Tag: politics

• Demanding Reparations, and Ending Up in Exile (Published 2022)

  May 3, 2026

  A firebrand Haitian president tried to hold France to account for its years of exploitation. He soon found himself ousted from power. https://web.archive.org/web/20240714100559/https:/www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/haiti-aristide-reparations-france.html?utm_source=perplexity more ›

• Gerrard Winstanley, the man who got the Diggers digging | Aeon Essays

  April 30, 2026

  Gerrard Winstanley led a small band of radicals whose vision of justice encompassed the globe and continues to inspire https://aeon.co/essays/gerrard-winstanley-the-man-who-got-the-diggers-digging?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=054df2db96-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_05_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-947a0f3c79-71652312 more ›

• Mali

  April 30, 2026

  For more than a decade, Mali has been engaged in multiple armed conflicts against non-State armed groups operating on its territory. As in other Sahelian countries, the roots of the… more ›

• How Russia Recruits Teenagers in Occupied Ukraine for a Pro-Moscow Propaganda Machine

  April 30, 2026

  Trips to Russia, master classes from Kremlin-aligned media figures, and lessons in Soviet military glory. Through its “Young Correspondents” program, Russia is training teenagers in occupied Ukraine to promote the… more ›

• Colombians stranded in Congo after being expelled from the US: ‘I never thought I would get to know Africa under these circumstances’

  April 23, 2026

  A group of 15 Latin Americans has arrived in the Central African nation, which for the first time is receiving migrants from third countries sent by the Trump Administration https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-21/colombians-stranded-in-congo-after-being-expelled-from-the-us-i-never-thought-i-would-get-to-know-africa-under-these-circumstances.html&sma=elpaisenglishedition_2026.04.23&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=elpaisenglishedition_2026.04.23#/sign-in?event_log=oklogin&o=cerreg&prod=REG more ›

• Greek police using masked ‘mercenaries’ to push migrants back across border

  April 14, 2026

  Police in Greece have been recruiting migrants to violently push other migrants back across its land border with Turkey, according to wide-ranging evidence uncovered by the BBC. We have seen… more ›

• The most radical act in an age of outrage is to play

  April 12, 2026

  We are not divided by accident; we are distracted on purpose. The antidote to that manipulation is to reconnect with what makes us human, often through something as simple as… more ›

• The phosphates king: How Mostafa Terrab turned a failing giant into a fertiliser juggernaut

  April 11, 2026

  With an 800% increase in its balance sheet since 2005, OCP is more than a mining company; it leads Morocco’s industrial and diplomatic push on the continent. We explore how… more ›

• Stay Tuned with Preet: The Iran War and US Politics (with David Ignatius and Mark Leibovich)

  March 5, 2026

  Listen: https://ift.tt/IcMm1J8 The U.S. is at war with Iran. This week, Preet is joined by The Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius. He breaks down the US-Israeli military operations… more ›

• Forget Maga. Welcome to Mega: Make Empire Great Again

  February 17, 2026

  Marco Rubio arrived at the Munich security conference with a disturbing message for European governments: empire is great https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/17/maga-marco-rubio-munich-security-conference?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›