Ruperto Concha Last week had two fateful and mysterious dates for the United States: Wednesday 11, with the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, and Friday 13, which is the gringo version of our “Tuesday 13”. Friday the 13th, of course, is pure folklore. But September 11, 2001, caused a serious, almost…
Category: MIDDLE EAST
Al Mesmari: The LNA is Battling Against Qatar and Turkey in Tripoli
The spokesperson for the Commander-in-Chief of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Major General Ahmed al-Mesmari, confirmed that the battle in Tripoli exposed the destructive role played by both Qatar and Turkey in Libya . “After 2011, we discovered that Qatar had become a major player in Libya in a number of ways, such as political…
René González, of the Cuban 5: ‘The Colonization of Palestine Was and Still Is an Ongoing Criminal Enterprise’
Ramona Wadi Cuba’s anti-terror efforts to protect its nation are best known through the story of the Cuban Five, who infiltrated terror organisations sponsored by the US government in Miami. The repetitive cycles of foreign interference and intervention in Latin America and elsewhere testify to the importance of a consistent anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggle that…
Israel’s Scramble for Africa: Selling Water, Weapons and Lies
Ramzy Baroud Many African governments are giving Israel exactly what it wants – a way to break out of its isolation and legitimize its Apartheid. “Israel has won the support of some of Africa’s ruling classes, but it has failed to win the African people.” For years, Kenya has served as Israel’s gateway to Africa. Israel has been using…
LNA Warns Qatar and Turkey They Will Be Defeated in Libya
Khaled Mahmoud The Libyan National Army (LNA) has threatened to defeat Qatar and Turkey, for supporting terrorism in Libya. The threat came hours after the army confirmed downing a Turkish drone operating in favor of armed militias loyal to Government of National Accord (GNA), chaired by Fayez al-Sarraj. Karama operations media center of the LNA…
US Border Patrol and Israeli Military Contractor Putting a Native American Reservation Under “Persistent Surveillance”
Will Parrish On the southwestern end of the Tohono O’odham Nation’s reservation, roughly 1 mile from a barbed-wire barricade marking Arizona’s border with the Mexican state of Sonora, Ofelia Rivas leads me to the base of a hill overlooking her home. A U.S. Border Patrol truck is parked roughly 200 yards upslope. A small black…
“Gaza Fights For Freedom”Humanizes World’s Largest Concentration Camp
Miko Peled GAZA, OCCUPIED PALESTINE — In her new documentary film, Gaza Fights for Freedom, journalist Abby Martin places the Gaza Strip under a microscope for the viewers to see. The result is an excellent movie that is difficult to watch, and disturbing at times, precisely because it presents a true, realistic view of life…
NATO Nuclear Gaff
Manlio Dinucci What the United States keeps nuclear bombs in five NATO countries – Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Turkey – has long been proven (especially by the Federation of American Scientists – FAS) [1]. But NATO never officially admitted it. However something has just gone off the rails. DOWNLOAD DOCUMENT: 2019 – A…
Stella Calloni: “We Are Allowing Them to Plunder Our Historical Memory”
Rudy Lopez The Argentine journalist and writer, Stella Calloni, recipient of countless regional recognitions as a fundamental piece of the communicational articulation between peoples, possessor of a long trajectory as a war correspondent and fighter for peace, granted an interview to Correo del Alba, and sat down with us to share her analysis on the…
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…
Air Strikes on Misrata Airport Change the Balance of Power in the Libyan Conflict
Libya’s national army re-bombed the airport of the air college in Misrata on Tuesday, targeting air force air defenses and a large Turkish military supply plane carrying ammunition, drones and multi-purpose missiles, in an attempt to speed up the resolution. The General Command of the Armed Forces announced in a statement that a cargo plane…
Unilateral, Illegal and Illegitimate Coercive Measures
Frank Gonzalez Since 2015, Venezuela has been the victim of a number of sanctions, or unilateral coercive measures, imposed by the United States and its global allies,, with the scope and impact of the measures intensifying under the current US administration. Following Washington’s recognition of opposition leader Juan Guaido as “interim president” in January, a…
