WhatInTheWorldWeekly

A few weeks ago, journalist Matt Taibbi reported via a long thread on twitter about documents he’s received which show conclusively that Twitter was working in close collaboration with the FBI and elected officials to censor, suspend and delete accounts. Some even show the FBI requesting real world information about users. As the information continues to come out, I will publish more episodes on t...

I dive into the BBC Africa documentary about the violence ravaging Northern Nigeria. The WhatsApp broadcasts say it’s a cynical Fulani plot to take over Nigeria, but it seems more like a mix of terrible governance, ethnic division and climate change.

The current war in Ukraine seems to be a trial run for what we can expect regarding censorship. People must be protected from information the government doesn’t want them to know, less they start having opinions that deviate from the official narrative.

A brief few words about my trip to Florence.

I asked my friend (who is Jewish) for his perspective on Israel-Palestine. His personal experiences, political leanings etc. It’s a wide ranging conversation going from how he founded a Jewish youth society at his university, his encounter with Palestinian society and experiences when visiting Israel. First 20mins is my summary not the conflict, rest his the actual interview

“Andreela” is female version is “Andre”. She was engaged at 20 and married at 21! She met her husband at university and they got married amidst the pandemic! Find out how they did it...

In my first episode with an African living in Africa, I speak to Garnet (a Kenyan) about her journey relocating from Kenya to Rwanda via Turkey of all places! We talk about the Rwandan socio-political landscape, dating and work life. I learnt that electricity is 100x better in Rwanda than it is in Nigeria. Rwanda is actually fast becoming a melting pot for many Africans due to its stability and ef...

In this episode, I sit down with Helena to talk about Environmental history and politics. We talk about how land shaped the history of the US and the history of culture. From the native Americans to the Palestinians, how displacement actively changes our politics and future.

In the first episode of its kind, I speak to Tarot Enthusiast & LSU Tiger, Aris Williams. We talk the history of Tarot, Louisiana & the world in general!

For my second season of BlackPolitik, I decided to do a news brief on the CIA sponsored fake news coming out about Xinjiang and the Uighur Muslims. Sadly, a lot of well meaning people are falling for this hoax rafted by the US govt to damage China’s reputation. This is right out of the colour revolution playbook. Exploit a genuine area of some tension in a country and exaggerate and focus on it mi...

Saying one doesn’t see colour has become a “problematic” thing to say in liberal circles. While it is of course a semantic exercise, I do believe in principle it can lead to a more harmonious society than trying to create a society hyperfocused on a superficial and incoherent eugenics idea like “race”.

In the second part of my two part series, I explore the economic and systemic aspect of what is being highlighted by BLM. I shed light on how we can connect our struggles and the tangible ways with which we can start to make changes. Also, I stress the need to connect this movement on a global level. Those of us living in the empire have a moral obligation to our fellow human currently under the b...

In the first of a two part series, I review the incident involving Amy Cooper and the protests that resulted from the death of George Floyd. I comment on the worrying fact that so many people wanted her punitively punished and what it says about the culture of our society. When we talk about wanting to build a just society for everyone, we have to affirm those principles all the time. The principl...

Many of my U.K. listeners were taught about the Vietnam war in secondary school. We were taught that it was this epic communism vs freedom struggle of North vs South. And that the Americans were on the side of freedom loving people of the South. As I explain in this podcast, this type of propaganda would make Goebbels blush. The Vietnam war was Vietnam vs neo-colonialism of France and USA. From th...

The Shock Doctrine explains how the wealthy use the mask of the pandemic to enrich themselves. While they believe no one is looking, the biggest looting is occurring. The euphemistically named “bailouts” are nothing more than profit protection. It ensures that even in times of a depressing the corporations keep making profit. This is how wealth inequality is entrenched and exacerbated. Additionall...

With the lose of Jeremy Corbyn and now the recent dropping out of Bernie Sanders. The optimism they inspired is slowly being replaced with anger and despair. In the episode, I try to analyse with the warning signs were there that this so-called “revolution” was never to be. I myself wanted desperately to believe in it, and I don’t begrudge anyone who didn’t see these hints. However, with Sanders d...

The recent outbreak of the coronavirus has been a total vindication of the left, yes we can afford to house our people, yes we can afford free university, yes we can afford even free ponies. The diseased capitalist mind of the oligarchs have been well and truly exposed. Talk of saving the “economy” over people has revealed that while the wealthy may be stewards of this system, they by no means run...

I recently bought an audiobook about the lives of Douglass, Booker T Washington & Dubois. I have always been fascinated by in person tales of what life was like back in those days. I have completed the first part, by Douglass. I am intrigued by how it seems to prove my theory on how we currently live. We still very much remain slaves. Humans needs some basic necessities to survive. Food, water, ox...

In this episode, I delve into the emergence of “hate speech” laws and how they are not only ineffective but idiotic. They essentially amount to the crime of hurting someone’s feelings. That should not be a justifiable reason to prosecute someone. Also, with regards to the emergence of the far right and fascism, the West (US, UK) have their hands all over it. The violence they have inflicted on the...

Some of the things we find odd about animals we actually used to do ourselves. For example, did you know that it was common place for humans to kill the offspring of conquered people’s, just like lions do. The Mongols and Romana often did this. Consequently, a lioness sometimes sleep with as many males as possible to try and fool them all into thinking the cubs are theirs. This ingenuity was no do...

A roundup of news that’s been irritating me. Stupid questions about using nuclear weapons, America’s genocidal positions on nuclear weapons, casual anti-Palestinian racism. Article on US low yield nukes: https://fas.org/blogs/security/2020/01/w76-2deployed/

There has been great debate lately on Megan & Harry leaving the Royal Family. “Is the U.K. a racist country?” has been a dominant feature question in the news. Accusing a country, like the U.K., with its long history of genocide and terrorism against millions of brown people of racism for not accepting a woman of colour to their ultra-elitist circle is like calling Ted Bundy sexist.

In this episode, I speak to my American friend about the differences between their college system and ours in the UK. I learn about how their student loan system works, and the wide variety of scholarships available to students. Also, most of the universities you know in the US are actually private, including the historically black ones like Brown, Morehouse & Howard. To conclude, we also dabble i...

Exhibit 100000 of the brutality and racism of the US Empire. The “democracy” installed by the US in its brutal occupation of Iraq votes against US interests, US simply says “NO, We’re America Bitch!” https://twitter.com/apdiplowriter/status/1215647086986825728?s=21 https://twitter.com/markcurtis30/status/1215570248990167041?s=21

In my third episode, I had the pleasure of talking to Junie B, host of The Other Side of the Truth podcast. Her podcast is an exploration of issues affecting black women in America. We talk about growing up black in our various countries, her views on Obama and what America is like from the perspective of a young black woman. The similarities of the war against the poor in both countries. Race, po...