By Amal Saad-Ghorayeb For 8 years consecutive years, I taught a course on research methodology and political analysis. But after watching US and other western officials present their case for attacking Syria, and the accompanying mainstream media’s coverage , I realized that I had shortchanged my students all these years. In fact I had left…
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Hommage à Thomas Sankara
Cameroon Voice Introduction « Nous préférons la pauvreté dans la liberté à l’opulence dans l’esclavage» (…) «Acceptons de vivre Africains. C’est la seule façon de vivre libres et dignes» (…) « Où est l’impérialisme ? Regardez vos plats quand vous mangez. Ces grains de riz, de maïs et de mil importés, c’est cela l’impérialisme. »…
The Yinon Plan: Panoramic Chaos in the Arab World
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya THE YINON DOCUMENT: THE ZIONIST AGENDA FOR THE MIDDLE EAST The Middle East and North Africa have been turned into an arc of instability all the way from Iraq and the Persian Gulf to Libya and Tunisia. Chaos and violence seem to be in almost every corner of the Arab World and…
Reflections of Fidel: Objective Truths and Dreams
The human species reaffirms with frustrating force that it has existed for approximately 230 million years. I do not recall any affirmation that it has achieved any greater age. Other kinds of humans did exist, like the Neanderthals of European origin; or a third, the hominid of Denisova in North Asia but, in no case…
US Government Protection of Al-Qaeda Terrorists and the US-Saudi Black Hole
By Peter Dale Scott The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol. 11, Issue 29, No. 1, July 29, 2013. For almost two centuries American government, though always imperfect, was also 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. Since 9/11 however,…
How Giant Tech Firms Help the Government Spy on Us and Gut Privacy
By Tom Burghardt As the secret state continues trawling the electronic communications of hundreds of millions of Americans, lusting after what securocrats euphemistically call “actionable intelligence,” a notional tipping point that transforms a “good” citizen into a “criminal” suspect, the role played by telecommunications and technology firms cannot be emphasized enough. Ever since former NSA…
Are Germany’s Intelligence Agencies and the Stasi Totally Different?
By Stephen Gowans Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel “has defended German cooperation with the National Security Agency program, called Prism, and rejected any comparison between it and the invasive methods used by the Stasi, the secret police of East Germany’s Communist government.” “The work of intelligence agencies in democratic states was always vital to the safety…
ECHELON Today: The Evolution of an NSA Black Program
By Tom Burghardt People are shocked by the scope of secret state spying on their private communications, especially in light of documentary evidence leaked to media outlets by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. While the public is rightly angered by the illegal, unconstitutional nature of NSA programs which seize and store data for retrospective harvesting…
Plan to Realize Bolivar’s Supreme Dream
Augusto C. Sandino An original project presented by the Army in Defence of Nicaragua’s National Sovereignty to the representatives of the twenty one Latin American States. PLAN TO REALIZE BOLIVAR’S SUPREME DREAM EXORDIO “Varied and diverse are the theories that have been conceived to achieve either a coming together, an alliance or a federation taking…
US Misrepresents its Role in Korean War and in Armistice Agreement as UN Command
By Ronda Hauben July 27 of this year will be an important anniversary. It will be the 60th anniversary of the Armistice Agreement which provided the means to end the hostilities of the Korean War. The armistice was recognized as a temporary means to stop the military action. It included a recommendation that it be…
Exploiting Africa’s Most Precious Resource: Children
By consciousbeingalliance CHRISTIAN SAVIORS & THE ADOPTIONS INDUSTRY IN CONGO EXPLOITING AFRICA’S MOST PRECIOUS RESOURCE: CHILDREN First Published on : 18 June 2013 Added Content (noted): 21 June 2013 Modified Slightly: 23 June 2013 Jennifer Fierberg & Keith Harmon Snow All those that are justified, God vouchsafed, in and for the sake of his only…
ECHELON: Exposing the NSA’s Global Spy Network
Editorial Comment: It is surprising to witness the excessive media frenzy surrounding the recent “leaks” from whistleblower, Edward Snowden. The fact that an extensive and advanced global surveillance network has been in place for decades seems to have eluded both the public and media alike. I thought it would be helpful to republish an article…
The History of America’s Secret Wars: Corporate Espionage and the Outsourcing of National Security
By Greg Guma This text is excerpted from Big Lies: How Our Corporate Overlords, Politicians and Media Establishment Warp Reality and Undermine Democracy Pre-9/11 Flashback When NATO’s US and British troops in Macedonia began evacuating Albanian rebels in June 2001, officials claimed that they were merely trying to help Europe avert a devastating civil war….
Africa: Terror Territory
Alexander Mezyaev Until the late 1990s, Africa was a terror-free zone. Terror raged in various places throughout the world, but the African continent was unfamiliar with this phenomenon. The situation changed in 1998 after large-scale simultaneous terrorist attacks in Kenya and Tanzania, when the U.S. embassies in both Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were attacked….
