The recent coup in Niger has spurred a global crisis dragging in the combatants in the Ukraine War, NATO states and a range of surrounding African countries. And while the traditional colonial powers in the West are threatening military action to restore a NATO-friendly government in Niger, Russia and many African nations are insisting that the colonial era is over and African countries, including Niger, should be allowed to determine their own future without outside interference from France or the United States.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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