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| Thursday, December 11 | | · | Zimbabwe: Humanitarian Situation Linked to Sanctions |
| Tuesday, December 09 | | · | Cholera Outbreak Outcome of West's War on Zimbabwe |
| Thursday, December 04 | | · | Somalia: Another CIA-Backed Coup Blows Up |
| Thursday, November 20 | | · | The unpardonable distortion of Rwanda's Tutsi genocide |
| Wednesday, November 19 | | · | Will President Obama Finally Bury King Leopold's Ghost? |
| Friday, September 19 | | · | Zimbabwe: Land at Core of Western Anger |
| Wednesday, September 10 | | · | Chavez Visits South Africa and Strengthens South-South Relations |
| Thursday, August 28 | | · | In Class with Hancock |
| Saturday, August 23 | | · | Empowering Cuba to Save More African Lives |
| Tuesday, July 29 | | · | Wabuinini: A true American hero |
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African Diaspora: Africom - Latest U.S. Bid to Recolonise Continent
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By Tichaona Nhamoyebonde
January 07, 2010 - The Herald
AFRICAN revolutionaries now have to sleep with one eye open because the United States of America is not stopping at anything in its bid to establish Africom, a highly-equipped US army that will be permanently resident in Africa to oversee the country's imperialist interests.
Towards the end of last year, the US government intensified its efforts to bring a permanent army to settle in Africa, dubbed the African Command (Africom) as a latest tool for the subtle recolonisation of Africa.
Just before end of last year, General William E. Garret, Commander US Army for Africa, met with defence attaches from all African embassies in Washington to lure them into selling the idea of an American army based in Africa to their governments.
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African Diaspora: Lancaster House revisited
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By Phyllis Johnson
December 21, 2009 - The Herald
THIS is the first in a series of eight articles on the events of late 1979 and early 1980.
Thirty years ago, on December 21 1979, an agreement was signed in London that set in motion a series of events that put Zimbabwe on the course to where it is today.
The signatures appended reluctantly to that agreement beneath the chandeliers and subterfuge of Lancaster House ended the war in a place that some called Rhodesia and signalled a different route to independence for a country that the majority called Zimbabwe.
The 103 days of pressure and posturing conducted by the adroit Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, Lord Carrington, from September 10 until December 21 1979, were notable by the avoidance of the main issue in a 90-year-old dispute.
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African Diaspora: US can't teach us anything
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The Herald
November 04, 2009
THE Western alliance's reaction to the abortive presidential run-off in Afghanistan should show all who were led to believe that Anglo-Saxon opposition to President Mugabe's re-election was about the professed platitudes of electoral democracy, that they were sold a dead donkey.
American and British opposition to President Mugabe's victory was because, in their own words, "he continues to pose a continuous and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States (and the British governments)".
A foreign policy, that we all know, is about plundering other people and their resources.
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African Diaspora: Democracy not in ballot boxes
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By Reason Wafawarova
September 30, 2009 - rawafawarova.com
IN AUGUST 1987, just about two months before he was brutally killed by imperially sponsored reactionaries, Thomas Sankara was interviewed by Claudio Hackin, a special correspondent for Radio Havana Cuba.
Hackin asked a very simple question: "What is democracy, in your opinion?"
This was Thomas Sankara’s answer: "Democracy is the people, with all their strength and potential. Ballot boxes and an electoral apparatus in and of themselves do not signify the existence of democracy.
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African Diaspora: South Africa, Namibia stand by Zimbabwe
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CAJ News-New Era-Herald Reporter.
September 22, 2009 - herald.co.zw
South African President Jacob Zuma has reiterated his support for Zimbabwe's inclusive Government, adding that his country has a direct interest in seeing its neighbour prosper.
His sentiments came soon after former Namibian president Cde Sam Nujoma told a Swapo rally over the weekend that his country and the rest of the region would not sit back and watch the West carry out their illegal regime change agenda to topple President Mugabe.
The support for Zimbabwe came as the United States admitted openly for the first time that it had sanctions on Zimbabwe, but said it would not be lifting them.
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African Diaspora: Washington fuels Africa's crisis
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Lee Wengraf explains why neoliberal policies will only mean more crushing debts and militarization for Africa's future.
By Lee Wengraf
August 17, 2009 - socialistworker.org
Barack Obama made his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as president in July, speaking in Accra, Ghana, on the heels of the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy. The G8 meeting highlighted--like last year's summit in Hokkaido, Japan--the continued failure of the world's wealthiest nations to live up to their promises of aid to Africa.
This failure is all the more glaring in light of the brutal impact of the global economic crisis on the world's poorest continent. And Washington's agenda holds more crushing debt and militarization in store.
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African Diaspora: Kenya's Mau Mau war: veterans demand justice from Britain
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Veterans of Kenya’s Mau Mau independence struggle came to Britain in June demanding compensation for atrocities committed by the British.
By Ken Olende
July 10, 2009 - socialistworker.co.uk
Five veterans from the Mau Mau war in Kenya arrived in Britain last month to sue the British government for their imprisonment and torture 60 years ago. In the 1950s, Britain was desperately trying to hold on to its colonial empire and it crushed a nationalist rebellion in Kenya in a shockingly brutal manner.
The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) is bringing the case. George Morara from their legal team told Socialist Worker, “After the horrors of the Nazi era, Britain was central to establishing an international legal system to defend human rights.
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African Diaspora: Is Obama's African tough love bootstrap theory racist?
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By Lloyd Whitefield Butler, Jr.
July 17, 2009 - talkzimbabwe.com
In 1863, the Negro was told that he was free as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation being signed by Abraham Lincoln. But he was not given any land to make that freedom meaningful. It was something like keeping a person in prison for a number of years and suddenly discovering that that person is not guilty of the crime for which he was convicted. And you just go up to him and say, 'Now you are free,' but you don't give him any bus fare to get to town. You don't give him any money to get some clothes to put on his back or to get on his feet again in life.
