Drones Over Africa Farirai Machivenyika and Mabasa Sasa The US wants a drone base established in Africa to complement the activities of the 3 500 troops that it will deploy to the continent this year. The troops – to be deployed to 35 African countries ‑ will come from the 2nd Brigade’s Heavy Combat Team…
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Africa and the New Colonialism of the Continent
William Blum is an author, historian and critic of American foreign policy, who has worked and reported from three different continents. He was one of the founding editors of the Washington Free Press, the first “alternative” newspaper in DC. His early journalism is best known for exposing CIA misdeeds and operations. His recent book, just…
W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois: Pioneers in the Struggle for Civil Rights, Pan-Africanism and Socialism
Abayomi Azikiwe W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois Repression and exile could not silence these global activists and writers African American History Month Series February 23 marks the 145th anniversary of the birth of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1868. This area did not have many African Americans…
African Revolutionary Heros: Amilcar Cabral, The Visionary
Guin Guin Bali We must practice revolutionary democracy in every aspect of our Party life. Every responsible member must have the courage of his responsibilities, exacting from others a proper respect for his work and properly respecting the work of others. Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever…
Lumumba
Documentary: Lumumba | by Raoul Peck (2000) Lumumba is a film that must be seen. It is a brilliant and majestic work which documents the extraordinary contributions and self-sacrifice that the 1960’s Congolese leader Patrice Emery Lumumba made in attempting to safeguard the territorial integrity and tremendous wealth of the Congo against the greed and…
African Resistance to Colonial Rule
By Benjamin Talton While African resistance to European colonialism is often thought of in terms of a white and black/European and African power struggle, this presumption underestimates the complex and strategic thinking that Africans commonly employed to address the challenges of European colonial rule. It also neglects the colonial-era power dynamic of which African societies…
The Rising Tide of Neo-Nazism
Carla Stea On December 20, 2012 the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 67/154 on “The Inadmissibility of the Glorification of Nazism.” (See:US Opposed UN Resolution Combating Glorification of Nazism) The full title of the resolution is: “Glorification of Nazism: inadmissibility of certain practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and…
Nigerians Angry at Ruling over Shell Oil Spills
Download Video Report >> Abdulrahman Hamisu, University of Abuja A top court in The Hague has rejected a bid by a group of Nigerian farmers to hold Shell responsible for damaging the environment as the result of a series of oil leaks in the Niger Delta. The court said only Shell’s subsidiary in Nigeria is…
Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese Struggle for Liberation
By Gary Wilson Ho Chi Minh On the 45th Anniversary of the Tet Offensive The following texts are based on an introduction on the Tet Offensive, given by LeiLani Dowell, and a talk on the Vietnamese liberation struggle given by Naomi Cohen at a Workers World Forum on January 30. The Tet Offensive of 1968…
Evo Morales: Ten Commandments Against Capitalism, For Life and Humanity
“Our vision of the Communitarian Socialism of Living Well is based on rights and not on the market. It is based on the full realization of human happiness of peoples and populations, through the full complementarity of the rights of peoples, persons, states and Mother Earth” On December 21, at a solstice celebration in Lake Titicaca,…
The Coming Imperial Implosion in the Arab World
The imperial offensive in North Africa and Syria “was designed to put a Euro-American spin on the momentum of change” with the advent of the Arab Spring. But it has actually empowered Islamist forces and their royal Persian Gulf patrons. This house of cards must ultimately collapse. Glen Ford Although the NATO powers account for…
Call for a United States of Africa: Communiqué from the African Revolutionary Movement
As escalating war and campaigns of terror engulf Africa, this communiqué was as uplifting as the sun breaking through in its full glory after a long night of danger and despair. The African Revolutionary Movement embodies the legacy and vision of Brother Leader Muammar Qaddafi. For everyone who loved him and cherished his vision for…
Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya Was Africa’s Most Prosperous Democracy
Garikai ChenguContrary to popular belief, Libya, which western media described as “Gaddafi’s military dictatorship” was in actual fact one of the world’s most democratic States. In 1977 the people of Libya proclaimed the Jamahiriya or “government of the popular masses by themselves and for themselves.” The Jamahiriya was a higher form of direct democracy with…
NATO Funding, Arming, & Simultaneously Fighting Al Qaeda From Mali to Syria
France Displays Unhinged Hypocrisy as Bombs Fall on Mali Tony Cartalucci A deluge of articles have been quickly put into circulation defending France’s military intervention in the African nation of Mali. TIME’s article, “The Crisis in Mali: Will French Intervention Stop the Islamist Advance?” decides that old tricks are the best tricks, and elects the…
Democracy and the Secret State : The Deception and Terrorisation of Populaces from the Era of Gladio to the War on Terror
Adeyinka Makinde “You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, unknown people far from any political game. The reason was quite simple – to force the people to turn to the state for greater security.” – Vincenzo Vinciguerra The nature, necessity and scope of the miscellany of powers exercised by the state over the…
