Africa
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GR Week in Review 29 June 2012: Mafia-Style Banking, Africa’s Spy Infestation and NATO Proxies in Syria
29 June 2012 — Global Research SYRIA: NATO’s Next “Humanitarian” War? ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK – by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky – 2012-07-15 ONLINE INTERACTIVE I-BOOK. The insurgency in Syria is based on the “Libya Model”: it is integrated by mercenaries and Al Qaeda affiliated paramilitary brigades supported by British, French and Turkish Special Forces… Continue reading
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NATO Proxies Turkey and Saudi Arabia Move to War Footing on Eve of Syrian ‘Peace Summit’ By Finian Cunningham
The NATO-backed covert aggression against Syria could be reaching a tipping point for all-out war involving state forces. That should be no surprise. For the past 16 months, NATO and its regional proxies have been steadily increasing the violence and turmoil inside and outside Syria, while the Western corporate-controlled media maintain the ridiculous fiction that… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 591: RIO +20, EGYPTIAN ELECTIONS, SUDAN CRISIS, AND HAITI
29 June 2012 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Advocacy & campaigns, 3. Letters & Opinions, 4. African Writers’ Corner, 5. Cartoons Continue reading
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The US-NATO Military Crusade against Syria and Iran: Selected Articles Edited By Michel Chossudovsky
American-led imperialism has evolved from bloody bouts of episodic militarism over several decades to the present day state of permanent belligerence, with wars or war-making stretching from North and East Africa into the Middle East and Central Asia and beyond to Eurasia, the Far East and the Arctic. Of most immediate concern are the ongoing… Continue reading
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BA_Report 27 June 2012: Re-Open Cointelpro / ATL Plantation Politics / Race Talk Taboo
26 June 2012 — Black Agenda Report News, commentary and analysis from the black left Black On The Old Plantation A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Metro Atlanta is now the second largest concentration of African-descended people in North America. But with civil rights organizations firmly in corporate pockets, it’s still Continue reading
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South Africa's Political Wars Begin To Resemble Our Own By Danny Schechter
The Mail & Guardian reports political scientist Achille Mbembe saying in a debate in Johannesburg, “after 18 years of relative complacency and self-congratulatory gestures” the ANC was realizing South Africa was an ordinary country and not a miracle. Continue reading
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Kony 2012 and America's Conquest of Africa's Mineral Wealth By Nile Bowie
Although the Lord’s Resistance Army has been accused of recruiting child soldiers and conducting crimes against humanity throughout its two-decade campaign for greater autonomy against the Ugandan government, the group is presently comprised of less than four hundred soldiers [3] and remains a questionable threat. Meanwhile, China’s deepening economic engagement in Africa and its crucial… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 1 June 2012: Africa: What Israel’s Anti-African Pogroms Tell Us About Zionism
012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Farmer Injured Near BethlehemIMEMC – Palestinian medical sources reported Friday that a Palestinian farmer was injured when Israeli soldiers attacked several farmers, and fired concussion grenades at them, while working in their lands in “Roman area”, east of Tiqoua in Bethlehem district. … Continue reading
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WESTERN PSY-OPS AGAINST SYRIA: When Mrs Assad’s “Shopping” Becomes a “Crime Against Humanity” By Finian Cunningham
Michelle Obama, the fashion style icon wife of US President Obama, is to have travel sanctions imposed on her by member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, including Russia, China and SCO associate state Iran. Continue reading
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The World’s Most Formidable Military Power: Iran Or Syria?
[The U.S.] has not escaped the fate that is the inheritance of an imperial power, it too is a victim of insecurity complex. The imperial power imagines conspiracy against it in every nook and corner. The conspirators must be crushed. The armed might the imperial power has accumulated is surely not for the sake of… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 March 2012: Ambassadors Of Portugal, South Africa, Teargased Near Ramallah
24 March 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Attack Detainees, Conduct Forced DNA TestsIMEMC – The Palestinian Ministry of Detainees reported Saturday that Palestinian political prisoners in Nafha, Majiddo, Galboa’, and Ramon Israeli prisons, returned their meals on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday morning, in protest to forced DNA tests conducted on them by, Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 578: DRC & SENEGAL: THE PEOPLE'S VOICE UNHEARD
23 March 2012 — Pambazuka 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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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 578: DRC & SENEGAL: THE PEOPLE’S VOICE UNHEARD
23 March 2012 — Pambazuka 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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After Libya, NATO Intervention Threatens To Destabilize Entire Region By John Cherian
One year after the NATO intervention, Libya faces disintegration as the oil-rich eastern region seeks semi-autonomy Continue reading
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Kony 2012 and the promotion of “humanitarian” wars By Andre Damon
Kony 2012, the 30-minute propaganda video advocating US military intervention in Africa, has become something of a debacle for its creators and media supporters. Millions of people have read and viewed responses debunking the film’s assertions, and some of its early cheerleaders have felt obliged to backpedal and adopt a critical attitude toward it. Continue reading
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Syria, Bahrain: A Tale of Two Uprisings… One Fabricated, The Other Forgotten by Finian Cunningham
The violent turmoil in Syria and Bahrain over the past year, taken together, provides a sharp comparative case study of the deception and hypocrisy of Western governments and the mainstream media. Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 12-17 March 2012: Ugandan Oil, Wall Street Criminality and Al Qaeda in Syria
17 March, 2012 — Global Research GLOBAL RESEARCH’S NEW ONLINE STORE: Request for Readers’ Feedback – 2012-04-15 Continue reading
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KONY 2012: Merchandising and Branding Support for US Military Intervention in Central Africa By Nile Bowie
Edward Bernays believed that society could not be trusted to make rational and informed decisions on their own, and that guiding public opinion was essential within a democratic society. Bernays founded the Council on Public Relations and his 1928 book, Propaganda cites the methodology used in the application of effective emotional communication. He discovered that… Continue reading
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Syria: The Western Deception Over Regime Change Unravels. NATO Prepares for All Out War By Finian Cunningham
The Western governments’ and mainstream media’s narrative of a one-sided humanitarian crisis in Syria is rapidly unwinding to reveal a self-serving deception to justify a re-run of Libya-style NATO conquest. In reality, it is the Western powers and their Israeli and Arab henchmen who are fuelling a humanitarian crisis and creating the conditions for all-out… Continue reading
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