THE Honourable Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States of America made the following statements to the African world during an AllAfrica interview and his recent lecture to the Ghanaian Parliament:
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African Diaspora: Zimbabwe, Africa and Neo-Colonialism
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Posted: July 15, 2009
Following are excerpts from a press conference given by Robert Mugabe at the African Union General Assembly in early July 2009. The interview was published in Zimbabwe's The Herald, July 6, 2009.
Q: Your Excellency, what is happening in Africa seems to be a realisation of the Pan-Africanism ideology. Would you say that, that idealism about bringing Africa together is still alive or it's something that is being pushed by what is happening somewhere else?
A: I think over the recent few years gone by there has been a development, a development I think which was more determined by the economic situations of our countries and a situation that greater reliance on Western funding would assist our economies in transforming, and because of that naturally if you are a beggar, you cannot at the same time prescribe, you see, the rules of how you should be given whether it's food or any items at all.
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African Diaspora: Review - From Colonization to Globalization: Difference or Repetition?
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By Rosemary Ekosso
May 01, 2009 - ekosso.com
Paper by Martial Frindethie
Note: the full text of the paper is available at the link provided at the end of this posting, which is only a review of the paper.
This paper is quite possibly one of the most startling I have read in a while. That so much information is available, and that people may not be privy to it, is one of the tragedies of humanity. We have the wherewithal to save ourselves and yet we do not.
Frindethie's paper is largely about his reading of the recent history of Côte d'Ivoire. The tone is one of someone in a towering rage at the French government and French interest groups. For this reason, it will be of particular interest to Francophone Africa. And although Frindethie comes across as a very, very angry man, his tone shifting from sardonic to downright bitter, this is a well-researched philippic.
In my view, almost none of the people mentioned in the paper come out smelling of roses, to say the least. Certainly not the French government or French business interests in Africa. Not Kofi Anan. And most certainly not Alassane Ouattara, nor his wife the Frenchwoman Dominique Nouvian Folleroux, described as a "femme fatale" by Frindethie. On the strength of the evidence, one is inclined to agree.
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African Diaspora: Media fabrications impede economic recovery efforts
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By Dambudzo Muparanga
May 23, 2009, The Herald
ONE can make out a pattern when it comes to the popularity of the Zimbabwe Government in the West before the Land Reform Programme and after its inception.
The reason for this is not because the Government did something out of this world, the Government – all things considered – did a good thing for its people.
The only unfortunate thing is that in today’s world those with the money control the flow of information and if anyone crosses their path the wolves are released within seconds.
Such is the case with Zimbabwe.
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African Diaspora: Swine flu exposes West's hypocrisy
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By Henry Harry Makowa
May 23, 2009, The Herald
WITH the current swine flu plague hitting Mexico and now almost all parts of the world, one cannot help but wonder what international outcry would have been constructed had the deadly flu originated in Zimbabwe.
It is more important to understand this fact in light of and in so far as Zimbabweans are still very much aware of the condemnation and criminal discrimination against its citizens over the cholera outbreak that rocked the country towards the end of December 2008.
What is interesting about the swine flu in Mexico is that it has produced two outcomes totally opposite to how Zimbabwe was treated over the cholera.
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African Diaspora: The 'Roots' of Somalia Piracy
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Analysis: Somalia Piracy Began in Response to Illegal Fishing and Toxic Dumping by Western Ships off Somali Coast
April 14, 2009
democracynow.org
Rush Transcript
AMY GOODMAN: President Obama vowed an international crackdown to halt piracy off the coast of Somalia Monday soon after the freeing of US cargo ship captain Richard Phillips, who had been held hostage by Somali pirates since last Wednesday. Three Somali pirates were killed in the US operation.
While some military analysts are considering attacks on pirate bases inside Somalia in addition to expanding US Navy gunships along the Somali coastline, others are strongly opposed to a land invasion. US Congress member Donald Payne of New Jersey made a brief visit to the Somali capital of Mogadishu Monday and said piracy was, quote, a "symptom of the decades of instability." His plane was targeted by mortar fire as he was leaving Somalia, soon after a pirate vowed revenge against the United States for killing his men.
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African Diaspora: Tsvangirai crash: More questions than answers
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By Professor Jonathan Moyo, MP
Saturday, March 14, 2009
The Herald
THE truism that people learn geology the day after an earthquake best explains why there is a growing list of troubling questions about probable criminal involvement of the American and British governments or their agents in the car accident that tragically claimed the life of the wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai last week.
Among the questions that cannot be fully or satisfactorily answered without an independent and competent international probe are the following:
l) Who really owns the Nissan diesel truck, with registration number 81TCE128, which caused the tragic accident on March 6, 2009?
2) If the registered owner of the truck is not the American Embassy in Harare or the United States Agency for International Development why does the truck have a registration number whose diplomatic configuration is reserved for the United States Embassy?
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African Diaspora: Washington suppressed Kenyan exit poll to keep Kibaki in power
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By Stephen Gowans
February 04, 2009
gowans.wordpress.com
Q: When does the US government hide an exit poll that calls a foreign election into question?
A: When it doesn’t want the candidate who got the most votes to win.
That’s what happened when a US government-financed exit poll cast doubt on the victory of Kenya’s president Mwai Kibaki in a December 2007 election.
In a January 31, 2009 New York Times article, “A chaotic Kenya vote and a secret US exit poll,” reporters Mike McIntyre and Jeffrey Gettleman revealed that the “results of an exit poll, paid for by the United States government, that supported the initial returns” favoring the challenger, Raila Odinga, were kept secret.
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