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JULY 7. 2025

Artificial Empires: The Race for Swahili AI in East Africa

The Linguistic Frontier of AI Swahili is one of the few African languages to receive consistent attention from global tech firms, primarily due to its wide geographic spread across Kenya, …

JULY 1. 2025

Trump Undresses Rival Trade Myths

Ideological shift ? To be sure, there has never really been an era of truly free trade in centuries.

JUNE 19. 2025

Women and Politics in Post-Jina Iran

The act was a forceful symbol of her support for the movement and condemnation of the Iranian regime.

JUNE 17. 2025

Weaponizing Food Worsens Starvation

Why hunger ? World food production has increased almost fourfold since 1960. FAO statistics indicate enough output to feed the world's eight billion plus another three billion !

JUNE 16. 2025

The Condor Playbook : East Africa's Transnational Crackdown on Dissent

On Sunday, May 18, 2025, Martha Karua, Kenya's former Justice Minister, opposition figure and leader of the People's Liberation Party, arrived at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es…

JUNE 5. 2025

Elon Musk Is a Mouthpiece for South Africa's White Far Right

Elon Musk is reconnecting with his country of birth.

JUNE 3. 2025

Can East Asia Show the Way?

No winners in economic war Trump's Liberation Day tariff announcement on April 2nd poses a common challenge that everyone needs to take seriously.

MAY 8. 2025

Third World needs to ditch the ‘Diplomacy of Non'

The first half of the Cold War period marked the emergence of an alternative diplomatic paradigm, one defined not by explicit ideological allegiance but by strategic detachment from the bipolar…

Trump Accord Sows Discord in US Empire

Mar-a-Lago Accord His chief economic adviser, Stephen Miran, has offered some rationale for Trump's tariffs besides promoting his ‘Mar-a-Lago Accord' plan for US imperial revival.

APRIL 28. 2025

Sri Lanka : The Rajapaksas' endless quest for power

MOST SRI LANKANS trust in the stars. Astrological pronouncements guide private lives and public affairs, from the naming of a new-born to the timing of an election.

APRIL 24. 2025

On ‘Moral Panic' and the Courage to Speak: The West's Silence on Gaza

The responses in the Western world to the situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank raise a troubling question : why is the official West, and official Western Europe in particular, so…

APRIL 22. 2025

What Comes After Globalization?

Donald Trump is back in power, and, to put it mildly, he's no fan of globalization.

Unmasking Memories of Feminist Anti-Imperialist Movement: Where Were the Women in Bandung Conference?

In looking at global history, feminists often question : where were the women ? What barriers did they face in the world of diplomacy ? What were their struggles in post-World War II reality ?

Trump Wants World to Subsidise US Empire

Donald Trump's top economic advisor claims the President has weaponised tariffs to ‘persuade' other nations to pay the US to maintain its supposedly mutually beneficial global empire.