Africa
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Abdullah Ibrahim: ‘Capetown Flower’
Boern on 9 October 1934, Abdullah Ibrahim (formerly known as Dollar Brand), is perhaps one of South Africa’s best known musicians, and this, one of his best known and most beautiful compositions. Continue reading
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Was it a Psyop? Nairobi Mall Deceit Abets Israeli-Western Pipeline Wars to Oust Asian Rivals By Yoichi Shimatsu
As the events at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi unfolded, it became clear that the bloody spectacle was staged by a shadowy entity, which the Kenya foreign minister described as “Al Qaeda”. Her statement was based on the presence of other foreign assailants, including passport holders of the U.S. and Britain , under the… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 647: TERROR IN KENYA, ELECTION DRAMAS AND BUILDING AFRICA
26 September 2013 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in AfricaPambazuka News is delivered free to you with the support of donations from Friends of Pambazuka. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 3 September 2013: Apartheid relived: Israeli laws conjure-up uncomfortable memories of South Africa
3 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterYoung Palestinian Man Ordered Out Of West BankIMEMC – In an illegal move, a senior commander of the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank issued an order forcing a Palestinian man out of the West Bank for six months. The young man, from Be’er As-Sabe’ (Beersheba) Continue reading
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Black Agenda TV, August 26, 2013
26 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report WATCH THE LATEST EDITION OF BLACK AGENDA TV Continue reading
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Yinon’s Revenge? A Panoramic of Chaos in the Arab World By Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA
The Middle East and North Africa have been turned into an arc of instability all the way from Iraq and the Persian Gulf to Libya and Tunisia. Chaos and violence seem to be in almost every corner of the Arab World and the Middle East. The bloodletting does not seem to stop. One country in… Continue reading
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South Africa: Sectarian shame of the SACP By Terry Bell
Shortly after the column below was written and blogged, the SA Communist Party issued its statement on Marikana that reveals the deep and dangerous sectarianism of this organisation. Here, I feel, is exposed one of the roots of the problem. I include here the final paragraph of that statement as an introduction to a repeat… Continue reading
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Video: South Africa's Largest Union on the Verge of Major Split
Patrick Bond: South Africa trade unions become magnets for capital as an ideological confict masked as a sex scandal threatens to fracture union behind the one-year-old massacre (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 11-17 August 2013: USA / Kosovo / Egypt / NSA – Brazil / ICC – Africa / Banking / US-Pakistan / US-Russia
17 August 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation In Pursuit of Global Dictatorship, or When on Trial for the Truth 17.08.2013 | 00:00 | Nikolai MALISHEVSKI The Snowden affair, which captured the attention of the world’s media, somewhat overshadowed another no less important story also linked to the creation of a global system of total surveillance and Continue reading
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Pambazuka-news Digest, Vol 277, Issue 2: Pambazuka News 643: Economies of misery, genetically modified colonialisms and Trayvon
15 August 2013 — Pambazuka News PAMBAZUKA NEWS 643: ECONOMIES OF MISERY, GENETICALLY MODIFIED COLONIALISMS AND TRAYVON 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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The International Justice System and the Hunt for Africans By Alexander MEZYAEV
The summer of 2013 was a hot one for Nigeria, and not just in terms of the weather. On the one hand, the country’s populace and government have been subjected to new and increasingly violent attacks from terrorist groups, first and foremost from Boko Haram. On the other hand, Nigeria is experiencing massive pressure from… Continue reading
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South Africa: Licenced to Kill By Richard Pithouse
There is no properly researched body count but a quick internet search throws up media reports of nearly forty people having being killed by the police during protests since the killing started on a university campus in Durban in 2000. The Tatane murder became so well known for the simple reason that it was captured… Continue reading
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German publisher advocates “less democracy
A recently published book, by one of the most influential German newspaper publishers, is pleading for a transition toward “less democracy.” The “voice of the people” and the “emancipatory Zeitgeist, putting everything into question,” has a too “paralyzing influence” on current governance, writes the publishing house in its blurb for the book. The author therefore… Continue reading
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Battle of Balcombe: Opposition to Cuadrilla Resources UK Fracking Plans By Pratap Chatterjee
82 percent of the village voted firmly against plans by Cuadrilla Resources, headed by Lord John Browne, the former CEO of British Petroleum, to conduct hydraulic fracturing in their community. Over two dozen protestors have been arrested in the last few days for attempting to block company equipment – including Natalie Hynde and Simon Medhurst,… Continue reading
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Africa: Monsanto – the Unrepentant Repeat Offender By James N. Kariuki
The uproar in Ireland over horsemeat, the narrow defeat of Proposition 37 in California which would have made it mandatory to label all food containing GMOs – reveal that Africans must now join the rest of the world in resisting GMO foods and biotechnology, no matter how effectively packaged Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 641: TRAYVON MARTIN, EGYPT AND THE QUEST FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
6 August 2013 — 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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Black Agenda Report for July 31, 2013: Obscene 14 Blacks in Congress, Obama & Holder Argue to Extend Mass Incarceration
1 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obama Administration Seeks to Keep Tens of Thousands Imprisoned Under Unfair Crack VS Powder Cocaine Penalities by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Our black political class wants to feed us outrage over the case of Trayvon Martin. But for 3 years Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 640: SPECIAL ISSUE: BRAZIL: SIZING UP AFRICA’S NEW SUITOR
26 July 2013 — 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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Nelson Mandela’s Final Battle: Dying With Dignity By Danny Schechter
As thousands of South Africans hold prayer sessions outside “his” Pretoria hospital, and with the world media still on an escalating ‘death watch,’ inside, there’s been a clash among and between family members, government officials trying to control and spin health information, and, even, doctors who have been cited, wrongly, in court battles about his… Continue reading
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