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Exploring the intersection of history, geopolitics, and economics — how nations rise, fall, and shape the world. Retweets are not endorsements.



"In a time of widespread dishonesty, telling the truth is a revolutionary act"

Victor Fors and the defence stood strong, leading Eritrea to a historic win. 🇪🇷 #VictorFors #Eritrea #RedSeaCamels #AFCON2027 #DefensiveWall #Victory #AfricanFootball #Pride

PAWLOS WOLDEHAIMANOT, The Visionary Architect Behind Eritrea's Football Resurgence! 🇪🇷⚽ Kudos #Eritrea


JUST IN: 🇸🇦🇺🇦 Ukrainian President Zelensky arrives in Saudi Arabia for talks on expanding security cooperation.




New paper on wid.world by @gatonievas & @PaulaDruschke finds that 70% of World Bank and IMF funds are allocated to G7 geopolitically aligned countries. Bottom line: rich countries pretend to be in favour of democracy but in practice they have built an undemocratic international system to benefit from the collective resources of global public goods, institutionalizing the political inequalities between global South and global North. 🔗wid.world/news-article/t…






Sky News foreign correspondent Alex Crawford reported that Lebanese health workers in Nabatieh are being forced to deliberately delay their arrival at emergency scenes to avoid Israeli “double-tap” strikes, which, she said, have become a “pattern”.

"This boy died because he was starved to death by Israel's Prison Service, which held him in conditions that led to his death”. Starvation is one of the forms of torture used in Israeli detention facilities. Soldier testimonies we collected confirm this: