Mark P. Fancher

Mark P. Fancher
Bad News for Africa: 3,000 More U.S. Soldiers are on the Way
24 Oct 2012
by Mark P. Fancher The United States plans to permanently station a U.S. Army brigade on African soil, beginning next year. Is this the start of something big – and ominous – or “only a…
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The People’s Rage in South Africa
29 Aug 2012
by Mark P. Fancher South Africa did not complete its revolution with the transfer of government power to Black hands in 1994. The Marikana mine massacre shows that imperialism “will not…
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Africa’s Deadly Spy Infestation
26 Jun 2012
by Mark P. Fancher The expanding U.S. spy infrastructure in Africa, including a network of landing strips to service a fleet of intelligence-gathering aircraft, is inherently hostile to…
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Beware the Rotten Fruit of AFRICOM Training
02 May 2012
by Mark P. Fancher The U.S. military command in Africa, AFRICOM, has trained thousands of officers on the continent, including the young captain that overthrew his own government in Mali…
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Uganda Or Somalia? Get Your Story Straight, America
18 Apr 2012
by Mark P. Fancher The U.S. and Uganda are playing a cynical game of musical chairs in Africa. The Americans send Green Berets to Uganda, ostensibly to help the beleaguered Ugandan…
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Hell No, We Won’t Go To War Against Africa!
11 Jan 2012
by Mark P. Fancher Elders and other influencers discouraged Black youth from becoming fodder for the Iraq war, but what of the looming U.S. imperial wars in Africa? The U.S. Africa…
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Obama’s Tragic Rorschach Perceptions of the Law, Africa and Military Intervention
25 Oct 2011
by Mark P. Fancher President Obama uses his training as a constitutional lawyer to find opportunities to spread violence and impose U.S. imperial will on Africa. He makes war against…
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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…
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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…
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Wanted: A New People’s Vision for Mining and Drilling in Africa
15 Sep 2010
by Mark P. Fancher Multinational corporations claim that the problem with Africa is corruption. But the most corrupting influence in Africa is the multinational corporation. Africa's…