To justify US and European military occupation of much of Africa, migrants seeking jobs in the north of the continent or in Europe “are labeled as criminals and terrorists” when they are “just looking for work,” said Ampson Hagan, a PhD candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “These migrants, traveling along paths that have been traveled for centuries, are now implicated in terrorist activity,” said Hagan. “Terrorism becomes a way of legitimizing a foreign presence” in the Sahel region, centered in Niger. Hagan asks: “What does it mean for Europe to be policing African migration within Africa?”
Dr. Shireen Al-Adeimi provides historical background and analysis of events in Yemen as Ansar Allah advances against Saudi-backed mercenaries.
Pan-African Community Action (PACA) released a Transit Solidarity Plan for Washington, DC that challenges DC fare evasion crackdowns by collecting and redistributing fare cards to residents in the…
The United States got its hands on Alex Saab a second time in order to use him in its case against Nicolás Maduro. The U.S. succeeded in getting a guilty plea from Saab, but the current Venezuelan…
“The Iraq invasion greatly accelerated the process of U.S. imperialism’s decline.”
NSPM-7 and the State Department's international campaign against "far-left political terrorism" represent new and more dangerous forms of domestic repression in the 21st century, while reconstructing…
