Sudan
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RED SEA ROILING
In the last two years, Washington and its allies have trained their gaze upon the western tip of what Zbigniew Brzezinski and others have called the “arc of crisis.” The capture of several merchant vessels by pirates in the Red Sea and the failed underwear bombing of Christmas 2009 have prompted extensive media coverage, much… 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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The Planning of War Behind Closed Doors: Brussels, London, Istanbul: A Week Of Western War Councils By Rick Rozoff
The defense chiefs of all 28 NATO nations and an undisclosed number of counterparts from non-Alliance partners gathered in Istanbul, Turkey on February 4 to begin two days of meetings focused on the war in Afghanistan, the withdrawal of military forces from Kosovo in the course of transferring control of security operations to the breakaway… Continue reading
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The Responsibility to Protect, the International Criminal Court, and Foreign Policy in Focus: Subverting the UN Charter in the Name of Human Rights By Edward S. Herman & David Peterson
It was just a matter of time before members of the collapsing left enlisted in the imperial attack on the most fundamental principles of the UN Charter, and added their voices to the growing chorus of support for Western power-projection under the Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). But this… Continue reading
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Is There a Save Darfur Industrial Complex? By Bruce Dixon
The backers and founders of the ‘Save Darfur’ movement are the well-connected and well-funded U.S. foreign policy elite. Continue reading
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Sudan: Alex de Waal, "Saviors and Survivors"
Mamdani sees the Darfur war less as the outcome of the immediate political grievances of Darfurians and the Sudan Government’s specific objectives, but rather as the product of long encounter between the colonial and neo-colonial powers and Africa. Continue reading
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THE WINTER OF OMAR BASHIR’S DISCONTENT Keith Harmon Snow
The ICC can now be viewed as a tool of hegemonic U.S. foreign policy, where the weapons deployed by the U.S. and its allies include the accusations of, and indictments for, human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Continue reading
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Sudan/Darfur is Test Case for Obama’s “Humanitarian” Aggression By Glen Ford
“Obama has not broken the American mold, but rather, appears to be fine-tuning a ‘humanitarian’ interventionist doctrine.” Continue reading
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Middle East Report Online: The Hazy Path Forward in Sudan by Sarah Washburne
Bashir was defiant, denouncing the warrant as ‘neo-colonialism,’ and praising his supporters in Martyrs’ Square as ‘grandsons of the mujahideen,’ a reference to the participants in the Mahdiyya uprising against Anglo-Egyptian rule in 1885. The atmosphere was almost one of jubilation; one might have mistaken the crowds for soccer fans celebrating a win. 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
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: MANUFACTURING THREATS – SUDAN, IRAN, AND THE WAR FOR CIVILISATION
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media December 18, 2007 News that British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons had been jailed in Sudan after allowing her pupils to call a teddy bear Mohammed fed straight into the UK media’s hate factory and its “war for civilisation”. The Gibbons story was mentioned in a Continue reading
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Media Lens: Legitimising Mass Slaughter in Fallujah – Part 2
There is, readers will recall, one further difference. Whereas the Sudanese police were shown tear-gassing civilians in Keane’s report, US-UK forces are currently waging full-scale war on Iraqi civilian areas with main battle tanks, airburst firebombs, artillery barrages and helicopter gunships. Which issue, then, should be prioritised in BBC news reporting? And yet the BBC’s… Continue reading
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Depoliticising Death By William Bowles
9 August 2004 Today’s (9/8/04) Independent has the headline: “A race against time “Darfur is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Read the statistics, and then find out how to help” With of course, the obligatory photograph of an emaciated baby, followed by the also obligatory round-up of ‘statistics’ on the plight of the Sudanese. Strange Continue reading
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Making Sense of Sudan By William Bowles
The build-up in the press coverage of Sudan to its present hysterical fever pitch must surely come as no surprise to most knowledgeable Africa watchers but the reality is that the present situation in Sudan is well over a quarter of a century old and much longer in the making. And of course it’s also… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 