Archive - AfricaFocus Notes

Read & Recommended or Otherwise Noted

Aug 29 •

U.S. Billionaires Should Step Up to Pay

It's Long Past Time to Respond to Global Demands

Aug 8 •

July 2024

Global Plan to Tax the Ultra-Rich

It is now on the agenda, but obstacles include US opposition

Jul 29 •

Musical interlude

In stressful times, I come back to a few songs.

Published on Third Age • Jul 26

Deaths from War and Famine Mount as World Looks Away

Jul 9 •

June 2024

WHO IS RUNNING THE COUNTRY?

Biden’s decline has been known to friends and insiders for months

Published on Seymour Hersh • Jun 28

Turning Point for Hope on Climate Action?

Veteran activist Bill McKibben lays out the case for cautious optimism

Jun 19 •

May 2024

Four Blind Mice: Biden, Blinken, McGurk, and Sullivan

The president and his top three advisers continue to push the Abraham Accords while denying the realities of the Gaza war

May 30 •

About those polls ...

I'm not moving to Canada yet.

Published on Third Age • May 20

Recent Reading Worth Reading

May 16 •

Message from AfricaFocus Editor

Thanks, Update, and Request to Share AfricaFocus

May 10 •

Setting Our Sights on a Third Reconstruction

If our goal is a robust democracy and working-class power, the experiences of the Civil War-Reconstruction era and the Second Reconstruction of the…

May 6 •

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