Angola
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Was Malcolm X Betrayed By an African American CIA Agent Posing as a Mozambican Freedom Fighter?
New revelations breed suspicion that a campaign of CIA surveillance and attempted assassination of Malcolm during his travels in Africa was orchestrated by a member of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) named Leo Milas. Continue reading
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Listen: Uncovering the CIA: Whistleblower Philip Agee interviewed with John Marks (1976)
Philip Agee was a former Central Intelligence Agency officer who turned into one of the agency’s most vocal critics, and who exposed the inner workings of Unites States regime change and destablizations operations all over the world. During his nearly four decades in the intelligence game, Agee became disillusioned with his work for the agency,… Continue reading
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How to Find a Tiger in Africa: Searching for Agostinho Neto (1922 –1979) By T.P. Wilkinson
What I want to do here is something very simple. I want to explain how I began to search for Agostinho Neto. I also want to explain the perspective that shapes this search.[i] Continue reading
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KISSINGER CONSIDERED ATTACK ON CUBA FOLLOWING ANGOLA INCURSION
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ordered a series of secret contingency plans that included airstrikes and mining of Cuban harbors in the aftermath of Fidel Castro’s decision to send Cuban forces into Angola in late 1975, according to declassified documents made public today for the first time. Continue reading
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Video: The Secret History of How Cuba Helped End Apartheid in South Africa
As the world focuses on Tuesday’s historic handshake between President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro, we look back at the pivotal role Cuba played in ending apartheid and why Castro was one of only five world leaders invited to speak at Nelson Mandela’s memorial. In the words of Mandela, the Cubans ‘destroyed the myth… Continue reading
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FOIA Sourcing: Cuban Intervention in Angola By Lauren Harper
In November 1975 while Angola was battling for independence and internal and external forces were competing for primacy, Cuban forces militarily intervened in support of the leftist MPLA movement and against US-supported movements.“By the end of 1975 the Cuban military in Angola numbered more than 25,000 troops. Following the retreat of Zaire and South Africa,… Continue reading
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CIA Manipulation: The Painful Truths Told by Phil Agee By William Blum
efore there was Edward Snowden, William Binney and Thomas Drake … before there was Bradley Manning, Sibel Edmonds and Jesselyn Radack … there was Philip Agee. What Agee revealed is still the most startling and important information about U.S. foreign policy that any American government whistleblower has ever revealed. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for May 1, 2013: NY Times Slanders Black Farmers, Crushed By Capitalism, Death in Somalia
1 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Breitbart Lives? New York Times & Slate.com Do Sloppy Racist Hatchet Job on Black Farmers Lawsuit By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon On Friday, April 26, the New York Times, with an assist from the Washington Post property Slate.com committed a journalistic atrocity Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 558 18 November 2011: ANGOLAN CORRUPTION, THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND ELECTIONS IN DRC
18 November 2011 — Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa CONTENTS:1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Pan-African Postcard, 6. Letters & Opinions, 7. African Writers’ Corner, 8. Highlights French edition Continue reading
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Gerald Horne: "Solidarity Forever?"
This is a remarkable and often insightful collection of essays and reflections, many of which have been penned by those who played leading roles in the dramatic story of how a conservative hegemon — the United States — was compelled to retreat somewhat in its support for colonialism and apartheid during the second half of… Continue reading
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It’s a Proxy World -Reporting the War in Angola By William Bowles
A deep-rooted cold war bias has skewed US media coverage of the war in Angola and, more recently, the Southern Africa peace talks. The Angolan conflict is typically seen as an expression of the Soviet Union’s “failed proxy revolution abroad” (Bill Keller, New York Times Week in Review 10-9-88). The US, by contrast, is presented… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 