The US acted as midwife to South Africa’s apartheid system, said Dr Gerald Horne, author of “US Imperialism and Anti-Communism vs Liberation of Southern Africa, from Rhodes to Mandela.” Horne, a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and possibly Black America’s most prolific living political writer, said the US Carnegie Corporation formulated “the blueprint” for South Africa’s apartheid system, imposed in 1948 as “a combination of neo-slavery and Jim Crow on steroids.”
“Anticommunism provided a global language that could be used to silence anti-racist organizing.”
“Few on the broader US left can name more than a handful of African revolutionaries.”
”The women, peace and security agenda, if implemented and financially resourced, can be the pathway to peace in my country and around the world.”
“Fleets of white Toyota trucks arrived in the desert to carry refugees and drugs to Europe and to bring weapons into central and western Africa.”
“The upcoming military exercise is just another piece in this growing pattern of militarization and regional threat.”
