Zimbabwe
-
Black Agenda Report 10 August 2011: Barack's Satan Sandwich / Obama Slipping / Black Brits Revolt
10 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report: News, commentary and analysis from the black left Barack’s Satan Sandwich Only The First Course: Will We Re-Hire the Chef in 2012 Anyway? Bruce A. Dixon By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver pronounced the debt deal a Satan Sandwich. The CBC is conducting its Continue reading
-
Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 9, 2011
9 August 2011 — Stop NATO UNESCO Head Deplores NATO’s Killing Of Libyan Media Workers Zimbabwe Slams Libyan War, Warns Populace Against NATO U.S. Army College Trains Senior Officers From 66 ‘Friendly’ Countries South Caucasus: Remember 08.08.2008 Kazakhstan: Over 1,400 Troops In U.S.-Led Military Exercise Afghanistan: America’s War Of Lies Afghanistan Needs Talks, Not Drones Continue reading
-
Pambazuka News 542 1 August 2011: Links and Resources
1. Zimbabwe update, 2. Women & gender, 3. Human rights, 4. Refugees & forced migration, 5. Social movements, 6. Emerging powers news, 7. Elections & governance, 8. Corruption, 9. Development, 10. Health & HIV/AIDS, 11. Education, 12. Racism & xenophobia, 13. Environment, 14. Land & land rights, 15. Media & freedom of expression, 16. Conflict… Continue reading
-
Wikileaks Newslinks 30 July 2011
30 July 2011 — williambowles.info Zimbabwe: Wikileaks – Zuma Pushing for Commonwealth Readmission AllAfrica.com SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma used his facilitation role to push hard for Zimbabwe’s readmission to the Commonwealth at the 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm) held in Port of Spain, Trinadad and Tobago, according to a WikiLeaks … Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report 2 March, 2011: End of Obama-ism, US Lunge for Libyan Oil, Anti-Black Psy-Ops
It becomes clearer by the day that “Obama-ism, rather than providing the new Democratic dispensation that delusional progressives and masses of Blacks imagined, is a straight-line path to defeat.” Continue reading
-
Media Lens: Collateral Damage – WikiLeaks In The Crosshairs
Speech that incites violence against individuals at home is unacceptable. Speech that incites mass death and destruction against entire nations is met with indifference, and/or high office and awards! Continue reading
-
Wikileaks Daily News Roundup 4 January, 2011
4 January, 2011 — creative-i.info WikiLeaks: US Wanted Trade War Over GM Crops CBS News … a trade war against European Union nations over their resistance to genetically modified crops, according to diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. … www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/04/world/main7211185.shtml Continue reading
-
Bradley Manning Daily News Roundup 3 January, 2011
3 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Unfair treatment of alleged leaker Concord Monitor By For the Monitor For more than seven months, PFC Bradley Manning has been held in solitary confinement for his alleged role in leaking classified … www.concordmonitor.com/article/232001/unfair-treatment-of-alleged-leaker Continue reading
-
Wikileaks Daily News Roundup 3 January, 2011
3 January, 2011 — creative-i.info Facing WikiLeaks Threat, Bank Plays Defense New York Times 29, the director of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, said in an interview that he intended to “take down” a major American bank and reveal an “ecosystem of … dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/facing-wikileaks-threat-bank-plays-defense/ Continue reading
-
Black Agenda Report 15 December, 2010: Latest GA Prison Strike / Evil Twins: Clinton, Obama / FBI Entraps YOU
15 December, 2010 — BAR GA Prison Inmate Strike Enters New Phase, Prisoners Demand Human Rights, Education, Wages For Work Story by Bruce A. Dixon, audio interview by Glen Ford Georgia prisoners who began a courageous, peaceful and nonviolent protest strike for educational opportunities, wages for their work, medical care and human rights have captured Continue reading
-
Bernd Kramer, "Zimbabwe's Land Reform Is Common Sense" By Grasian Mkodzongi
Zimbabwe’s land issue has generated unprecedented debates both within and outside the country. The debates, which followed the dramatic occupations of white farms by rural peasants in the late 1990s, are generally polarised between those who support radical land reform and those who support market-orientated reforms. The former stand accused of supporting Mugabe’s regime while… Continue reading
-
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
-
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
-
Video: Shooting the messenger – the media under fire
Shooting the Messenger, Al Jazeera’s documentary on the deliberate killing and intimidation of journalists in conflict zones, has been nominated for a presitigious Emmy award. Continue reading
-
Robert Mugabe, yet another man the West loves to hate By William Bowles
And as long as Mugabe left Britain’s ‘kith and kin’ alone (the settler farmers), it was quite happy to let Zanu-PF spout all kinds of socialist rhetoric, as long as he didn’t actually implement any of it. Thus all the statements out of the West about the ‘miracle’ of Zimbabwe, the ‘bread basket’ of Southern… Continue reading
-
Media Lens: Iraq and Zimbabwe – A Tale of Two Elections
In January, we showed how the British print and broadcast media were all but unanimous in celebrating the January 30 elections in Iraq as the country’s “first democratic elections in fifty years”. As we noted, this was an excellent example of how the corporate mass media function as a de facto propaganda system for state-corporate… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 