Thoughts on Israel and Gaza

Source: Medium It’s been 17 days since Hamas launched its horrific attack against Israel, killing over 1,400 Israeli citizens, including defenseless women, children and the elderly. In the aftermath of such unspeakable brutality, the U.S. government and the American people have shared in the grief […]

Why is Iran against Israel?

Iran and Israel have a long-standing history of antagonism that can be traced back to the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent establishment of the Islamic Republic. Iran and Israel are widely viewed as regional rivals, with vastly different political ideologies and irreconcilable differences […]

What does Africa produce?

by Christopher Akor In the 1970s through the 1990s, during the heady days of pan-Africanism and dependency theory, it was taken as gospel truth that resources flow from a ‘periphery’ of poor and underdeveloped states to the ‘core’ of wealthy states. In this structured global […]