Politics

On 26 July 2023, senior members of Niger’s presidential guard, normally tasked with protecting President Mohamed Bazoum, announced that they had ousted him from power, holding him hostage inside his official residence. Subsequently, on 28 July, General Abdourahamane Tiani, the commander of the presidential guard, declared himself the head of the military-run National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, and the former chief of army staff, General Salifou Mody, who was dismissed by President Bazoum in March, was appointed his deputy…

Kenya and the US are currently engaged in intensive negotiations on a trade agreement that the Americans believe could become a kind of model for Africa – in other words, an agreement which will drive this African country further to the orbit of US economic interests. In July 2022, the two countries announced a trade and investment partnership, under the aegis of which the current negotiations are taking place. These negotiations cover at least nine areas, and an analysis of the documents…

Seems now that no lives matter—Only Lies Matter!

I would like to hope that there will be clever enough people to discuss how Israel has brought the lion’s share of its current plight onto its own head. However, I know that this is not going to happen. Such a mess, however, at first, impression appears to be too convenient in the BIGGER scheme of things. I wonder too ‘how many other Jews’, myself being the grandson of a Zionist woman who was born in the Russian Empire and immigrated to the US, are thinking in this direction, and how many of those might be able to willing…