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My Unorthodox Thoughts On The US-Zimbabwe Partnership Reset

Oh look! America and Zimbabwe are “starting fresh.” Again. For the 900th time. The U.S. has now discovered that Zimbabwe could be “a great partner.” No shit, Sherlock. Anyone can be a great partner as long as they have lithium, gold, and a government desperate enough to smile at whoever shows up with a business card. And the Herald is acting like this is the …

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The World Didn’t Sign Up To Be America’s Captive Audience (But Here We Are)

Sometimes I look at my social media feed and wonder when exactly I became an unpaid U.S. political analyst, commentator or whatever. I live thousands of kilometers away, my taxes don’t go there, I don’t vote there, and yet every day I’m force-fed a steady diet of American political drama like it’s my emotional multivitamin. I open TikTok: screaming match between a congressman and a …

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America’s Love Affair With “The End Of The World”

Some days I think the United States doesn’t actually want to fix anything. I think the country is addicted to decline the same way some people are addicted to astrology. I think that’s bcause it’s easier to believe Mercury is in retrograde than to admit you forgot to pay your bills. Everyone is screaming about apocalypse like it’s a sport. Right-wing apocalypse, left-wing apocalypse, climate …

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The Last Honest Word in Zimbabwe

Looking back, it seems strange that we ever expected truth to survive here. Not because Zimbabwe is uniquely cursed, no, but because we kept insisting that honesty could flourish in a place where every incentive favoured its opposite. Perhaps one day, when someone brave enough attempts to record our era with any sincerity, they will probably observe that the death of truth was not sudden. …

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The New Monroe Doctrine: How Washington Is Rewriting Sovereignty in the Age of Resource Politics

For months, US President Donald Trump has insisted his administration’s campaign in Venezuela is a counter-narcotics mission. Washington’s talking points lean heavily on the fentanyl crisis, the need for decisive action, the dangers of “transnational criminal networks.” Yet the U.S. State Department’s own 2025 report names Mexico and China as the only significant fentanyl sources affecting the United States. The document is explicit. The drug …

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A Century of Intervention: How U.S.–Venezuela Relations Slowly Boiled Into the 2025 Airspace Standoff

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If you were to trace the arc of U.S.–Venezuela relations, the current drama unfolding over the Caribbean skies does not appear as an isolated provocation. It resembles the final bead on a long, heavy necklace of misunderstandings, miscalculations, and ambitions stretching back more than a century. The decision by former President Donald J. Trump in yesterday to declare Venezuelan airspace “closed” may be dramatic, but it is also profoundly familiar in the long history of Washington’s entanglements with nations whose strategic value has been measured in barrels, borders, and ideology.

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When a New Currency Asks Old Questions

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The arrival of a new currency is always a public event, but it is rarely only about economics. The ZiG entered Zimbabwe’s daily life with a mixture of curiosity, caution and quiet fatigue. People lined up at banks. Others waited to see if shop prices would move. Most simply kept using whatever currency they trusted. A new note in a wallet can feel hopeful. It can also feel like an echo of things the country would rather forget.

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Dollars, Data, and the New Taxman

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Zimbabwe’s latest fiscal idea arrives with a simple promise: from January 2026, banks and mobile money operators will withhold fifteen percent on payments made to offshore digital platforms. It is meant to close a gap. The argument is that subscription fees and platform commissions stream out of the country without passing through the tax net, and the Treasury sees an opportunity to capture what has long slipped by.

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My Brain at 3AM Is a Dangerous Place

I’ve finally concluded there’s something suspicious about the human brain. During the day, mine can barely manage basic tasks. Ask me what I ate yesterday, I mostly have no idea. Ask me where I left my charger and I’ll only find it when I get a new one. My brain operates like a lazy intern: shows up late, does the bare minimum, takes long breaks. …

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Oval Office Deals and Dismembered Journalists

US President Donald Trump says Saudi Arabia’s crown prince knew nothing about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, which is an incredible thing to say with a straight face. It’s like insisting the sun had nothing to do with daylight. And he didn’t whisper it in some hallway. He said it in the Oval Office. The room where people pretend to be serious even when they’re …

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