To justify US and European military occupation of much of Africa, migrants seeking jobs in the north of the continent or in Europe “are labeled as criminals and terrorists” when they are “just looking for work,” said Ampson Hagan, a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “These migrants, traveling along paths that have been traveled for centuries, are now implicated in terrorist activity,” said Hagan. “Terrorism becomes a way of legitimizing a foreign presence” in the Sahel region, centered in Niger. Hagan asks: “What does it mean for Europe to be policing African migration within Africa?”
“In other words, people revolted against the system. But they did not know that the system was called capitalism.”
The climate crisis is first and foremost a crisis caused by the U.S. denying other nations their sovereignty through imperialist violence, but the U.S. climate movement is more comfortable talking…
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The engraved revolvers Erdogan handed out in Ankara showed that NATO has stopped pretending to be a defensive alliance and embraced its new role as the West's premier weapons trade fair.
Cuba's president, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, posted this statement in response to the State Department report on his X/Twitter account.
