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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October 22, 2011
21 October 2011 — Stop NATO Pentagon Chief Praises NATO For Libyan War Role Russian Foreign Minister: West Plans To Effect Libyan Scenario In Syria Libya: Canada’s Latest War Obama Praises NATO Ally Norway For African, Asian War Efforts Russian Foreign Minister Rebuffs McCain Over Gaddafi Fate For Putin Remark NATO Moves Troops, Helicopters, Tanks, Continue reading
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The Son of Africa claims a continent’s crown jewels By John Pilger
On 14 October, President Barack Obama announced he was sending United States special forces troops to Uganda to join the civil war there. In the next few months, US combat troops will be sent to South Sudan, Congo and Central African Republic. They will only ‘engage’ for ‘self-defence’, says Obama, satirically. With Libya secured, an… Continue reading
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Somalis Under Relentless Drone Attack as U.S. Tightens Military Grip on Continent
Africa, under President Obama, is an expanding theater of war for the United States. There are few points on the African map where the U.S. military does not operate, independently, through proxies, or by agreement with local governments and militaries. AFRICOM has penetrated the armed forces of the continent to a degree no single European… Continue reading
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Just Call Him Bwana: Obama's Africa Adventure By Patrick Henningsen
It is ironic that America’s first black President would be the one to establish a permanent US military beach head in Africa, but one only has to read the numerous strategic briefings available from U.S. AFRICOM to reveal a long-range Anglo-American agenda for the Dark Continent. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 18 October, 2011: Occupy Wall Street: My One Demand
18 October, 2011 — Information Clearing House The Legend of Sirte By Jeremy Salt In Sirte a handful of men have set an example of bravery in the face of impossible odds that will eventually find its place in Arab history. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29437.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter October 17, 2011: Who Are The One Percent in America?
17 October 2011 — Information Clearing House U.S. Officials Peddle False Intel to Support Terror Plot By Gareth Porter The information about two Iranian officials leaked to NBC News, the Washington Post and Reuters was unambiguously false and misleading, as confirmed by official documents. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29434.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter October 15, 2011: Obama Sends Troops to Fight In Uganda
15 October 2011 — Information Clearing House Obama Sends 100 Troops to Fight Ugandan Rebels By BNO In a letter to Congress, Obama informed that in the next months further U.S. troops will be shipped out to other African countries as well, including South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 11 August 2011
11 August 2011 — williambowles.info Shmoop Snoops the Facebook Profiles and Email Inboxes of the Gods, Launches … San Francisco Chronicle (press release) @shmoop went all WikiLeaks on us… mere mortals are all up in our Olympian business. SOCTLB* According to an anonymous Valhalla-based publicist, Shmoop’s team of private investigators infiltrated some seriously personal files Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 31, 2011
Stop NATO Libya: The True Costs Of War Americanization And Militarization Of Canadian Foreign Policy NATO Certifies Another Bulgarian Warship For Deployment Uganda: AFRICOM Chief Pledges U.S. Role In Fighting LRA Vermont: NATO Obstacle Course Training For Military ‘Olympics’ U.S. Senate Tells Russia To Withdraw Troops From Abkhazia, South Ossetia Chinese Warships Participate In Russian Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 541: FORCED MIGRATION: RETHINKING 'GOVERNANCE' AND JUSTICE
This special issue of Pambazuka News brings together a selection of papers and research presented at the conference, which explored key dimensions of the relationship between forms and tools of governance on the one hand and patterns and experiences of forced migration on the other. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 541: FORCED MIGRATION: RETHINKING ‘GOVERNANCE’ AND JUSTICE
This special issue of Pambazuka News brings together a selection of papers and research presented at the conference, which explored key dimensions of the relationship between forms and tools of governance on the one hand and patterns and experiences of forced migration on the other. Continue reading
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Libyan war updates/Stop NATO news: June 30, 2011
30 June 2011 — Stop NATO Killing Of Libyan Civilians Weakens NATO’s War Stance Canadian Warship Deploys To Mediterranean For NATO’s Libyan War Quarter Million Displaced: NATO Air Strikes, Raids Fuel Afghan Refugee Crisis U.S. Building Alliance To Effect Regime Change In Syria Serbia Submits Kosovo Organ Trafficking Draft To OSCE China Warns Japan Over Continue reading
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U.S.-backed War in Somalia Comes to Uganda, Threatens to Set Whole Region Aflame A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
The bombs that exploded in Kampala earlier this month, killing 76 people and unleashing a wave of arrests and deportations by the Ugandan regime, are chickens coming home to roost from the U.S.-sponsored war in Somalia. U.S. corporate media routinely fail to note that the Ugandan military and other U.S. African allies are all that… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 21 July, 2010: Black America's Real Priorities / Reparations for Current Racism / Somalia War Expands
21 July, 2010 — Black Agenda Report Tea Partyers, Fox News, “Negativity” Against the President? Are These Really Black America’s Most Pressing Problems? From the established civil rights organizations like the NAACP to legions of elected Democrats and preachers and even people like our good friends at Color of Change, the main activity these days Continue reading
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16 Years Ago. 7 April 1994: The US was behind the Rwandan Genocide: Installing a US Protectorate in Central Africa By Michel Chossudovsky
From the outset of the Rwandan civil war in 1990, Washington’s hidden agenda consisted in establishing an American sphere of influence in a region historically dominated by France and Belgium. America’s design was to displace France by supporting the Rwandan Patriotic Front and by arming and equipping its military arm, the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) Continue reading
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NATO: AFRICOM’s Partner In Military Penetration Of Africa By Rick Rozoff
AFRICOM was conceived, carried, nurtured and delivered by the Pentagon’s European Command (EUCOM), based in Stuttgart, Germany where AFRICOM headquarters are also based as no nation in Africa has yet volunteered to be the host. Continue reading
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AFRICOM’s First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia By Rick Rozoff
In a feature titled “East Africa is next hot oil zone,” the news agency disclosed that “East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big strike in Uganda’s Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and… 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 conflict in the Congo is a resource war waged by U.S. and British allies By Kambale Musavuli
Herman Cohen’s ‘Can Africa Trade Its Way to Peace?’ in the New York Times reflects the disastrous policies that favor profits over people. In his article, the former lobbyist for Mobutu and Kabila’s government in the United States and former assistant secretary of state for Africa from 1989 to 1993 argues, ‘Having controlled the Kivu… Continue reading
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