Trumpian America’s Unwitting Christmas Gift to Global South

Photo courtesy of Tyla “Every cloud has a silver lining,” wrote English poet-philosopher and leading 17th century civil servant John Milton in one of his lesser known plays. While Milton is best known for his theological-allegorical epic poem Paradise Lost, this phrase about silver lining has become part of commonly used idiom adopted by many cultures across the world. This Christmas do the hundreds of millions of victims of a currently rampant Western geopolitical hegemonism worldwide see any hint of a let up of this hegemonism – a hegemonism that engenders devastating wars and even genocide from Palestine and most…

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