The New Dark Age

Thursday, 14 August 2025 — MintPress News

In this exclusive MintCast episode, former CEO of African Stream Ahmed Kaballo and senior staff writer Alan McLeod dissect the US government’s campaign to silence African Stream, the pan-African media platform that reached 30-40 million monthly viewers with unfiltered reporting on Africa’s resistance to imperialism.

Greg exposes how the State Department coordinated with Big Tech platforms to shut down African Stream within hours of Antony Blinken’s public denunciation, revealing the fusion of corporate power and state security apparatus that controls global information flows.

Also in this episode:
– The Sahel revolution: Ibrahim Traore, Asimi Goita, and Abdurahman Tiani challenge neo-colonial rule
– Imperialism’s tools: IMF debt traps, CFA franc exploitation, and military intervention
– The Palestine connection: African nations lead the fight against Israeli apartheid
– The criminalization of anti-imperialist journalism and the assassination of revolutionary leaders

This episode exposes the systematic effort by the US national security state to eliminate media platforms that challenge imperial narratives. When African Stream connected the dots between US foreign policy, Israeli influence, and African liberation movements, they became an existential threat to Washington’s control over information.

🔊 Nothing changes because the system demands this outcome. Welcome back to empire.