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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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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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