Impeachment: If Not Obama, Who? Glen Ford. BAR. 7.20.11 President Obama’s insistence that the U.S. is not at war with Libya, even as Washington and its allies methodically assault the country’s military and infrastructure, reveals that the many “Other Wars” around the globe have become, collectively, “the main arenas of conflict” with the Empire. Yet,…
Category: Africa
US And Ethiopia Kill Somalis With Food Weapon
The drought that threatens more than ten million lives in the Horn of Africa has been made vastly more deadly by U.S. and Ethiopian use of food as a weapon of war. The Americans last year forced the collapse of cooperation between aid agencies and Shabab resistance fighters in Somalia. And Ethiopia, a center of…
Who Decides On Nation States?
Wayne Madsen Strategic Culture Foundation The national aspirations of peoples are governed by rank public relations schemes. On July 9, the Republic of South Sudan became the newest internationally-recognized nation-state. As the result of a civil war truce and peace deal worked out five years previously, South Sudan and its former master, the Republic of…
Foreign Intervention Behind The Creation Of South Sudan
DOWNLOAD THE MP3 AUDIO of this report TRANSCRIPT Welcome. This is James Corbett of The Corbett Report with your Sunday Update from The Centre for Research on Globalization at globalresearch.ca for this 17th day of July, 2011. And now for the real news. The world welcomed a new nation to the international community last week…
The Old Imperialist Project To Divide Libya In Three Has Been Executed
The division of Libya into three separate countries has been an old imperialist objective of the U.S., Britain, Italy, and France. There have been at least five attempts to divide Libya. The NATO war launched against Libya in 2011 is merely the latest attempt to bring this about. The July 2011 gathering in Istanbul of…
Keith Harmon Snow – The Partitioning Of Sudan
Corbett Report Podcast: Play in new window | Download Writer, photographer, human rights investigator and award-winning journalist Keith Harmon Snow joins us to discuss the real story behind the creation of the new state of South Sudan and what we need to know about western economic, financial, social and military interventionism in the region. To…
NATO Will Be Defeated In Libya
A Defining Moment for Africa Gerald A. Perreira Libya 360° The argument in Libya has been won by the Al Fateh revolution. There is now a glaring truth confronting the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization (NATO) – Muammar Qaddafi has handed out over one million kalashnikovs to the Libyan people. If he was the brutal dictator…
AFRICOM: Murder And Treachery Inc.
Beware of Americans bearing gifts, guns, and an AFRICOM patch; their embrace can turn fatal. “One minute, Gadhafi was America’s best friend in northern Africa and in the next minute he was an evil menace.” The turnabout can be sudden. “Robert Mugabe too has been romanced by imperialism and then jilted.” The results were highly…
Somalian Humanitarian Crisis: US Sends In The Drones!
Glen Ford. BAR. 7.13.11 Whenever the U.S. rachets up its armed interventions in Somalia, disaster follows.” Even as U.S. militarization of the Horn of Africa has contributed massively to the threatened starvation of millions, the Americans have announced an escalation of drone attacks against Somalia and the establishment of a Marine task force for the…
The CIA’s Secret Sites In Somalia
Scahill: US is making enemies in Somalia New evidence reveals the secret role of the CIA in Somalia. This time it’s not only the case of more agents deployed in the country, but an increase of drone attacks and, most significantly, secret prisons run by the CIA. An investigative report in The Nation magazine also…
Why Libya? Why Qadhafi?
Husayn Al-Kurdi Axis of Logic What are the reasons why the US government and its current President Barack Obama and his cabinet, are so vehement in their insistence that Libyan leader Mu’ammar el-Qaddafi “must go”? Why does the American regime insist on Qaddafi’s removal, to the extent of overseeing repeated bombings of his residences and…
The Libyan War And The US-EU Plans For Africa And The Middle East
RT Interviews Thierry Meyssan In an interview with RT, Thierry Meyssan unveils the United States plan to extend to Africa the remodeling that is currently taking place in the Middle East. He examines France’s role in this project and the return of its colonial demons. RT. 7.12.11 The NATO-led intervention in Libya and the unrest…