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Guatemala: Present Day Operation Condor
On Psychological Warfare: Latin America faces a “Communicational Plan Condor” -Fernando Buen Abad Plan Condor : There are Military Bases and Media Bases in Latin America By Ilka Oliva Corado Promoting collective amnesia is one of the primary objectives of the government of Jimmy Morales in Guatemala, and this is supported by the system…
War on Latin America
Operation Condor Never Ended: Assassinations and Coup Plots Continue Across Latin America Hugo Turner Latin America is an often forgotten theater in World War 4 America’s war on the planet that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union. In many ways World War 4 is merely a continuation of World War 3 aka the…
The International Criminal Court – A Mechanism for Criminalising Opposition to Foreign Intervention in Africa
Stop Foreign Intervention in Africa The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established on 17 July 1998 when 120 states adopted the Rome Statute which is the legal basis of this organisation. The court, which is based in The Hague, Netherlands, should not be confused with the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The latter is part…
Huey Newton : A Revolutionary Hero
The film that does justice to Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party has yet to be created. Stanley Nelson’s PBS depiction “is riddled with distortion and inaccuracy” and virtually ignores the party’s enormous “contributions to the historic struggle for socialist liberation” and internationalist solidarity. “Newton envisioned that Black America would work together with…
Kwame Nkrumah : The Coup That Set Ghana and Africa 50 Years Back
Nkrumah wanted to industrialize Ghana within a generation, and everything was on course until the Americans and their British cousins used some disgruntled and self-serving Ghanaian soldiers to stage that terrible coup on 24 February 1966. It was a major setback, not only for Ghana but the whole of Africa! Charles Quist-Adade “The US government…
The Neo-Colonial Nature of the European Union and its Intervention in Africa
Stop Foreign Intervention in Africa The current debates in the monopoly controlled media concerning the future of Britain’s membership of the EU are presented from the perspective of falsifying its essential character. The EU remains the organisation of the big monopolies and financial institutions of Europe, especially those of Britain, France and Germany, and acts…
Tribute to Amilcar Cabral by Poet Alda do Espirito Santo
Dr. Kwame Opoku ‘If I should die tomorrow, nothing will change in the inevitable evolution of the struggle of our people and our victory’. Amílcar Cabral. (1) We commemorate this year the forty-third anniversary of the death of the valiant founder and combatant of the PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde)…
Foreign Direct Investment Undermines African Economic Independence and Fuels Foreign Intervention
Stop Foreign Intervention in Africa In the current world situation, neo-liberal economic doctrine, which upholds the interests of the monopolies, prevails. According to this theory, foreign direct investment (FDI) is the only means available for countries to achieve economic development and address the challenge of raising the people’s standard of living. The World Bank estimated…
AFRICOM : Protecting US Interests Disguised as “Military Partnerships”
AFRICOM, the U.S. military command in Africa, has subverted African militaries and enmeshed the continent in Washington’s “war on terror.” It is a one-side partnership. “In many instances, these partnerships involve African militaries ceding operational command to AFRICOM.” The “scramble for Africa” could intensify. Indeed, AFRICOM is part and parcel of that “scramble.” AFRICOM: Protecting…
Women Farmers and Land Grabs in Haiti
From an interview by Beverly Bell Involved in all levels of food production, Haitian women need control over land and protection from today’s wave of expropriation. Photo: Salena Tramel, for Grassroots International. In Haiti, the majority of the people working the land are women. Not only are they there during planting, weeding and harvesting, but…
The Coup Against Nkrumah and the Role of African Americans in the African Revolution
Solidarity with Ghana represented over a century of identification with the homeland By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° African American History Month Series No. 4 Five decades ago on Feb. 24, 1966, a coup was carried out against Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the leader of the Ghana independence movement and the chief architect of the 20th century…
Claudia Jones : Revolutionary Pan-Africanist
Ajamu Nangwaya Claudia Jones used the organizational space of the Communist Party to advance the cause of anti-racism, world peace, decolonization and the class struggle. Claudia Jones was a revolutionary whose activism spanned two continents, North America and Europe. Claudia Vera Cumberbatch was born on February 21, 1915 in Belmont, Trinidad and Tobago, the land…
150 Years of Civil Rights Legislation and the Struggle for Black Power
African Americans continue to fight for human dignity and self-determination By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° African American History Month 2016 Series No. 3 After the passage of the 13th amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1865, which supposedly eliminated involuntary servitude, a series of Civil Rights Acts were passed by the Congress beginning in 1866….
Is South America’s ‘Progressive Cycle’ at an End?
