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The United States Of Africa — A Novel By The Publisher Of The Black Star News - Black Star News

5 days ago | blackstarnews.com | Milton Allimadi

By Milton AllimadiPhotos: Obedirwoth\YouTube ScreenshotImagine a world where both the President of the United States and the British Prime minister fly to Africa to beg for foreign aid? For food. For money. For peace-keeping troops. For debt foregiveness. For melanin. A world where Africa is the world’s premier super power. The world’s leading producer of food. With the best universities and research centers? The world’s number one economic and military power.
Ramaphosa In The White House: Mandela, Sobukwe, Or Biko, Would Have Mopped Floor With Trump

1 week ago | blackstarnews.com | Milton Allimadi

By Milton AllimadiPhotos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia CommonsIn his White House meeting with President Donald Trump Wednesday May 21, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa got to say “we’ve got to deal with the history” but never got a chance to elaborate on the legacies of apartheid. At moments like those one misses the brilliance of a Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, or Robert Sobukwe; all would have been able to properly put Trump in his place.
George Floyd Five Years Later: Was It A Moment, Or A Movement?

1 week ago | blackstarnews.com | Marc H. Morial

By Marc Morial\National Urban LeaguePhotos: YouTube Screenshots“All Americans are entitled to live with the confidence that the law enforcement officers and agencies in their communities will live up to our Nation’s founding ideals and will protect the rights of all persons.
Trump’s Arabian Nights Middle East Trip Steeped In Swampy Corruption

3 weeks ago | blackstarnews.com | Mel Gurtov

By Mel Gurtov\PeaceVoicePhotos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia CommonsA Golden Age“In the United States, we’ve announced the golden age of America,” Trump said at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum in Riyadh.
China Emerging As The Winner In Trump’s Tariff War

3 weeks ago | blackstarnews.com | Mel Gurtov

By Mel Gurtov\PeaceVoicePhotos: Wikimedia CommonsWithout Rhyme or Reason“We welcomed the Chinese Communist Party into this global order. And they took advantage of all its benefits. But they ignored all its obligations and responsibilities. Instead, they have lied, cheated, hacked and stolen their way to global superpower status, at our expense.” So said Senator Marco Rubio during confirmation hearings to become secretary of state in the second Trump administration.
The Calamities Of War And Limitations Of Military Might

1 month ago | blackstarnews.com | Lawrence Wittner

By Lawrence S. Wittner Photos: Wikimedia CommonsAlthough the statement that was made by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, it’s an idea that, in one form or another, has motivated a great many people, from the members of teenage street gangs to the statesmen of major nations. The rising spiral of world military spending provides a striking example of how highly national governments value armed forces.
Earth Day 2025: We Must Protect The Planet From Forces Destroying Our World

1 month ago | blackstarnews.com | Robert Koehler

By Robert Koehler\PeaceVoicePhotos: Wikimedia CommonsLet Earth Day be every day! Let it transcend the present state of politics and our economic hierarchy. Let it open us to the future we long for but do not yet envision. We live on one vulnerable, extraordinary planet. We are not its overlords; we are part of an evolving circle of life, which we are still trying to understand. And we can only understand it if we also value it, ever so deeply. Earth Day is also Love Day.
Examining Four Disgraceful Acts Of Trump’s Authoritarian Administration

1 month ago | blackstarnews.com | Mel Gurtov

By Mel Gurtov\PeaceVoicePhotos: YouTube Screenshots\ICC\Wikimedia CommonsAct 1: US and El Salvador Won’t Return Wrongly Deported ManNo disgraceful act of the Trump administration is more dangerous than its denial of due process of law, judicial decisions, and unquestionable facts in the deportation to El Salvador of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
The Second Coming Of Trump: Racism And Xenophobia Returns

1 month ago | blackstarnews.com | Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler\PeaceVoicePhotos: YouTube ScreenshotsFrom Gulf of America to mass expulsion of “illegals” (people of color) to continuing genocidal complicity in Gaza to whatever the daily news brings us…welcome to Trump America! Welcome to the small-minded, white nation so many long for, free once again from those large, inconvenient values – e.g., the Declaration of Independence – that keep disrupting the way things are supposed to be.
The Destructiveness Of Trump’s “America First” Begins At Home

2 months ago | blackstarnews.com | Mel Gurtov

By Mel Gurtov\PeaceVoicePhotos: YouTube Screenshots\Wikimedia CommonsTrump’s Exaggerated OpportunityDonald Trump’s embrace of “America First” represents a dramatic U-turn from the liberal internationalism that Democratic and Republican presidents alike adopted as a foreign policy framework. Free trade and economic globalization, active participation in international organizations, security coalitions, support of human rights and international law—these were standard US positions.