People's Planet
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15th January, 2026
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Deconstructing Trump's 'Peace' Plan for Gaza (w/ Norman Finkelstein) | The Chris Hedges Report
The Silent Blow: How Xi Jinping Just Destroyed Trump Image Without Speaking | Jeffrey Sachs
JOSHUA MAPONGA EXPOSES US POWER GRAB | Maduro Arrest & Traoré Coup Attempt
Temporarily on hold, the usual bluster, fanfare, trumpets, hyperbolic self-praise and hyperbolic disdain and denigrations of his perceived enemies, Trump's trenchant big balls ( of fire) big fire bombs from the greatest military fire power that the world has ever seen - according to Trump: So far, most of the reported news and views are from Western Media outlets - whether it's about Somalis in Minnesota or an alleged genocide of Afrikaners in South Africa, without any consideration for Adichie's cautionary "The danger of a single story"
Well, not exactly a change of atmosphere, here's
Venezuela - and the End of the Petrodollar: A Full Analysis
Canadian PM's visit to China: Why closer ties matter
Unpacking the situation in Iran: What comes next?
Trump's 'help' for Iran: Sanctions, and something else?
I spent the summer of 1976 at the Catskills Mountains in Upper State New York, the summer of 1977 at Ganeshpuri, Maharashtra State in India, and the summer of 1979 at
the Catskills Mountains in Upper State New York. In 1978 I did not travel to the United States or India, spent part of my summer at Torö (Swedish archipelago, and that's where I read a hard copy of Reza Baraheni's The Crowned Cannibals
About Trump's dream of fomenting more trouble in the Islamic Republic of Iran his trump card from the old colonial playbook of "divided and rule" - it's good to know that the riots are now under control, and to avoid any further scenario like what obtained during the last phase of the last Shah of Iran's reign when Ruhollah Musavi Khomeinii finally sent him packing at the point where the Shah's SAVAK got tired of shooting at the Iranian masses -their fellow countrymen and countrywomen, and at the point when he ( the revered Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini said "the people is the army and the army is the people", it was all over for the Shah. Nobody was willing to take him in as a refugee. I visited the mosque where he is buried in Cairo and was initiated into the Rifa'i Sufi order on my first visit to that mosque for that purpose, on a Thursday in the month of Shawwal A.H. 1441
Right now, as real Africans, the Pentecostal brethren and women of the various sects and denominations must be doing what they like to do best, praying, chanting peacefully, peaceably, and dancing, gently ( not violently) swaying their hips to da rhythm, non-violently clapping their hands, the Anglophiles among them, with the power of soul singing Oh Happy Day , and over there in the East, in Umuahia were I was subjected to "full immersion" in the holy waters of Igboland's own Holy River Jordan, by the Assemblies of God fanatics, in 1981 ( the Nigerian Section), for the Igbo pastors and laity, it's always some nonstop, rock till you drop. At this very moment the brethren and sistren must be happily swaying in the gentle Harmattan breeze, swaying to Omeworom ya – He has done for me, happy about what their God's anointed messenger to the Nigerian Christians in their neck of the jungle has done, namely that Trump has sent tracking equipment to Nigeria - Hallel-u-jah - to assist the Nigerian Military in their special fight against the decimation of Christians, against church arsons, wanton banditry, brazen ransom kidnapping, all kinds of terrorism, lawlessness and insurrection.
What kind of assistance are they praying that God will send to wipe out pernicious corruption and establish the rule of law ?
John Onyeukwu, any answers?
If it was exclusively the decimation of Muslims, exclusively the torching and burning down of mosques , and exclusively Muslims that were at the receiving end of the worsening tide of banditry, terrorism, ransom kidnapping, unfazed lawlessness and murderous insurrections, I fear that the Pentecostals' concerns could have been akin to how some of the Super Creoles felt about the first seven years of the Sierra Leone civil war that started in 1991 and was largely confined to what persisted in their imagination as the hinterland -the former protectorate , " up country" -" the bush" - and from the relative safety and ease where they lived in the Western Area's Freetown City Civilisation and environs up to Waterloo, the predominant attitude among the Johnsons, the Williamses, Cokers, Coles, Taylors, Joneses, was, Bloody savages ! For all I care, they can go on butchering themselves for as long as they like - as long as they don't bring it here!
All that changed on the 6th of January, 1999 when the RUF arrived in Freetown for "Operation Spare no Living Thing."
About Freetonia etc, I don't know but have been told; I myself was last there and only for 10 days (April 20 - April 30, 1970), and back to verdant Ghana by air )
News about Iran:
The Middle East, Iran, Israel :
Netanyahu will be facing an early day of judgement on October 27th, the date set for the next Israeli Elections : like Museveni, hoping to prevail again, his main argument being that he's the chosen one who can best talk to the Americans, and by "the Americans" he means his best buddy Donald J. But why should he think that he's more anointed than his rivals or his predecessors ? As if Ariel Sharon was not telling the truth when he said " Every time we do something you tell me Americans will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear, don't worry about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish people control America, and the Americans know it."
Right now Netanyahu ( certainly not Trump's redeemer, but his inspiration, inspirator, chief incitement officer and co-conspirator) along with the nation Israel must be breathing a collective sigh of relief that the sword of Damocles is temporarily not hanging over their heads, that the spectre of having to be scuttling to the nearest bomb shelter is temporarily gone, and so is the Israeli Diaspora anxiety that checks out DAILY ALERT constantly - but the fact is that Israel's enemies are just waiting for the demise of the United States, and praying that Trump continues hastening the process…
In the meantime, it's no joking matter averting an avoidable second Holocaust, the blitzkrieg total obliteration of Tel Aviv, Israel's tech industrial hub also dubbed "The Mecca of the Gay" - ( not unlike the fabled Sodom and Gomorrah) - and into ashes all their lust, and - God forbid , should it happen, the holy anti-LGBTQ Evangelicals, Pentecostals, the repentant paedophile priests etc, will be claiming that it was the Almighty's Divine Wrath. In the meantime, thank God the promised obliteration of Tel Aviv by Iranian missiles, is at least temporarily on hold and as of now, no longer hanging over their heads. Of course, since very long ago the mystical pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night that guided the ancient Israelites through the wilderness for forty years, manna falling from the sky for their breakfast , lunch and supper and - another of course, miraculously their shoes did not get worn out , just like the Sotah ritual, such miracles seem to have disappeared ,their efficacy fallen into desuetude, assuming that just like the metaphorical Swords of Damocles, they ever existed at all,,,
What are the implications of God the Almighty as "Nobodaddy" - nobody's daddy i.e. Blake's Nobodaddy ( in essential agreement with Surah Al-Ikhlas ?
Trump on Iran - at this stage we must take whatever the mercurial Trump says, with a pinch of salt because at the heart of the Epstein files conspiracy theories lurks the thesis that Epstein the MOSSAD agent has the goods on Trump , and the goods are safely lodged somewhere in the Holy Land ( I suppose in New York too ) and from there they have Trump dancing like a helpless puppet to do their bidding -or else !
In Bill Clinton's case, he actually left his signature on Monica's underwear, and from that point on had no choice but to play ball
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