Carlos Martinez 10 April 2015 marks the 22nd anniversary of the tragic assassination of Chris Hani, a legendary freedom fighter and one of the most courageous and talented leaders of the anti-apartheid struggle. Although he was only 50 at the time of his death, Hani’s contribution to the struggle was that of several lifetimes. Born…
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The Geopolitics Behind the War in Yemen
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya PART I The United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia became very uneasy when the Yemenese or Yemenite movement of the Houthi or Ansarallah (meaning the supporters of God in Arabic) gained control of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa/Sana, in September 2014. The US-supported Yemenite President Abd-Rabbuh Manṣour Al-Hadi was humiliatingly forced to…
United States and NATO Policy Underlines Instability in Libya and Tunisia
Imperialist states debate over future course of action in dominating region By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Attacks on March 18 at the Bardo Museum in Tunis resulting in the deaths of 24 people have been credited to the Islamic State. Just two days prior to the 59th anniversary of the national independence of Tunisia from…
Bolivia’s Decolonization Mission
Ben Dangl An interview with Felix Cardenas Aguilar, Bolivia’s Vice Minister of Decolonization. In 1870, Bolivian dictator Mariano Melgarejo offered an English diplomat a glass of chicha – a corn-based beer consumed for centuries in the Andes. The diplomat refused the drink, asking for chocolate instead. A short-tempered Melgarejo responded by forcing the Englishman to…
What Would Malcolm X Think?
By Ilyasah Shabazz Fifty years ago my father, Malcolm X, was assassinated while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. I think about him every day, but even more in the last year, with the renewed spirit of civil rights activism after the tragic events in Ferguson, Mo., on Staten Island and in…
The Deep State, Secret Government, CIA, FEMA and the Doomsday Network: Interview with Peter Dale Scott
darkjournalist In this exciting and revealing special two hour Dark Journalist episode he welcomes University of California, Berkeley Professor and Former Canadian Diplomat Peter Dale Scott. Professor Scott has just released his controversial new book “The American Deep State,” which exposes the truth about covert forces that constitute an unelected, unaccountable, shadow government. The “Deep…
Atlantic Resolve: NATO’s Shadow of Nazi Operation Barbarossa
Finian Cunningham NATO’s Operation Atlantic Resolve paced ahead this week with the latest arrival of more US military forces in the Baltic region. Under the guise of defending eastern Europe from «Russian aggression», more than 100 Abrams tanks and Bradley armoured personnel carriers rolled into Latvia. Last month, a similar motorised display of military support…
Washington’s Al Qaeda Ally Now Leading ISIS in Libya
Eric Draitser The revelations that US ally Abdelhakim Belhadj is now leading ISIS in Libya should come as no surprise to those who have followed US policy in that country, and throughout the region. It illustrates for the umpteenth time that Washington has provided aid and comfort to precisely those forces it claims to be…
Nazis, New Jersey State Police and Assata Shakur
By Hans Wolff August, 1998 There have been persistent reports of a Nazi subculture in the New Jersey State Police, which has long had a reputation for violence and racism. Recently, the State Police was the subject of a review article in the New York Times, which cited years of allegations and a landmark court…
Neo-Liberalism: A Revolutionary Analysis of the Final Stage of Imperialism
Danny Haiphong Neoliberalism is “the ideology of corporate domination and the plunder of finance capital.” To preserve itself domestically, the modern system has created both the Mass Black Incarceration State and the National Security State. Internationally, “terrorism, ‘humanitarian intervention,’ and economic sabotage are the primary means of maintaining US hegemony of the neo-liberal variety.” February is…
United States Imperialism and Militarism Breeds Instability in Africa
Training exercises coordinated by the Pentagon take place again on the continent By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° An escalation in violence in Libya has prompted the call from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for military intervention by the “international community.” Such an appeal suggests that the Egyptian leader, who staged a military coup against the…
Malcolm X: Revolutionary Voice of Struggle and Liberation
Five decades since his martyrdom the struggle continues by any means necessary By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° African American History Month Series, Part IX Author’s Note: The following address was delivered at the annual African American History Month Forum in Detroit on Sat. Feb. 21, 2015 which was sponsored by the Detroit branches of Workers…
The Impact and Significance of the Assassination of Malcolm X
Five decades ago a revolutionary voice was silenced but his message still resonates By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° African American History Month Series, Part VIII A strong force for the liberation of Africans, African Americans and oppressed people throughout the world was gunned down on Feb. 21, 1965. At the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington…
The U.S. Empire and ISIS: A Tale of Two Death Cults
Glen Ford As U.S. imperialism loses its capacity to compete outside the military sphere, its foreign policy options shrink, accordingly. “Since the U.S. is superior to the rest of the world ONLY in military terms, Washington finds its ultimate advantage in turning the whole world into a battlefield.” Permanent War follows the same logic as…
Huey Newton : Revolutionary Suicide
By Carlos Martinez Today is the 73rd anniversary of Huey P Newton’s birth. Huey’s autobiography, ‘Revolutionary Suicide’, remains an important contribution to the field of revolutionary strategy and tactics, particularly for those working in the ‘belly of the beast’ – the imperialist countries of Europe and North America. While it is of course a work-in-progress,…
The Revolutionary Legacy of Nelson Mandela and Its Implications for the Pan-African Struggle
Lessons for the ongoing struggle in the United States and South Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Author’s Note: The following address was delivered on Saturday Feb. 15, 2014 at the Annual African American History Month forum sponsored by Workers World Party Detroit branch. Azikiwe spoke on a panel with Moncia Moorehead, managing editor of…
Malcolm X Legacy Contains Profound Lessons for Struggles Today
Overcoming victimization 20th century figure illustrates the significance of organization and political education African American History Month Series Part III By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Feb. 21, 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of Malcolm X, El Hajj Malik Shabazz, who was gunned down by three men at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem…
Malcolm X Was Right About America
By Chris Hedges NEW YORK—Malcolm X, unlike Martin Luther King Jr., did not believe America had a conscience. For him there was no great tension between the lofty ideals of the nation—which he said were a sham—and the failure to deliver justice to blacks. He, perhaps better than King, understood the inner workings of empire….
