US Shadow Wars in Africa

US Shadow Wars in Africa – Critical Resource Website Since the fall of Libya in 2011, the US has been directly engaged in extensive military operations in over 27 countries on the African Continent.

Drones Over Nigeria

By Alexander Reid Ross Quaking Faultlines The Bring Back Our Girls campaign in Nigeria has mushroomed into an international cause célèbre with very little understanding of nuance or complexity. It is impossible to argue that Boko Haram is not a threat to peace in Africa, but some are insisting that they share insidious rhizomal roots…

The Alliance Between the US Government and Nazis

Caleb Maupin The fact that US government is supporting the Right Sector and Svoboda in Ukraine as they praise Hitler and engage in a campaign of terrorism is shocking to many people in the United States. It runs contrary to everything they have been told about the US and its history. The narrative commonly taught…

The White House’s Nazis

Tony Cartalucci Among Washington’s most unsavory allies could be counted the unelected hereditary regime of Saudi Arabia, the homophobic, violent mobs of Thaksin Shinawatra in Thailand, and of course Al Qaeda who has been serving America’s geopolitical agenda since the 1980′s when it first gathered the sectarian extremists together as a mercenary army to fight…

The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders

UrWorld NewsMedia This episode of Critical Insights we were joined by author, John Potash, who wrote the FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders. This book contains a wealth of names, dates and events detailing the use of COINTELPRO style tactics by the FBI against a generation of leftist political leaders and leftist musicians….

The American Deep State, Deep Events, and Off-the-Books Financing

By Peter Dale Scott I have been writing about deep politics since 1993, when I gave the example of how the United States after World War sent American mafia figures to fight communism in Italy, thereby creating a corrupted politics that was soon out of control – as bad as the influence the mafia once…

The Real Rwandan Genocide and the Brainwashing of the Western Mind

keith harmon snow Rwandan women hold candles during a night vigil and prayer for genocide victims at the Amahoro stadium in Kigali, Rwanda, on April 7, 2014. (AFP Photo / Simon Maina) Every year in the first week of April Western media venues are flooded with stories that begin with statements about the anniversary of…

The Pentagon’s Mystery Missions in Africa

U.S. Military Averaging More Than a Mission a Day in Africa Documents Reveal Blinding Pace of Ops in 2013, More of the Same for 2014 Nick Turse The numbers tell the story: 10 exercises, 55 operations, 481 security cooperation activities. For years, the U.S. military has publicly insisted that its efforts in Africa are small…

How Egypt is Stopping the Next “Syrian War”

The West’s next proxy war is being stopped before it starts in Egypt. By Tony Cartalucci The unprecedented sentencing of over 500 Muslim Brotherhood members to death in Egypt for their role in the attack, torture, and murder of an Egyptian policeman, is the culmination of a lighting fast, all encompassing security crackdown across the…

The Financial Elite and the Global Land and Water Grab

By Eric Draitser The global financial crisis, which began in 2008, has significantly altered the way many speculators and financial institutions invest. Rather than taking huge risks with dodgy derivatives like credit default swaps and mortgage-backed securities, both of which have proven to be particularly volatile, many speculators have instead begun to invest in the…

The State, the Deep State, and the Wall Street Overworld

By Peter Dale Scott 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 less in the open: the other a parallel top secret government whose…

Advancing Empire: Putsch, Pillage and Duplicity

By James Petras Introduction The Obama regime, in coordination with its allies and proxies, has re-launched a virulent world-wide campaign to destroy independent governments, encircle and ultimately, undermine global competitors, and establish a new US – EU centered world order. We will proceed by identifying the recent ‘cycles’ of US empire-building; the advances and retreats;…

The Historic Role that Soviet Women Played in Defeating the Nazis in World War II

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya Lyudmila Pavlichenko was the most successful female sniper in history. How the West Ignores Women as Actors in Otherized Societies: An Unraveling of the Logos of the Soviet Amazons Due to Western ethnocentric views, the woman soldiers, sailors, and pilots of Russia and other Otherized (demeaned, alienated, vilified, and demonized) societies, such as China,…

US Opposed UN Resolution Combating Glorification of Nazism

Editorial Comment: It is not suprising that the US and its NATO allies would oppose this resolution. Report of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimi nation, xenophobia and related intolerance “Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” (document A/68/454) Entire UN Session Discussion – Scroll down for vote results…

