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The Selling of America: Ending the US Dollar's Exorbitant Privilege

Nigeria, April 23 -- Has the love, or even more so the fixation, gone with the US dollar, that all cushioning reserve currency that has shown itself unimpeachable for decades? A curious event teasing ... Read More


Euphemistic Practices: The IDF, Killing Aid Workers and Self-Investigation

Nigeria, April 22 -- Few armed forces have managed to make murder and executions the stuff of procedural aberration rather than intentional practice. Killing civilians and unarmed personnel is the stu... Read More


Dotty and Cretinous: Reviewing AUKUS

Nigeria, April 20 -- It was a deal for the cretinous, hammered out by the less than bright for less than honourable goals. But AUKUS, the trilateral security alliance between Australia, the United Kin... Read More


De Facto Occupation: Israel's Security Zone Strategy

Nigeria, April 18 -- In recent months, the Israeli Defense Forces have been much taken by a term that augurs poorly for peaceful accord in the Middle East. "Security zones" are being seized in the Gaz... Read More


Flexible and Sly: Indonesian Defence Policy, Russia and Australian Anxiety

Nigeria, April 16 -- Island states tend to be anxious political entities. Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting penetration is never far. Threats of such ... Read More


Gender Stunts in Space: Blue Origin's Female Celebrity Envoys

Nigeria, April 15 -- Indulgent, vain and profligate, the all-female venture into space on the self-piloted New Shepard (NS-31) operated by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin was space capitalism and celebrity sh... Read More


Olfactive Implications: Perfume, Power and Emmanuel Macron

Nigeria, April 14 -- Apparently, he is addicted to it. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, adores using perfume. The variety: Dior Eau Sauvage. Dior states that the perfume is characterised by note... Read More


Killing Paramedics: Israel's War on Palestinian Health

Nigeria, April 9 -- It was a massacre. Fifteen emergency workers, butchered in cold blood by personnel from the Israeli Defense Forces in southern Gaza on March 23. It all came to light from a video t... Read More


Withdrawal Symptoms: Hungary, Europe and the International Criminal Court

Nigeria, April 8 -- Europe seems to be suffering paroxysms of withdrawal, notably when it comes to international conventions. Many states on the continent seem to have decided that international law i... Read More


Addressing Hate Speech and Incitement: Holding Meta Accountable in Africa

Nigeria, April 6 -- It was yet another unwelcome development for Mark Zuckerberg's technology titan Meta, the parent company of Facebook. The High Court of Kenya has found that the US-based entity can... Read More