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VIDEO: Libya, Syria… Algeria? “Humanitarian” Wars, Colonialism and Africom
Julie Tiel examines in-depth the background, context and disinformation around the political situations in Libya and Syria in light of US/NATO intervention and crimes against humanity being committed in these regions, as well as the potential implications for Algeria. 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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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 17, 2011
17 August 2011 — Stop NATO Lockheed, MEADS Unveil European Interceptor Missile Battle Manager South Korea Builds Supersonic Cruise Missiles To Strike Aircraft Carriers South Korea To Deploy Powerful Anti-Submarine Missiles On Aegis Class Destroyers Warfighting Capabilities: U.S. Applies Afghan, Iraqi Combat Experience In Massive South Korean War Games Raytheon, Rafael Market U.S.-Compatible Israeli Missile Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 27, 2011
27 July 2011 — Stop NATO OPEC Won’t ‘Give NATO Carte Blanche To Bomb Oil-Producing Countries’ U.S. AFRICOM Commander Meets With Egyptian Junta Leader In Cairo U.S. Planning To Maintain Military Bases In Afghanistan? Poland Pushes West’s Eastern Partnership In Caucasus, Ex-USSR Kosovo On Verge Of Armed Conflict Sweden: Protest Held Outside Base Used For Continue reading
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Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare By Rick Rozoff
Last week the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major American newspapers reported that the U.S. launched its first unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) missile attack inside Somalia. Continue reading
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“Libyan campaign was staged to start conquering Africa” — RT
The NATO-led intervention in Libya and the unrest in Syria are both steps in a decades-long plan by the US and its allies to completely reshape the face of Africa, believes independent journalist and peace activist Thierry Maysan. Continue reading
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Stop Nato: Updates on Libyan war 10 May 2011: In Second Strike, NATO Destroys Libyan Children Commission Building
10 May 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Warplanes Blast Tripoli In Second Strike, NATO Destroys Libyan Children Commission Building Video: NATO Air Strikes Target Libyan Capital Video And Text: NATO Bombards Tripoli As UN Calls For Ceasefire NATO Air Missions Against Libya Near 6,000 Mediterranean: The New Vietnam Libyan War: Evicting China And Russia From Continue reading
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Towards the Conquest of Africa: The Pentagon's AFRICOM and the War against Libya By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
AFRICOM’s main objective is to secure the African continent for the U.S. and its allies. Its mission is to help secure a new colonial order in Africa that the U.S. and its allies are working to establish. In many ways this is what the military intervention in Libya is all about. The recent London Conference… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News March 31, 2011
31 March 2011 — Stop NATO Updates on Libyan war: March 31 NATO Troops Kill Three Afghan Civilians, Wound Four More Top Military Commander: NATO Commands 50-Nation Army For Afghan War, NATO Members Need To Spend More On Military Afghan War Leaves 103 NATO Soldiers Dead In Three Months Pentagon’s Strategic Priorities: Cyberwarfare, Missile Shield, Continue reading
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Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean By Rick Rozoff
Far more is at stake in the war with Libya than control of Africa’s largest proven oil reserves and subjugating the last North African nation not yet under the thumb of the U.S. and NATO. Even more than domination of the Mediterranean Sea region. Continue reading
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Stop Nato Updates on Libyan war 24 March 2011
24 March 2011 — Stop NATO New U.S.-NATO Strikes Kill Libyan Civilians, Including Rescue Workers Libyan Quagmire Could Drag More U.S. Forces In White House Hands Libyan War Command And Control To NATO How “Humanitarian” Is Western Intervention In Libya? AFRICOM Chief Visits 14-Nation Libyan War Air Operations Center In Germany Egypt: Pentagon Chief Gates Continue reading
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MAJOR, LONG PLANNED, US GEOSTRATEGIC OFFENSIVE FOR DOMINATION OF AFRICA
Objective of our policy toward Black Africa is to prevent social upheavals which could radically change the political situation throughout the area. – Obama Continue reading
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Yemen: The Covert Apparatus of the American Empire By Andrew Gavin Marshall
Yemen is perhaps an excellent example of America being on the “wrong side of a world revolution,” as the secret war in Yemen being exacerbated in the name of “fighting al-Qaeda” is in actuality, about the expansion and supremacy of American power in the region. It is about the suppression of natural democratic, local, revolutionary… Continue reading
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U.S.-backed War in Somalia Comes to Uganda, Threatens to Set Whole Region Aflame A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
The bombs that exploded in Kampala earlier this month, killing 76 people and unleashing a wave of arrests and deportations by the Ugandan regime, are chickens coming home to roost from the U.S.-sponsored war in Somalia. U.S. corporate media routinely fail to note that the Ugandan military and other U.S. African allies are all that… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report: 2 June, 2010
Black Agenda Report the journal of African American political thought and action Yes, Obama is “Engaged” – in a Colossal Crime by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Corporate media pretend to measure degrees of presidential “engagement” with the Gulf crisis – an “oceanic version of Chernobyl.” Such conversations are totally disengaged from the overarching reality Continue reading
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New Colonialism: Pentagon carves Africa into Military Zones By Rick Rozoff
As the first overseas regional military command set up by Washington in this century, the first since the end of the Cold War, and the first in 25 years, the activation of AFRICOM, initially under the wing of U.S. European Command on October 1, 2007, then as an independent entity a year later, emphasizes the… Continue reading
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AFRICOM and the Recolonization of Africa By Itai Muchena
Before the Berlin Conference 80 percent of Africa and its natural resources had remained under traditional and local leadership but thereafter the new map of the continent was superimposed over the one thousand indigenous cultures and regions of Africa. Concurrently, Africa’s wealth — as pronounced by its vast human and natural resource base — was… Continue reading
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NATO: AFRICOM’s Partner In Military Penetration Of Africa By Rick Rozoff
AFRICOM was conceived, carried, nurtured and delivered by the Pentagon’s European Command (EUCOM), based in Stuttgart, Germany where AFRICOM headquarters are also based as no nation in Africa has yet volunteered to be the host. Continue reading
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AFRICOM’s First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia By Rick Rozoff
In a feature titled “East Africa is next hot oil zone,” the news agency disclosed that “East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big strike in Uganda’s Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and… Continue reading
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Dangerous Crossroads: U.S. Moves Missiles And Troops To Russian Border Nuclear and Conventional Arms Pacts Stalled By Rick Rozoff
For the past thirty years each successive American president has unveiled an ostensible plan to eliminate nuclear weapons, if none before now has received the Nobel Peace Prize while in office. Each in turn then escalated reckless arms buildups and armed aggression abroad in an effort to achieve global military dominance. The current U.S. commander-in-chief… Continue reading
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