Stephen Gowan …self-directed economic development aimed at giving Libyans a stake in their economy. I’m not saying Gaddafi’s Libya was a model society, but it did offer its own citizens advantages that are conspicuously missing in Washington’s Third World satellites. Margaret Coker, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal (“Libya speeds oil output but sees hurdles…
Category: Africa
Remilitarization Of Africa Set To Fail
Kenya’s foray into Somalia, led from behind by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), represents a heightened threat to peace and reconstruction in Africa, especially East Africa. This Western-supported incursion is more against the Kenyan people than against the forces of Al-Shabaab, or whatever name that will be given to the musical chairs of military entrepreneurs in…
AFRICOM: An Imperialist Tool For Re-colonizing Africa
Africa does not need an American military base on its soil. Would Americans welcome such a foreign base in their land? Motsoko Pheko urges African countries to resist this imperialist move, which is intended to facilitate plunder of their resources. Motsoko Pheko PN The USA Africa Command, which America calls ‘Africom’, is a military structure…
Humanitarian War: Interview With Julien Teil
Interview 411 – Julien Teil James Corbett Podcast: Play in new window | Download Today we talk to Julien Teil, the creator of an important documentary on the lead up to war in Libya called “The Humanitarian War.” We discuss the background research that shows how well-connected NGOs constructed a case for intervention in Libya…
Bab el-Mandeb: The Key To US Hegemony In Africa
Choke Point Bab el-Mandeb: Understanding the Strategically Critical Horn of Africa Thomas C. Mountain The Horn of Africa is one of the most strategically critical regions in the world with the narrow passage where the Red Sea joins the Indian Ocean, the Bab el-Mandeb, being a potential choke point for much of the worlds commerce….
Who Said Gaddafi Had To Go?
Hugh Roberts So Gaddafi is dead and Nato has fought a war in North Africa for the first time since the FLN defeated France in 1962. The Arab world’s one and only State of the Masses, the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriyya, has ended badly. In contrast to the bloodless coup of 1 September 1969…
Imperialist War Escalates In Somalia
More US drone attacks and French air support worsens humanitarian crisis Abayomi Azikiwe Pan-African News Wire United States and French military involvement in Africa is taking a deadly toll in the country of Somalia where despite Washington’s denials the people of this nation are suffering under the impact of yet another imperialist-driven war. Kenyan army…
Tribute To A Fallen Hero
Nuhu Yar’wa allafrica.com Opinion will continue to differ on who Col. Muammar Ghadaffi, the fallen herro of the Jamahiriya Peoples’ Arab Democratic Republic was while alive. His death at 69 recently, near Sirte, his home town in the hands of his enemies truly epitomises the time-tested dictum that “every mortal lives but once”, then the…
Africa 2011: Year Of Mass Upheaval, Imperialist Interventions, Parts I – III
Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Africa 2011: Year of mass upheaval, imperialist interventions Part I Dec. 17 marks the anniversary of a year of uprisings, strikes, government resignations and regime change on the African continent. A resource-rich and strategically located geopolitical region, Africa has experienced numerous mass demonstrations, general strikes, rebellions and full-scale military assaults as…
Famine In Somalia Made In The USA
Somalia faces the worst food crisis in the world, but “the U.S. response to this catastrophe it has created in Somalia is to cut its economic aid to that country by 88%, increase drone attacks, and encourage its vassal Kenya to launch another invasion.” Since 1991 the U.S. “has kept Somalia destabilized and in a…
5,000 Qatari Troops Helped To Colonize Libya
Voltairenet.org Having long claimed that it participated in the fighting in Libya by only sending a few planes, Qatar admitted some ten days that it actually deployed hundreds of ground troops. However, Voltaire Network has consistently reported a massive presence of Qatari ground forces (and to a lesser extent, Jordan). Qatar had built a small…
NATO, AFRICOM And The New White Man’s Burden
With the era of formal colonialism only recently ended, and only 125 years after the Europeans and the United States formally divided Africa among themselves, NATO has begun the military re-imposition of Euro-American rule of the Continent. The conquest of sovereign Libya has encouraged Washington, London and Paris to escalate their armed incursions under “humanitarian”…
