Africa
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WHATS THE WORD IN JOHANNESBURG AS FINANCIAL CRISIS ROCKS “THE RAINBOW NATION” HOPES FOR PROGRESS? By Danny Schechter
Johannesburg: There was lots of skepticism when I came to South Africa two years ago to show my film IN DEBT WE TRUST. While my critique of consumer debt resonated, the film’s forecast of a financial crisis didn’t. Their economy seemed to be doing well and it was hard to tell a society that tends… Continue reading
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Fahrenheit 2010: World Cup South Africa, 2010
International heavyweights like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, construction workers, FIFA’s Communications Director, street traders, politicians, and sports celebrities wade into the debate. National pride, corruption and even murder feature in this astonishingly candid film which peels back the glossy media veneer to expose the real concerns of ordinary South Africans: hopes about jobs, the eviction of… Continue reading
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AFRICOM Year Two: Taking The Helm Of The Entire World By Rick Rozoff
Africom’s creation signalled several important milestones in plans by the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies to expand into all corners of the earth and to achieve military, political and economic hegemony in the Southern as well as the Northern Hemisphere. Continue reading
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VIDEO: Fighting against water privatisation in South Africa
12 October, 2009 — LeftClick Water is Ours (Amanzi Ngawethu) 10 mins (Medium 20MB) Authorship: Coalition Against Water Privatisation, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Anti-Privatisation Forum, Friction Films, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.885984 more about “LeftClick: VIDEO Fighting against wat…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Diego Garcia: A thorn in the side of Africa's nuclear-weapon-free 'zone By Peter H. Sand
More than 13 years after its signature, the Pelindaba Treaty, which establishes Africa as a nuclear-weapon-free zone, officially came into force this summer. However, conflicting British and African interpretations of an oblique footnote about Diego Garcia threaten to put one signatory, Mauritius, in breach of the treaty. For Africa to truly be considered nuclear-weapon-free, this… Continue reading
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Letter from South Africa By Cynthia McKinney
Much is at stake today in South Africa at a time when criminal charges have been brought against the South African National Police Commissioner and those charges have implications for the country’s leading political party; in addition, there are ongoing investigations into arms deals that could lead all the way to top ANC leaders; information… Continue reading
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Video: Africom or Africon? Part 1
In this four-part series, Rageh Omaar travels across Africa, investigating the consequences of US involvement in the region. In this first part, he investigates the genesis of Africom, the US military command for Africa which was launched in October 2008, and asks whether Barack Obama can turn US-African relations in a new direction. Continue reading
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Caster Semenya: An Unlikely Challenger of Sexual Binary and Beauty Images By Jamala Rogers
The South African runner made international headlines when she won the 800 meters in a record-breaking 1 minute 55.45 seconds. Caster Semenya’s victory was eclipsed by claims that she was really a male and therefore had an advantage over her female competitors. Accusations of jealousy quickly came from family and friends; charges of racism came… Continue reading
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The Nile Water… When would water go after gas to the Zionist state? BY Ali Hattar
What is taking place regarding the Nile’s water is not a simple matter… Without exaggeration… It is as important as war itself… Lieberman, the foreign minister of the wrathful Zionist entity, is taking a tour around African countries that are connected with the Nile… and before time elapses, and before those who are in charge… Continue reading
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AFRICOM: Western Self-Serving Interests or African Security? By Paul I. Adujie
America’s establishment of the so-called African Command(AFRICOM), should be seen for what it is: America’s self-interested armada of protection for America, and her allies and not for Africa’s security. Continue reading
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AFRICOM: The Pentagon's First Direct Military Intervention In Africa By Rick Rozoff
Africa’s 53 nations are 28% of the 192 countries in the world. The size and location of the continent along with its human and natural resources – oil, natural gas, gold, diamonds, uranium, cobalt, chromium, platinum, timber, cotton, food products – make it an increasingly important part of a world that is daily becoming more… Continue reading
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South African Cops Attack Unarmed Soldiers Protesting Low Wages
A virtual war broke out in the in the streets of Pretoria, the capital, yesterday with AWOL soldiers storming the Union Building government premises. Continue reading
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The Responsibility to Protect, the International Criminal Court, and Foreign Policy in Focus: Subverting the UN Charter in the Name of Human Rights By Edward S. Herman & David Peterson
It was just a matter of time before members of the collapsing left enlisted in the imperial attack on the most fundamental principles of the UN Charter, and added their voices to the growing chorus of support for Western power-projection under the Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). But this… Continue reading
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South Africa: A Nation in Protest, a Moment of Hope By Jennifer Dohrn
I am here continuing the project to build nurse capacity out of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health ICAP. I flew straight to East London, got unpacked into my continually welcoming home in Gonubie, and took off to rural Eastern Cape province immediately, to begin a whirlwind ten days of developing a concrete proposal… Continue reading
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Video: South Africans protest for higher wages
Protests and strikes have broken out in recent weeks across South Africa where workers are demanding higher wages and the unemployed pushing for better living conditions. Analysts say the current unrest could put a strain on Africa’s biggest economy as the government seems unable to find any solution. Al Jazeera’s Haru Mutasa reports. Continue reading
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Obama Lies on Two Continents, is Denounced in New York By Glen Ford
Barack Obama may be the most effective propagandist for U.S. imperialism in a very long time. But his narrative to Africans is built on blatant falsehoods, and his spiel to Black America is fundamentally dishonest and evasive. Demonstrators in Manhattan declared: ‘We will no longer tolerate a message from within our community, that the policies… Continue reading
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Obama Visits Africa’s "Oil Gulf" By Emira Woods
With heightened interest in Africa’s oil, the U.S. has moved to strengthen its military (and naval) presence in Africa’s “Oil Gulf”. In October 2008, the U.S. Africa Command was officially established. Transplanting a framework from the Middle East, U.S. military assets would be aimed at securing Africa’s oil, and seeking so-called “terrorists”. The U.S. Africa… Continue reading
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Revealing the Real U.S.-Africa Policy By Gerald LeMelle
It’s time for some straight talk on U.S. foreign policy as it relates to Africa. While Obama administration officials and the U.S. African Command (AFRICOM) representatives insist that U.S. foreign policy towards Africa isn’t being militarized, the evidence seems to suggest otherwise. Continue reading
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