By TesfaNews Reality. Amnesty International has taken the amnesty out of humanity and became a killing tool by using criminals they call dissidents, political opposition and human rights activists in countries of interest. Taking the Amnesty out of Humanity. Please help stop a warmonger speaking on behalf of the Eritrean people It was two years…
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Stratfor and the Color Revolution Business
Globally Renowned Activist Collaborated with Stratfor Editorial Comment: In the video below, Ivan Marovic (co-founder of OTPOR along with Srdja Popovic) addresses the Occupy Wall Street General Assembly. See more on OTPOR here: Desperate for Destabilization in Venezuela, US Funded OTPOR Rears It’s Ugly Head Stratfor Monitors and Studies Social Movements Occupy Wall Street and “The American…
Divide and Conquer: Stratfor’s Strategies
Part 1: The birth of the private intelligence firm’s strategies for winning on the PR battlefield — for the highest bidder. Steve Horn On Christmas Day 2011, the hacktivist collective Anonymous ruined the day for a security firm that, throughout much of its history, enjoyed operating in the shadows. The firm: Strategic Forecasting, Inc., an…
American War Machine: Deep History and the Global Drug Connection
Author’s introduction to his book “American War Machine” by Peter Dale Scott dated 2010 Source: ISBN 978-1-4422-0589-5 Wikispooks Comment This introduction is a precis of the entire book which analyses the hidden mechanisms behind the excercise of real power in the Western World. The book is a culmination and synthesis of all of the author’s…
On the Psychological Warfare Against the FARC-Colombia Peace Process in Havanna
Who would benefit Uribe’s death? By ANNCOL “Uribe is no problem for the FARC but to JM Santos” THE SILVA Gabrielito BOBO, quoting a song from when they were a favorite acolyte, to try to wash the betrayal he did to Uribe Vélez as defense minister and as the ambassador to the U.S., took out…
Asia Pivot Declared, US Army Eyes Africa
By Andrei Akulov U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Africa in June-July was widely seen as evidence of the White House’s broader foreign policy objectives which have included an expansion of U.S. military operations across Africa. With the forces leaving Afghanistan, the Army is looking for new missions around the world. «As we reduce the…
Angola Celebrates its Freedom
Second in economic growth among African countries commemorates 38th anniversary of its independence By Claudia Fonseca Sosa Luanda, the Angolan capital, is one of the most visited cities on the African continent. On November 11, 1975, President Antonio Agostinho Neto proclaimed before Africa and the world the birth of the People’s Republic of Angola (now…
Remembering Kwame Ture, June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998
Stokely Carmichael, national head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee speaks from the hood of an automobile on the campus of Florida A&M University, April 16, 1967, in Tallahassee, Florida. Several hundred students listened as Carmichael spoke of “Black Power” and the Vietnam war. – Kwame Ture Kwame Ture was born of working class parents…
The US Military Presence in Australia: Asymmetrical Alliance Cooperation and its Alternatives
By Richard Tanter Through the ANZUS alliance, Australia, like Japan and South Korea, has been is a key part of the United States “hub-and-spokes” Asia-Pacific alliance structure for more than sixty years. Dating back to the earliest years of the Cold War and the conclusion of post-war peace with Japan. An historical chameleon, the shape…
Libya’s Deepening Power Struggle
Editorial Comment: It is clear that the November 9th Movement and the National Working Group are regressive initiatives that offer no solution to the present crisis, merely an opportunity for the general public to vent their discontent in a manner that is non-threatening to the occupation authorities, since like the regime, these movements are counter-revolutionary…
Venezuelan Communists Reject Opposition’s Destabilization Plan
Presna Latina The Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) on Monday expressed its criticism of actions by the local opposition aimed at creating more tension leading up to the Dec. 8 elections. With a month to go before municipal elections, right wing forces are stepping up actions to create a situation that will lead to a…
The Imperialist Ngos Recolonizing Africa and the African Leaders Who Serve Them
Emasculation of the African with Awards, Grants and Prizes Sophia Tesfamariam I am always amazed at how much time and energy is spent by those of European decent discussing “Africa’s development”. Birgit Brock-Utne, an astute European educator of Norwegian origin, wrote the following in her book[1] about those who insist on preaching to Africa about…
Steve Biko and the Quest for Black Power Today
Next April 27 marks the 20th anniversary of the first majority rule elections in South Africa. Many will be wondering what all the celebration is about, and what martyred Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko’s guidance would be. “We must locate Biko in the struggle against the state under the ANC, which has adopted an increasingly…
“History Will Absolve Me”: Fidel Castro 60 Years Later
By Maximilian Forte Today marks the 60th anniversary of Fidel Castro’s famous “History Will Absolve Me” speech, given in his defense during his trial following the unsuccessful guerrilla attack on the Moncada barracks on July 26 of that year. The complete speech, which was transcribed after the fact entirely from memory, is available here in…
Volcano Under the Snow: Death of the 20th Century General Vo Nguyen Giap
