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Cuba is Making Every Effort to Secure the Safe Return of Two Kidnapped Doctors

Assel Herrera and Landy Rodríguez. Photo: Internet

“Cuba is working tirelessly for the safe return of Assel (Herrera) and Landy (Rodríguez), our doctors abducted in Kenya,” stated Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba’s Councils of State and Ministers, (more…)

John Bolton Wants to Protect Africa from ‘Predatory’ Chinese Behavior. What About Washington’s?

By Netfa Freeman, December 21, 2018

John Bolton’s recent unveiling of the Trump Administration’s “Prosper Africa” plan did what is typical of such U.S. foreign policy announcements. It performed the balancing act of admitting motives to protect vague “U.S. interests” while dishonestly claiming (more…)

Peasants’ Rights Declaration Presented before the UN General Assembly

October 26, 2018

MST School, Brazil. Photo: Bill Hackwell

The “UN Declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas” was presented in the UN headquarters to the Third Committee of the General Assembly on 25th October. (more…)

Dual War and Repression: Domestic and Foreign Policy on Black People

By Netfa Freeman October 22, 2018

Parallel tracks of US government policy against the Black working class in the US and on the African continent expose much more than incidental similarity but a concerted fatal conspiracy. (more…)

Shutting Down AFRICOM and the Scramble for Africa

By Netfa Freeman on October 1, 2018

To mark exactly 10 years after the establishment of AFRICOM, short for U.S. Africa Command, the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) has launched U.S. Out of Africa!: (more…)

Xenophobia and Migration: Africans are Europeans but Just for Football

By Aram Aharonian on July 20, 2018

England, France and Belgium, three of the four semifinalist nations of the 2018 Russia World Cup, have players of African descent on their teams. (more…)

What Western Imperialism is Up to Now in Zimbabwe

By Netfa Freeman on January 3, 2018

“The capitalist agenda is to neo-colonize Zimbabwe and appropriate its labor and land.” (more…)

Concentration Camps for African Migrants Blocked from Entering Europe Are Popping Up Across Libya

By Vijay Prashad on December 29, 2017

Refugees do not show up in the Mediterranean Sea as if from nowhere. By the time they get into their flimsy boats on the Libyan coastline, they have lived many, many dangerous lives. (more…)

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