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Rwanda, DRC and the New Scramble for Africa – Part 4: Africa’s Israel and the BRICS/NATO Punch and Judy Show

Rusere Shoniwa28 October 202428 October 2024

The early formation of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) as an underground movement was as close in character to a mafia family as it was to a political and military...

Analysis History International

Rwanda, DRC, and the New Scramble for Africa – Part 3: Is The Genocide a Lie?

Rusere Shoniwa25 October 202425 October 2024

Originally published on A Plague on Both Houses substack. Also published on Real Left's substack. Please consider subscribing if you haven't already done so. In light of the conclusion reached...

Analysis History International

Rwanda, DRC, and the New Scramble for Africa – Part 2: What Really Happened in 1994

Rusere Shoniwa23 October 202423 October 2024

“If God exists, He can’t locate Rwanda on a map.”[1] – Patrick Karegeya, former head of Rwanda’s external security from 1994 to 2004, before going into exile in South Africa, and...

Analysis History International

Rwanda, DRC, and the New Scramble for Africa – Part 1: The Genocide’s Historical Context

Rusere Shoniwa20 October 202420 October 2024

Wikimedia Commons: Rwanda’s first president Gregoire Kayibanda visits the Oval Office in 1962 This four-part piece was sparked by James Corbett’s May 2024 video about the 1994 Rwandan genocide, with...

Editorial History

The LLS year in review

Real-Left30 December 20223 January 2023

2022 was a challenging year, but not without its victories. We recount the good, bad and the instructive from an editorial perspective in this year in review.

Guest Article History

A Short History of Big Pharma Colonialism

Word Virus25 July 202226 July 2022

Synopsis of the chequered history of pharma and vaccine Colonialism in India from British Colonial times to the current ‘war on Covid.’