The proxy war in Ukraine is heading to a denouement with the US and Russia dividing the spoils while the European powers stand bewildered by events they have been wilfully blind to, says KEVIN OVENDEN
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ROGER McKENZIE reflects on the enslavement, endurance and rebellion of Africans trafficked across the Atlantic and the untold sufferings of unknown ancestors
One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
THE recent memorials to the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany as well as the way the Palestinians of Gaza have resisted attempts to wipe them out has made me think about the centuries-old attempts to eliminate Africans.
No! I do not think this is exaggerating what has happened to people of African descent during centuries of humiliation and exploitation. What happened was mass murder, torture on a mega-industrial scale and centuries of expecting people of African descent to be grateful for what we have.
Significant among the genocidal attacks on Africans was, of the course, the transatlantic slave trade which ran from the 15th to the 19th century.
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