Il nuovo volto aggressivo di US Army Africa Vicenza
- Antonio Mazzeo
Passa da Vicenza la tappa clou del processo di ammodernamento strategico dell’esercito degli Stati Uniti d’America. Con l’obiettivo di disporre di truppe sempre più versatili, flessibili, rapide ed efficienti, il Comando ...
Mo e Saamiya, le due facce della Somalia
- Igiaba Scego
Mo Farah, arrivato da rifugiato in Uk, ora è l’eroe nazionale: dopo aver vinto 10′000 e 5’000 metri è stato ricevuto anche da Cameron. Saamiya, invece, che aveva corso i 200 metri alle Olimpiadi ...
A guide to helping Africa
- Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Helping Africa has become a self-perpetuating for profit non-profit business. It has become what Teju Cole calls the white savior industrial complex. This does raise the questions, are there ways in which help can actually be useful? Where help ...
Destroying the Commons: How the Magna Carta Became a Minor Carta
- Noam Chomsky
This column is adapted from an address by Noam Chomsky on June 19 at the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland, as part of its 600th anniversary celebration.
Down the road only a few generations, the millennium of Magna Carta, one of ...
Clan Warfare Over the Spoils of Power: Is Libya the Next Somalia?
- Thomas C. Mountain
Libya seems well on its way to becoming the next Somalia, with much of the country already ruled by tribal/clan based armed militias. As was the case in Somalia, Libya is in the process of separation, with the eastern, oil rich, Cyrenica region having ...
NATO's Libya blitzkrieg and the coming colonial wars
- Dan Glazebrook
If you want a vision of Africa under AFRICOM tutelage, look no further than Libya, NATO’s model of an African state: condemned to decades of violence and trauma through military colonialism.
The scale of the ongoing tragedy visited on ...
Why Do They Hate Us? The real war on women is in the Arab-Islamic world
- Mona Eltahawy منى الطحاوي
In "Distant View of a Minaret," the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a woman so unmoved by sex with her husband that as he focuses solely on his pleasure, she notices a spider web she must sweep ...
Egyptian Upholds Sex-War View of Revolution
- Hajer Naili
After stirring an outcry for her article in Foreign Policy magazine, Egyptian-American columnist Mona Eltahawy on Tuesday night offered a vigorous defense of her views that the real Middle East revolution is yet to come, between men and women.
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Somalia: Die Afrikanische Union ist ein Werkzeug westlicher Herrschaft
- Thomas C. Mountain
Die Afrikanische Union (AU) hat sich in ein besonders korruptes und brutales Instrument westlicher Herrschaft in Afrika verwandelt. Wenn es um die Interessen der Pax Americana geht, muss man mit den Verbrechen beginnen, die im „Krieg gegen ...
The African Union: A Tool Of Western Rule
- Thomas C. Mountain
The African Union (AU) has mutated into a particularly corrupt and brutal enforcer of western rule in Africa. When it comes to the interests of Pax Americana you must start with the crimes committed in the AU’s “War on Terror” ...
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