Algeria
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Racist David Brooks Applies His Mental Equipment to the Egypt Coup By Jim Naureckas
“Islamists…lack the mental equipment to govern,” New York Times columnist David Brooks writes today (7/5/13). “Incompetence is built into the intellectual DNA of radical Islam.” Continue reading
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Egypt's revolution betrayed: Fuel for al-Qaeda fires By Eric Walberg
During the past few months, dozens of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members have been murdered and their offices sacked and burned. The police openly refuse to protect them. Rather than ordering the opposition to drop their demand that Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, resign, and negotiate reasonably with his government, the army gave… Continue reading
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The Manifesto of the Mediterranean Meeting in Tunisia
1. For more than a quarter of a century, neoliberal capitalist globalization has extended its dominance over the entire planet. The processes launched have accelerated the commodization of the world in favour of a minority and have confiscated people’s citizenship and nations’ sovereignty. They are exacerbating economic insecurity and social inequality in the North and… Continue reading
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The War in Mali and AFRICOM’s Agenda: Target China By F. William Engdahl
Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty Years’ War Against Terrorism. Continue reading
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The War in Mali and AFRICOM’s Agenda: Target China By F. William Engdahl
Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty Years’ War Against Terrorism. Continue reading
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U.S. Escalate Imperialist War in Mali and Niger By Abayomi Azikiwe
In the immediate aftermath of the Hollande visit, dozens of French war planes escalated their attacks on several areas in the north. Under the guise of disabling supply routes for the designated “terrorists” groups, the mountainous north-east region around Kidal and Tessalit was pounded. Continue reading
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Illegal Invasions, “Rogue States”, Forgotten Victims and a Shaming Plea By Felicity Arbuthnot
The usual suspects have embarked on another mass butchery – sorry “training exercise” – in mega-resource-rich Mali, and are meddling, with lethality, in Algeria. The UK, ever keen to kill, has gone from the Prime Minister’s “no boots on the ground” assurances, to “Operation Creep” in barely over a week. Continue reading
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The real Invasion of Africa is Not News, and a Licence to Lie is Hollywood’s Gift By John Pilger
A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was missing from most Anglo-American media. Continue reading
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Mali: Here We Go Again By Sheldon Richman
In testimony before Senate and House committees, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton enthusiastically endorsed increased U.S. intervention in Africa. When government officials seem incapable of learning obvious lessons from the recent past, maybe their incentive is not to learn but to keep doing the same destructive things. Continue reading
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The Coming Imperial Implosion in the Arab World By Glen Ford
The French intervention in Mali and the deadly Salafist assault on an Algerian natural gas facility on the border with Libya reveal the deepening crisis of U.S. and European imperialism in northern Africa. What is playing out in the western Sahel is the direct, and broadly predictable, result of the aggressive Euro-American response to the… Continue reading
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Malian War Spreading into Niger: French Military Moves Further Into Northern Region By Abayomi Azikiwe
Reports emanating from the West African state of Mali indicate that French grounds forces accompanied by the national army from the capital of Bamako–along with a small contingent of regional troops from Niger, Burkina Faso, Togo, Senegal, Benin, Chad and Nigeria–are moving towards the northern historic city of Timbuktu. Although there has been a media… Continue reading
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From the Algerian Terror to Al Qaeda Meets Mali: The West’s Hidden Agenda By Victor Kotsev
mali When it comes to unfamiliar, far-off places, we trust our mainstream media to tell us what is going on with interminable conflicts raging through much of the world, and why—and most media trust Western governments’ explanations. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 21 January 2013: Israeli Authorities Change Route Of Wall To Fully Annex Jerusalem For Israel
21 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Demolishes Six Residential Structures Near HebronIMEMC – Monday – January 21, Israeli soldiers invaded the Ath-Thaheriyya town, near the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and demolished six Palestinian homes and structures. … Continue reading
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ICH 21 January 2013: Bomber in Chief: 20,000 Airstrikes in the President’s First Term
21 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Algeria Hostage Crisis: Most Weapons Used in Attack Came From Libya By Mélanie Matarese, Algiers The Islamists wore the same type of outfits that Qatar provided to Libyan National Transitional Council rebels by Qatar – The also employed 60mm gun-mortars used by France and Libyan rebels. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33673.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 20 January 2013: The long road to Bab al-Karama
20 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Mother And Her Baby Near HebronIMEMC – Saturday January 19, Israeli soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian woman and her 18-month old baby, in the Um Al Arayes area, east of Yatta town, near the southern West bank city of Hebron. … Continue reading
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ICH 20 January 2013: Do Americans Think We Face Tyranny?
20 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Algeria: The Slaughter of the Good and Bad Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 18 January 2013: Bibi can relax – the ’center-left’ is really on the right
18 January 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Child Seriously Injured By Army Fire In BethlehemIMEMC – Friday evening, a Palestinian child was seriously injured during clashes that took place between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian youths in the Aida refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. … Continue reading
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GR Week in Review 19 January 2013: The Scramble for Africa
19 January 2013 — Global Research Mali Conflict Could Refuel Algeria’s Civil War, Abayomi Azikiwe, January 18, 2013 Interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of Pan-African News Wire In regard to the situation in Algeria, there has been over the last two decades insurgencies led by Islamist forces there and it appeared as if these difficulties and conflicts Continue reading
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ICH 18 January 2013: Burn, Burn – Africa’s Afghanistan
18 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Iraq: A Twenty Two Year Genocide By Felicity Arbuthnot Incredibly it is twenty two years to the day since the telephone rang in the early hours and a friend said: “They are bombing Baghdad.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33657.htm Continue reading
The New Dark Age 