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The Real Pirates in Africa [Euro-American Colonialism]

Sunday, 24 May 2009 9:11 A GMT+01

With the division of Africa among European capitalist powers in the 19th century following the 1884 Conference of Berlin, Somali-speaking people were divided into five different groups: Italian Somaliland, British Somaliland and French Somaliland.

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Somalia: US Imperial Expansion in the Horn of Africa

Monday, 27 April 2009 9:26 A GMT+01

The continuing struggle inside Somalia, coupled with piracy, has prompted the U.S. and other imperialist states to step up their presence in the region. The presence of these naval fleets will further inflame tensions in the Horn of Africa.

Somali Teenage 'Pirate' Will Be Prosecuted in Show Trial

Friday, 24 April 2009 8:26 A GMT+01

The clear intent of the government is to use the prosecution of Muse as a show trial, aimed at demonstrating the power of the United States against anyone who would challenge it, including the rag-tag bands of pirates operating off the Somali coast.

Somali 'Pirates' Are Part of Radical Islam's War on the West

Wednesday, 22 April 2009 8:58 P GMT+01

For now, sensationalist stories and footage of modern-day piracy dominate. In the war rooms of the other side, the Qursaan [pirates] are probably the tip of an Islamic iceberg moving slowly towards one of the most sensitive regions of the world.

Rush Limbaugh Shows Sympathy for Executed Somali 'Pirates'

Friday, 17 April 2009 8:51 A GMT+01

Rush Limbaugh, the top-rated talk show host and a conservative Republican icon, is now blasting Obama because Obama ordered the pirates to be killed — and the pirates were teenagers. He casts it in a way suggesting that innocents were slaughtered.

Israel & Imperialism

Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:01 A GMT+01

Israel had attacked a convoy of trucks in Sudan in January. They claimed these trucks were carrying weapons from Iran to Hamas. Israel had in fact conducted three different strikes on targets it claimed were carrying weapons to the Gaza strip.

Somali Pirates were Executed after They'd Agreed to Hand over Captain

Thursday, 16 April 2009 10:01 A GMT+01

“They were pointing AK-47s at the captain.” This Pentagon version of events is disputed by the Somalis who support the vessel seizures. They contend that the three young men were killed after they agreed to end the standoff and release Phillips.

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Ba-Ba Obama Wins His First War [3 Somali Pirates Dead]

Wednesday, 15 April 2009 8:39 A GMT+01

The killing of three Somali pirates has been celebrated by the US media as a “daring rescue” and an act of heroism. With all of its usual stupidity and brutality, the media has reveled in the violence without considering the long-term consequences.

Sudan's Bashir, "War Crimes" & Western Imperialism

Wednesday, 11 March 2009 9:43 A GMT+01

The indictment of Sudanese President Bashir exemplifies the use of war crimes prosecutions as an instrument of imperialist policy in regions of strategic importance to the United States and other imperialist powers.

Is Obama - Like Martin Luther King - Anti-Imperialism?

Tuesday, 27 January 2009 10:30 A GMT+01

Obama inherits King’s Civil Rights legacy but is burdened with the neo-imperialism of the Bush era. He has some crucial choices to make. Will he follow King's anti-imperialism or get roped into the previous administration’s neocolonial project.

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Cholera Outbreak in Zimbabwe Used by West to Topple Mugabe

Tuesday, 16 December 2008 10:03 A GMT+01

Anti-Mugabe propaganda has been going on for more than a decade. Zimbabe has been under constant threat and attack since the government in this former British colony declared that it would redistribute land confiscated by the European settler class.

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Zimbabwe: The West Uses Cholera Outbreak As Propaganda Weapon

Thursday, 11 December 2008 10:09 A GMT+01

Zimbabwe faces multiple crises because of savage western neoimperial assaults on its economy and state machinery. The cholera outbreak is useful to Washington and London, making Zimbabwe's crisis international, because disease can cross borders.

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The Reality Behind Somalia & "Pirates"

Monday, 24 November 2008 9:54 A GMT+01

When it comes to piracy, Somalis are on balance the victims rather than the perpetrators. It is estimated that foreigners poach $300 million from Somali fisheries each year. Somalia's armed sailors extort about one-third that amount - $100 million.

Obama Pitches for Imperialism

Tuesday, 11 November 2008 10:10 A GMT+01

Obama represents imperialism in crisis. He is an imperialist solution to its loss of influence among the struggling peoples of the world. Embracing him is to support the American Empire - which has caused our misery as a class and as African people.

From Sudan to Zimbabwe: New Western Imperial Scramble for Africa

Wednesday, 16 July 2008 8:26 A GMT+01

In its massive campaign to demonize and impose economic sanctions against the country, the West and its State Media characterizes the civil war in Sudan as genocide. The west's real aim is to control the country and its vast oil resources.

Zimbabwe: Western Propaganda Turns Mugabe into a Tyrant

Thursday, 26 June 2008 8:36 A GMT+01

‘We’ve beaten Mugabe’ could be the slogan of political and media operators in Britain and elsewhere in the West, who like to fantasise that Mugabe is ‘Africa’s Hitler’, that he was as bad as the last 'evil' dictator demonised by the Imperialists.

Fuck Charity! [Helping the Privileged Feel Good about Themselves]

Wednesday, 23 April 2008 8:55 A GMT+01

'American Idol' was not giving back anything, besides the enormously heavy air of self-congratulation. The people giving back were the public -- manipulated by clips and photos of tearful, pitiful-looking black and brown children, women and men.

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Zimbabwe: The BBC & Its Imperial Propaganda War Against Mugabe

Wednesday, 16 April 2008 8:54 A GMT+01

The BBC is always eager to attack independent black republics. It can't tolerate them, but it's especially hostile to Zimbabwe. The BBC functions as a propaganda system for elite interests. It's been an essential imperial tool for eighty-six years.

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Zimbabwe: Countering the Ferocious Western Propaganda Onslaught

Sunday, 13 April 2008 8:30 A GMT+01

"We've beaten Mugabe" could be the propaganda slogan of political and media operators in the West, who like to fantasise that President Mugabe is "Africa's Hitler", that his Zimbabwe was "more evil than, for example, China and Saudi Arabia."

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