A Base Camp, an Authoritarian Regime, and the Future of U.S. Blowback in Africa By Nick Turse Admit it. You don’t know where Chad is. You know it’s in Africa, of course. But beyond that? Maybe with a map of the continent and by some process of elimination you could come close. But you’d probably…
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Libyan “Rebels” Are ISIS
Tony Cartalucci The United States has attempted to claim that the only way to stop the so-called “Islamic State” in Syria and Iraq is to first remove the government in Syria. Complicating this plan are developments in Libya, benefactor of NATO’s last successful regime change campaign. In 2011, NATO armed, funded, and backed with a…
The Bases of War in the Middle East
From Carter to the Islamic State, 35 Years of Building Bases and Sowing Disaster Approaching its 35th anniversary, the strategy of maintaining such a structure of garrisons, troops, planes, and ships in the Middle East has been one of the great disasters in the history of American foreign policy. (Photo: PH1 Ted Banks/US Military/flickr/cc) By David…
The Legacy of Thomas Sankara
“You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future.” – Thomas Sankara By Larry Hales Excerpts from a talk given by Larry Hales to a New York City meeting…
The Lessons of Libya: A War That Brought Total Societal Collapse
By Dan Glazebrook Three years ago, in late October 2011, the world witnessed the final defeat of the Libyan Jamahiriya – the name by which the Libyan state was known until overthrown in 2011, meaning literally the ‘state of the masses’ – in the face of a massive onslaught from N ATO, its regional allies and…
The Deep State and the Fate of American Presidents Who Challenged it (1963-1980)
By Peter Dale Scott The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 43, No. 4, November 3, 2014. In the last decade it has become more and more obvious that we have in America today what the journalists Dana Priest and William Arkin have called two governments: the one its citizens were familiar with, operated more or…
The Criminalisation of International Justice
The Nato ordered indictment of Muammar Gadaffi by the International Criminal Court (ICC) during the Nato attack on Libya in 2011 echoed the indictment of President Milosevic by International Criminal Tribunal For Yugoslavia, during the Nato attack on Yugoslavia in 1999. Both men ended up dead as a direct consequence. The indictments of these two…
US Army Special Operations Command Counter-Unconventional Warfare White Paper
Counter-Unconventional Warfare White Paper Public Intelligence 46 pages September 26, 2014 During the last decade, the U.S. military, along with its interagency and international partners, has generated significant capability to counter the irregular threats presented by non-state terrorists, insurgents, and criminal groups. During these same years, a distinct challenge to America and its partners in…
How Africans Brought Civilization to America
Africans Discovered America Thousands of Years Before Columbus By Garikai Chengu Libya 360° On Monday, America’s government offices, businesses, and banks all grind to a halt in order to commemorate Columbus Day. In schools up and down the country, little children are taught that a heroic Italian explorer discovered America, and various events and parades…
Fidel Castro: NATO is Promoting a “War of Extermination” Against the Russian Federation
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro during a meeting with Cuban and foreign intellectuals in Havana. Castro accused the U.S.-led Western alliance of promoting a “war of extermination” against the Russian Federation. The former president of Cuba, Fidel Castro, this Wednesday accused the new NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg of promoting a “war of extermination” against Russia and described the military alliance as being “more extreme”…
Heroes of Our Time
Fidel Castro Ruz There is much to say about the difficult times humanity is experiencing. Today, however, is a day of special interest for us and perhaps for many other people. Throughout our short revolutionary history, since the insidious coup, carried out by the empire on March 10, 1952 against our small county, we have…
The Hidden Government Group Linking JFK, Watergate, Iran-Contra and 9/11
By Peter Dale Scott Peter Dale Scott is considered the father of “Deep Politics”— the study of hidden permanent institutions and interests whose influence on the political realm transcends the elected, appointed and career officials who come and go. A Professor of English at Berkeley and a former Canadian diplomat, he is the author of several critically acclaimed…
National Culture and the Fight for Freedom
Speech by Frantz Fanon at the Congress of Black African Writers, 1959. Reproduced from Wretched of the Earth.. Colonial domination, because it is total and tends to over-simplify, very soon manages to disrupt in spectacular fashion the cultural life of a conquered people. This cultural obliteration is made possible by the negation of national reality,…
Amilcar Cabral: Imperialism, Betrayal and the African Liberation Struggle
Amilcar Cabral’s Speech at the Funeral of Kwame Nkrumah English Transcript: Homage to Kwame Nkrumah Amilcar Cabral – Conakry Guinea 1972 After the speeches we have heard today and, most of all, after the statement, as militant as it was moving, by our elder brother and companion in struggle, President Ahmed Sekou Touré, what more…
The Revolutionary Legacy of Amilcar Cabral
By Carlos Martinez Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral, one of the greatest anti-colonial leaders of the twentieth century, was born on the 12th of September 1924 in Bafatá, a small town in central Guinea-Bissau. Today, ninety years later, let us take a moment to remember this brilliant revolutionary – the undisputed leader and architect of…
The NGO-ization of Resistance
Arundhati Roy A hazard facing mass movements is the NGO-ization of resistance. It will be easy to twist what I’m about to say into an indictment of all NGOs. That would be a falsehood. In the murky waters of fake NGOs set up or to siphon off grant money or as tax dodges (in states…
Amílcar Cabral: “Nazis are the Most Tragic Expression of Imperialism and its Thirst for Domination”
Amilcar L. Cabral: National Liberation and Culture – PDF This text was originally delivered on February 20, 1970; as part of the Eduardo Mondlane (1) Memorial Lecture Series at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, under the auspices of The Program of Eastern African Studies. It was translated from the French by Maureen Webster. When Goebbels,…
Redrawing the Map of the Russian Federation After World War III?
