An Historical Background to the US/NATO Proxy War Against Russia

Ian Beddowes Today the USA and its NATO allies have an overwhelming military presence throughout the world and are still trying to push that even further. They have the whole world divided into military commands. They have funded extremists everywhere, jihadists in the Middle East, Nazis in Ukraine. To call Russia imperialist’ in the present…

Liberia and the Challenges of US Imperialism

 Djibo Sobukwe For those who are concerned about the US interference and its debilitating colonial and neocolonial impact on Africa, the study of Liberia is instructive. As professor Niels Hahn argues in his book, Two Centuries of US Military Operations in Liberia, Challenges of Resistance and Compliance: “Liberia is the country in Africa where the United…

The Story of Seven Countries: A Review of US Aggression in West Asia and North Africa

Ali Karbalaei In the 21st century, the U.S. learnt the hard way of its catastrophic foreign military policy in West Asia: From boots on the ground to so-called precision strikes. Washington’s success in destabilizing a continent with terror and destruction over two decades came at the expense of mass civilian casualties?, dead U.S. soldiers, expensive…

Resisting AFRICOM and Beyond

T.A. Tran and Leanne Loo Mid-Atlantic members of the Black Alliance for Peace at a picket line action at Howard University, October 2022. (@Blacks4Peace) Rose Brewer, PhD, is an activist-scholar specializing in political economy, social movements, and studies in Africa and the African diaspora. She is a professor of African-American and African Studies at the…

Kwame Nkrumah is No Doubt Rolling in His Grave as AFRICOM Carries Out Military Training Exercises in Ghana

Jeremy Kuzmarov Nkrumah had envisioned the creation of an all-African military force to police the continent and protect it from outside exploiters—AFRICOM is his worst nightmare. In early March, the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) hosted a two-week training exercise called Flintlock around the Ghanaian cities of Daboya, Tamale and Volta as well as in the Ivory…

Somalia: The War of the Tides

Guadi Calvo Somalia has the largest untapped coastal oil reserves in the world, which explains why Washington has been operating at its own whim for decades, occupying it militarily or withdrawing as needed, so that all presidents, from Bush Sr. to Biden, have had something to say and do about it, always employing the right…

Global Africa’s Mission: Expose the CIA’s Shameless, Continuing Crimes

Mark P. Fancher Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director William Burns (L) meets Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh (R) in Tripoli, Libya on January 13, 2023. (Photo: Libyan Prime Ministry – Anadolu Agency) The CIA director recently visited Libya, a state that was destroyed by the U.S. History shows that the CIA is never up…

Empire by Invitation: Pax Africana or Pax Americana?

Samar Al-Bulushi Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, left, and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, right, attend a welcoming ceremony before talks at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 15, 2022. AT A WIDELY anticipated summit hosted by the Biden administration in Washington, D.C., last month, African leaders called for more support from the U.S. government…

The Hidden Truth Behind AFRICOM – U.S. Africa Command

Lee Camp The U.S. military’s incredibly secretive African Command, or AFRICOM, has been steadily growing over the past 15 years – and with almost no media coverage. The Pentagon keeps a lot of the details about AFRICOM secret. What we do know comes from leaked documents and fragmentary evidence, like the dozens of secret killer…

Canadian Sanctions on Zimbabwe Launched after Failed NATO Plot to Install US Military Base

Christian Shingiro A Zimbabwean police officer and election official check a voter’s ID, during 2008 election. Image Credit: Time Magazine A high-ranking member of the Zimbabwean Communist Party has exclusively informed The Canada Files of a Canadian-backed, NATO plot to put a US military base in Zimbabwe, which was thwarted in 2008. Canada has punished…

White House Summit with African Leaders Result in More Promises

Abayomi Azikiwe U.S. imperialism provides no other viable alternatives to Africa other than the pursuit of its non-aligned policy. Africa cannot be genuinely liberated and sovereign until the people defeat U.S. influence on the continent and around the world. A $55 billion package from the United States cannot regain ground lost to China and Russia…

If the US Told Rwanda and Uganda to Get Out of Congo, the War Would End

Ann Garrison Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Rwandan president Paul Kagame Rwanda and Uganda continue their plunder and destabilization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as proxies of the United States. The European Union has sanctioned five members of different armed groups operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including the spokesman…

The US is Determined to Drive a Wedge Between Ethiopia and Eritrea

Ann Garrison Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki embraced after signing a peace agreement in 2018. The TPLF waged the war against Eritrea while it controlled the Ethiopian state. The US seems willing to accept Ethiopia’s defeat of its former puppet, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), if it can just…

Africa Does Not Want to Be a Breeding Ground for the New Cold War

Tricontinental On 17 October, the head of US Africa Command (AFRICOM), US Marine Corps General Michael Langley visited Morocco. Langley met with senior Moroccan military leaders, including Inspector General of the Moroccan Armed Forces Belkhir El Farouk. Since 2004, AFRICOM has held its ‘largest and premier annual exercise’, African Lion, partly on Moroccan soil. This past June, ten…

NATO Claims Africa as its ‘Southern Neighbourhood’

No Cold War In August 2022, the United States published a new foreign policy strategy aimed at Africa. The 17-page document featured 10 mentions of China and Russia combined, including a pledge to ‘counter harmful activities by the [People’s Republic of China], Russia, and other foreign actors’ on the continent, but did not once mention the term…

Who’s Really Behind Burkina Faso’s Coup?

T.J. Coles Western media fixates on coup supporters waving Russian flags in Burkina Faso’s capital while overlooking the long history of US and French control over the country – and its destabilizing consequences. The landlocked country of Burkina Faso has proven itself to be a valuable diplomatic and intelligence asset in the US domination of…

Why NATO’s Wars Should Worry Africa

Farid Abdulhamid NATO’s encroachment on Russia is not only a threat to world peace but a clear and present danger to resource-rich regions like Africa. Farid Abdulhamid argues victory in Ukraine will embolden the western military bloc to escalate its agenda in Africa. Abdulhamid calls on activists to lead a vigorous campaign to de-militarise the…

Neo-Colonialism, International Finance Capital and the Necessity of Pan-African Sovereignty

Abayomi Azikiwe Sudan Women And The Democracy Movement African Union member-states are facing a critical conjuncture as the looming threats of global conflict against imperialism threatens world peace Note: These remarks were prepared and delivered in part to a webinar entitled “AFRICOM, Corporate Dominance, Neo-Colonialism: How Do People Assert Their Humanity and Choices.” The event…