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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 20-26 January 2013: FED / Arab Winter / Egypt / Bolivia / Syria / Africa / Mali
26 January 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation The Committee of 147 26.01.2013 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV In the article «What is behind the information attacks on the Federal Reserve System?» I have already written about the research group of scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute (SFI) in Zurich. Their study was published in mid-2011 and Continue reading
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ICH 25 January 2013: France, Qatar, and the New World Disorder
25 January 2013 — Information Clearing House France, Qatar, and the New World Disorder By Gearóid Ó Colmáin There are no words in any language to describe the atrocities NATO’s contras are committing against the people of Syria. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33716.htm Continue reading
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Video: Back to the future in Mali: French neo-colonialism looms over Africa?
Malians hoping French troops have arrived to save them from Islamists may see other objectives revealed. France views Mali as a promising source of uranium and oil, and part of a geopolitical game, say observers. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 614: SAHELIAN CRISIS, IMPERIALISM AND OBAMA’S CHALLENGE
25 January 2013 — Pambazuka The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Continue reading
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Mali: France’s New Afghanistan By He Wenping
Since France launched military strikes against Mali rebels on January 11, the little-known West African country, which has been mired in a crisis for over a year, suddenly came under the media spotlight and made headlines around the world. 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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Efforts to divide spheres of influence in Africa By Natalya Kovalenko
The French armed forces are conducting a successful counter-terrorist operation in Mali. The town of Kona was retaken from the Islamists Thursday. The enemy suffered considerable losses, the military says. Among such cheerful statements the issue of what the foreign armed forces are doing in an alien country has been pushed into the background. Continue reading
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‘Pentagon’s hand behind French intervention in Mali’ By William Engdahl
As French soldiers pour into Mali in the fight to push back the advancing Islamist militants, questions have been raised as to the motives behind the intervention. Author William Engdahl told RT the US was using France as a scapegoat to save face. Continue reading
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France Launches War in Mali in Bid to Secure Resources, Stamp Out National Rights Struggles By Roger Annis
France, the former slave power of west Africa, has poured into Mali with a vengeance in a military attack launched on January 11. French warplanes are bombing towns and cities across the vast swath of northern Mali, a territory measuring some one thousand kilometers from south to north and east to west. 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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Mali Conflict Could Refuel Algeria’s Civil War By Abayomi Azikiwe
The French offensive against Malian militants can refuel the Algerian government’s more than a decade-long armed conflict with various rebel forces which ended in 2002, an analyst tells Press TV. Continue reading
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France and the U.S. Play Tag-Team in Africa By Glen Ford
The United States and France, once thought of as imperial competitors, act as military tag team partners in Africa. France puffed up like a hyper-aggressive peacock in the assault on Libya, and now strikes unilaterally against Islamists in Mali. But the junior imperialist’s brashness comes with the confidence that the superpower has its back. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 January 2013: Obama / MLK / Haiti / FCC / Africa / Django Unchained…
17 January 2013 — Black Agenda Report New this week at Black Agenda Report Don’t You Dare Conflate MLK and Obama by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If Dr. King were alive today, there might be a Black president, but he or she would certainly not get MLK’s support if he behaved like Barack Obama. Continue reading
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ICH 16 January 2013: King: I Have a Dream. Obama: I Have a Drone
16 January 2013 — Information Clearing House Preplanned Mali invasion reveals France’s neo-colonialistic agenda By Finian Cunningham The precise nature of this “Islamist threat” from Mali is never spelled out or evidenced. . We are expected to accept the word of Paris, London and Washington – the rogue states that have and are conducting illegal wars Continue reading
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The War on Mali. What you Should Know: An Eldorado of Uranium, Gold, Petroleum, Strategic Minerals By R. Teichman
Whatever is reported by the mainstream media, the goal of this new war is no other than stripping yet another country of its natural resources by securing the access of international corporations to do it. What is being done now in Mali through bombs and bullets is being done to Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain… Continue reading
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Mali is Libya all over again
The situation in Mali is directly linked to the Nato mobilisation in 2011 to overthrow the Gadaffi regime in Libya. Continue reading
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Mali: the scramble for Africa by Paddy McGuffin
Western powers are once again using anti-Islamist rhetoric to justify colonial interventions, anti-war campaigners Stop the War Coalition claimed today. Continue reading
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France invades Africa…again By Alex Lantier
Mali is the fourth country attacked by France in two years, after Libya, the Ivory Coast and Syria. Of these countries, all but Libya were former French colonies. Explanations for this war given by President François Hollande and other French officials—that France aims to defend Mali’s “democracy” from Al Qaeda, and not what Hollande called… Continue reading
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ICH 14 January 2013: 8 civilians killed as France defends failed Somali raid to rescue hostages
14 January 2013 — Information Clearing House The Bombing of Mali Highlights all the Lessons of Western Intervention By Glenn Greenwald The west African nation becomes the eighth country in the last four years alone where Muslims are killed by the west. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33611.htm Continue reading
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