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Bill Quigley
Somalia: Obama's Unholy Alliance With Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni
05 Jan 2011
by Black Star News editorial desk The Obama administration’s ongoing alliance with Ugandan leader and war criminal Gen. Yoweri K. Museveni has allowed the dictator “to suppress domestic dissent and to commit wars of aggression against Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and now the…
Mark P. Fancher
OAS Backs Illegitimate Election in Haiti in Which Three-Quarters of Haitians Didn't Vote
12 Jan 2011
by Mark Weisbrot Proposals by the Organization of American States to rearrange the runoff in Haiti’s foreign-imposed presidential elections cannot clean up the stench. “The OAS is proposing a runoff between presidential candidates who received about 6 and 4 percent, respectively, of the…
J L Samboma
Malcolm X, Black Liberation and Pan-Africanism, Part II
12 Jan 2011
by J L Samboma This essay is “a principled response” to a book on Malcolm X by the Socialist Workers Party’s Jack Barnes, a work the author considers a “counter-revolutionary attack on black self-organization and self-activity, for which his polemic against Black Nationalism…is but a Trojan…
Sese
Making The Band Maroon Media
30 Dec 2010
Mark P. Fancher
Africom Unmasked, Unwanted and Vulnerable
05 Jan 2011
by Mark P. Fancher All African nations except Liberia have so far refused U.S. requests to establish a U.S. Africa Command headquarters on African soil. But “AFRICOM is likely to continue nibbling away at Africa’s resistance through projects like the National Guard partnership program” with…
Ashley Smith
How Haiti Was Abandoned
19 Jan 2011
by Ashley Smith The U.S. and western capital have methodically degraded Haiti. “The U.S. has ruled Haiti as a neo-colony,” even before the earthquake. After the disaster, with the population traumatized largely homeless, the rich nations reneged on their promises. To date, “only 15 percent of…
Jordan Flaherty
One Year After Haiti Earthquake, Corporations Profit While People Suffer
19 Jan 2011
by Jordan Flaherty Disaster capitalism is thriving on the misery of Haitians. Politically connected firms have made a lucrative racket out of disaster relief, while promoting corporatist policies. “These contracts are awarded as part of a corporate agenda that sees disaster as an opportunity,…
Jared Ball
The Real Dr. King VS the Black Plaster Saint of Corporate Media: Dr. Jared Ball on the Real News Network
19 Jan 2011
Bill Quigley
Obama and MLK: The Clear Contrast
19 Jan 2011
by Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Ph.D and Kevin Berends Dr. Martin Luther King was a whistle-blower for justice. In contrast, Barack Obama has been more aggressive in punishing whistle-blowers than his predecessors. “Is it likely that the administration that recently announced psychologists,…
Akinyele Umoja
Hating the Root: Attacks on Vodou in Haiti
19 Jan 2011
Haitian practitioners of Vodou, an integral part of the nation's culture, have been set upon and lynched by evangelical protestants linked to the U.S. Right. “The promotion of a religious civil war among Haitians is part and partial of the colonial counter-insurgency 'play book.'” “The lynchings…