I come to bury Gaza not to praise Hamas The evil that men do lives after them; In the newsreels and blog posts Whatever good is ever said of them is interred with their bones; So let it be with Hamas. The noble Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer Have told us Hamas was a terrorist organisation: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously has Gaza answered for it Through bombing and massacres. Here, under leave…
There is much that can be said about the Nigerian intellectual elite and its bankruptcy. First of all, there is the abiding sin of considering the country’s problems to be simple. ‘All we need are honest people’. Yet managing a company is less challenging than managing a country yet no one assumes that managing a large company simply requires only honesty! We need to evaluate the social conditions behind the ideology that dominates Nigerian intellectuals. The dominant ideology is…
Peter Zeihan talks about Nigeria in a talk titled ‘Nigeria, After America’1. This is an astounding exercise in complete ignorance. It seems that many in the Western geo-political talkspace have no time to study Africa or learn about Nigeria. We have David Oulaalou who knew nothing about Africa displaying this : ‘The rise of Sahel Alliance’ 2 where he thinks the recent revolts in West Africa are something new, having no knowledge of the liberation struggles of 60- 80’s….
https://images.app.goo.gl/umnFdah9yNF7qPCx7 Kingsley Moghalu: a deep shill for neo-cons and the ruining of the Nigerian economy Moghalu first of all shows himself to be a shallow thinker. He talks of US as based on freedom and liberty when as an African he ought to know it was based on slavery. He talks about replacing political appointees with technical specialists. This of course raises a question: technical people are also prisoners of political agendas. What we are looking for is…
Carl Zha was interviewed by David Oualaalou on 17 Feb 20241. He repeats a fundamental error of many Asian leftist in their analysis of US policy. They posit that the fundamental difference between Chinese policy and US policy is that China looks long-term and US policy is dominated by short-term policies. At one point Carl Zha suggests that quarterly earnings dominate US thinking. This is lazy thinking and close to absurd. If we look at US historical policy we…
see: Interview with Peter Hitchens1 At 48.49 of the interview Kait Borsay says of Putin ‘Should he just be taken out?’ Peter Hitchens wisely responds: ‘For what reason and by whom?’ and she responds: ‘Because he is a threat …’ To Hitchens demurrement she asks: ’where do we go with Vladimir Putin?’ This is quite appalling and quite worrying. Lets start with discussing murder and whether that is legitimate. Would it be legitimate to ask ‘should we…
There is a description of Nigeria by a famous economist who has been unjustly ignored by the Nigerian political elite. According to him Nigeria is a world where it was not the Nigerian elite that ruled under Buhari and Tinubu, but one faction of it: bankers, stock-exchange kings, ….. a part of the landed proprietors associated with them – the so-called financial aristocracy. It sat on the throne, it dictated laws in the National Assembly, it distributed public offices,…
We can start with intellectual property. There are two aspects to this idea a) respect and b) money. To acknowledge an author was historically to show respect. “This idea came from X”. There are complexities in this such as the assertion of lineage and authority. ‘Confucius , he say…’ is an appeal to authority just as ‘it is said in the Bible’. In the world of poetry and the arts acknowledgement is a deep form of respect. As to…
Reviewing the views1 of Benny Morris as expressed in his writings is illuminating. Paraphrasing his words is likely to lead to disbelief so he must be allowed to speak for himself. In 2004 Benny Morris wrote: ‘There are circumstances in history that justify ethnic cleansing. I know that this term is completely negative in the discourse of the 21st century, but when the choice is between ethnic cleansing and genocide—the annihilation of your people—I prefer ethnic cleansing.’ Of course,…
Seymour Hersh has curious view of the Israeli invasion and bombing of Gaza.1 According Hersh: ‘The Israelis had mapped the system and thus were able to assassinate many Hamas brigade commanders and their families, in their beds ….’ It seems indisputable that their families were not combattants but were nevertheless deliberately targetted without any need from an operational point of view. This was merely an act of terror. ‘Israeli intelligence, which has mapped the tunnel system, understood early on…
