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Epidemic or Revolution: The Other Side of the West Africa Upheaval 
25Sep By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Africa

Epidemic or Revolution: The Other Side of the West Africa Upheaval 

BY RAMZY BAROUD Image by Annie Spratt. What if the “epidemic of coups” in West and Central Africa is not that at all, but a direct outcome of outright revolutionary movements, similar to the anti-colonial movements that liberated most African nations from the yoke of Western colonialism throughout the 20th century? Whether this is the case or not, we are unlikely to find out anytime soon, simply because the voices of these African nations are largely and deliberately muted. In order for us to understand the real motives behind the spate of military takeovers in West and Central Africa – eight since 2020 – we are, sadly, compelled to read about it in Western media. And that is a major part of the problem. Simply put, Western media has failed to convey the deepe...
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Libya Catastrophe is a Double Whammy; Capitalism is to Blame
24Sep By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Libya

Libya Catastrophe is a Double Whammy; Capitalism is to Blame

BY W. T. WHITNEY Image by Mike Erskine. Prodigious rainfall and the failure of long-deteriorated earthen dams caused a rush of waters through Derna, in Libya, on September 11. Thousands of residents died, infrastructure was destroyed, and buildings ended up in the Mediterranean. Failure to protect residents, maintain the dams, and sustain the lives of all Libyans point to societal collapse. There is also the environmental crisis. Climate change provoked the enormity of storm Daniel that had drenched the eastern Mediterranean area ahead of the disaster. The association of climate change and terrible storms is known and so too is the role of human activities in causing great amounts of greenhouse gases to be released into the atmosphere. The focus here is on the social disru...
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Nigerien coup spearheads a popular revolution
23Sep By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Africa

Nigerien coup spearheads a popular revolution

Another Sahel comprador regime has fallen to a popular movement led by patriotic army officers. The contagion is bound to spread. On 26 July, units of his presidential guard arrested Niger’s president, Mohammed Bazoum. The guards proceeded to dismiss the regime headed by Ouhoumodou Mohamadou, and head of the presidential guard General Abdourahamne Tchiani was declared the leader of a new government entitled the ‘National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland’. It soon became clear that this was no mere squabble between rival factions of the Nigerien ruling class. Actions in the streets showed unequivocally that the coup leaders had mass support – not only in Niger itself but also across the wider Sahel region. In its first official communique, the new government decla...
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WHAT THE MEDIA IS NOT TELLING US ABOUT WEST AFRICA
19Sep By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Africa, Media

WHAT THE MEDIA IS NOT TELLING US ABOUT WEST AFRICA

By: RAMZY BAROUD Little attention has been paid to the possibility that perhaps African countries are fed up with the old apparatus, that of Western-supported wealthy and violent dictators – and supposed ‘democrats’ – who squander their country’s wealth to remain in power. What if the “epidemic of coups” in West and Central Africa is not that at all but a direct outcome of outright revolutionary movements, similar to the anti-colonial movements that liberated most African nations from the yoke of Western colonialism throughout the 20th century? Whether this is the case or not, we are unlikely to find out anytime soon, simply because the voices of these African nations are essentially and deliberately muted. For us to understand the real motives behind the spate of military...
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HUMANITARIAN IMPERIALISM CREATED THE LIBYAN NIGHTMARE
19Sep By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Libya

HUMANITARIAN IMPERIALISM CREATED THE LIBYAN NIGHTMARE

By: CHRIS HEDGES NATO’s military intervention in Libya in 2011, which overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, resulted in a chaotic and murderous failed state. Libyans pay a horrific price for this catastrophe. The chaos that followed Western intervention saw weapons from the country’s arsenals flood the black market, with many snatched up by groups such as the Islamic State. Civil society ceased to function. Journalists captured images of migrants from Nigeria, Senegal and Eritrea being beaten and sold as slaves to work in fields or on construction sites. Libya’s infrastructure, including its electrical grids, aquifers, oil fields and dams, fell into disrepair. And when the torrential rains from Storm Daniel —  the climat...
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THE REAL REASONS THE DERNA DAM IN LIBYA BROKE
19Sep By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Environment, Libya

