We have another round of strong feedback engaging with and challenging our pieces this week.

Anthony Monteiro on the twilight of US empire; Black Alliance For Peace: Trump Should Withdraw From Syria, and African too; Carrie Bramen on the myth of “American Niceness.”

”American Niceness” can be deeply anti-social, according to the author of a book by the same name.

We are witnessing “the beginning of the end of a world order that was hatched after World War Two,” said Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro.

The Black Alliance for Peace sees the Trump administration’s announced withdrawal of US troops from Syria as “an attempt to realign itself with international law.” The US presence in Syria is “ille