Africa
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The Loneliness of Anti-Imperialist Fighters By Andre Vltchek
You are here because you were informed that the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, also known at ‘Chocolate King’, has been getting his cocoa from the fields of this country. You are also convinced by several of your sources, based all over the world, that his confectionary empire, Roshen, is receiving its basic product from… Continue reading
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51st Anniversary: The African Union and the Illusive Promise of Unity By Abayomi Azikiwe
May 25, 2014 marked the 51st anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the predecessor of the African Union (AU), which was initiated through the Sirte Declaration of 1999 and formally established in 2002. Last year was the focus of the Jubilee Celebrations for the AU where there was much reflection… Continue reading
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The World Bank, the PFI hospital and the destruction of a nation's healthcare system By Anna Marriott
The World Bank promised Lesotho that its PFI-style hospital – the first in any low-income country – would cost the same as its old public hospital. Instead it is eating up half the entire nation’s health budget, while paying 25% returns to the private partner. It now costs Lesotho’s government $67 million per year, or… Continue reading
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Twenty Years Ago: Rwanda, Installing a US Proxy State in Central Africa. The US was Behind the Genocide By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The world is currently commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. The official story is that the genocide directed against the Tutsi population was triggered by the Interhamwe militia of the Hamyarimana government in the wake of plane crash which led to the death of president Habyarimana. The evidence suggests that the United States… Continue reading
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Corporates carve up the African cake By Stanley Ellerby-English
This week World Development Movement activists, dressed as representatives of some of the world’s largest food and drink companies, delivered an Africa shaped thank-you cake to the Department for International Development (DfID). This tongue-in-cheek action highlights the support that DfID is giving to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, the stated aim of… Continue reading
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Bono exposed as a complete fraud By Clark Kent
It was bad enough in 2005. Then, at the G8 summit in Scotland, Bono and Bob Geldof heaped praise on Tony Blair and George Bush, who were still mired in the butchery they had initiated in Iraq. At one point Geldof appeared, literally and figuratively, to be sitting in Tony Blair’s lap. African activists accused… Continue reading
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The heavy imprint of America's 'light footprint’ in Africa By Nick Turse
New documents reveal the blinding pace of US military operations in Africa as the Pentagon prepares for future wars. The numbers tell the story: 10 exercises, 55 operations, 481 security cooperation activities. Continue reading
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Mapping Africa By T. Mayheart Dardar
In February the World Bank announced an ambitious plan to initiate a $1 billion fund to finance an effort to map the mineral resources of the African continent. Their plan is to use advanced satellite and surveillance technology to, in the words of a World Bank senior manager, “identify the areas with more profitability.” Continue reading
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Lords of the Niger Delta: The Shell legacy of profit before people By Jay Naidoo
In minutes I suffocate in the fumes of the gas flare rising from below the line of trees. It’s a huge ball of fire spewing its toxic elements into atmosphere. The noise and the heat are unbearable. I feel my chest tightening. I struggle to breathe. I feel dizzy and intoxicated. I am in the… Continue reading
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How do you plead? Saving the megaspecies rhinos, elephant, tigers—the debate heats up By Simon Jenkins
If you really want to save the elephants, farm them The war on ivory, like the war on drugs, intensifies demand. Legalise the trade and breed the animals for their tusks Continue reading
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UK Environment Minister Paterson Slammed over Africa GMO Promotion
UK Environment Secretary Owen Paterson, who has been widely criticised for his complacency in the face of the current flooding disaster, has now been slammed for planning a visit to Africa to promote the interests of the biotechnology industry. Continue reading
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“Africa” a celebrity must have By Samira Sawlani
In recent weeks Israel – Palestine has probably taken up more column inches worldwide than it has in years. In fact the ‘conflict’ has enjoyed a showbiz makeover, gaining a place in every Hollywood rag and becoming a topic of conversation on day time talk shows. It’s entry and new found status is not however… Continue reading
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‘Humanitarian Warfare’: ‘Stabilizing’ Central Africa for the Multinationals By Burkely Hermann
All the while, high-level UN officials have said that “a strong peacekeeping force” is needed in the Central African Republic and that 6,000 to 9,000 UN Peacekeepers would be needed to “stabilize the country.” This brings one to the question of who or what is being stabilized by the military intervention in the Central African… Continue reading
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'Humanitarian Warfare': 'Stabilizing' Central Africa for the Multinationals By Burkely Hermann
All the while, high-level UN officials have said that “a strong peacekeeping force” is needed in the Central African Republic and that 6,000 to 9,000 UN Peacekeepers would be needed to “stabilize the country.” This brings one to the question of who or what is being stabilized by the military intervention in the Central African… Continue reading
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The Plundering of South Sudan By Tony Cartalucci
US AFRICOM, Israel, and Uganda’s Dictator-for-Life Yoweri Museveni set up in South Sudan, inflame conflict, push out China and prepare to take over oil. Continue reading
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As War Lingers in Mali, Western Powers Target its Natural Resources By Timothy Alexander Guzman
France’s military incursion with Western support was described as a “humanitarian intervention” which resulted in a race for Mali’s natural resources. That was the plan after all. New drilling contracts have just been established after Mali’s civil war was contained by the French military with the backing of the United Kingdom and the United States… Continue reading
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The Destabilization of Africa. A Machiavellian Intrigue of Colossal Proportions By Carla Stea
One can only question the “coincidental” nature of these violent inter-ethnic occurrences in many previously stable African countries. Recalling that Russian President Putin prohibited USAID and particular Western NGO’s from operating in Russia, one can only conclude that he was trying to spare Russia from the fate observed in too many African countries, and elsewhere. Continue reading
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US and UK pursuing a ‘massive land grab’ in South Sudan
Salva Kiir government in South Sudan is effectively “a terrorist government put in power by the West” to tap into country’s vast resources, war correspondent Keith Harmon Snow, told RT. Continue reading
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The Post-colonial Imperial Agenda: America and France Join Hands in the Destabilization of the African Continent By Abayomi Azikiwe
Prior to the partition of Sudan, the country represented the largest geographic nation-state in Africa. Sudan was emerging as a significant oil-producing state with some 500,000 barrels-per-day being extracted for export and internal usage. It was the U.S. and the state of Israel that pushed strongly for the South of the country to breakaway and… Continue reading
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Global Poverty and Post-colonial “Development Agendas”: Ethiopia and the West By Paul O’Keeffe
The world of international aid is a multi-trillion dollar exercise with transactions affecting every country on earth. Some give, some receive, some give and receive, but all are involved in aid flows that are ultimately held up as virtuous considerations of man to fellow man. The world has long been used to the cycles of… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 