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Ukraine providing an important testing ground for space-based weapons
Weapons Straight Out of a Science Fiction Novel Have Not Been Able to Turn the Tide on the Battlefield
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SPEECH: ‘Imperialism is the arsonist of our forests and savannas’, Thomas Sankara, February 5, 1986
Thomas Sankara, radical leader and martyr of Burkina Faso, understood that the problem of ecological destruction was rooted in capitalism and imperialism.
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Ecuador: National referendum ending oil exploitation in the Amazon is victorious
While most of the focus was on the general elections in Ecuador, a national referendum was held on oil exploitation in the Amazon.
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The people of Niger want to shatter resignation: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2023)
In 1958, the poet and trade union leader Abdoulaye Mamani of Zinder (Niger) won an election in his home region against Hamani Diori, one of the founders of the Nigerien Progressive Party.
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Targeting Palestinian children is necessary for Israeli settler colonialism
Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid is based on the extermination of the indigenous population and the elimination of their hope of living freely. Palestinian children represent that hope.
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Six tropes to look out for that distort Israel/Palestine coverage
Malcolm X once declared,“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” As stories about Israel/Palestine continue to bombard our screens and daily papers, readers and journalists alike need to remain aware of the pro-Israel pitfalls that pockmark establishment news coverage.
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2023 is already the deadliest year on record for Palestinians in occupied West Bank, says UN envoy
The UN’s Middle East envoy, Tor Wennesland, said over 200 Palestinians have been killed in the Occupied West Bank this year. He blamed “unilateral acts” by Israel, including increased settlement expansion, demolition of Palestinian homes and other structures, and settler violence
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The stalled decolonization
Of late however there has been a popular anti-imperialist upsurge in several countries of Francophone Africa. In Guinea, Mali, Chad and Burkina Faso, new anti-imperialist governments have come to power in the last couple of years that want French troops out of their countries; and in Mali they have even succeeded in getting French troops out.
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Siege on Manipur: Hindu nationalists’ war for ethnic supremacy
Across India, experiments to forge the ‘Hindu national community’ are predicated on the breakage of minoritised Muslims and Christians, and Adivasis and Dalits. What’s happening in Manipur is part of a plan operationalised by the Hindu Right decades ago.
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Former Israeli general accuses Israel of ‘war crimes’ reminiscent of Nazi Germany in West Bank
Former Israeli army general Amiram Levin said what is happening in the West Bank is ‘total apartheid’ and ‘dragging us all into war crimes’.
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Niger coup will have global ramifications for the U.S., France, and Canada
This isn’t what Western countries wanted to sow in West Africa, writes Owen Schalk.
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Beyond Niger: How ECOWAS became a tool for Western imperialism in Africa
Niger is shaping up to be the surprising frontline of the new Cold War.
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ECOWAS approves military action in Niger ‘as soon as possible’
Ivory Coast President says the aim of the military operation is to “restore” ousted president Mohamed Bazoum.
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New book reveals Tiananmen square massacre, others fabricated by U.S.
A new book reveals that numerous atrocities that the United States had alleged to have been committed by its foes never happened to begin with.
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No to the new war in Africa, stop military intervention in Niger, lift sanctions to Burkina Faso and Niger
Nigeria’s Senate refuses to support ECOWAS plan for West-backed military intervention. A day after ECOWAS chiefs of staffs finalized plans for a military intervention, Nigeria’s Senate refused to support President Bola Tinubu’s proposal to deploy soldiers. Tinubu is the current chair of ECOWAS. Meanwhile, Niger has seen multiple demonstrations in support of the coup that overthrew Mohamed Bazoum
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Niger rejects rules-based order
The coup in the West African state of Niger on July 26 and the Russia-Africa Summit the next day in St. Petersburg are playing out in the backdrop of multipolarity in the world order. Seemingly independent events, they capture nonetheless the zeitgeist of our transformative era.
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Venezuela, the decolonial alternative: A conversation with Ramón Grosfoguel (Part I)
A distinguished author from the decolonial tradition discusses the relationship between colonialism and imperialism.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came to power in carefully planned operation coordinated by western intelligence services, says former U.S. diplomat
Secret Meeting with British MI6 Head Richard Moore Points to the Likelihood That Zelensky Is a British Intelligence Agent.
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Hiroshima-Nagasaki bombing: U.S. domination of post-war world
July 1939, Leo Szilard, the Hungarian physicist and a refugee in U.S., had sought the help of Einstein to persuade the U.S. administration headed by President Roosevelt, to construct an atomic bomb as a counter to an identical programme that, it was then suspected, Nazi Germany had embarked upon.
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The U.S. plot to finalize the theft of Venezuela’s oil
The U.S. has used its influence to steal another country’s oil revenues. Venezuela is in the crosshairs because it dares to be socialist in the hemisphere the U.S. claims as it’s “backyard.”