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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 [...]
Sudan and Congo point to the need for a new, realistic map for Africa By Pascal Zachary
Muammar al-Qaddafi isn’t exactly known for brilliant ideas on maximising political justice. His own country, Libya, is essentially his private fiefdom. But a few weeks ago, he had a pretty good one: to partition Nigeria, “the giant of Africa,” as he called it, in half. Religious violence along the border between the country’s north and [...]
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) - [...]
Creating a new South African identity By William Gumede
The raging debate over what makes one South African, which currently focuses on whether a person is African enough, is simply the wrong debate. Can we ever cobble together a common South African-ness? To start with, diverse developing countries such as South Africa with such a politically divided past obviously cannot find a solution in a [...]
The Three Nuclear Issues by Johan Galtung
Source: TRANSCEND Media Service published on the net 26 April 2010 Washington– The three issues are disarmament-proliferation, the military use, and the theological use of nuclear arms. All rather untractable. But there is the universal remedy: solve underlying conflicts, please. More easily said than done? To the contrary. The [...]
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 [...]
Obama and US military engagement in Africa By Daniel Volman
When Barack Obama took office as president of the United States in January 2009, it was widely expected that he would dramatically change, or even reverse, the militarised and unilateral national security policy toward Africa that had been pursued by the Bush administration. But, after a little more than one year in office, it is clear that the [...]
Japanese Military Joins U.S. And NATO In Horn Of Africa By Rick Rozoff
Rick Rozoff has been involved in anti-war and anti-interventionist work in various capacities for forty years. He lives in Chicago, Illinois. He is the manager of the Stop NATO international email list at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato/ Sources: Opednews Japanese navy commander Keizo Kitagawa [...]