Remembering Malcolm X

Malcolm X and the Internationalization of the Black Struggle 50th anniversary of the OAAU’s memorandum to the OAU African American History Month Series 2014 By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° In March of 1964, Malcolm X announced his official departure from the Nation of Islam where he had spent twelve years working on behalf of the…

Imperial Conquest: America’s “Long War” Against Humanity

By Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, January 29, 2014 The following text was presented  at the Rosa Luxemburg Conference, Berlin, January 11, 2014. The event was organized by the German daily “junge Welt”.  This year, the Rosa Luxemburg Conference marked the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the First World War. In this regard, the…

SOA Grads Prominent Among New Military Leadership in Honduras

By School of the Americas Watch As Juan Orlando Hernandez – Honduras’ next president and the current head of Honduras’ National Congress who is regarded by many as having stolen the November elections through numerous forms of fraud and control over the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, the Justice Department, and the Supreme Court — prepares to…

Cuba: Revolutionary Foreign Policy Upheld for 55 Years

Cuba will host the upcoming Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) summit, continuing a long-standing history of defending justice and sovereignty internationally By Sergio Alejandro Gómez Cuba is a small country, with limited economic resources, but has maintained, over the last 55 years, a foreign policy of global scope and influence based on…

America’s Global Black-Ops Blackout

Unraveling the Secrets of the Military’s Secret Military  By Nick Turse “Dude, I don’t need to play these stupid games. I know what you’re trying to do.”  With that, Major Matthew Robert Bockholt hung up on me. More than a month before, I had called U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) with a series of basic questions:…

Al-Qaeda, NATO’s Timeless Tool

Thierry Meyssan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Tripoli, Libya with Muslim Brotherhood The discovery of links connecting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Al- Qaeda is upsetting Turkish politics. Ankara not only actively supported terrorism in Syria, but did so as part of a NATO strategy. The case also shows the artificiality of armed groups fighting…

Stratfor Monitors and Studies Social Movements

Kevin Zeese The Corporate and Security State Recognizes Movements Are a Threat to the Power Structure so they Study Our Efforts Stratfor is a private intelligence agency that works for business interests and government.  It tracks and analyzes a lot of issues – the economy, military conflict, politics, energy and security.  Recently it has also…

The Destabilization of Africa. A Machiavellian Intrigue of Colossal Proportions

By Carla Stea On December 24th 2013, the United Nations Security Council voted to increase peacekeeping forces in South Sudan, whose independence from the North US-NATO powers celebrated only recently.  Democratic elections in South Sudan did not, however, lead to peace and stability.  Now, two ethnic groups, in South Sudan, the Dinka and Nuer are…

South Sudan and the Winds of a New War

By Alexander Mezyaev Libya 360° In the middle of December the situation in South Sudan abruptly turned for the worse. On December 15 ten cabinet members were arrested and charged with an attempt to stage a coup d’état. (1) Riek Machar, former Vice-President of South Sudan, is the main suspect to be charged. He was…

New Year’s Message from Muammar Al Qaddafi

In 1989, the following message was released to the Christian World in the form of an open letter, by the revolutionary Muslim leader and martyr, Muammar Qaddafi. Qaddafi is one of the few Muslim leaders who truly understood the revolutionary doctrine of Tawheed, recognizing the oneness of God and God’s Creation. He dedicated his life…

No, Mandela is Not My Hero: Part II

No, Mandela is Not My Hero: Part I (English and French) Mandela n’est pas mon héros, 2ème partie By Jean-Paul Pougala Author’s Note: Avant de commencer la leçon d’aujourd’hui, une mise au point s’avère nécessaire : MISE AU POINT : Je n’avais pas prévu cette deuxième partie, mais ce sont les très nombreuses réactions, surtout…

Humanitarian Imperialism: Rwanda, Israel, Africa, and the US

Humanitarian imperialism: Rwanda, Israel, Africa, and the US – Listen to the Interview >> KPFA Morning Mix Host Anthony Fest spoke to Robin Philpot author of Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa, from Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction, and me, KPFA News reporter Ann Garrison.  I noted that the countries we’re urged to bomb to…

Remaining Faithful to the Revolutionary Struggle Against Imperialism

On the Injustices of Those Representing Just Causes Amal Saad-Ghorayeb Western and Third World leftists, as well as some of us here in the region, often romanticize governments, movements and individuals in the Resistance Axis. The truth is that our side which represents politically just causes can be grossly unjust on the interpersonal and social…