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?”
Rebecca Weiner is a Columbia U. professor who also serves as intelligence director of the NYPD. Mayor Eric Adams credits her with spying on anti-genocide student protesters and directing the…
The recent aid package passed by the U.S. Congress reveals its true priorities - a multifront war that threatens the stability of the world.
Blinken knew exactly what he was doing. The release of the State Department’s “2023 Country Report” on the eve of his arrival in China was no coincidence.
United States imperialism in Latin America via SOUTHCOM is threatening the development of a true Zone of Peace in the region.
This week we discuss a police killing in Chicago and community control of police, and a Black member of a Canadian provincial parliament who was censured for her solidarity with Palestine. First, the…
