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1 month ago | 
africafocus.substack.com | Zeb Larson |William Minter |John Matisonn
AfricaFocus Notes on Substack offers short comments and links to news, analysis, and progressive advocacy on African and global issues, building on the legacy of over 25 years of publication as an email and web publication archived at http://www.africafocus.org. It is edited by William Minter. Posts are sent out by email once or twice a month. If you are not already a subscriber, you can subscribe for free by clicking on the button below.
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1 month ago | 
portside.org | Zeb Larson |William Minter
Make Apartheid Great Again?
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2 months ago | 
fpif.org | Zeb Larson |William Minter |John Feffer
On February 7, Donald Trump issued an executive order “to address serious human rights violations occurring in South Africa.” The order charged “blatant discrimination” against “ethnic minority descendants of settler groups,” and mandated “a plan to resettle disfavored minorities in South Africa discriminated against because of their race as refugees.” His actions echo a long history of right-wing support in the United States for racism in Southern Africa, including mobilization of support...
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2 months ago | 
africafocus.substack.com | Elie Mystal |Peter Rothpletz |William Minter
AfricaFocus Notes on Substack offers short comments and links to news, analysis, and progressive advocacy on African and global issues, building on the legacy of over 25 years of publication as an email and web publication archived at http://www.africafocus.org. It is edited by William Minter. Posts are sent out by email once or twice a month. If you are not already a subscriber, you can subscribe for free by clicking on the button below.
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2 months ago | 
africafocus.substack.com | Zeb Larson |William Minter
AfricaFocus Notes on Substack offers short comments and links to news, analysis, and progressive advocacy on African and global issues, building on the legacy of over 25 years of publication as an email and web publication archived at http://www.africafocus.org. It is edited by William Minter. Posts are sent out by email once or twice a month. If you are not already a subscriber, you can subscribe for free by clicking on the button below.
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2 months ago | 
africafocus.substack.com | Bernie Sanders |Matt Karp |William Minter
AfricaFocus Notes on Substack offers short comments and links to news, analysis, and progressive advocacy on African and global issues, building on the legacy of over 25 years of publication as an email and web publication archived at http://www.africafocus.org. It is edited by William Minter. Posts are sent out by email once or twice a month. If you are not already a subscriber, you can subscribe for free by clicking on the button below.
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2 months ago | 
africafocus.substack.com | Wright Thompson |William Minter
AfricaFocus Notes on Substack offers short comments and links to news, analysis, and progressive advocacy on African and global issues, building on the legacy of over 25 years of publication as an email and web publication archived at http://www.africafocus.org. It is edited by William Minter. Posts are sent out by email once or twice a month. If you are not already a subscriber, you can subscribe for free by clicking on the button below.
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2 months ago | 
africafocus.substack.com | Peter Beinart |William Minter
"In 1984, the Palestinian American literary critic Edward Said argued that in the West, Palestinians lack ´permission to narrate´ their own experience. ... A study by the University of Arizona’s Maha Nassar found that of the opinion articles about Palestinians published in The New York Times and The Washington Post between 2000 and 2009, Palestinians themselves wrote roughly 1 percent. But in recent years, Palestinian voices, while still embattled and even censored, have begun to carry. ...
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
africasacountry.com | William Minter |Liz Timbs |Christopher J. Lee
Like many other people in the Global South, I put my hope in ordinary Americans. Unlike us, Americans have more power and say in almost everything. Any of our countries can suffer under sanctions imposed by the US, or be invaded and occupied for decades with no recourse or justice. Any of our countries can be bombed to dust, and somehow the rest of the world cannot do anything because of the veto that the US enjoys and uses to protect their client states. So, we put hope in Americans.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
africafocus.substack.com | Max Elbaum |Jake Johnson |William Minter
AfricaFocus Notes on Substack offers short comments and links to news, analysis, and progressive advocacy on African and global issues, building on the legacy of over 25 years of publication as an email and web publication archived at http://www.africafocus.org. It is edited by William Minter. Posts are sent out by email once or twice a month. If you are not already a subscriber, you can subscribe for free by clicking on the button below.
