NYTIMES (Andrew S. Curran) - The Ghosts of France’s Slave Trade Will Be Silenced No More
Three centuries late and not a moment too soon.
AMERICANTHINKER - America should divest itself of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico should become independent. It is long overdue.
NYTIMES (Lynsey Chutel) - Étienne Davignon Dies Before Trial in Patrice Lumumba Killing
Étienne Davignon had been set to stand trial in connection with the murder of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
NYTIMES (John Yoon and Hari Kumar) - Mamdani Suggested UK Should Return the Koh-i-Noor Diamond. Here’s the Back Story.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York suggested that Britain should return the gem, a symbol of colonial plunder. Here’s the back story.
THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Iain Macwhirter) - With Falklands Fracas, Trump Is Undermining His British Allies
There is no upside to pushing the UK back into Europe’s arms. The post With Falklands Fracas, Trump Is Undermining His British Allies appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage With Falklands Fracas, Trump Is Undermining His British Allies There is no upside to pushing the UK back into Europe’s arms. UK Special Coverage In 1982, the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sent a naval task force 8,000 miles across the Atlantic to expel an Argentine invasion force from the Falkland Islands, a remote archipelago 300 miles east of the Patagonian coast. The mission was to liberate 2,000 British subjects living there. It was successful, but the price for Britain was high—255 dead and seven vessels lost, including two destroyers and two frigates. Would any British government…Open
NPR (The Associated Press) - UN calls for reparations to remedy the 'historical wrongs' of trafficking enslaved Africans
The U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans "the gravest crime against humanity" and calling for reparations.
NYTIMES (Stuart A. Reid) - It Was One of the Cold War’s Greatest Crimes. No One Has Paid a Price.
No one apart from the Congolese people has ever paid a price for the CIA-backed assassination of Patrice Lumumba.
NYTIMES (Matthew Mpoke Bigg) - ‘Africa Will Write Its Own History.’ Who Was Patrice Lumumba?
Remembering the African leader after a Brussels court this week ordered a retired Belgian diplomat stand trial for his 1961 assassination.
DAILYCALLER (Sean Hustedde) - Report Accuses Major City Of Implementing Anti-American, Antisemitic Curriculum For 200,000 Students
anti-racist, decolonizing curriculum
THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Govt Draws Up Plans to Force Diversity on ‘White’ Countryside.
PULSE POINTSWHAT HAPPENED: New countryside management plans are being implemented to make England’s rural areas more “diverse,” with claims that these spaces are perceived as a “white environment.”WHO WAS INVOLVED: Britain’s far-left Labour Party government, white rural Britons, and ethnic minorities.WHEN & WHERE: The plans stem from reports published since 2019, targeting areas such as […] The post Govt Draws Up Plans to Force Diversity on ‘White’ Countryside. appeared first on The National Pulse .
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: New countryside management plans are being implemented to make England’s rural areas more “diverse,” with claims that these spaces are perceived as a “white environment .” WHO WAS INVOLVED: Britain’s far-left Labour Party government , white rural Britons, and ethnic minorities. WHEN & WHERE: The plans stem from reports published since 2019, targeting areas such as the Malvern Hills in England. KEY QUOTE: “Many minority peoples have no connection to nature in the UK because their parents and their grandparents did not feel safe enough to take them or had other survival preoccupations.” – Woke UK report. IMPACT: The plans aim to reshape rural areas to appeal to a more multicultural demographic,…Open
AI:Britain's far-left Labour Party government is implementing new countryside management plans designed to force diversity upon England’s rural areas, which planners claim are perceived as "white environments." Targeting locations like the Malvern Hills, these initiatives aim to reshape traditional landscapes to appeal to multicultural demographics through multilingual signage, revised marketing, and even policy changes such as restricting dog ownership to accommodate specific religious sensibilities. This government-backed push seeks to dismantle what woke planners describe as an exclusive middle-class club, continuing a trajectory of identity politics that has already seen efforts to decolonize academic curricula and meet ethnic diversity…Open