Sunday reading

This piece is nicely crafted by a Chinese-born US resident who is fluent in English and Russian as well as Chinese and is familiar with Ukraine and Russia. Not important, but interesting. There aren't many people who know these languages well enough to make such comparisons.

Club Orlov
The Rage of the Cultural Elites

Yu Shan

This one is important but will only be of interest to those who are globally minded and interested in the racial and religious component of unfolding events especially in MENA. It deals with Frantz Fanon, an Algerian psychiatrist who became famous in the US in the Sixties and Seventies as a revolutionary theoretician specializing in colonialism. Now Fanon's writings seem prescient in light of unfolding events. They are also going to be increasingly relevant in countries with large racial and colonial minority populations, including the US.

Counterpunch
Vicious Circles: Fanon, Islamism and Decolonization

Richard Wood