Mireille Fanon Mendès France In December 2014, the UN General Assembly proclaimed in its Resolution 68/237 the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024). This Decade should have aimed at encouraging states to eradicate the social injustices produced by history and to combat racism and racial prejudice and discrimination that people of African descent…
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When the Arsonist Returns to the Scene of the Crime Dressed as a Firefighter
A.T. Freeman Photo caption: Protests erupt in Guyana in response to racist killings Photo credit: Newsroom Guyana On 9 September, Irfaan Ali, the president of Guyana issued a statement that he would be making a request to Britain and the US-organised Regional Security System (RSS) to support the Guyana Police Force, establishing an international Commission…
Libya: Militias, Multiple Tracks, Foreign Meddling, Prevent Progress in Dialogues
The United States and Russia entered the Libyan-Libyan dialogue by opening parallel paths to the Moroccan Bouznika path, in an effort to break through the political blockage deepened by dissonant regional and international agendas, and the complexity of the proliferation of arms, militias, mercenaries, and the direct Turkish military presence in western Libya. The multiplicity…
Colombia: Outrage and Misgovernment
Pedro Santana Rodríguez Photo: Ivan Valencia In Colombia, September 9 has now been designated as the day of human rights in homage to San Pedro Claver, a Jesuit priest who dedicated his life to the defense of black Africans kidnapped from their land and brought and sold into slavery in Cartagena. On that day and…
Venezuelan Women are the Hardest Hit by the Blockade: Overburdened, Exploited and Carrying the Emotional Cost
María Mercedes Cobo In patriarchal worlds, and in times of need, deprivation and challenge, women are the most affected, the most held back and the most likely to be sacrificed. They are also the most overburdened, seeking solutions and taking on survival challenges stemming from the inequality of macho culture. US imperialist and colonial policies…
It’s Time to Acknowledge Hutu Genocide and Rwandan Occupation of DR Congo
Ann Garrison Photo: In April 1995, Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Army massacred 8,000 Hutus sheltering in an internal refugee camp in Kibeho, Rwanda. Photograph by Paul Lowe. “Global power elites are silent about Hutu genocide and Rwanda’s ongoing occupation of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),” writes Ann Garrison, “because it has served their interests…
The Plot Against Libya
Eric Draitser The scorching desert sun streams through narrow slats in the tiny window. A mouse scurries across the cracked concrete floor, the scuttling of its tiny feet drowned out by the sound of distant voices speaking in Arabic. Their chatter is in a western Libyan dialect distinctive from the eastern dialect favored in Benghazi….
The Old Desire Among U.S. Masses to Benefit from Empire
Rainer Shea The above image is from the cover of J. Sakai’s “Settlers.” Why have there so far been no socialist revolutions in the core imperialist countries, apart from the formation of a now dismantled socialist republic in eastern Germany? Because since the onset of capitalism and colonialism, the capitalist ruling class has kept the…
NSA-CIA Global Surveillance: Pine Gap and Menwith Hill
Role of Menwith Hill by Dr. Dave Webb of the Global Network CABB Archive Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign Pine Gap: Australian Anti-Bases Campaign Coalition Global Network
DHS: White Supremacists Are Greatest Terror Threat
Betsy Woodruff Swan Via Popular Resistance Above photo: None of the DHS drafts POLITICO reviewed referred to a threat from Antifa, the loose cohort of militant left-leaning agitators who senior Trump administration officials have described as domestic terrorists. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo. The documents are slightly different drafts of the same annual threat assessment, which is…
Greece Gives Birth to Another Virulent Neo-Nazi Party
Andrew Lee Ilias Kasidiaris posing in the center alongside other GD members with a Nazi Wehrmacht flag during the Winter Solstice in Greece. (December 21, 2012.) [Source: efsyn.gr] Greeks for the Fatherland:” Ilias Kasidiaris and Greece’s New Far-Right Party A new neo-Nazi party, “Greeks for the Fatherland,” has formed in Greece under the leadership of…
Allende’s Chile: 50 Years On – Mourning and Celebrating
Francisco Dominguez Francisco Domínguez writes: This 4th September marks 50 years since the electoral victory of Salvador Allende in Chile, an event that sent shock waves through the regionally dominated system of US hegemony – bringing panic to the White House. Five decades on, the reverberations of its appeal still resonate very strongly, both in…
