neocolonialism
-
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
-
Syria, another Blank Canvass for the West to Paint a Caricature of an Arab State
On Friday, 13th December 2024, The US and Turkiye announced that they had reached broad agreement on Syria, meaning that Syrians are now colonized by Washington and Ankara. Those that believed Washington’s lies that Bashar Al Assad’s ouster will bring freedom and prosperity will watch as Syria is transformed into a caricature. The West will… Continue reading
-
Exclusive: How Shell and BP financed Britain’s Cold War propaganda machine
“Handsome” sums were provided by BP and Shell to the Information Research Department (IRD), which was Britain’s Cold War propaganda arm between 1948 and 1977, declassified files show. The IRD used the secret subsidies to fund British covert propaganda operations during the 1950s and 1960s across the Middle East and Africa, where Britain’s oil interests were substantial. Today,… Continue reading
-
The Intricate Fight For Africa: The Legacy of the Soviet Union vs Western Colonialism
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s recent tour in Africa was meant to be a game changer, not only in terms of Russia’s relations with the continent, but in the global power struggle involving the US, Europe, China, India, Turkey and others. Continue reading
-
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
-
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Calls For a Global Campaign to Eliminate NATO
In interview with a British journalist, Morales says the U.S. uses NATO to provoke wars and sell weapons. U.S./UK-backed coup against him in 2019 was undertaken for lithium and because his government advanced an alternative economic model to the neoliberal “Washington Consensus” Continue reading
-
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
-
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
-
Watch MR Classic: Kwame Nkrumah’s ‘CONCIENCISM’
Monday, 30 May 2022 — Youtube [As a teenager in the early 1960s, Kwame Nkrumah was one of my heroes, the voice of a newly liberating Africa! So how do his words and thoughts come across 60 years later, with the US/AFRICOM stomping across Africa? WB] Continue reading
-
Solidarity with Resistance to Extraction
People the world over are opposing fossil fuel extraction in an incalculable number of ways. It is now clear that burning fossil fuels threatens millions of Life forms and could be laying the foundation for the extermination of Humanity. But what about “alternative” energy? As progressives stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those rejecting fossil fuels and nuclear… Continue reading
-
G7 or failed colonial powers telling the world what to do
G7 are a bunch of western countries—the US, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada—who believe that they have the “civilizational” mandate to tell the world how it should be run Continue reading
-
US Ambassador Kelly Degnan Imposes External Control on Georgia
As part of the competitive struggle throughout the history of mankind, individual countries have already fallen under the external control of others, losing their sovereignty. This has been expressed since the controlling power unilaterally exerted a direct influence on the vassal state, prescribing certain managerial decisions to it, equivalent to the transfer of power in… Continue reading
-
African food systems are the ‘new oil,’ UN documents say
Planning documents for the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021 shed new light on the agenda behind the controversial food summit that hundreds of farmers’ and human rights groups are boycotting over its dominance by agribusiness interests. Continue reading
-
Land Dispossession and Imperialism Repackaged as ‘Feeding the World’
The world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of rich and powerful land speculators and agribusiness corporations. Smallholder farmers are being criminalised and even made to disappear when it comes to the struggle for land. They are constantly exposed to systematic expulsion. Continue reading
-
Why is US military in Africa?
Did you know that the U.S. military has 29 military bases in 15 countries across Africa? The U.S. military established AFRICOM in 2008, despite the majority of African nations rejecting it. Under a false guise of providing security, the U.S. uses its military force to impose control of African land, resources, and labor to serve the… Continue reading
-
The neocolonial system is not being dismantled
Janine Jackson interviewed Manuel Pérez-Rocha about NAFTA 2.0 for the January 24, 2020, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
-
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
-
Conservation as genocide in Kenya: REDD versus Indigenous rights By Martin Crook
Sengwer people attacked Neo-colonial ‘developmentalist’ forces with a green sheen are evicting and murdering people in the guise of conservation and climate change mitigation Continue reading
-
51st Anniversary: The African Union and the Illusive Promise of Unity By Abayomi Azikiwe
May 25, 2014 marked the 51st anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the predecessor of the African Union (AU), which was initiated through the Sirte Declaration of 1999 and formally established in 2002. Last year was the focus of the Jubilee Celebrations for the AU where there was much reflection… Continue reading
-
Corporates carve up the African cake By Stanley Ellerby-English
This week World Development Movement activists, dressed as representatives of some of the world’s largest food and drink companies, delivered an Africa shaped thank-you cake to the Department for International Development (DfID). This tongue-in-cheek action highlights the support that DfID is giving to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, the stated aim of… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 