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On left: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. On right: Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Background: National Unity Platform presidential candidate Bobi Wine / photo illustration: Toward Freedom

‘West Wants to Change Regimes for Itself’: Africans Strategize In Washington Against Western-Backed Leaders

Julie Varughese August 15, 2022 Julie Varughese

A regional conference of the National Unity Platform, a political party in Uganda, brought together members of the country’s diaspora from the New York City and Washington metro areas to strategize on how to tackle U.S. meddling that props up leaders who do not work on behalf of the people. TF editor Julie Varughese reports.

“Cruelties of slavery" / source: The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1835-05.

The Myth of American Exceptionalism: From the Beginning

Stephen Joseph Scott September 20, 2021 Stephen Joseph Scott

Within U.S. social movements, American Exceptionalism increasingly has been used to explain the ideology that guides U.S. interventions around the world and against domestic colonized populations, such as African and Indigenous peoples. This essay seeks to examine the roots of this ideological framework.

The people of Haiti / credit: Marcello Casal Jr/ABr - http://www.agenciabrasil.gov.br/media/imagens/2010/01/19/190110MCA0586.jpg/view

Destabilizing Haiti: Why It Keeps Happening

Greg Guma July 14, 2021 Greg Guma

Having a military presence on the island, or at least leverage with whatever regime emerges, can help to sustain political pressure on other countries nearby, while providing a base to step in as part of any regional military operation deemed necessary in the future.

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