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Blood on the Banner: Ukraine's Nazi Inheritance, the Volhynia Massacres, and the Cowardice of Western Memory

Blood on the Banner: Ukraine's Nazi Inheritance, the Volhynia Massacres, and the Cowardice of Western Memory

Posted on 21st Jun 2026

There is a particular kind of moral dishonesty that masquerades as solidarity, and Western Europe has been practising it with remarkable discipline since February 2022. To scrutinise Ukraine's deep and unresolved relationship with wartime extremism is, in the approved discourse of Brussels and Washi...

The Death of Memory: How Digital Archives Are Giving Governments the Power to Rewrite Human History

The Death of Memory: How Digital Archives Are Giving Governments the Power to Rewrite Human History

Posted on 17th May 2026

There was a time when history had weight. It existed physically in newspapers, books, journals, photographs, public records, handwritten letters, archived footage, and dusty libraries protected by age, distance, and duplication. A government could lie, distort, or propagandise, but somewhere in a ba...

Africa Is Not Free: The Colonisers Never Left, They Only Changed Clothes

Africa Is Not Free: The Colonisers Never Left, They Only Changed Clothes

Posted on 11th May 2026

For decades Africans were taught to celebrate independence days with flags, parades, speeches and national anthems while the deeper machinery of control remained firmly intact behind the curtains of diplomacy, banking systems, military agreements, foreign corporations, intelligence networks and pupp...

Is Nigeria Becoming a Failed State? The Question Nigerians Are No Longer Afraid to Ask

Is Nigeria Becoming a Failed State? The Question Nigerians Are No Longer Afraid to Ask

Posted on 9th May 2026

For years Nigerians avoided using the phrase “failed state” when discussing their country because the term sounded too extreme, too insulting and too final. It belonged to places people watched on television with pity and distance, countries consumed by civil war, famine, militia rule and institutio...

Ukraine NEVER Had Nukes: The Myth That Refuses to Die and the Dangerous Ignorance Driving Europe Toward Disaster

Ukraine NEVER Had Nukes: The Myth That Refuses to Die and the Dangerous Ignorance Driving Europe Toward Disaster

Posted on 7th May 2026

One of the most repeated claims in modern geopolitical discourse is that Ukraine “gave up its nuclear weapons” after the collapse of the Soviet Union and that this decision supposedly proved that nuclear disarmament is foolish because Ukraine later found itself at war with Russia. The statement is r...