After the west’s bombs, what next in Libya? Lizzie Phelan Whether or not you are or were “pro” or “anti”-Gaddafi should not have prevented anyone from asking the obvious questions. And there are some Libyans I know who would describe themselves as “anti-Gaddafi” before the crisis, but when they asked themselves this question and thought…
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Libya: Permanent Chaos aka Permanent Revolution
Alexander Mezyaev In Libya, the US consulate in Benghazi came under attack which took the lives of the US ambassador and other mission staff. While the unrest was immediately sparked by the release of an anti-Muslim film on YouTube, an overview of the developments during the past several months should place the current events into…
Libya: Towards A Politically Divided State
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya was interviewed by Life Week, a major Chinese magazine based in Beijing. What follows is the English transcript of the interview with Xuxu Jingjing. XUXU JINGJING: In your opinion, why did Mustafa Abu Shakour win the election? What is Mustafa Abu Shakour’s most important political capital? What do you think about his…
Salafism and the CIA: A Winning Formula to Destabilize Africa, the Middle East and Russia
F. William Engdahl Internationalist 360° Introduction The assassination of the most respected Sufi religious leader in Dagestan, Russia’s volatile Caucasus, comes as Salafist jihadists in Libya murder a US Ambassador who was actually a key player in ousting Gaddafi and bringing the Salafist Muslim Brotherhood and Jihadists into power. Throughout the entire Islamic world today,…
Who Gets Africa’s Water?
Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative Geostrategic Basis Of Libyan War: Hydrological Warfare And Energy Imperialist NGO’s Eye Africa’s Massive Underground Water Reserves The Great Man-Made River Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement Crossed Crocodiles When water disappears, there is no alternative. A serious crisis occurs when there is less than 500 cubic…
Africa Must Unite To Develop Politically And Economically
Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Interview With Abayomi Azikiwe Question: Due to ignorance, Africa may be seen for some as a continent, with high similarities among countries, rather than a group of countries with highly diversified languages, cultures, ethics, climate, geographic landscape. How do you see Africa? Azikiwe: Africa geographically is a continent. There are 54…
South Africa: The Unfinished Revolution
South Africa did not complete its revolution with the transfer of government power to Black hands in 1994. The Marikana mine massacre shows that imperialism “will not tolerate any disruption in the flow of profits from the exploitation of highly valuable natural resources.” The question now comes to a head: Will the poor majority of…
COINTELPRO: Aoki and FBI Informant? Where’s the Evidence?
Diane C. Fujino Seth Rosenfeld‘s dramatic announcement that Richard Aoki was an FBI informant provoked an enormous response from Chronicle readers. Could it be true? Or was this a “snitch-jacketing,” a classic FBI tactic used to cast suspicion on a legitimate activist by spreading rumors and manufacturing evidence? FBI Documents As a scholar, I insist…
Africa, AFRICOM and the Proliferation of US Military Bases and Puppet Regimes
John Cherian The United States makes a scramble for the African continent to set up a string of military bases The regime change in Libya has been a feather in the cap for U.S. military planners. Slain Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi had played an important role in convincing the African Union to protest strongly against…
My Comrade, Richard Aoki
Seth Rosenthal has taken a lot of flak for writing this book and he deserves it. By Elbert “Big Man” Howard At almost 75 years of age, there are very few things in life that surprise me anymore. However, I can say I was not only surprised by the allegations made against my comrade Richard…
Congo Genocide
Ann Garrison Internally displaced Congolese children shelter from the rain under plastic sheets as they wait for aid to be distributed in Kibati, north of Goma, eastern Congo, on Aug. 8. Drenching rain punctuated by frightening bursts of thunder and forked lightning add to the misery of some of the 280,000 refugees from the escalation…
Special Report: Exposing US Agents of Low-Intensity Warfare in Africa
The “Policy Wonks” Behind Covert Warfare & Humanitarian Fascism. This special report includes three unpublished video clips of interviewees from the Politics of Genocide documentary film project: Ugandan dignitary Remigius Kintu, former Rwandan prime minister Fautisn Twagiramungu, and Nobel peace prize nominee Juan Carrero Saralegui. keith harmon snow From the 1980s to today, Western intelligence…
Abolish The CIA!
Chalmers Johnson Steve Coll ends his important book on Afghanistan by quoting Afghan President Hamid Karzai: “What an unlucky country.” Americans might find this a convenient way to ignore what their government did in Afghanistan between 1979 and the present, but luck had nothing to do with it. Brutal, incompetent, secret operations of the U.S….
Cruise Missile Socialists: When Justifying Imperialist Intervention Goes Wrong
Mazda Majidi On July 1, an article titled “Libya and Syria: When Anti-Imperialism Goes Wrong” was published on the North Star website, signed by “Pham Binh of Occupy Wall Street, Class War Camp.” The article argues that imperialist interventions in Libya and Syria are justified because they are demanded by forces the author calls revolutionary….