THE REAL REASONS THE DERNA DAM IN LIBYA BROKE

Posted by: John Phoenix More than 11,000 people have been confirmed dead in the devastating floods in the Libyan city of Derna. Yet mainstream media outlets would have you believe the destruction that has drawn worldwide headlines is due to climate change. More than 11,000 people have been confirmed dead in the devastating floods in the Libyan city of Derna. But corporate mainstream media outlets like the BBC, the New York Times, CNN and others would have you believe the destruction that has drawn worldwide headlines is due to climate change. But here’s how this deadly disaster has everything to do with the Obama administration and NATO’s 2011 so-called “humanitarian intervention in Libya” to overthrow the country’s leader: Muammar Qadaffi. The Derna dam was up for insp...
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NATO brings death to Libya a decade after its
18Sep By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Libya, NATO

NATO brings death to Libya a decade after its

barbaric intervention -by Eva Karene Bartlett If the country’s infrastructure hadn’t been destroyed in the bombings of 2011, the dams may have held Just over a decade ago, Libya was in the news, with Western leadership celebrating the murder of Muammar Gaddafi, following a months-long NATO bombing campaign, all in the name of protecting the Libyan people. Now, the destroyed North-African country is back in the news after a devastating hurricane and flooding. https://twitter.com/i/status/1701498519196934312 Hurricane Daniel hit northeastern Libya on September 10. Subsequent extreme flooding has caused the deaths of a reported 3,252 people, according to Libya’s health ministry as of September 17, with the UN reporting that almost three times more may have died...
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Brussels should buy Ukrainian grain for Africa
17Sep By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Africa, Europe

Brussels should buy Ukrainian grain for Africa

RT The European Commission should buy the Ukrainian agricultural produce that the bloc says it doesn’t need and ship it to African countries, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has said at the UN General Assembly (UNGA). Western allies have repeatedly accused Moscow of trapping millions of tons of grain in Ukrainian Black Sea ports and of exacerbating a global food crisis, particularly across the African continent. “Since the European Commission is wasting tens of billions of dollars on Ukraine… it can buy the grain that Ukraine wants to sell and EU countries don’t want [to buy] for reasons of competitiveness, and send it to Africa,” Lavrov told the UNGA. According to Russia’s top diplomat, Ukrainian agricultural produce is “being supplied to European countries in ...
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Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger Sign Charter to Create Defense Alliance
13Sep By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Africa

Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger Sign Charter to Create Defense Alliance

Sputnik  The leaders of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have signed a charter establishing an alliance of Sahel states to create a collective defense architecture, Mali’s interim president for the transitional period, Assimi Goita, said on Saturday. “I have signed today with the leaders of Burkina Faso and Niger the Liptako Gourma Charter, establishing the Alliance of Sahel States to create an architecture of collective defense and mutual assistance for the benefit of our people,” Goita said on X. An attack on the sovereignty or territorial integrity of one or more parties to the charter will be regarded as aggression against the other parties and will require their assistance, including the use of military force, the document read. The parties also commit to fighting terro...
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Burkina Faso expels French defence attaché for ‘subversive activities’
12Sep By Shoah - The Palestinian HolocaustNo Comments
Africa, France

Burkina Faso expels French defence attaché for ‘subversive activities’

Posted by: John Phoenix Burkina Faso has notified France of the expulsion of the embassy’s military attaché for “subversive activities,” weeks after Niger ordered the European country’s ambassador to leave. In a letter seen by AFP on Friday, Burkina Faso’s foreign ministry warned that attaché Emmanuel Pasquier and his team had two weeks to leave the Sahel nation where military leaders last year twice toppled pro-France governments. The ministry letter added that the French military mission in Ouagadougou would be closed. France pulled out troops from its former colony in the face of mounting hostility after Captain Ibrahim Traore seized power in September 2022. France’s foreign ministry rejected the accusation. “The accusation of subversive activities is ob...
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