Militarizing Africa and African Studies and the U.S. Africanist Response
David Wiley There was an ironic and troubling confluence in the 1958-64 years when simultaneously the majority of African nations won their independence, the Soviet Sputnik went up and shocked Americans that they were not technologically number one in space, the Cold War exploded to new levels of conflict, and African studies – with its…
Ideology, Organization and the Mass Struggle
Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Lessons from the Moratorium NOW! Coalition, 2008-2013 Capitalism inside the United States is in terminal crisis. Since 2007, the banks and corporations have shed millions of jobs, taken trillions of dollars in bailouts from the federal government and the Federal Reserve and seized the homes of millions of people throughout the…
Africa and U.S. Imperialism: From the Atlantic Slave Trade, Colonialism to Neo-Colonialism
Continental resources are the source of the militarism of Europe and North America By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° May 25, 1963 represented the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the predecessor of the African Union (AU). The AU consists of 54 member-states from throughout the continent who are in…
The War on Africa: U.S. Imperialism and the World Economic Crisis
Abayomi Azikiwe Mineral resources and the quest for strategic advantage guides western foreign policy on the continent For more than two decades the United States and other Western European imperialist states have been escalating their military intervention in Africa and other geo-political regions of the world. This has been taking place during the so-called Post-Cold…
US-NATO Installed Libyan Regime Request Assistance by Imperialist Military Alliance
Massacre in Benghazi illustrates failure of West’s regime-change strategy By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° After more than two years of a full-fledged Pentagon and NATO-led war against the North African state of Libya, the installed General National Congress regime is now requesting assistance from their neo-colonial masters. In a press release issued by the Secretary…
The NATO Afghanistan War and US-Russian Relations: Drugs, Oil, and War
Peter Dale Scott continues his analysis of the U.S. system of domination. In a conference held in Moscow, this former Canadian diplomat summed up the findings of his investigation into the funding of the system with money from drug trafficking and hydrocarbon deals. These are things that we already know, but are still difficult to…
Going Rogue: America’s Unconventional Warfare in Africa and the Middle East
By Sharmine Narwani ‘The intent of U.S. [Unconventional Warfare] UW efforts is to exploit a hostile power’s political, military, economic, and psychological vulnerabilities by developing and sustaining resistance forces to accomplish U.S. strategic objectives…For the foreseeable future, U.S. forces will predominantly engage in irregular warfare (IW) operations.‘ So begins the 2010 Unconventional Warfare (UW) Manual…
The Pentagon Declares War on America
State Terrorism Directed Against the American People and Democracy Itself Frank Morales The “PATRIOT Act” is a repressive “coordination” of the entities of force and deception, the police, intelligence and the military. It broadens, centralizes and combines the surveillance, arrest and harassment capabilities of the police and intelligence apparatus. Homeland defense is, in essence, a…
Africa Must Unite for True Freedom, Prosperity
Pan-African News Wire Monday, 13 May 2013 Title: Africa Must Unite Author: Kwame Nkrumah Genre: Political Non-Fiction Publishers: PANAF Pages: 222 Year of Publication: 1963 Country: Ghana IN this book, Kwame Nkrumah spells out the tactics and strategy for the African Union. His argument is that until and unless African countries unite at the political,…
May 2013: Where AFRICOM Is Active In Africa
By Crossed Crocodiles “The countries that cooperate with us get at least a free pass,” acknowledged a senior U.S. official who specializes in Africa but spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid retribution. “Whereas other countries that don’t cooperate, we ream them as best we can.” — WP This has been the essence of US…
Venezuela: Reaffirmation, Warning and Encouragement for the Bolivárian Revolution
Editorial Comment: A Statistical Report on the April14 Venezuelan Presidential Election and Audit of Results A.V. By Luis Bilbao- Links With 50.75% of the votes, Nicolás Maduro was elected president of Venezuela. In 14 years, it is the sixth presidential election victory by the revolutionary process. Despite the magnitude of an unprecedented mass mobilisation in…
NATO, Gladio and America’s Unchecked Security State (Parts I & II)
Peter Dale Scott Part I: The Toxic Legacy of J. Edgar Hoover’s Illegal Powers “Dear Bess…. Hoover would give his right eye to take over [from the Secret Service] and all Congressmen and Senators are afraid of him. I’m not and he knows it. If I can prevent [it] there’ll be no NKVD or Gestapo…
Palestine, Israeli Foreign Policy and the Pan-African Movement
Abayomi Azikiwe Internationalist 360° Author’s Note: The following remarks were made for a class held on April 27, 2013 as part of a series on the history of Zionism and imperialism. This was the second part of the class sponsored by Workers World in Detroit. Rooted in imperialism and racist ideology, Zionism is a bulwark…
NATO’s Worldwide Expansion in the Post-Cold World Era
Rick Rozoff One of the most significant developments of the post-Cold War era, and certainly the most ominous, is the transformation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military bloc created by the United States during the genesis of the Cold War in 1949, into one that has grown to encompass the entirety of Europe,…
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola
Horace Campbell In Angola in the spring of 1988 the armed forces of apartheid South Africa and the US-backed mercenaries of Jonas Savimbi were defeated by the combined force of the Cuban military, the Angolan army, and the military units of the liberation movements of South Africa and Namibia. This led directly to the independence…
Venezuela Faces a Soft War
“The social property law will take away what’s yours – No to the Cuban law” said this 2009 publicity, which uses the image of a naked person to incite feelings of vulnerability. (CEDICE – a Venezuelan “thought for freedom” organisation) By David Segarra Rebelion The night after the elections, unknown groups deploy across Venezuela. Hospitals…
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