Expanding US Empire Of Bases: The Lily-pad Strategy
David Vine How the Pentagon Is Quietly Transforming Its Overseas Base Empire and Creating a Dangerous New Way of War The first thing I saw last month when I walked into the belly of the dark grey C-17 Air Force cargo plane was a void — something missing. A missing left arm, to be exact,…
Africa: From Failed Index To Aid At Gunpoint
Crossed Crocadiles Two items came out this past week that are intimately related, although probably not intentionally linked. Foreign Policy and The Fund For Peace released their annual Index of Failed States. Africa Ia A Country calls them out, it is a failed index. We at Africa Is a Country think Foreign Policy and the…
We Must Bury Imperialism In Africa Or Perish
<<MUAMMAR GADDAFI VS AFRICOM AND THE RECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA: ESSENTIAL READING>> As revolutionary Pan-Africanists, we must give unwavering support to the Libyan Popular National Movement, the natural heir of the Al Fateh Revolution. *Gerald A. Perreira Libya 360° Muammar Qaddafi is dead and the Al Fateh revolution has been rolled back. Two months after his…
Muammar Gaddafi Vs AFRICOM And The Recolonization Of Africa
The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan showed the West that wars in which their own citizens get killed are not popular; AFRICOM is designed to ensure that in the coming colonial wars against Africa, it will be Africans who do the fighting and dying, not Westerners. The forces of the African Union are to become…
US Expands Secret Intelligence Operations In Africa
Craig Whitlock WP Via Albared The U.S. military is expanding its secret intelligence operations across Africa, establishing a network of small air bases to spy on terrorist hideouts from the fringes of the Sahara to jungle terrain along the equator, according to documents and people involved in the project. At the heart of the surveillance…
Squeezing Africa Dry: Behind Every Land Grab Is A Water Grab
GRAIN Food cannot be grown without water. In Africa, one in three people endure water scarcity and climate change will make things worse. Building on Africa’s highly sophisticated indigenous water management systems could help resolve this growing crisis, but these very systems are being destroyed by large-scale land grabs amidst claims that Africa’s water is…
US Escalates Military Penetration of Africa
The Americans are preparing to establish a network of bases in Africa, initially to serve a 3,000-troop roving brigade to be deployed on the continent, next year. The brigade has all the markings of a permanent presence on African soil, while the bases are euphemistically called “safe communities.” U.S. influence over African militaries is already…
The Militarisation of Poverty in Africa
Increasing the rewards for those forces able to capture the state, by any means necessary, inevitably leads to war. Toby Leon Moorsom Over the past year, Africa has seen the decomposition of states from coast to coast. A belt of war, coups and large-scale spontaneous demonstrations has emerged across the Sahel, from Guinea-Bissau to Somalia….
Libya, Africa and AFRICOM: An Avalanche of Unfolding Disasters
This is the reality of the new Libya: civil war, squandered resources, and societal collapse, where voicing preference for the days when Libya was prosperous and at peace is a crime, but lynching and torture is not only permitted but encouraged. And if you want a vision of Africa under AFRICOM tutelage, look no further…
The Great Food Robbery Targets Africa
INTRODUCTION The global food system is in profound crisis. Over a billion people suffer from hunger each day, and this number is rising faster than the global population, even though there is more than enough food in the world feed everybody. Climate change, fuelled by a wasteful and polluting industrial food system, threatens to make…
Calling for an End to Imperialist Land Grabbing
THE GREAT FOOD ROBBERY TARGETS AFRICA On 5 December 2011, GRAIN received the 2011 Right Livelihood Award, often referred to as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, at the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm. GRAIN was awarded “for its worldwide work to protect the livelihoods and rights of farming communities and to expose the massive purchases of farmland…
The Union for the Mediterranean: An Instrument of Soft Power for the Globalisation of NATO
The US Department of Defense’s Unified Command Plan, 2011 Human Rights, geopolitics and the Union for the Mediterranean Julien Teil US foreign policy displays a clear will to preserve control over the armies of conquered territories. The geographical division of the world into zones of responsibility – American responsibility – is an obvious proof of…
Samurai Among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life
Title: Samurai Among Panthers: Richard Aoki on Race, Resistance, and a Paradoxical Life Author: Diane C. Fujino Publisher: Critical American Studies, University of Minnesota Press Book Review By Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° This is a combined autobiography and biographical account of the life and times of Richard Aoki, a Japanese-American, who along with his parents…
The African Union is an Instrument of Imperialist Rule
Thomas C. Mountain The African Union has mutated into a particularly corrupt and brutal enforcer of western rule in Africa. When it comes to the interests of Pax Americana, you must start with the crimes committed in the AU’s “War on Terror” in Somalia, a.k.a., the War on the Somali people. In 2006, the Somalis…
Call for a National Election Boycott in Libya
Editorial Comment: It is a bitter irony that calls for an election boycott are coming from the monarchists. It is apparent that they never intended to accept NATO’s imposed government, although they instigated the armed insurrection and demanded “intervention” that would see two million Libyans displaced, over 300,000 slaughtered by NATO and its mercenaries and…
Destroying Africa with Western “Democracy
Thomas C. Mountain Western style “democracy” is destroying Africa. It seems everywhere you look in Africa you see elections marked by violence and bloodshed. “Buy, rig or steal” is the name of the game and if that doesn’t work, send in the French army and UN “peacekeepers” and rocket the presidential residence and just take…
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