Libya: Where Fortune Favors the Corrupt Who Control Wealth and Arms

Protesters Gather in Sebha in Support of Saif Qaddafi, Demanding Free and Fair Elections and an Impartial Judiciary The electoral scene in Libya leaves no room for optimism for a better future in the foreseeable future. The main actors in the course of events are  armed force on the ground, political money, and abuse of…

Gaddafi’s 2009 UN Speech That Shell-Shocked the World by Attacking Big Powers

Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza Muammar Gaddafi’s historic speech delivered in 2009 at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly is etched in the discourse of global politics with a haunting, ambivalent permanence. His impassioned and unscripted tirade against the brazen hypocrisy and double standards of the West, Russia, and China visibly unsettled several UN delegates. This was…

Libya: Protesters Gather in Sebha in Support of Saif Qaddafi, Demanding Free and Fair Elections and an Impartial Judiciary

The People of Ghat Protest Before the Court in Sebha, Demanding Independence and Impartiality of the Judiciary The people of Ghat confirmed that there are those who want to occupy the country and restore colonialism again, and who threaten to divide the country according to the interests of the international powers. This came during a…

How the West Steals African Agricultural Products for Profits on World Markets

Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza The remnants of colonial domination have bitterly lingered in Africa with profound intensity. The failure to wrest economic control over the continent’s resources from former colonial powers is the reason why there is widespread poverty in Africa. Western perceptions continuously rule out the possibility of organic progress in Africa. Neocolonialism (which the…

Burkina Faso: Speculations on Terror

Guadi Calvo Today Burkina Faso, among the five poorest countries in the world, with almost eleven million of its twenty million inhabitants living below the poverty line, finds itself in the midst of a tide of popular demonstrations, given the failure of the security policies pursued by President Roch Kaboré, re-elected last year for another…

On Omicron and Cuban Vaccines: What Big Pharma Doesn’t Want You to Know

Mision Verdad All for profit, there is news that Big Pharma probably doesn’t want you to know (Photo: Andrea Velázquez / El Ceo) Omicron (the Greek letter O) is the latest buzzword, and one that sounds both like an obituary and an apocalypse, which means more global panic in the midst of a pandemic that…

IYFSWS Final Declaration Calls on UN to Organize a Referendum in Western Sahara and on AU and Other Parties to Assume Responsibility in Decolonising It

Malaga (Spain) 29 November 2021 (SPS)– The International Youth Forum of Solidarity with Western Sahara (IYFSWS) adopted a Final Declaration yesterday calling on the UN to organise a self-determination referendum in Western Sahara, while urging the AU, EU and other international actors to assume their responsibility in implanting international legality and decolonising the last colony…

Belarusian ‘Journalist’ Roman Protasevich Trained by Canadian Armed Forces, While with Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion

Aidan Jonah In May 2021, the Canada Files’ Editor-in-Chief wrote a report (sourcing here) for the 48th UN Human Rights Council session. The Planetary Association for Clean Energy (more detail on them at the end) contacted him after he investigated the tenure of Belarussian “journalist” Roman Protasevich in a Canadian-backed, neo-Nazi Battalion in Ukraine. The…

Women Have Always Been at the Forefront of Sudanese Resistance

Shadia Abdel Moneim Women protesters in Khartoum, Sudan April 2019 | Ala Kheir/DPA/PA Images. All rights reserved A military coup carried out last month threatens to roll back the gains made in the 2019 revolution that overthrew al-Bashir’s brutal regime Protests against authoritarianism and military regimes are not new to Sudan. Even the revolution that…

Barbados Is Throwing Off its Colonial Shackles. Now the Real Change Must Come.

Kareem Smith Mia Mottley was criticised for involving Prince Charles in the republic celebration | PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo. All rights reserved Next week, Barbados will remove the Queen as its head of state, as it begins a new national journey to remove any lingering British influence Barbados is in the final stages of completing…

Sudanese Women On the Front Lines of the Resistance

Hala Al Karib Sudanese women took part in the revolution in large numbers for the same reasons they are now part of the resistance against this treacherous coup: Their human rights are at stake. There is nothing more difficult than losing a child. There is nothing worse than losing our children as a result of…

The Pro-Nazi US Official Who Helped Shape Post-War Germany

Kit Klarenberg Newly declassified FBI files have shed significant light on the Nazi sympathies of John McCloy, the US assistant secretary of war during World War II, revealing a depth to the relationship that was not previously known. McCloy is an enormously significant figure in 20th century US history – as well as his war…

The Ethiopian Labyrinth

Guadi Calvo Villagers return from a market to Yechila town in south central Tigray walking past scores of burned vehicles, in Tigray, Ethiopia, July 10, 2021. (Reuters Photo) It is estimated that the death toll since the beginning of the conflict in November 2020 is now well over one hundred thousand souls, with half a…

Frank Olson and the Macabre Fate of a CIA Whistleblower in the Early Cold War

Jeremy Kuzmarov 1977 artist’s rendition of Olson’s alleged suicide which was physically impossible in light of the small size of the hotel room he was staying in [the plunge through the window would have required a running start. Lashbrook also claimed that he was only awakened after Olson had jumped when he would have heard…

New Book by Yves Engler Provides a People’s History of the Canadian Military

Steve Lalla Many informed Canadians remain surprisingly unenlightened about the country’s military history. Canada’s military is widely viewed as either nonexistent, irrelevant, or a force for good. The Canadian Forces’ (CF) public relations department has been very effective in crafting a positive image for the country’s military. In addition, constant comparisons to the US’s rampant…

Is the Canadian or Chinese Military a Greater Threat to Humanity?

Yves Engler A map of current and potential Canadian military bases. Illustration: The Breach As the likelihood of military conflict with China grows it’s worth assessing the balance of power. This offers an indication of which parties are likely to be the primary belligerent force (because they would prevail in a conflict). When it comes…

Guatemala to Host the Abya Yala Soberana International Gathering

Ollantay Itzamná Leiria Vay, member of the organizing team of the Sovereign Abya Yala Encounter The international meeting ABYA YALA SOVEREIGN ABYA YALA FROM SOCIAL MOVEMENTS aims to reflect together on the socio-political context and impacts of the capitalist system, imperialism, colonialism and patriarchy in our Abya Yala and to define strategies and collective actions…

Peru: Thousands March against Right-Wing Maneuver to Impeach President Pedro Castillo

Tanya Wadhwa Peruvian President Pedro Castillo. Photo: Peruvian Presidency/Twitter In a new attempt to destabilize President Pedro Castillo’s government, the right-wing forces in Peru have presented a motion to impeach him. The attack led thousands of citizens to take the streets in defense of their president On November 25, Peruvian opposition legislators from three right-wing…