Before posting this article I paused to ask how it would serve the Libyan people now and how it might help readers from other nations better understand the situation in Libya. Do Kamal, Samal, Ahmad and their friends deserve to be heard? This article highlights some important information that no one else has addressed. Some…
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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…
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…
Gaddafi’s Assassination: Bombing Africa Into “Civilization”
‘Despite the neocolonialist excuses of humanitarian motives, the real motivations’ for Gaddafi’s assassination ‘keep popping up’. But ‘where is the international outrage and condemnation’? Nana Akyea Mensah Pan-Africanist International Mr Kwesi Pratt, Jnr, a leading member of the Socialist Forum and managing editor of the Insight newspaper, was certainly not amused at hearing the news…
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…
Libya And The Manufacturing Of Consent
http://HarryFear.tv Monday, November 14 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm Bolivar Hall 54 Grafton Way, London, W1T 5DL London, United Kingdom Political and cultural event that focuses on the role of mainstream media which is fundamental to western plans for war against the countries of the Global South, most recently Libya. This event will be discussing what…
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…
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”…
Libya And Arab Spring
NEOLIBERALISM, REGIME CHANGE AND NATO’S HUMANITARIAN WARS Michel Chossudovsky, Finian Cunningham and Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya INTRODUCTION First in Global Research’s Interactive Reader Series, we bring to the attention of our readers a collection of Global Research articles on the “Arab Spring”, covering recent developments in several countries across the Middle East and North Africa region….
UN-NATO War Crimes In Libya Sparks Anger And Continuing Resistance
New alliance of imperialist-led states plot theft and repression Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° In the aftermath of the brutal assassination of Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi and the destruction of his hometown of Sirte, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to end its so-called “No Fly Zone” over this North African state. The Security…