Neo-developmentalist attempts and socialist projects By Claudio Katz In this ambitious and compelling overview of the strategic and programmatic issues at stake in South America today, Argentine political economist Claudio Katz expands on many of the observations he made in an earlier interview while critically analyzing contrasting approaches to development that are being pursued or…
Social Movements and Progressive Governments
Building a New Relationship in Latin America By Marta Harnecker Introduction In recent years a major debate has emerged over the role that new social movements should adopt in relation to the progressive governments that have inspired hope in many Latin American nations. Before addressing this subject directly, though, I want to develop a few…
Pentagon Plans for Renewed War in Libya
Reports abound of foreign troops presence and plans for major western deployment By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Gen. Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was quoted recently as saying that the United States is preparing in conjunction with its imperialist allies a renewed military campaign in Libya. Speaking as…
Sammy Younge, Jr. (1944-1966) : Murder of SNCC Activist Prompted Anti-War Position
Incident near Tuskegee University changed the course of the Civil Rights Movement five decades ago By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° African American History Month Series 2016, Number I On Jan. 3, 1966, a 21-year-old activist from Tuskegee, Alabama, Samuel Leamon “Sammy” Younge, Jr. was shot and killed at a gas station for attempting to…
Haiti’s Fraudulent Presidential Frontrunner Seizes Land, Dispossesses Over 800 Peasants
The frontrunner in Haiti’s rigged election grabbed land from peasant farmers to grow bananas for export. Photo: Joshua Steckley. By Joshua Steckley and Beverly Bell This report is based on extensive interviews, on-site and via phone, with more than 20 government officials, economic development professionals, peasant farmers, and community organizers, between July 2015 and January…
An Unbroken Line : New Afrikan Resistance from 1619 to the Present
The current upsurge in Black “movement”-type politics has been in the making for a decade. Katrina “reawakened the Black radical imagination” in 2005. Like a wave, the momentum built through the Jena 6 campaign and the Justice for Oscar Grant and Trayvon Martin actions, culminating in the 2014 rebellion in Ferguson, Missouri. “This is a…
The Genius of Huey P. Newton
By Mumia Abu-Jamal The Black Radical Tradition In Our Time Conference Listen>> To those of us who were alive–and sentient, the name Huey P. Newton evokes an era of mass resistance, of Black popular protest and of the rise of revolutionary organizations across the land. To those of subsequent eras, youth in their 20s, the name is…
The Blood of the Earth : Agriculture, Land Rights and Haitian History
Throughout the constancy of Haiti’s oppression and suffering runs a lesser-known and awe-inspiring constant. That is of a highly organized grassroots movement continuing the battle its enslaved ancestors began more than 200 years ago, when they revolted to create the first independent Black republic in the world. The movement is composed of organized women, peasants,…
Rwanda, the Enduring Lies : A Project Censored Interview with Professor Ed Herman
Independent journalist Ann Garrison hosts the program this week. She is a radio, print and online reporter who specializes in the Great Lakes region of Africa. She is a recipient of the Victoire Ingabire Democracy and Peace Prize. Her first guest, author Edward Herman, discusses his recent book, “Enduring Lies,” examining the falsehoods circulated by Western…
Castro : “We Will Never Accept Conditions that Undermine the Sovereignty or Dignity of Our Homeland”
Full text of speech by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Councils of State and Ministers, during the Sixth Period of Ordinary Sessions of the Eighth Legislature of the National Assembly of People’s Power, Havana Convention Center, December 29, 2015,…
The Silencing of Black Women : The Relevance of Ella Baker
Ella Baker And The Black Freedom Movement By Lawrence Ware – LaVonya Bennett The world needs to remember Ella Baker. December 13 marks both her birth and transition date. She was born December 13, 1903, and she went to be with the ancestors on December 13, 1986, at the age of 83. She was a…
In Mali and Rest of Africa, the US Military Fights a Hidden War
Nick Turse THE GENERAL LEADING the U.S. military’s hidden war in Africa says the continent is now home to nearly 50 terrorist organizations and “illicit groups” that threaten U.S. interests. And today, gunmen reportedly yelling “Allahu Akbar” stormed the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali’s capital and seized several dozen hostages. U.S. special operations forces are…
NATO and the Dangerous Escalation of US Imperialism
If World War III comes, NATO will likely be the source of the conflagration. “The parasitic rulers of the imperial system have calculated that a march to war with Russia and China is a necessary precondition to US dominance.” NATO has become imperialism’s global strike force. “The NATO-backed destabilization of Libya provided the blueprint for…
AFRICOM and the US Base Bonanza : “Scarier” Times Ahead in Africa
America’s Empire of African Bases By Nick Turse In the shadows of what was once called the “dark continent,” a scramble has come and gone. If you heard nothing about it, that was by design. But look hard enough and — north to south, east to west — you’ll find the fruits of that effort:…
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