From Civil Rights to Black Power: The Significance of the Alabama Freedom Movement of 1965-66
Application of independent politics transformed the African American struggle African American History Month Series Part I By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° With the release of the “Selma” film tremendous interests has been generated among youth activists in the struggle for Voting Rights as it reached its apex in March 1965. This campaign for the ballot…
How the CIA Made Google: Inside the Secret Network Behind Mass Surveillance, Endless War, and Skynet
Nafeez Ahmed PART I INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by the NSA and CIA, Google was merely the first among a plethora…
The Golden Age of Black Ops : US Missions in 105 Countries in 2015
By Nick Turse In the dead of night, they swept in aboard V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. Landing in a remote region of one of the most volatile countries on the planet, they raided a village and soon found themselves in a life-or-death firefight. It was the second time in two weeks that elite U.S. Navy…
Racism, Islamophobia and the Capitalist Crisis in Europe
Horace G. Campbell Manipulation in Paris “More than a million people joined over 40 presidents and prime ministers on the streets of Paris on Sunday in the most striking show of solidarity in the West against the threat of Islamic extremism since the Sept. 11 attacks. Responding to terrorist strikes that killed 17 people in…
Martin Luther King and the Black Revolutionary Tradition
A Radical Revolution of Values By Eric Mann As we celebrate the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. the system, “the white power structure” as we used and still should call it, continues its character and political assassination of his work. Dr. King rejected the myths of U.S. society. He rejected its Mad…
Self-Determination and the Liberation Agenda
Where the #BlackLivesMatterMovement, Cuba, and the DPRK Collide By Danny Haiphong “Imperialism’s disproportionate influence on world affairs is waning.” What is Self-Determination? What Conditions Create the Need For It? Self-determination is crucial to any serious agenda that seeks to replace the centuries old imperialist system with a new way of life. Self-determination is defined as…
The Ongoing Impact of White Supremacy on People of Color
Solomon Comissiong “White supremacy was literally beaten into our ancestors.” White supremacy has a dark legacy within the United States, dating back to this country’s illegal founding. This is inconvenient truth is hardly deniable to those who are intellectually honest. It is something that many white people may openly deny, however they know it exists…
The UN Anti-Nazi Resolution, the Prague Declaration and the History of “US Accommodation with Nazism”
Carla Stea UN Anti-Nazi Resolution Supported by Israel and Syria, Opposed by the U.S., Canada and Ukraine The Syrian Arab Republic, together with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia are among the many co-sponsors of this UN Anti-Nazi Resolution, adopted by a majority vote of 133 by the United Nations General Assembly…
Europe’s “Nouvelle Droite” Co-opting the Counter Culture
Graham D. Macklin Patterns of Prejudice Vol.39, No.3, September 2005 Formed in 1996 by former National Front activist Troy Southgate, the National Revolutionary Faction (NRF) is a ‘national-anarchist’ groupuscule. In contrast to the International Third Position, the reactionary Catholic fascist sect from which it emerged, the NRF promotes a radical anti-capitalist and anti-Marxist ‘anarchist’ agenda…
Libya Then and Now: An Overview of NATO’s Handiwork
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya In 2011, as the entire world watched the Arab Spring in amazement, the US and its allies, predominantly working under the banner of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), militarily overran the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. The peaceful civilian protesters they claimed to be intervening to protect were…
School of the Americas Goes Global
School of the Americas Morphs Into US Training Industrial Complex Commentary on the Honduran coup of late June 2009. The installation is two wooden crosses, a style popularized in the movement to close the SOA (School of the Americans/Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation). (Photo: DC Protests; Edited: LW / TO) By JP Sottile, Truthout…
The US Never Intended to Defeat ISIS
Editorial Comment: Please see the following article: John McCain admitted he is regular contact with Islamic State By Tony Cartalucci A torrent of “foiled” terror plots have recently undulated headlines across the Western World. In Rochester New York, the FBI netted a man they claimed was plotting a shooting spree targeting US service members. In Australia,…
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