MONEY: At least 10 African notes or coins have Chinese projects on them, according to Beijing's foreign ministry. 🇨🇩🇪🇬🇬🇳🇲🇼🇲🇦🇸🇩🇩🇿 No other nation has that prominence in the daily lives of so many Africans.

By far the best place to engage in a discussion comparing and contrasting Churchill and Hitler is on social media. The matter isn't settled but every exchange advances our understanding while, incidentally, bringing us closer together.

Despite his own political orientation Elon's twitter is quite third-worldist. It's ethnic blood feuds are less reminiscent of scientific racism of the 19th century and more akin to conspiratorial peasants with pitch forks prone to hysterical panics who happen to have AI access.

NEWS The US Department of Justice alleges that Tenet Media, which has Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, and Dave Rubin on its roster, received $10 million from the Russian government to publish content as part of a Russian influence operation. Tenet is owned and controlled by Lauren

Rereading your first draft

Israeli fighter jets struck more than 10 Hezbollah rocket launchers and other infrastructures across southern Lebanon a short while ago, the IDF says. The military says the targets had "posed a threat to Israeli civilians." The strikes were carried out in southern Lebanon's

“The Pentagon envisions utilizing existing industrial capabilities of its allies and partners so that it can conduct maintenance, repairs and overhauls of its ships, planes and vehicles closer to their area of operation instead of bringing them back to the continental U.S.”

US Indian diaspora: SOOOO guess what she/they with only daughter trauma just graduated from med school ✨ Canada Indian diaspora: We finna henny in the whip tonight fam⁉️ UK Indian diaspora: send em back. drown em in the sea. worlds gone soft.

It's publication day and the first Indian review is in, from the wonderful Mukund Padmanabhan Mukund Padmanabhan The Hindu "A powerful and sweeping account of a land that was once an economic powerhouse, a civilisational cradle and an exporter of merchandise and ideas – philosophical,

Who's in? Who's out? The latest from Kyiv: Ukraine's parliament is expected to approve a new wartime cabinet today, as President Volodymyr Zelensky seeks the biggest overhaul of his government since Russia's full-scale invasion almost 31 months ago. ft.com/content/55e114… v Financial Times

Saddam Hussein receiving the succession of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (VI century BC), 1984

Hebron | Israeli soldiers from the 92nd Battalion took a mocking selfie with a kidnapped Palestinian elderly from the city Posted today on one of the soldiers' social media accounts.

Egypt’s army chief visited Gaza border area, amid the tensions with Israel over its presence in the other side of the border, in Gaza

Axios: Nikki Haley will join public relations firm Edelman. It's a surprising move for a once-rumored vice presidential contender and someone who Trump has said will be on his team "in some form" should he win the election.

It’s increasingly clear that being “pro-Israel” in America and parts of Europe has little or nothing to do with the country Israel. It signifies a set of beliefs: 1. Ethnic basis of politics, racial hierarchy 2. Critique of internationalism (UN) 3. Centrality of violence or force

What most analysis misses is the increased agency that Central Asian countries have over their own fates. The region is no longer a backdrop for the new Great Game, nor is it anyone’s backyard. Honored to co-author this piece with Jen Brick Murtazashvili carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/…

Strong statement. Strong, bewildering statement.

Egypt-Turkey reconciliation appears to be driven by a number of factors, including shared alignment on the Somalia-Somaliland-Ethiopia conflict, gas rights in the Eastern Mediterranean, and legal measures targeting Israel over the Gaza conflict: aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/5/…

$400,000 a month for making YouTube videos yelling about culture war stuff? We’re so back.

Walz, in an interview with WCMU News today, was asked how a Harris-Walz administration would handle the Israel-Hamas war and if it would break with the Biden administration in any way. Here's his full answer: