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  • Thomas C. Mountain
    Surviving Climate Disaster in Africa's Sahel
    01 Apr 2015
    by Thomas C. Mountain The small, fiercely independent nation of Eritrea has mobilized its entire population to combat the effects of climate change. “When the rains failed in 2013, we had enough to…
  • Black Agenda Radio, Week of April 1, 2015
    01 Apr 2015
    Bottom Line: Fire Some Cops A U.S. Justice Department report shows Philadelphia police are five times as trigger happy as cops in New York City. The report contains 49 findings and 91 recommendations…
  • Mark P. Fancher
    Has Terrorism Stepped into Africa’s Political Void?
    25 Mar 2015
    by Mark P. Fancher
  • Black Agenda Radio, Week of March 25, 2015
    24 Mar 2015
    Black Agenda Radio, week of March 25, 2015 “Liberal” Israeli Zionists Hoped to Prolong the Farce of Negotiations Had the “liberal” Zionist Union defeated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last…
  • Abayomi Azikiwe
    Burkina Faso Courts Allow Exhumation of Thomas Sankara Remains
    16 Mar 2015
    by Abayomi Azikiwe During his four years as head of a revolutionary government in Burkina Faso, Captain Thomas Sankara captured the imaginations of Marxists and Pan-Africanists throughout the world.…
  • Freedom Rider: Media Silence on Libya
    Margaret Kimberley , BAR editor and senior columnist
    Freedom Rider: Media Silence on Libya
    25 Feb 2015
    by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley Four years ago, the United States and its NATO and royal Arab allies destroyed the government of Libya and handed the country over to jihadists,…
  • This article previously appeared in Pambazuka News.
    Dan Glazebrook
    The Lessons of Libya
    03 Dec 2014
    Three years ago, in late October 2011, the world witnessed the final defeat of the Libyan Jamahiriya – the name by which the Libyan state was known until overthrown in 2011, meaning literally the “
  • Iraq, Libya, Syria: Three reasons African Americans should oppose U.S. intervention in Africa
    Ajamu Baraka , BAR editor and columnist
    Iraq, Libya, Syria: Three reasons African Americans should oppose U.S. intervention in Africa
    25 Jun 2014
    As the U.S. tightens its military grip on Africa, “it is absolutely imperative that we embark on a massive educational campaign with our folks that will expose the real intentions of the U.S.
  • Harold Green
    South Africa and Zimbabwe: A Tale of Two Land Reforms
    18 Dec 2013
    by Harold Green When Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe attended the memorial service for Nelson Mandela, he “received the loudest cheers and applause” among the dignitaries. Zimbabwe’s successful land reform…
  • Jemima Pierre
    Reconciliation is Not Decolonization
    11 Dec 2013
    by BAR columnist Jemima Pierre Nelson Mandela certainly led an inspirational life, but the “liberation” of South Africa has been the continent’s most spectacular failure. Mandela and his party “…
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