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South African President Talks Trump, Racism and That Oval Office ‘Ambush’

Reading. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

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Venezuelan Oil Cargoes Are Surging at an Opportune Time American fuel makers are gobbling up Venezuela’s heavy crude even as the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran have stalled global oil shipments.

Venezuelans oil being used to make up for Iran being cut off. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

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From over there on that other site, and perfectly on point.

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Thanks John!

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Thanks, Barnaby!

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Thank you, Annette. I appreciated the way you engaged with me and the book when it was just launched very, very much.

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Thanks Jeff!

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Thank you, Leta!

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🙏🏼

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Pedro Sánchez calls US-Israeli war in Iran a ‘disaster’ amid spat with Trump US president issues trade threat as Spanish PM likens conflict to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s assault on Gaza

He likes it to Russians invasion of Ukraine and Israel's war in Gaza. www.ft.com/content/69e5... Pedro Sánchez calls US-Israeli war in Iran a ‘disaster’ amid spat with Trump

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Merci beaucoup!

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“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Theodore Roosevelt

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Thank you, Randy!

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He dreamed of a United States of Africa - The World from PRX February 24 marks sixty years since Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, was overthrown in a military coup. Nkrumah had been a vocal campaigner for Pan-Africanism, a United States of Africa that wo...

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Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Announces 2026 Finalists CLEVELAND – [March 3, 2026] – The Cleveland Foundation announced 11 finalists for the 2026 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards (AWBA), marking 91 years of honoring literature that contributes to our understand...

Delighted to learn that my new book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, has been named as a finalist for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize. www.anisfield-wolf.org/2026/03/anis... (A radio segment follows below.)

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