Beyond the Travesty of Damini*: On Rape and Neocolonialism
- Julian Vigo
“Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
In the United Kingdom 400,000 women are sexually assaulted and ...
La riconquista dell’Africa
- Manlio Dinucci
Nel momento stesso in cui il presidente democratico Obama ribadiva nel discorso inaugurale che gli Stati uniti, «fonte di speranza per i poveri, sostengono la democrazia in Africa», giganteschi aerei Usa C-17 trasportavano truppe francesi ...
Russia, China grapple with Mali's future
- MK Bhadrakumar
There is a saying, "Once bitten, twice shy". Russia and China claim to have been bitten once: when the West turned the United Nation's Security Council resolution 1973 on its head and proceeded to invade Libya. Moscow and Beijing became shy ...
Perche gli Usamericani devono fermare le guerre auto-generatrici degli Stati Uniti d'America
- Peter Dale Scott
Oggi, la sfida politica più urgente nel mondo è quella di impedire che la cosiddetta “Pax Americana” degeneri progressivamente verso un conflitto mondiale drammatico, come è avvenuto nel XIX secolo durante la cosiddetta ...
Why USAmericans Must End USAmerica’s Self-Generating Wars
- Peter Dale Scott
The most urgent political challenge to the world today is how to prevent the so-called “pax Americana” from progressively degenerating, like the 19th-century so-called “pax Britannica” before it, into major global warfare. I say ...
Mali: The Next Afghanistan?
- Immanuel Wallerstein
Up to very recently, very, very few persons, outside of its immediate neighbors and its former colonial power (France) had even heard of Mali, much less knew anything about its history and its politics. Today, northern Mali has been taken over militarily ...
Justice requires action to stop subjugation of Palestinians
- Desmond Tutu
A quarter-century ago I barnstormed around the United States encouraging Americans, particularly students, to press for divestment from South Africa. Today, regrettably, the time has come for similar action to force an end to Israel's long-standing ...
Jamais l’apartheid n’a disparu en Afrique du Sud : il a été la matrice d’un ordre mondial fondé sur la violence et l’illusion
- John Pilger
L’assassinat de 34 mineurs, la plupart tués d’une balle dans le dos, par la police sud-africaine, a mis fin à l’illusion d’une démocratie post-apartheid. Il éclaire le nouvel apartheid mondial, auquel ...
Thomas Sankara: el dirigente africano tendría algo que decir a Europa
- Nick Dearden
Tras la conmemoración del vigésimo quinto aniversario del asesinato de Sankara, Nick Dearden aborda la necesidad de evocar su liderazgo para cuestionar las opiniones dominantes en torno a África y para dar la pelea en medio ...
South African miners defy repression
- Chris Marsden
On Friday, Gold Fields boasted that threats of mass sackings had succeeded in forcing the 9,000 workers at its Beatrix mine and 90 percent of the 14,300 workers at KDC West back to work. But a new strike by platinum miners at Lonmin’ ...
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