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya The end goal of the US and NATO is to divide (balkanize) and pacify (finlandize) the world’s biggest country, the Russian Federation, and to even establish a blanket of perpetual disorder (somalization) over its vast territory or, at a minimum, over a portion of Russia and the post-Soviet space, similarly to what…
Terrorism, COINTELPRO, and the Black Panther Party
Angola 3 News An interview with law professor Angela A. Allen-Bell This past July, students from Northwestern University’s Medill Justice Project visited the infamous Louisiana State Prison known as Angola. While there, students landed an impromptu interview with Warden Burl Cain, where they asked him about an inmate at Angola named Kenny ‘Zulu’ Whitmore, who…
Food Forests Could Bring Healthy Organic Food to Everyone for Free
By Andrew Martin Food forests or Forest gardening have been around for a long time with many of the native cultures practicing this form of sustainable agriculture. It is a form of low-maintenance plant-based food production which replicates natural ecosystems, incorporating fruit and nut trees, shrubs, herbs, running vines and perennial vegetables. Beneficial plants and companion planting is a big part of…
Fidel: Just Ideas or Disaster Will Triumph
Fidel Castro Ruz Global society has known no peace in recent years, particularly since the European Economic Community, under the absolute, inflexible direction of the United States, decided that the time had come to settle accounts with what remained of two great nations which, inspired by the ideas of Marx, had achieved the great feat…
The Pentagon’s Strategy for World Domination: Full Spectrum Dominance, from Asia to Africa
By Bruce K. Gagnon Current US military space policy is primarily geared toward two countries, China and Russia. In May 2000 the Washington Post published an article called “For Pentagon, Asia Moving to Forefront.” The article stated that, “The Pentagon is looking at Asia as the most likely arena for future military conflict, or at…
The Emergence of a New Fascism
Fidel Castro Ruz I think that a new, repugnant form of fascism is emerging with notable strength, at this time in human history when more that seven billion inhabitants are struggling for their survival. None of these circumstances have anything to do with the creation of the Roman Empire, around 2,400 years ago, or with…
Behind the Sound Bites Lies the Hideous Truth
By Gerald A. Perreira Libya 360° The Organization of North Atlantic Tribes (NATO) brought together the enemies of the Libyan revolution under one umbrella to achieve their desired outcome. This concoction of insignificant non-entities and murderous gangs parading as ‘jihadists’ are now fighting each other over the spoils of war. They have been handed a…
Peter Dale Scott: The American Deep State
Peter Dale Scott, one of the most perceptive and provocative political-historical thinkers of our time, addresses in this podcast interview the Deep State in the United States and the common patterns of the two great events in American history in the last fifty years that were deep events and had constitutional changes as consequences –…
Afro-Youth, Afro-Venezuelanness and Afro-Autonomy
Jesus Chucho Garcia Jesus Chucho Garcia, Venezuelan author, commentator, professor, co-founder of the AfroVenezuelan Network and former Ambassador to Angola, frequently contributes to Aporrea and other publications. As May, the month of Afrovenezuelaness, closes, these excerpts from Garcia’s recent commentaries provide perspective on the political direction of the Afrovenezuelan movement for May and beyond. The…
Gladio: The “Strategy of Tension” in the Cold War Period
“Having examined much of the data related to the 9/11 events, I am convinced a new and thorough investigation is needed. But when I have questioned the official narrative of 9/11 in my native Switzerland I have encountered vigorous objections from people. Why would any government in the world, they have asked, attack its own…
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism By Kwame Nkrumah 1965 The mechanisms of neo-colonialism In order to halt foreign interference in the affairs of developing countries it is necessary to study, understand, expose and actively combat neo-colonialism in whatever guise it may appear. For the methods of neo-colonialists are subtle and varied. They operate not…
Hell on Earth: Understanding the Congo
By Devon Douglas-Bowers Part I The ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a long one, marked with political intrigue among nations, outside influences, ethnic tensions, and staggering amounts of violence. It is something that is often ignored in the mainstream media – even among the Obama-era ‘humanitarian interventions’ – even though…
The Globalization of Special Forces
Editorial Comment: Recommended Reading: Joint Vision 2020: America’s Military Preparing for Tomorrow – Full-spectrum Dominance By Manlio Dinucci Special Forces have been designed to use military means to conduct unconventional warfare operations, mainly to cause riots and murder political opponents. Washington already secretly used them in 78 countries, while denying the very existence of their…
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