Africa
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South Africa after Marikana massacre: Strike wave and new workers' organisations challenge old compromises By Leonard Gentle
Over the November 10-11, 2012, weekend striking mineworkers of the Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) corporation gathered at a mass rally in Rustenburg and howled their defiance of a series of ultimatums issued by the company. At De Doorns, farm workers are on a “wildcat” strike — the latest of a series that has become a… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report November 28, 2012 — Susan Rice to Oversee Congo Genocide? FCC to OK Media Consolidation? Why White folks Get Mad…
28 November 20912 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report A Second Wave of Genocide Looms in Congo, with Susan Rice on Point Wed, 11/28/2012 – 13:14 — Glen Ford by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Susan Rice is a woman of ghastly accomplishments: suppressor of the facts on genocide in Congo, and Continue reading
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Video: Africa Lost 1.6 Trillion in Capital Flight and Odious Debt Over Forty Years
Leonce Ndikumana: $619 billion of embezzled capital flight from North Africa with connivance of big banks according to new research (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report November 22, 2012 — Is Israeli Apartheid OK? Susan Rice & Humanitarian Intervention
21 November 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Disconnecting the Dots on Israel-Palestine: Is Apartheid Only A Crime When Committed Against Blacks? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Most of the world supported the struggle of African Americans against Jim Crow during the Freedom Movement. Most of the progressive black Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 606: THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICS OF HUMAN DIGNITY
16 November 2012 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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100 Years of the ANC: From Liberation Movement to State Power in South Africa by Adèle Kirsten and Tshepo Madlingozi
There is no doubt that South Africa is in deep crisis – an unfinished revolution. “The land question is unresolved, economic redistribution is not addressed, racial equality is not attained.” Yet the ruling African National Congress remains deeply embedded in the nation’s political culture. “The ANC remains the central organizational pivot in South Africa’s peoples’… Continue reading
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Global Competition and Deterioration of U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1977-1980
The U.S.-Soviet rivalry in the Third World created splits within the Carter administration and fundamental confusion in the Kremlin over the nature of U.S. motives to such a degree that they helped bring about the collapse of superpower detente, according to documents and transcripts from a conference of former high-level American-Russian policy-makers published today by… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 9 November 2012: Israel “more inhuman” than apartheid South Africa, ANC conference told
9 November 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center PCHR Weekly Report: 3 Palestinians killed, 14 wounded by Israeli forces in last two weeksIMEMC – In its Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories for the two week period of 24 Oct. -07 Nov. 2012, the Palestinian Center for Human Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report November 7, 2012: Victory! — Black America's Lost Moral Compass — Hurricane Sandy & the Failed State
8 November 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Victory! – for the Non-Resistance by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The More Effective Evil has trounced those Republicans with evil intentions. Folks who never made a single demand of the corporate, war mongering Democrat think they are some kind of victors. Continue reading
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New at SCF 28 October – 3 November 2012: DEA / Mali / Drones / USA-Russia / EU / Syria / Afghanistan / USA
3 November 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation The DEA as a coordinator of drug trafficking in Latin America 03.11.2012 | 12:00 | Nil NIKANDROV Inspector Franklin Brewster Chase, aged 39, the head of investigation of particularly important cases of drug trafficking in Panama, was poisoned on July 3, 2006. Brewster, like many other members of staff, kept Continue reading
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Arab Revolutions Will Never be Made-in-the-USA
The New York Times noted the anniversary of the murder of Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi in typical imperial fashion: with a combination of lies and exhortations. The Times editorial was titled, “Making Revolution Work.” Of course, the nine month long NATO assault on a country of six million people was not a revolution in any… Continue reading
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ICH 24-25 October 2012: UK Support For US Drones In Pakistan May Be War Crime
25 October 2012 — Information Clearing House Julia Gillard Making the World a More Dangerous Place By John Pilger The day before Barack Obama arrived in Canberra last year to declare China the new enemy of the “free world”, Gillard announced the end of her party’s ban on uranium sales. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32846.htm Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 24, 2012 — Melissa Harris-Perry VS Alice Walker, Romney & Obama as Imperial Lodge Brothers
17 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Melissa Harris-Perry VS Alice Walker: Sista Courtier VS the Real Sista Citizen By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Professor Melissa Harris-Perry has an MSNBC show and a byline in The Nation as “Sister Citizen.” But what would the output of a Continue reading
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Putting Palestine On The Agenda: At The Russell Tribunal In New York By Danny Schechter
Today, the Russell Tribunal focusing on “the complicity and responsibility of various, national and international and corporate acts and the perpetuation of Israel’s impunity under international law.’ It seeks to provide a platform for “international personalities who advocate for an end to Israeli occupation and the denial of Palestinian rights.” Continue reading
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Apartheid never died in South Africa. It inspired a world order upheld by force and illusion By John Pilger
The murder of 34 miners by the South African police, most of them shot in the back, puts paid to the illusion of post-apartheid democracy and illuminates the new worldwide apartheid of which South Africa is both an historic and contemporary model. Continue reading
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The Marikana Massacre and the South African State's Low Intensity War Against the People By Vishwas Satgar
The massacre of the Marikana/Lonmin workers has inserted itself within South Africa’s national consciousness, not so much through the analysis, commentary and reporting in its wake. Instead, it has been the power of the visual images of police armed with awesome fire power gunning down these workers, together with images of bodies lying defeated and… Continue reading
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NAM Summit: Ban Ki-Moon in disgraceful show of US puppetry By Finian Cunningham
In the weeks leading up to the 16th summit of the NAM, Washington had been calling on the UN top official to decline attending the conference in Tehran. When Ban announced last week that he was going ahead, the US government was evidently peeved, calling his decision “a bit strange”. Continue reading
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Shocking autopsy: South African police 'shot fleeing protesters in the back'
South African police are facing accusations of mass murder after autopsies on the victims of a bloody crackdown at Marikana platinum mine, showed that miners were shot in the back. Meanwhile, new violence has broken out at the location. Continue reading
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