Bruce A. Dixon Big Oil ranks among the most profitable enterprises on earth. But capitalist corporations don’t pay their own costs – these are borne by the people and their environments. Few have paid a higher price than the oil-producing regions of Nigeria, now among the most devastated and toxic wastelands on the planet. Since…
Author: Alexandra Valiente
Why The West Killed Lumumba
Later this year, the Belgian Parliament is due to report on the murder of the Congo’s first prime minister after independence, Patrice Lumumba, in January 1961. The circumstances of Lumumba’s death have been shrouded in mystery for 40 years, but as the Congo’s vast mineral wealth is once again becoming a focus for imperialist rivalries,…
Revolutionary Ruptures And The Pace Of Change In 2012
Progressives must brace for intensified struggles in 2012 because people in all continents are seeking alternatives beyond neo-liberal domination. The current European struggles will sharpen the struggles in Latin America and Africa. Horace Campbell Links added by Libya 360° INTRODUCTION From time to time in the history of society one event or a series of…
Muammar Gaddafi Lives On In The Hearts Of The 99%
Residents of the Libyan oasis town of Bani Walid, long a bastion of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, say the slain leader lives on in their hearts. The town, which was one of the last towns to fall to the rebels last year and was the scene of new violence earlier this week, fared well during the…
President Mugabe Delivers A Stunning Blow To Imperialists And Libya’s NTC
MUGABE TO THE AU: IT’S TIME TO STAND UP TO THE WEST! Munyaradzi Huni Zimbabwe Herald President Mugabe has warned that recolonisation of Africa might take place if leaders fail to handle issues as the continent’s founding fathers used to do. He said the AU should not rush to recognise Libya’s National Transitional Council, but…
UK Admits Use Of Ground Forces, SAS To Quash Resistance And Force Regime Change
Mark Urban British efforts to help topple Colonel Gaddafi were not limited to air strikes. On the ground – and on the quiet – special forces soldiers were blending in with rebel fighters. This is the previously untold account of the crucial part they played. The British campaign to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi’s regime had its…
The Revolutionary Martin Luther King Jr.
Jared Ball: Martin Luther King Jr. stood for revolutionary transformation; he is used today to support policies that he fought against.
US DHS Targets Nigerian Boko Haram
US Homeland Security Suggests Military Action in Nigeria Nile Bowie For the fifth consecutive day, the Nigerian people have staged national strikes throughout their country in protest of the recent removal of fuel subsidies, which more than doubled the prices of transportation and commodities. In the northern city of Kano, protestors have demanded the immediate…
Muslim Brotherhood the Pre-Determined Winner in Libya’s Coming Elections
*Franklin Lamb Tripoli It appears, from interviews and discussions with a wide range of Libyans including students, lawyers, judges at the Ministry of Justice, shopkeepers and casual acquaintances that the Muslim Brotherhood currently has very little popular support among this pious conservative, Sunni Muslim society. Widely expressed opinion is along these lines: “The Brotherhood are…
Nigeria the Next War Theater for AFRICOM
Nile Bowie Lagos Dissents Under IMF Hegemony On a recent trip to West Africa, the newly appointed managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde ordered the governments of Nigeria, Guinea, Cameroon, Ghana and Chad to relinquish vital fuel subsidies. Much to the dismay of the population of these nations, the prices of fuel…
Kwame Nkrumah: African Socialism
Paper read at the Africa Seminar held in Cairo at the invitation of the two organs At-Talia and Problems of Peace and Socialism. Published: by Peace and Socialism Publishers, Prague, 1967, in a volume titled “Africa: National and Social Revolution”; Transcribed: by Dominic Tweedie. Kwame Nkrumah, 1967 The term “socialism” has become a necessity in…
Libya: A Country Study
Libya: A Country Study, 1987 – pdf According to the text description, this book was part of a series, “of on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army…
