Africom
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Media-Kenyans’ Divide over Michael Langley and Usefulness of The US Africa Command (AFRICOM)
On May 27 and 28, 2025, General Michael Langley addressed the Kenyan public through media interviews, partly to mitigate the negative impact of AFRICOM’s image after he antagonized Burkina Faso’s president, causing an uproar among young Africans earlier in April. Continue reading
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NATO: Watchdog of Imperialism and Global Finance Capital
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is often portrayed as a defender of democracy and freedom. However, its true purpose lies in safeguarding the interests of global finance capital and maintaining imperialist domination. While NATO’s founding was justified as a countermeasure to communist influence, this explanation obscures the organization’s deeper role as a military arm… Continue reading
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The US/EU/NATO’s Regime Change Playbook for Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré
On April 3, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) Commander Michael Langley testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee during an excruciating two hours obsessively devoted to the ill-fated project of preserving US hegemony. Langley’s testimony was all about stopping Russia and China’s advances on the continent. Some Senators expressed concern that Trump had dispensed with the… Continue reading
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The Ruthless and Desperate Pursuit of U.S. Influence and Access Over Africa
On June 25, 2024, the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) convened the African Chiefs of Defense (ACHOD) Conference in Botswana. The conference, purportedly to “strategize on counter terrorism, collaborate on crisis response and the importance of civilian and military relations,” has been held annually since 2017. This latest ACHOD was the first to convene in Africa. The earlier… Continue reading
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Africa, China, and US Imperialism
This important essay by US scholar Joel Wendland-Liu, originally published on the CPUSA website, provides a serious and detailed comparison of the US-Africa relationship and the China-Africa relationship. Referencing numerous recent studies indicating that Africans – and particularly younger Africans – have a more favorable opinion of China than of the US, the author contrasts the West’s… Continue reading
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New Bill That Passed House Reinvokes Old Russian Bogeyman as Pretext For More U.S. Intervention in Africa
Liberal Democrats shamefully all voted for the “Countering Malign Russian Influence Activities in Africa” Act—seems like relic from bygone era Continue reading
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Black Skin, White Mask
Lt. General Michael Langley is poised to become the first Black commander of AFRICOM—a neocolonial force whose main purpose is to enable Western corporate pillage of Africa. Continue reading
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NATO and Africa: A Relationship of Colonial Violence and Structural White Supremacy
Considering the public media attention and concern about possible expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), it is worth reminding people about NATO’s bloody history in Africa. NATO was founded in 1949 after WWII at a time when African countries were still under the yoke of colonialism. In fact most of the original founders… Continue reading
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A Senseless Cathedral of Doom: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2021)
15 July 2021 — Tricontinental Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In early June 2021, the United States military led a major military exercise on the African continent: the African Lion 21. Major General Andrew Rohling of the US Army’s Southern European Task Force said it was the ‘largest US military Continue reading
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Defending Our Sovereignty: US Military Bases in Africa and the Future of African Unity
The images in this dossier map some of AFRICOM’s military bases on the African continent – both ‘enduring’ and ‘non-enduring’, as they are officially called. The satellite photos were gathered by data artist Josh Begley, who led a mapping project to answer the question: ‘how do you measure a military footprint?’ Continue reading
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Burkina Faso: How to Destroy a Nation in 10 Years
If the U.S. government was trying to destroy Burkina Faso, it could hardly have done it any better. This already impoverished, landlocked West African country is simply symptomatic of Franco-America’s Sahel-wide exercise in absurdity. Continue reading
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New Report Reveals US Special Forces Active in 22 African Countries
The US has roughly 6,000 military personnel scattered throughout the continent with military attachés outnumbering diplomats in many embassies across Africa. 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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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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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
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Washington seeks permanent deployment of special forces brigade to Africa By Eddie Haywood
16 April 2018 — WSWS Republican Senator James Inhofe of the Senate Armed Services Committee last week sent a letter to Secretary of the Army Mark Esper outlining a proposal that would constitute an increase in troop levels deployed under AFRICOM, as well as broadening the American military’s footprint across Africa. In his letter, Inhofe Continue reading
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For WaPo, ‘What Next in Africa?’ Doesn’t Include US Getting Out By Gunar Olsen
The Washington Post (3/19/18) thinks the question is thorny, so it makes sure to prune the answers. “Pentagon Grapples With a Thorny Question After Niger Ambush,” a recent Washington Post headline (3/19/18) read: “What Next in Africa?” Among the possible answers not considered by the Post article: “Close US military bases,” “End US drone strikes”… Continue reading
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Video: US Military Breeds Violence in Africa
After the killings of U.S. soldiers in Niger and a potential U.S. link to the Mogadishu attack, author Bill Fletcher says that an increased American military role in Africa threatens even more violence Continue reading
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This week the issue is not Trump. It is ourselves By John Pilger
Today, false symbolism is all. “Identity” is all. In 2016, Hillary Clinton stigmatised millions of voters as “a basket of deplorables, racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic – you name it”. Her abuse was handed out at an LGBT rally as part of her cynical campaign to win over minorities by abusing a white mostly working-class… Continue reading
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