Africa
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Those Who Search for Dawn Don’t Fear the Night; Nor the Hand that Holds the Dagger: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2019)
19 December 2019 — Tri-Continental Those Who Search for Dawn Don’t Fear the Night; Nor the Hand that Holds the Dagger: The Fifty-First Newsletter (2019). Dear Friends, Greetings from the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Continue reading
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The battle for the future of food in Africa
Certain policies, strongly promoted by the Gates Foundation, open Africa to the multinational seed companies in the name of modernization, but they undermine climate resilience and food security for Africa’s small-scale farmers. Report: Million Belay, Timothy A. Wise Continue reading
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Thomas Sankara: Imperialism is the Arsonist of Our Forests and Savannas
This speech was first given at the first International Silva Conference for the Protection of the Trees and Forests in Paris. It has been since been disseminated by revolutionaries through many means as a way to underscore the necessity of social revolution and an environmental focus. Now more than ever this speech is necessary to… Continue reading
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How to Find a Tiger in Africa: Searching for Agostinho Neto (1922 –1979) By T.P. Wilkinson
What I want to do here is something very simple. I want to explain how I began to search for Agostinho Neto. I also want to explain the perspective that shapes this search.[i] Continue reading
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Free trade fiction & crumbs of hope By Terry Bell
As the world continues to stagger through ongoing social and economic instability, crumbs of hope are still being tossed to increasingly restive and increasingly unemployed working people. The latest large crumb concerning Africa comes in the form of the loudly trumpeted free trade zone. Continue reading
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Ruth Nyambura: “The Venezuelan revolution is the African revolution”
Kenyan activist Ruth Nyambura of the African Ecofeminist Collective spoke to Peoples Dispatch in Caracas, Venezuela during the International Peoples’ Assembly in February. Ruth spoke about the intersections of climate change, imperialism and patriarchy in Kenya. She also affirmed her deep commitment to Venezuela and the Bolivarian revolution. Continue reading
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Sudan Newslinks 11-12 June 2019
12 June 2019 — The New Dark Age Sudan: Four More Killed as Total Civil Disobedience and Strike Begins US Africa envoy to visit Sudan amid crisis to encourage talks https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-48590148 Continue reading
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Sudan: A Reign of Terror After the Massacre By Pavan Kulkarni
After killing 35 and injuring hundreds of protesters, the notorious paramilitary force, RSF, has overrun the capital city, terrorizing the citizens seen on the streets Continue reading
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Dossier 16: Resource sovereignty—the Agenda for Africa’s exit from the state of plunder
In May 2011, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a Working Paper by Burcu Aydin called ‘Ghana: Will It Be Gifted Or Will It Be Cursed?’ (WP/11/104). Oil had just been discovered off the shore of Ghana. This anticipated a bounty of revenue for the country. Aydin asks whether Ghana will face the ‘resource curse’.… Continue reading
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From the BRICS countries to the townships: racial and social segregation continues
Over 25 years ago now the people of South Africa won the struggle to end the Apartheid regime.(1) Nevertheless, even though it is now against the law, de facto racial segregation is still apparent. Moreover the capitalist assault on the majority of the population is blatant. The class struggle is all the more clearly perceptible… Continue reading
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Sudan: The Revolution Belongs to the People By V. Arun Kumar
We talk to journalist Ahmed Kaballo to know more about the people’s uprising in Sudan, its demands and the future. Continue reading
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Africa as Colonial as Ever: US “New Africa Strategy” Old Oil in New Bottles
Months after U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton announced the “New Africa Strategy” at the Heritage Foundation, the US’ new policy has killed civilians, exploited Africa’s resources and used the continent as a battleground for provoking tensions with Russia and China. Continue reading
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The Overthrow of Omar el-Bechir by Thierry Meyssan
Certain pockets of Sudan are still at war, and the Khartoum government is still military. Nothing has changed despite the fact that President Omar el-Bechir has been toppled. For Thierry Meyssan, Sudan’s problem, after 30 years of dictatorship by the Muslim Brotherhood, is above all cultural. Current events have no relation with an aspiration for… Continue reading
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Battlefield Libya: Fruits of US-NATO Regime Change By Tony Cartalucci
Forces under the control of Khalifa Haftar – a former Libyan general under the government of Muammar Qaddafi – turned opposition during the 2011 US-led NATO intervention – turned “opposition” again against the UN-backed “Government of National Accord” (GNA) seated in Tripoli – have most recently reached Tripoli’s airport. Continue reading
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Mass Manufacturers of Slander and Lies By Glen Ford
Chastened by the long-awaited Mueller report — or at least what we’ve learned about the two-year probe into “Russiagate” from Attorney General William Barr — the U.S. corporate media have been forced to partially abandon their ludicrous claim of “collusion” between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Or maybe the hysteria-makers were finally exhausted by their marathon of… Continue reading
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Rich countries must pay for cyclone devastation in southern Africa By Ian Angus
Climate change, caused by industrialized rich countries, is responsible for the disaster now unfolding in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. Continue reading
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Trump: The Warlord of Economic Savagery By Wayne Madsen
Donald Trump’s decidedly neo-conservative administration is waging economic warfare through the combined imposition of tariffs and economic sanctions against nations on six continents. Trump’s policies, which fuse bull-headedness with oafishness, have wreaked havoc on the stock market, pension funds, employment, and overall economic stability on a scale not seen since the Great Depression of the… Continue reading
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A Simple Translation of Anglo-European Russophobia Over Africa By Phil Butler
The Anglo-European monopolization of Africa as a cash cow may soon be at an end. Until then, however, Africans will have to stomach the never-ending distortions of truth, on top of watching their legacy evaporate like a mirage over the sands of the Sahara. I’ve covered the disinformation on neo-colonialism many times, but today I… Continue reading
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The Fall of Biafra. Landmark in Nigerian History By Adeyinka Makinde
January 15th is a significant date in Nigerian history. On that day in 1966, a group of middle-ranking army officers staged a mutiny which overthrew the civilian government that had ruled Nigeria since it had been granted independence from Britain in October 1960. It began a concatenation of violence which led to a 30-month civil… Continue reading
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Bolton Threatens to Force Africa to Choose Between the US and China By Glen Ford
The Americans wager that they can exercise veto power over African political alignments by force of arms, through AFRICOM’s massive military infiltration of the region. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 