Sierra Leone
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Media Lens: Yemen Vote – The Responsibility To Protect- Profits
At first sight, compassion appears to loom large in ‘mainstream’ politics and media. When the American and British governments target countries like Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, ‘compassion’ is always at or near the top of the agenda. Continue reading
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African Land Grabs: Defending Basic Human Rights, Promoting Sustainable Agriculture
Groups around the world accuse European business magnates Vincent Bolloré and Hubert Fabri of using intimidation to silence local opposition to African land grab. Continue reading
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The BBC’s ‘Why Poverty?’ Series: A Missed Opportunity
The Why Poverty project is a recent collaboration between the Open University and the BBC that attempts to highlight the causes of global poverty and explain the different contexts in which it is experienced… In my view, however, parts of the BBC 4 series, as well as the overall narrative of the project were not… Continue reading
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The BBC’s ‘Why Poverty?’ Series: A Missed Opportunity
The Why Poverty project is a recent collaboration between the Open University and the BBC that attempts to highlight the causes of global poverty and explain the different contexts in which it is experienced… In my view, however, parts of the BBC 4 series, as well as the overall narrative of the project were not… Continue reading
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Stop NATO News: December 8, 2011
8 December 2011 — Stop NATO Russia To Counter Western Missile Deployments Near Border: Military Chief Russian Envoy Slams NATO Over Middle East, Interceptor Missiles French Foreign Minister: NATO-Russia Missiles Talks ‘Near Deadlock’ West’s Most-Cherished Desire: Disintegration Of Russian Federation NATO Border: Belarus To Receive New Russian Air Defense Systems Top NATO Commander Wants Afghan Continue reading
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Stop NATO news: November 19, 2011
19 November 2011 — Stop NATO Pentagon ‘To Spread Out Through All Of Asia’ Openly Now U.S., Allies To Hold Largest Amphibious Assault Exercise In Ten Years NATO As ‘Guarantor Of Energy Security’ In Europe, Black Sea NATO Training Mission-Iraq Briefs Allied Military Attachés In Baghdad U.S. Submarine Force’s No. 2 Inspects NATO Mediterranean Operations Continue reading
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Driving with Fanon By Steve Mokwena
20 October, 2010 — Steve Mokwena DRIVING WITH FANON is a filmic meditation on violence, memory and the human condition in post-colonial Africa. Avant-garde filmmaker, Kwena Mokwena travels through Freetown, Sierra Leone with the ghost of Frantz Fanon in his back pocket. Continue reading
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Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa By John Vidal
Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than 13-million people needing food aid, but paradoxically the government is offering at least 7.5 million acres of its most fertile land to rich countries and some of the world’s most wealthy individuals to export food for their own populations. Continue reading
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Keith Harmon Snow: Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate Financed Holocaust in Africa Part 2
War in Congo has again been splashed across world headlines and the same old clichés about violence and suffering are repackaged and rebroadcast as ‘news’. Meanwhile, early indications out of America are that President-elect Barack Obama will assemble a foreign policy-team primed for business as usual. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 