Category: World

Burkina Faso / Africa / World

 by Jaffa Levy

Aid, Espionage, and Extraction: The Hidden Machinery That Looted Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso’s recent arrests of foreign aid workers are not an outburst of paranoia but the culmination of decades of exploitation disguised as partnership. For generations, Western governments, mining conglomerates, and their affiliated NGOs extracted the country’s wealth—first its gold, now its data—under the language of development. What the world calls repression in Ouagadougou may instead be the long-delayed assertion of a people’s right to control their own resources and their own narrative.

World / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

The Tiger That Wasn’t There: A Story of Media and the Ghosts of Empire

When a leading London broadsheet claimed that North Koreans were “hunting tigers for food,” it exposed more than journalistic sloppiness. It revealed the desperation of Britain’s old media class to preserve a moral hierarchy that no longer exists. This essay traces how a false story about famine and wildlife became a metaphor for imperial nostalgia — and why the West’s fading press can no longer distinguish narrative from truth.

World / Britain / Germany / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

 New Nationalism: From Dresden to Doncaster to Dallas

Populist energy has moved from the street into the state. Alice Weidel in Germany and Nigel Farage in Britain are converting discontent into parliamentary power, while Tommy Robinson’s crowds still march without machinery. The same sentiment frustration with distant rule and collapsing trust now runs from Saxony to small-town England and deep into the American South.

World / United States

 by Jaffa Levy

The New Right’s Youth Rebellion: Inside the America First Generation

A new generation of conservatives is rewriting the meaning of “America First.” Online and unafraid to challenge their elders, they question the cost of foreign entanglements — including billions in U.S. aid to Israel — and turn campus debates into a fiscal revolt. From Steve Bannon to Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes’s Groyper movement, the young right is united less by ideology than by arithmetic: America’s solvency before its crusades

World / China

 by Jaffa Levy

Born as a weapon in the new Cold War, America’s chip blockade has become the forge of China’s self-reliance.

The United States sought to cripple China’s semiconductor sector with sweeping export bans.
Instead, the embargo triggered an unprecedented mobilization across China’s industry, universities, and state planners. Within three years, Beijing had rebuilt its chip ecosystem, advanced its AI capacity, and turned an intended chokehold into the architecture of technological self-reliance.

World / China

 by Jaffa Levy

China’s Vision of a Multipolar World: A Country of Struggles and Strategies

In capitals from Addis Ababa to Brasília, diplomats speak of Chinese loans and infrastructure, of classrooms where Mandarin now competes with English. In Delhi, Jakarta, and Johannesburg, scholars debate whether China’s approach — state-led, disciplined, outward-looking — offers a workable alternative to the American order that has framed global politics since 1945.

World / Britain

 by Jaffa Levy

Why Britain Feels So Bitterly Divided and Why the Explanations Are Wrong

YouTube embedded video under license. Uploaded by No Comment TV. Aerial and ground footage showing the crowd at the Tommy Robinson, mainly white working-class rally in central London. I read a strange syndicated piece...

World / China

 by Jaffa Levy

China Strikes Back in Growing Tech War With Washington

Embedded video under YouTube license — Creator of this video: Woodford from Woodford Videos. Follow him. BEIJING — The announcement came on an overcast September morning, delivered not with fanfare but with the clipped...

Britain / Russia / World

 by Jaffa Levy

Anna Netrebko’s Triumphant Return to London

Anna Netrebko returned to the Royal Opera House in London with a triumphant Tosca, her first appearance since 2019. Her performance comes after years of political bans and media hysteria, underscoring how the campaign to silence Russian artists has collapsed.