“Nothing is more precious than freedom.” – Vo Nguyen Giap A press report from Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital, notes that the legendary General Vi Nguyen Giap, one of the most eminent figures in Vietnamese history and a great friend of Cuba and revolutionary causes, died at the age of 102 on October 4. Ge Luo…
The Pseudo-War on Terror: How the US Has Protected Some of Its Enemies
By Peter Dale Scott Before World War Two American government, for all of its glaring faults, also served as a model for the world of limited government, having evolved a system of restraints on executive power through its constitutional arrangement of checks and balances. All that changed with America’s emergence as a dominant world power,…
Rural Deaths in Venezuela Politically Motivated, Linked to Paramilitaries
Venezuela’s land disputes have claimed over 300 lives, according to unofficial figures from community groups. By Ryan Mallett-Outtrim The alleged murder of a rural worker in Lara state is the latest in a series of killings allegedly linked to paramilitaries in the far north of the Andes, according to a local human rights group. On…
“The Commune or Nothing”: Popular Power and the State in Venezuela
By Frederick Mills As a member of the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York delegation to Venezuela this past August, this researcher was able to observe a variety of community-based organizations and their social production of goods and services in both urban centers and the countryside. [1] The U.S. delegation arrived at a time when…
Bolivia: Six Strategies for Sovereignty, Dignity and the Life of the Peoples
The Declarations Full Text of the Resolutions Ten Commandments Against Capitalism, For Life and Humanity Bolivia’s cogent responses to recent provocations from the Empire By Richard Fidler Washington’s refusal to allow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to over-fly its colony of Puerto Rico, September 19, attracted little attention in the North American and European media. But…
Evo Morales: As Long as Imperialism Exists There Will Never Be Peace
Bolivian President Evo Morales at the United Nations General Assembly English Transcript Statement Summary Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia, highlighted his country’s progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals, noting that in the eight years of his presidency, he had seen economic growth increase by 4.8 per cent. Bolivia had successfully reduced extreme poverty…
September 20, 2006, President Chávez Called for a Revolution Against the US Empire at the UN
Link to full speech and transcript: President Chávez Full Speech at the UN SC September 20, 2006
US Blocks Draft Resolution at IAEA Against Israel’s Undisclosed Nuclear Weapons
Western countries have once again blocked a resolution proposed by Arab states to the UN nuclear agency criticizing Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons. The draft was put forward by 32 countries during the International Atomic Energy Agency’s annual General Conference in the Austrian capital, Vienna, on Friday to criticize Israel’s refusal to acknowledge its possession of…
The CIA, the Taliban, and the Strategy of Tension in Afghanistan
James Corbett By any reasonable standard, the US-led NATO-powered invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, now entering its 13th year, has been an unmitigated failure. The economic costs of the war are easy enough to calculate, although difficult for the average person to comprehend. Even the most conservative estimate of the cost of the Afghanistan war…
Aggression Against Libya: Examining the Past – Looking Towards the Future
Alexander Mezyaev Part I The threat of US aggression against Syria remains imminent. It is highly propitious to go back again to the legal assessment of NATO and the United Nations leadership actions at the time of operation against Libya. The armed conflict in Libya and the following intervention of NATO in March-October 2011 against…
Ethiopia to Continue Land Grabbing and Forced Resettlement
By Curtis Kline Millions of acres of Ethiopia’s most fertile lands are being offered to foreign investors, often in long-term leases and at bargain prices. At the same time, through its ‘villagization’ program, the Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Peoples in order to free up their land so the transnational…
Remembering Salvador Allende
Salvador Allende’s Last Words to the Nation This speech was delivered at 9:10 am on September 11, 1973, in the midst on an ultimately successful US-sponsored coup d’etat against the democratically-elected government. Barricaded inside La Moneda, the presidential palace, President Allende gave his life defending Chilean democracy. My friends, Surely this will be the last…
Central Africa: The Concept of “Failed State” a Cover for International Crimes
By Alexander Mezyaev Libya 360° A coup d’état took place in the Central African Republic this March. The events continue to unfold in the most unfavorable way to aggravate the tragedy. It was clear from the very start that the coup is a result of intense interference from outside. (1) Now the goals are becoming…
The Deeper Penetration of AFRICOM on the Continent
Nick Turse tracks where the Pentagon is moving in Africa By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° A recent study conducted by Nick Turse of TomDispatch.com on the increasing role of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) illustrates why this issue should become a major focus of the peace, anti-war and anti-imperialist movements in the West. With…
AFRICOM: The Pivot to Africa
The Startling Size, Scope, and Growth of U.S. Military Operations on the African Continent By Nick Turse They’re involved in Algeria and Angola, Benin and Botswana, Burkina Faso and Burundi, Cameroon and the Cape Verde Islands. And that’s just the ABCs of the situation. Skip to the end of the alphabet and the story remains the same: Senegal and…
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