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  • 2 weeks ago | africasacountry.com | Lee Nxumalo |William Shoki |Sean Jacobs

    Just weeks ago, the curtain fell on the club football season for much of the world. Instead of the usual two-month summer break, however, some of the best clubs in the world are preparing to compete in FIFA’s new Club World Cup, staged to mark one year until the 2026 North American FIFA World Cup. Organizing a rehearsal tournament is not new. Starting in 1992, this took the form of the FIFA Confederations Cup, which brought together the champions of each continent.

  • 1 month ago | africasacountry.com | William Shoki |Sean Jacobs

    In today’s multipolar world, economic sanctions have become a primary tool of American foreign policy. While they are typically framed as nonviolent targeted mechanisms for influencing “rogue” regimes, a deeper inspection suggests that sanctions operate as instruments of civilizational warfare—seeking not only to alter policy but to dismantle the cultural coherence and sovereign legitimacy of states in the Global South.

  • Mar 7, 2025 | znetwork.org | Loren Balhorn |William Shoki

    Germany’s recent elections marked a turning point in the country’s political landscape. While the center-right CDU has reclaimed power, the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has achieved its strongest result yet, consolidating its influence, particularly in former East Germany. The left, long in decline, has shown signs of revival, but faces an uphill battle in a political landscape increasingly defined by economic stagnation, right-wing populism, and geopolitical uncertainty.

  • Mar 6, 2025 | africasacountry.com | Loren Balhorn |William Shoki |Tom Menger |Caitlin L Chandler

    WS The February 23 election produced some interesting results. The CDU has returned to power, while the far-right AfD secured its best-ever election result. How should we interpret this shift? Is it part of a broader rightward turn in European politics, or are domestic factors driving this change? LB Well, there’s definitely a European context to this shift. That much is obvious.

  • Feb 3, 2025 | africasacountry.com | Steven Friedman |William Shoki |Christopher J. Lee

    When Elon Musk marked Donald Trump’s inauguration with what seemed very much like a Nazi salute and was defended by a lobby that claimed to fight anti-Jewish racism, he and his defenders confirmed the death of two illusions. The first illusion is the belief that Zionism, the ideology that prompted the Israeli state’s genocide in Gaza, is about protecting Jews from racists.

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