Africa

Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Miners Shot Down! The Marikana Massacre Represents the Beginning of the End of the ANC – Part II
04 Nov 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The bloodbath at Marikana was a watershed for post-apartheid South Africa. The compact between Big Capital and the ruling African National…
Cynthia McKinney
Clinton and the Benghazi Committee: Dancing on a Tightrope
04 Nov 2015
by Cynthia McKinney Hillary Clinton, who takes credit for the invasion and regime change in Libya, claims to be blameless for the war’s consequences, including the spread of Islamic jihad in the…
Thomas C. Mountain
Benghazi Smokescreen: Hiding Western War Crimes in Libya
04 Nov 2015
Republicans and Democrats at the Benghazi hearings collaborated to disguise what the U.S. was really up to in Libya: regime change and the empowerment of Islamic jihadists in north Africa.
Veli Mbele
Free Education: The Right to Call Our Souls Our Own
04 Nov 2015
by Veli Mbele The South African student struggle is about much more than high fees and limited Black representation at universities. “Black students are fighting against a system whose foundation is…
Charles Kambanda
Rwandan Parliament Makes US Ally and Military Partner Paul Kagame President for Life
04 Nov 2015
by Charles Kambanda Paul Kagame, the military leader of the Tutsi minority-dominated regime in Rwanda, has engineered a constitutional coup to keep himself in power – mocking his Euro-American…
Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo , BAR editor and columnist
Miners Shot Down!: “The Marikana Massacre Represents the Beginning of the End of the ANC”
28 Oct 2015
by BAR editor and columnist Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo The tombstones of apartheid were laid at Sharpeville in 1960 and Soweto, 1976. History will record that the death knell for the African National…
Didas Gasana
Like Syria, Burundi is a War Theater: The China-Russia Axis vs. the US-EU Axis
21 Oct 2015
by Didas Gasana There is no doubt that the U.S.-led unipolar global order is facing stiff competition from the East. The BRICS block, especially Russian and China, so far presents to the U.S. the…
Dale T. McKinley
It’s All About Power and Money: The Present State of the ANC
13 Oct 2015
by Dale T. McKinley The African National Congress has morphed from its earlier transition days as a “modern” bourgeois political party designed to consolidate a class-based system of power overlaid…
Ann Garrison , BAR contributor
Sankarist Spirit Resurges in Burkina Faso
07 Oct 2015
by Ann Garrison In 1983, a military clique in Burkina Faso assassinated the anti-imperialist head of state Thomas Sankara, plunging the nation back into the clutches of U.S. and French neocolonialism…
Thomas C. Mountain
Eritrea: Where Muslims and Christians Live in Peace
23 Sep 2015
by Thomas C. Mountain Western media claim that religious hatreds have wracked the Middle East and Africa from time immemorial. But lethal fractures are not intrinsic to these societies, nor are they…