South Africa’s alleged shipment of weapons to Russia is consistent with its strong ties with Moscow
Similarly, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Lindiwe Zulu, South Africa’s minister of social development and chairperson of the ANC’s subcommittee on international relations, said “Russia is our friend through and through … We are not about to denounce that relationship that we have always had.”
Weary of cannibalistic government, Ugandans reserve doubts about President Museveni’s vague modernity ‘evangelism’
Social exclusion will be seen in education, health, agriculture and even justice and human rights observance. The majority will be ignored and a few will have it all. The law will tend to apply to the excluded, not the included, as exemplified in the iron sheets scandal.
Why President Museveni cannot trust fellow Ugandans to guard him, is surrounded by Rwandans and Congolese
Africa hoped to benefit from globalisation by solving the perennial problems of food shortages and hunger by spurring agribusiness. Indeed, globalisation has allowed agricultural production to grow much faster than in the past. However, globalisation has allowed the stealing of Africa’s seeds and their storage in gene banks abroad.
What Uganda calls modernity is a byword for bandit economy run by refugees, ‘imported’ criminals
Unfortunately, integration of an African country in the WTO does not favour local industrialisation but instead, as a tool of globalisation and modernisation, sustains the dependency syndrome on goods and services of foreign origin with strings attached.
War on terror sought to cast US as a beacon of democracy, but private army Blackwater inflicts suffering on societies they work in
Recently, I spoke with one Marine infantry veteran who had completed four combat tours abroad for America. He told me that, after leaving the service, he lacked a community that understood what he had been through. He sought to avoid social isolation by getting a government job. However, after applying...
America’s wars: Nothing great about them except the power to destroy not just the enemy, but also themselves
n 1989, the Red Army limped out of that country, leaving behind perhaps two million dead Afghans and 15,000 of its own dead. Not so long after, the Soviet Union itself imploded and the US became the only “great power” on planet Earth.
America’s wars are nothing more than ‘ordering a wilderness of human horrors into a celebratory tale and culture’
Here’s the thing: the American experience of war since 1945 should have offered an all-too-obvious lesson for us, as well as for the planet’s other great powers, when it comes to the value of giant military establishments and the conflicts that go with them.
War is how Americans learn geography: How new nuclear age, climate change are shaping geopolitics
By 2015, Russia and the US had both announced new spending to “modernise” their nuclear arsenals and, in climate terms, it was the hottest year on record. The Bulletin ominously moved the hands of the clock to three minutes to midnight for the first time since the Cold War year of 1984.
Doomsday Clock: How human error in 1995 led to resetting of nuclear clock, deadly nukes fear
By 1949, as the Cold War heated up and the Soviet Union got the bomb, the hands on that clock were moved to three minutes to midnight, code for distinctly too close! As the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists wrote after Russia exploded its first nuclear device, “We think that Americans have reason to be deeply alarmed and prepare for grave decisions.”
In times marked by mass extinction, global pandemics and climate change, the future isn’t what it used to be
Between 2019 and 2028, the United States is on track to spend at least $494 billion or about $50 billion a year on its nuclear forces, according to a Congressional Budget Office assessment
