International Solidarity

Race for the AU Chair: Africa’s Soul Searching Moment, Unique In History!

Race for the AU Chair: Africa’s Soul Searching Moment, Unique In History!

By | February 4, 2012 at 8:49 am | 3 comments

MAMA DLAMINI ZUMA FOR AFRICA! http://bit.ly/xk4SOH A rejoinder to African Union Considers Future Leaders After Election Failure | Africa | English by Peter Heinlein | Addis Ababa, VOA,  February 02, 2012. http://bit.ly/zXMoKL In the first place, we completely part...

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Blood of Nigeria

Blood of Nigeria

By | January 28, 2012 at 3:28 am | No comments

RT is featuring a documentary about oil in Nigeria called Blood of Nigeria, directed by Philippe Lespinasse. It is well done and worth a look. RT is showing it in two parts. They will be consecutive on the schedule, but there may be other programs in between, and the RT...

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The Crime Of Successful Independence

The Crime Of Successful Independence

By | January 7, 2012 at 8:10 pm | No comments

"All target regimes have one crime in common: Using their national resources to develop modern secular states - independent of imperial dictates." This is a pattern the west, the US, EU, and NATO have pursued in the Middle East in cooperation with the Gulf Cooperation...

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Full Spectrum Dominance – The Empire of Bases

Full Spectrum Dominance – The Empire of Bases

By | January 2, 2012 at 8:33 pm | No comments

The National Post’s Richard Johnson takes a look at the scale of America’s military bases across the globe. This is a huge graphic, you may have to click it more than once to get it big enough to read, or you may need to go to the National Post link above. There is a lot...

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Watch Out For This Guy

Watch Out For This Guy

By | January 2, 2012 at 12:59 am | No comments

Here is a cartoon to start the year by the brilliant Somali cartoonist Amin Amir. Most readers here will recognize this guy. Most have seen him many times in many places. He can be found throughout the continent and throughout the world. We need to be careful we...

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RENDEZ-VOUS ON 24 DECEMBRE 2011 AT THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS

RENDEZ-VOUS ON 24 DECEMBRE 2011 AT THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS

By | December 23, 2011 at 2:23 pm | No comments

A collective bringing together some 30 Ivorian and African organizations in Europe celebrates Christmas with President Gbagbo before the detention Centre of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Scheveningen, a suburb of the Hague, Saturday, December 24, 2011, from 13 h to...

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Message from Mumia Abu-Jamal to OWS

Message from Mumia Abu-Jamal to OWS

By | December 18, 2011 at 2:36 pm | No comments

Message from Mumia Abu-Jamal to OWS dictated while in Administrative Custody at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, PA. Thursday, December 15, 2011 My Friends of OWS, My message will have to be brief. But let not this brevity take from it, its strength. You are the central...

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Free Mumia Abu Jamal Now! Is It Too Much To Ask?

Free Mumia Abu Jamal Now! Is It Too Much To Ask?

By | December 9, 2011 at 1:46 am | No comments

Free Mumia Abu Jamal Now! Is It Too Much To Ask? By Nana Akyea Mensah The Associated Press reported recently: "Abu-Jamal was convicted of fatally shooting Faulkner on Dec. 9, 1981. He was sentenced to death after his trial the following year." [1] That makes today, 9th...

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Will the African Integration Revolution be Televised (2), (or a Tale of Africa’s Zeitgeist!)

Will the African Integration Revolution be Televised (2), (or a Tale of Africa’s Zeitgeist!)

By | December 7, 2011 at 11:55 am | No comments

“The Accidental Ecowas & AU Citizen”: Will the African Integration Revolution be Televised (2), (or a Tale of Africa’s Zeitgeist!) By E.K.Bensah Jr After the indefatigable efforts of West African civil society organizations, including the Economic Justice...

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Time to Reclaim Nigeria : An introduction

Time to Reclaim Nigeria : An introduction

By | December 7, 2011 at 9:14 am | No comments

Time to Reclaim Nigeria : An introduction By Kwesi Pratt Jnr * I picked the call without hesitation and found out that my good friend and comrade, Chido Onumah, was at the other end. We had not spoken for a very long time and figured he had arrived in Accra...

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