‘Activism’ Archives
Apocalypse in Central Africa: The Pentagon, Genocide and the War on Terror By Keith Harmon Snow
20 July 2010 keith harmon snow Published (edited extensively) by: Z Magazine, July 2010 under the title: BRUTAL REGIMES: Apocalypse in Central Africa: Ongoing repression, war crimes, and U.S. involvement * "As a key partner, we are very happy to be working with the Rwandan Defense Force as they seek to improve [...]
Drilling and killing: From the Gulf of Guinea to the Gulf of Mexico By Horace Campbell
It was simply a matter of time before the systematic destruction being carried out by petroleum companies around the world would reach the living rooms of the citizens of North America. In the wake of the tonnes of oil being spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the destruction of the coastline of the United States since 20 April 2010, there has [...]
How Do Wars End? By Johan Galtung
“Only about 400 rebels had been in the fight at the bridge, but as the day wore on the number increased to several thousand. They would shoot at the enemy column from behind fences, trees, barns, walls, from inside houses, then reload, hurry ahead, and then shoot again. This was a strange, new type of warfare to the British, who were [...]
"We Want Our Voices To Be Heard": Democracy in Haiti’s Earthquake Zone By Laura Flynn
“We are living in the mud. We are wet and we are hungry. Those in charge have left us without hope. If they have a plan we do not know it. We are asking about the future. And we want our voices to be heard, " Suzette Janvier a resident of St. Martin (a neighborhood of central Port-au-Prince) - [...]
Gates’ ”Slavery Blame Game” Misses the Point Written by Frederick Alexander Meade
In recent days an enormous discussion has taken form within many American quarters, as Dr. Henry Louis Gates has once again weighed in on the question of reparations for African Americans. The Harvard Professor’s most recent article entitled, “Ending the Slavery Blame Game”, in which Gates produces information regarding those African [...]
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Say No To Canadian Troops For Congo and Yes To Canadian Diplomacy By Bodia Macharia, President, Friends of Congo University of Toronto As Canada’s Governor-General Michaelle Jean visits the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), much speculation abounds regarding the new-found attention being paid to the DRC by the Canadian [...]
The Anatomy of Authentic Leadership
Written by Frederick Alexander Meade In recent weeks, considerable turmoil has emerged among some elite members of the Civil Rights community. Publicly aired expressions germinating from PBS’s Tavis Smiley and the National Action Network’s President Rev. Al Sharpton, in which both parties have accused the other of [...]
SOMALIA: Broadcasters mock music ban with gunfire, frogs and cocks
Broadcasters in Mogadishu have responded to a ban imposed by Islamist insurgents on airing any form of music with a bitter sense of irony: where once there were songs and jingles, now there is recorded gunfire, a sound with which the battle-scarred capital's residents have become all too familiar. Other replacements for now-forbidden melodies [...]
AFRICOM Backs Bloodshed in Central Africa by Keith Harmon Snow
The eastern Congo remains awash in bloodshed due to western mining companies and their proxy armies, the military regimes of Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda), and Joseph Kabila (DRC), all hidden behind reams of western newsprint blaming Congolese victims for their own suffering. Across the continent a new rebellion in western Congo [...]
