Monthly Archive: September 2024

Harare, Zimbabwe. Our admiration for Chairman Mao, architect of China’s Cultural Revolution from 1949 to 1976, is boundless. We have just named  a new highway after him. Back in a...

China, the master of rail and bullet trains, has offered to step in and fix it. Don’t hold your breath. The rail network has suffered from years of neglect. Lines...

Putin is our pal. As is Xi Jinping. So is the Supreme Leader in the crucible of radical fundamentalism, Iran. It goes something like this. The so-called  ‘progressive world’  helped...