Neo-Colonial Intrigue, Minerals, Militarism And The Struggle For Sovereignty And Unity
What’s At Stake In The Central African Republic? By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Recent events in the Central African Republic provides a test-case for the future of the continent and the role of imperialist governments in their ongoing interventions into the internal affairs of various nation-states. Threatened with a rebel alliance, known as Seleka, the…
Syria and Libya: The Role of the CIA, UN and the Muslim Brotherhood in Creating “Failed States”
Carla Stea According to Robert Baer, a former CIA covert operations specialist, the CIA endorsed the idea of using the Muslim Brotherhood against Nasser in Egypt. In “Sleeping With the Devil,” Baer outlines the tactics of a top-secret U.S. effort: ‘At the bottom of it all was this dirty little secret in Washington : the…
Universal Revolutionary Declaration: The People’s Agreement
World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth April 22nd, Cochabamba, Bolivia PEOPLES AGREEMENT Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and the future of humanity is in danger. If global warming increases by more than 2 degrees Celsius, a situation that the “Copenhagen Accord” could lead to, there is a 50%…
Evo Morales: Ten Commandments Against Capitalism, For Life and Humanity
“Our vision of the Communitarian Socialism of Living Well is based on rights and not on the market. It is based on the full realization of human happiness of peoples and populations, through the full complementarity of the rights of peoples, persons, states and Mother Earth” On December 21, at a solstice celebration in Lake…
Strategic Communications: How NATO Shapes And Manipulates Public Opinion
publicintelligence.net An example of a psychological operations leaflet dropped over Libya by NATO forces during Operation Unified Protector. When NATO forces intervened in Libya last year to help oust Muammar Qaddafi, military planners were aware that one of the greatest battles of the conflict would not be military, but ideological: justifying the legitimacy of their…
National Intelligence Council 2030 Alternative Worlds: A Global Threat
Office of the Director of National Intelligence The following report was released December 10, 2012 by the National Intelligence Council. A condensed version of the report is also available (1.17 MB PDF). This report is intended to stimulate thinking about the rapid and vast geopolitical changes characterizing the world today and possible global trajectories during…
Viva Venezuela!
Short documentary about building socialism in Venezuela and the 2012 elections. Filmed and produced by the Revolutionary Communist Group (UK) We must start by saying a big thanks to the people who financially donated to send our docuentary team to Caracas. Now we are able to bring to you the first of two films we…
America And The Politics Of Genocide In Africa
Uganda threatened to pull out of the dirty war in Somalia unless it was afforded continued immunity for its mass murders in Congo. Washington is the Big Daddy of both bloodbaths. Within days, Uganda backed down, since a “withdrawal from Somalia would amount to going on strike against its employer, the United States.” Glen Ford…
Libya, AFRICOM & The Renaissance of a Colonial Army
One of the objectives of the USA’s unofficial war in Libya was to set up a permanent base for AFRICOM. The moment has come to implement it, but without admitting it. Manlio Dinucci reveals their method. Manlio Dinucci The first batallion of the elite force of the « New Libya » – Libyans in service…
US Supports the Destruction of Bani Walid
Militias reportedly used nerve gas and phosphorous bombs to enter city Abayomi Azikiwe Amid claims of the usage of chemical weapons against the civilian population of the western hilltop city of Bani Walid, the United States State Department expressed support for the actions carried out by their surrogates in Libya. Bani Walid, described as a…
Bani Walid Pays the Price for Refusing to Accept the Mark of the Beast
Gerald A. Perreira It is a year since the brutal killing of Muammar Qaddafi and the installation of NATO’s proxy government in Tripoli. The installed government is not in control and heavily armed militias and foreign mercenaries are running the show. This past year has been one of chaos and savagery. Thousands have been hunted…
Libya: Race, Empire, and the Invention of Humanitarian Emergency
Based on my latest book, Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War On Libya and Africa (Baraka Books, Montreal, 2012), and nearly two years of extensive documentary research, this film places the 2011 US/NATO war in Libya in a more meaningful context than that of a war to “protect civilians” driven by the urgent need to “save…
Honor the Legacy of Muammar Gaddafi: Onwards to World Revolution!
Nina Westbury Crimson Satellite Today marks one year since Libya’s revolutionary leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was murdered. Hillary Clinton laughed at the incident and told CBS News, “we came, we saw, he died” — invoking the Roman tyrant Julius Caesar not by accident. What she forgot to mention was that the invasion of Libya was much…
Bani Walid: Who is Responsible for the Chaos?
The Warfalla Tribe Are Leading The Revolt Against Occupation Forces In Libya In Libya, at least 11 people have been killed and scores wounded after militia linked to the defence ministry shelled Bani Walid – a former stronghold of late Colonel Gaddafi. The country remains close to chaos following the Western-backed insurrection. RT talks to…
Bani Walid is Determined to Defend Itself From All Invaders
بني وليد مصممة على الدفاع عن نفسها ضد ‘الغزاة’ نقطة تفتيش عند مدخل بني وليد بني وليد- (ا ف ب): قال قائد عسكري في بني وليد، احد اخر معاقل انصار معمر القذافي التي يحاصرها منذ 10 ايام الجيش ومجموعات مسلحة تتحرك باوامر السلطات الليبية، “لن يدخلوا الى بني وليد الا على جثثنا”. وقال سالم الواعر…
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