Elson Concepción Pérez Twenty-seven years have passed since Fidel’s warning at the Environment Summit in Brazil that a biological species – man – is at risk of disappearing due to the rapid and progressive destruction of its natural living conditions. The fires in the Amazon has been among the most commented news in recent days…
Category: GENOCIDE
Ancient Eugenicists
Zanga Chimombo Ancient Egyptians were not Asians, nor aliens. “Genocide might indeed be a worse demon of our nature.” When black civilisation was destroyed first time round there was little to show for its former glories apart from squat noses and thick lips on statues and other artworks that invading lighter folks successively reduced. After…
Policing the Borders of Suffering
Zoé Samudzi Survivors of the Herero genocide, ca. 1907. Photo: Wikimedia Commons LIKE MANY AMERICANS, my first exposure to the idea of concentration camps came from public school lessons about World War II. But a later, formative influence on my understanding was the stories my mother told me about the Zimbabwean liberation struggle and the…
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the Spies Who Kept a Criminal US with a Nuclear Monopoly from Making More of Them
David Lindorff Hiroshima after the dropping of the first wartime atomic bomb on Aug. 6, 1945 (Imperial War Museum photo) Seventy-four years ago today, the US dropped the first ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred thousand, instantly vaporizing some 70,000 people, mostly civilians, and causing the painful,…
Zoe Samudzi: A Concentration Camp By Any Other Name…
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford In the wake of attacks on Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for describing immigrant detention centers as “concentration camps,” author Zoe Samudzi asked, “Why are Jewish organizations given moral authority over use of terms like ‘concentration camp’ and ‘genocide,’” but not people from other groups that have been victimized by…
Brumadinho, Six Months After a Crime with No Remedy
Pedro Stropasolas, from Brumadinho, Minas Gerais Vale is paying a minimum wage as emergency aid to less than 10% of the 944,000 people affected by the dam disaster A honk blares through the city of a strangled scream. The noise of the Vale train that runs through Brumadinho is a sign that ore never stops,…
Honduras: Who Would Destroy a Community’s Food Crops?
Zoe PC On July 16, members of the Lenca community woke up to find that their corn crops had been destroyed. Members of the Lenca community in Río Blanco in the northwestern region of Honduras woke up on July 16 to find that 15 sections of their corn crops had been destroyed during the night….
Theft of a Continent — America’s Real Original Sin
Mark P. Fancher Before slavery there was the theft of territory from indigenous nations followed in short order by a campaign of genocide. “Though the surrender of the settlers’ nation building project may seem unreasonable, it is precisely what the settlers demanded of America’s indigenous first nations.” Another Fourth of July has come and gone….
Sea Rescue is Not a Crime
Peoples Dispatch On June 29, Italian authorities arrested Carola Rackete, the captain of an NGO rescue ship carrying 42 migrants to the Italian port of Lampedusa. On June 26, the rescue vessel, Sea-Watch 3, reached Lampedusa, defying the restraining orders given by Italy’s far-right anti-immigrant interior minister Matteo Salvini. The vessel, run by the NGO…
War, Empire and Racism in the Anthropocene
Nafeez Ahmed The Anthropocene. A proposed new geological epoch which designates a shift to a planetary age dominated by human impacts across the geological processes of the Earth. Geologists dispute the duration, precision, relevance and even accuracy of the concept. But the term has increasingly entered the scientific lexicon as increasing numbers of experts across…
Confronting Black Genocide and Racism in Brazil
“The police kill at least 14 young Black men in Brazil every single day,” said Prof. Jaime Amparo Alves, a member of the Brazilian Black Movement who teaches anthropology at the College of Staten Island, New York City. “Which country in the world,” he asks, “has this rate of Black genocide?” The election of racist…
Colombia: Where Assassinations Escalate and No One is Indignant
Vannessa Morales Ivan Duque’s triumph in Colombia’s presidential elections last year predicted a worsening of the war, just as it happened during the term of the former president and now Senator Álvaro Uribe. Although more than 15 years have passed since the class faction Uribe represents burst into the highest spheres of political power, the…
