Africa
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America’s Secret Empire of Drone Bases: Its Full Extent Revealed for the First Time By Nick Turse
DRONES – THEY INCREASINGLY DOT THE PLANET. There’s a facility outside Las Vegas where ‘pilots’ work in climate-controlled trailers, another at a dusty camp in Africa formerly used by the French Foreign Legion, a third at a big air base in Afghanistan where Air Force personnel sit in front of multiple computer screens, and a… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter October 15, 2011: Obama Sends Troops to Fight In Uganda
15 October 2011 — Information Clearing House Obama Sends 100 Troops to Fight Ugandan Rebels By BNO In a letter to Congress, Obama informed that in the next months further U.S. troops will be shipped out to other African countries as well, including South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Targeting Syria – The ‘Bad News’ For The Guardian
Afghanistan and Iraq may still be in flames. A bloodbath may continue to flow from Nato’s ‘humanitarian intervention’ in Libya. No matter, mainstream journalists are appalled that a double Russian and Chinese veto at the UN has thwarted Western efforts to do more good in Syria. Continue reading
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America's Conquest of Africa: The Roles of France and Israel By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Julien Teil
Operation Gladio is the ugly real-life tale of the U.S. government’s decision to hire members of the state security apparatus of various European countries, and in collaboration with recruited community allies, wreak terror on innocent citizens by blowing up train stations, shooting customers in grocery stores, and even killing police officers in order to convince… Continue reading
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America’s Conquest of Africa: The Roles of France and Israel By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Julien Teil
Operation Gladio is the ugly real-life tale of the U.S. government’s decision to hire members of the state security apparatus of various European countries, and in collaboration with recruited community allies, wreak terror on innocent citizens by blowing up train stations, shooting customers in grocery stores, and even killing police officers in order to convince… Continue reading
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Battle for Libya ‘far from over’ — RT
As the latest assault on Sirte, the hometown of Muammar Gaddafi, is underway and there are no signs that NATO is going to leave Libya anytime soon, the conflict in North Africa seems to be far from its end. Continue reading
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Battle for Libya ‘far from over’ — RT
As the latest assault on Sirte, the hometown of Muammar Gaddafi, is underway and there are no signs that NATO is going to leave Libya anytime soon, the conflict in North Africa seems to be far from its end. Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October 7, 2011
7 October 2011 — Stop NATO Panetta Praises NATO ‘Success’ In Afghanistan And Libya, Pushes Missile Shield U.S. Army In Europe Pre-Deployed For Wars In Africa, Asia, Balkans Pentagon Chief Applauds Stationing Of Interceptor Missiles Warships In Spain India Studies NATO Offer To Join Global Missile Shield Program U.S.-NATO Missile System Can Threaten Russia’s Strategic Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October 4, 2011
4 October 2011 — Stop NATO Videos And Text: NATO Bombs Libyan Cities Indiscriminately Sirte: Thousands Flee In Panic After NATO Drops Flyers NATO’s Guernica: Proxies Take Suffer Casualties Near Sirte Video And Text: Fighting Still Rages In Afghanistan 10 Years After US-Led Invasion Longer Than World War I And World War II Combined: Europeans Continue reading
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Updates on Libya war/Stop NATO news: October 3, 2011
3 October 2011 — Stop NATO Almost 200 Days Of Bombing: 24,574 NATO Sorties, 9,164 Strike Sorties Commander: NATO To Turn Libyan Operations Back Over To AFRICOM Pentagon Chief ‘Reaffirms’ Ties With Israel, Egypt, Palestine, NATO U.S. Army Africa: Massive Expansion Of Italian Base For American Troops Australian Defence Chief Flies To Brussels For NATO Continue reading
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Video: ‘NATO need to be brought to justice’ for killing civilians
‘Clearly, they are not protecting civilians when they are bombing cities that are considered to be pro-Gaddafi, when they are killing people, not because they’ve done something wrong, but because their own political beliefs are contrary to what NATO wants in terms of the kind of government they want for Libya’ Continue reading
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Video: ‘NATO need to be brought to justice’ for killing civilians
‘Clearly, they are not protecting civilians when they are bombing cities that are considered to be pro-Gaddafi, when they are killing people, not because they’ve done something wrong, but because their own political beliefs are contrary to what NATO wants in terms of the kind of government they want for Libya’ Continue reading
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Cynthia McKinney: From Barbarism to Barbarism? Outrage and the Fight for Justice
As committed Libyans valiantly resist the entire NATO arsenal of modern and old-fashioned killfare, a new kind of perverse global plantation is being created. There is a clear and present danger that Africa and Asia will become U.S. killing fields for the next decade or more while the United States, itself, becomes a police state–unless… Continue reading
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BDS update: Buttressing an independent Palestine By Eric Walberg
Palestine’s move to become an independent state has benefitted from the growing BDS movement, as the world wakes up the enormous and unjust suffering of the Palestinian people, writes Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Towards a Lengthy War Scenario? NATO To Stay In Libya For A Long Time By Igor Siletsky
-[A] lengthy war in Libya can destabilize the situation in neighboring countries, like it was in Afghanistan and Iraq – the more so, because the whole north of Africa is now gripped with revolutions. Continue reading
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Libya: Black Africans continue to be killed and persecuted by rebel forces By Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker
‘Reports for many months have stated that Libyan rebels have been killing and persecuting black Africans in Libya once areas came under their control. The number of reports highlighting this continues to grow and many images have been shown which show Africans being mutilated and having their bodies abused and mocked by non-black African Libyans.… Continue reading
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Updates on Libya war/Stop NATO news: September 22, 2011
22 September 2011 — Stop NATO Pentagon, NATO Plot ‘Next Steps’ In Libya Bolivia’s Morales Sees Oil, Greed Behind NATO Mission In Libya Northrop Wins Missile Defense Agency’s Precision Tracking Space System Bid Turkish Opposition: NATO Missile Radar Part Of Shield For Israel Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 21, 2011
21 September 2011 — Stop NATO NATO To Remain In Libya, End The Mission When It Chooses 187 Days Of Bombing: 23,350 NATO Sorties, 8,751 Strike Missions Testing Ground: France Used Libya War To Push Warplane Sales To United Arab Emirates And India Against Iran And China Libya: Loyalist Fighters Continue Resistance In Capital China: Continue reading
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“Lessons on Libya” | Partido Comunista Português
A war which forwards unto a USA’s long term strategy for Africa (where, it searches for a host for AFRICOM, for years) and for the slow but inexorable tectonic of the deep re-dimension and reshaping of the forces in progress, worldwide. Continue reading
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The New Scramble for Africa By Conn Hallinan
Is current U.S. foreign policy in Africa following a blueprint drawn up almost eight years ago by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, one of the most conservative think tanks in the world? Although it seems odd that a Democratic administration would have anything in common with the extremists at Heritage, the convergence in policy and practice… Continue reading
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