What was the Enlightenment? The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that sought to improve society through fact-based reason and inquiry. The Enlightenment brought secular thought to Europe and reshaped the ways people understood issues such as liberty, equality, and individual rights. Today those ideas serve as the cornerstone of the world’s strongest democracies.’1 This above description from…

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Many commentators, including Alastair Crooke whom I respect, review  operations in Ukraine as part of the war with Russia. That war was over a long time ago. What is happening now is post-war planning. Many post-War2 American leaders condemned Britain as leaving behind a mess of ethnic conflicts that could last a  hundred years or more. Many atrocities committed by Ukraine have no military purpose whatsoever. Clearly their intention is to leave hatred and mistrust after the formal ending…

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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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