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Russia vs. Ukraine: Ironies of History

“Here’s an irony of history: at the 1945 Yalta Conference (in Crimea, of all places) Russia argued that Ukraine was an independent country and worthy of its own vote at the United Nations, while the United States and Britain argued that it was a region within Russia. I guess history isn’t what it used it be.” –Matthew Stevenson, Counterpunch.org, 23 February 2022 After 40 years of allowing Russian oligarchs to hide their money and and wealth in Western banks and assets, granting them citizenship status and letting them finance political parties in the West, the EU leader Von der Leyen announced after the beginning of the Russian invasion that “ we will work to prohibit Russian oligarchs from using their financial assets on our markets.”
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Black Politics in America

Here is a good analysis "[W]e can no longer assume that shared identity means a shared commitment to the strategies necessary to improve the lives of a vast majority of black people. Class tensions among African-Americans have produced new fault lines that the romance of racial solidarity simply cannot overcome." The End of Black Politics
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U.S.

An excellent piece "The new black politicians, what the online news magazine Black Agenda Report accurately calls  the Black 'misleadership', would reap the benefits of the racist US system while selling it to the Black electorate as a 'free country' with some racial problems that could be remedied within the 'democratic' system. This background propelled Barack Obama to the forefront of political power in the 21st century." The American republic of white supremacy Related Joseph A. Massad is the author of Islam in Liberalism
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