‍‍‍‍Reparations: further progress at the United Nations

The General Debate of the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly was held in New York from September 24 to September 30, 2024, during which the delegates from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, Haiti, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago called for reparations for colonialism in its various aspects (genocide of the native people, transatlantic slave trade, slavery, imperialism and neocolonialism), with the presence of a group of Caribbean nations consolidated over the last decade. 

‍Focus on: Namibia - Germany

On August 14, 2004 in Okakarara, Namibia, at the memorial ceremony of the centennial of the resistance of the Herero genocide by the German colonial troops, the German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul said that: [...] "A century ago, the oppressors - blinded by colonialist fervour - became agents of violence, discrimination, racism and annihilation in the name of Germany." The atrocities committed in that time would be called today genocide - and today a general Von Trotha would have been pursued and condemned. We Germans accept the historical and moral responsibility and culpability of the Germans of the time. And so, with the words of the prayer of God that we share, I ask you to forgive our sins." [... ]. Despite the admission of the Herero genocide, are therefore lacked some official apologies.‍

‍The end of the Empire

The dislocation of the West: what threatens us written by Emmanuel Todd

... "Less than two years after the French publication of La Défaite de l’Occident (The Defeat of the West) in January 2024, the book’s main predictions have come true. Russia has weathered the storm militarily and economically. The American military industry is exhausted. European economies and societies are on the verge of implosion. The Ukrainian army has not yet collapsed, but the stage of the West’s disintegration has already been reached." ...

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