Nicolas J. S. Davies US Marines provide security as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigate a grave site in a village in Kosovo on 1 July 1999. Department of Defense. Photo by Sgt. Craig J. Shell, U.S. Marine Corps (direct link). Public Domain, Link. When President Clinton dropped 23,000 bombs on what…
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Intelligence Leaks Reveal Just How Ready the Police State Is to Crack Down on Dissent
Rainer Shea Note: above image is from the “Blue Leaks” Since Cointelpro, the program where the FBI infiltrated anti-war, environmental, and civil rights groups, revolutionary-minded people in America have had an intuitive suspicion that the state is monitoring them more closely than it appears on the surface. People have developed sometimes overly paranoid theories about…
NATO at the Helm of Italian Foreign Policy
Manlio Dinucci NATO Defence Ministers (for Italy Lorenzo Guerini, Pd), meeting by videoconference on 17/18 June, made a series of “decisions to strengthen the deterrence of the Alliance”. No one in Italy, however, speaks about it, neither in the media (including social media) nor in the political world, where an absolute multipartisan silence reigns over…
U.S. Police and Military Commit State Sponsored Murder and Terror Worldwide
All African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) History of the Police Make no mistake, the brutal images of police murders that frequently surface on our social media and in the news are not anomalies and are not accidental. These images represent a continuation of an ongoing, deliberate, systematic form of violence which the United States settlers…
Al-Youm7 Interview: Aref Nayed Warns Neo-Ottoman Invasion is the Gravest Threat to Arab Countries
Dr. Aref Ali Nayed, head of the Ihya Libya (Reviving Libya) movement, said in a comprehensive interview with Al-Youm7 that the Cairo initiative to resolve the Libyan crisis relied on a Libyan societal dialogue and previous interactions with the Libyan stakeholders over the years. Nayed said it is a Libyan initiative par excellence, and which is…
Facebook Surrounds Africa
Manlio Dinucci Many industries and service companies are failing or shrinking due to the lockdown and subsequent crisis. Instead, there are those who have gained from all this. Facebook, Google (YouTube owner), Microsoft, Apple and Amazon – writes The New York Times – “are aggressively placing new bets, as the coronavirus pandemic has made them…
On African Liberation Day, the Black Alliance for Peace Demands U.S. Shut Down AFRICOM
Black Alliance For Peace The US Military Command in Africa allows Washington and its European allies to dominate the continent and its resources. “The campaign calls on Africans throughout the diaspora to mark Soweto Day on June 16.” On the 57th anniversary of African Liberation Day (ALD), the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) calls on…
Another African Liberation Day, But Africa Still Not Free
More than a half century after most African states gained nominal independence, the continent is still economically and politically dependent on “external actors,” said Ndubuisi Christian Ani, a scholar at the Institute for Security Studies, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The African Union solicits US and European support for “peace-keeping” and other missions, which amounts to…
The U.S. Brags About Health Aid to Africa While Bombing Some of Its Most Vulnerable Nations
Nick Turse A Somali woman carries wood to make a shelter in an internally displaced people camp on December 18, 2018. Hundreds of people fled from southern Somalia because of the US’s airstrikes against al Shebab in Baidoa. Photo: Mohamed Abdiwahabafp/AFP/Getty Images As Covid-19 began spreading across the African continent in late March, the U.S….
Regional and International Moves to Contain the Military Escalation in Libya
International and regional countries are cautiously monitoring the escalation of fighting in the Libyan capital Tripoli, amid intensive diplomatic and political efforts to contain any escalation that may extend to neighbouring countries, while Turkey continues to send disturbing signals. Rallying on the front lines The dangerous field developments in the course of military operations in…
Fake Trending Topics and the Failed Mercenary Operation Against Venezuela
Marco Teruggi The call for U.S. military intervention was the number one trend on Twitter in Venezuela. It coincided with Operation Gideon. That trend was not spontaneous, but created by an artificial mechanism that few know about and that poses a threat. Is it possible that the request for a foreign military intervention is a…
The Ever War on Terror: What on Earth is the U.S. Doing Bombing Somalia?
Danny Sjursen In a move that will surely worsen Somalia’s slow-boiling coronavirus crisis, the Trump Administration has quietly ramped up a bombing and covert raiding campaign, a major escalation of a war Congress hasn’t declared and the media rarely reports. The Trump administration has quietly ramped up a vicious bombing—and covert raiding—campaign in Somalia amid…
