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From the Monroe Doctrine to the Donroe Doctrine
10Jan By News SANo Comments
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From the Monroe Doctrine to the Donroe Doctrine

By Charles Matseke: Donald Trump (Image: Facebook) For more than two centuries, the Monroe Doctrine has shaped the United States’ relationship with the Western Hemisphere. Framed in 1823 as a warning against European colonial interference in the Americas, it evolved into a justification for U.S. dominance, intervention and regime change across Latin America. What we are witnessing today under Donald Trump is not a break from that tradition, but its mutation into something more volatile, personalised, and divisive: ‘The Donroe Doctrine’ 2026. Trump did not invent American unilateralism, but he has stripped it of its diplomatic restraint, institutional mediation, and moral pretence. Where the Monroe Doctrine cloaked power in strategic calculation, the Donroe Doctrine...
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We need to reject recolonisation
22Oct By News SANo Comments
Opinion

We need to reject recolonisation

By Fumene George Tsibani: In my considered opinion, the trajectory of South Africa's political landscape appears to be undergoing a profound transformation, warranting scrutiny through the lens of historical materialism and critical discourse analysis. The contention that we are witnessing the unfolding of Apartheid Phase II, characterised by the Democratic Alliance's (DA) consolidation of power through modernisation theory rooted in neoliberalism, merits examination. Hegemony,  Guptarisaton and Re-Bantusation Drawing upon the Gramscian concept of hegemony, it can be argued that the DA is attempting to exercise cultural and ideological leadership through its control of media and propaganda machinery. This is manifest in the creation of f...
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TIMED ATTACKS: Ukrainian attacks on Russia once again prove negotiations are pointless
4Jun By News SANo Comments
International

TIMED ATTACKS: Ukrainian attacks on Russia once again prove negotiations are pointless

By Drago Bosnic: Russian Crocus City Hall Amphitheater interiors, day after terrorist attack on 22 March 2024 (Image: TASS/Global Research) The terrorist nature of the Kiev regime is certainly not news to anyone remotely familiar with the methods of its intelligence services. Both the SBU and GUR got extensive training from the CIA and MI6, both of which have experts on terrorism (obviously, not in terms of fighting it, but actually facilitating it). There have been numerous attacks on Russian civilians in the last three years, including by NATO which regularly uses its ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) platforms to provide the Neo-Nazi junta with real-time data that enables such terrorist tactics. The most glaring example of that was certainly the monstrous...
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