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 | | Africa Focus: World Cup 2010: Bend It Like Imperialism!
Saturday, July 03 @ 22:56:26 AST |  The World Cup 1, African Liberation Nil
By Jared A. Ball
July 03 2010 - blackagendareport.com
"These stadiums are encased in a 'Ring of Steel' to protect audiences from 'unpatriotic citizens' of South Africa."
Today, June 16, marks the 34th anniversary of the South African Soweto uprising where thousands of African youth took to the streets and where hundreds would die at the hands of the South African police and military. Today, June 16, also marks the first anniversary of that uprising to take place during the first ever World Cup on the African continent. These competing, colliding commemorations and events stand in violent opposition to one another precisely because the World Cup is corporate-sponsored spectacle playing on our emotions in the hopes that we will not realize or will ignore those who try to force realization, that the causes of the Soweto uprising, indeed the very existence of a Soweto or a South Africa, remain, are even worse now than 34 years ago. So bad are these conditions today that in response to seeing so many Black American entertainers participating in the World Cup opening ceremonies one veteran activist remarked to me that "these folks are crossing the picket line."
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Africa Focus: Oil Leaks in the Gulf of Mexico & Niger Delta: Double Standard World Racism
Tuesday, June 01 @ 03:28:17 AST | 
By Franz J. T. Lee
June 01, 2010
We are on our way to post-apartheid South Africa, to enjoy the latest
pan et circenses, the World Cup, but will the cup of the Niger Delta
also pass us by, cross our way?
Once more we witness that racism is an integral element of
international relations, an ideological reflex of the corporate
imperialist world market. Again the class interests of millions of
exploited and dominated African wage slaves who are vegetating in dire
poverty simply do not figure in breaking news of the international mass
media. Few people know that Africa, specifically Nigeria, is the number
one supplier of excellent fine crude oil to the USA. Nigeria has over
600 oilfields which produce 40% of the total oil imports of Washington
D.C. One would imagine that the White House would know what is
happening in Black Africa, in the Niger Delta where the black gold
freely flows; that this delta is the world capital of oil leaks,
spills, multinational criminality and pollution of Mother Nature, of
Africa.
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Africa Focus: Zimbabwe: U.S. Must Come Clean - SA Envoy
Wednesday, April 14 @ 06:06:11 AST |  The Herald
April 14, 2010
South Africa is maintaining pressure on the United States and Europe to lift their illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe with the latest call directed on Washington to engage Harare in dialogue rather being "divisive" and polarising the country.
South African President Jacob Zuma has been calling on the West to remove the sanctions regime saying the embargo puts Zanu-PF officials in the inclusive Government at a disadvantage as they are barred from travelling to Europe and other Western countries on Government business yet their MDC counterparts visit these countries freely.
Ahead of his recent state visit to Britain, President Zuma urged London and its Western allies to lift the sanctions and has repeatedly made the plea to give the inclusive Government a chance to work.
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Africa Focus: UK media's covert racism laid bare
Wednesday, April 14 @ 05:56:17 AST |  By Philip Dzumbunu
The Herald
April 14, 2010
ANYONE who lives in Britain would have been shocked by the way the murder of Eugene Terre'Blanche — the white supremacist and racist leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) — was portrayed in that country's media.
It was almost unbelievable!
Terre'Blanche was an undefiant, divisive person who never repented. After his release from prison for killing a black person, he quipped: "I was never wrong to honour my heritage and to love my people, and to be there when they called me!"
I hear the world's media descended in droves on Ventersdorp ahead of Terre'Blanche's funeral on Friday, with guest houses in the normally sleepy North West town inundated with bookings.
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Africa Focus: Africa: since ages living in the racist abyss of capitalist barbarism
Friday, April 02 @ 16:53:09 AST | By Franz J. T. Lee
April 02, 2010
When we are sitting at the foot of the
lighthouse, we can barely see its warning lights of imminent
approximating danger. Currently our global ship of State, our Titanic,
is steering directly towards the huge rocks of disaster. No great god,
no
great idea, no great man, no Herrenvolk, can and will save us from this
man-made self-destruction. Of course, we will remain on collision track
unless we ourselves, ... global Society in relation to galactic Nature
... get rid of the current 'democratic-republican' Janus-faced
barbarism on a world scale: exploited Labor versus
exploiting Capital. At this moment the 'great powers' are activating
their mortal
arms of mass destruction, they are launching the Goebberls generation
of
diatribal, fascist, political propaganda and they are going for 'total
war' (Hitler), total body, mind and
thought control.
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Africa Focus: Zimbabwe: Sophists for sanctions
Friday, February 19 @ 03:41:56 AST | By Stephen Gowans
February 19, 2010 - gowans.wordpress.com
Tony Hawkins, a professor of economics at the University of Zimbabwe, thinks that Western sanctions on Zimbabwe should be maintained but that their effects "are minimal" and that "their continued existence really plays into the hands of some people in Zanu-PF."
You would think, then, that Hawkins would favor the lifting of sanctions. After all, why continue to play into the hands of Zanu-PF, if, like Hawkins, you're opposed to the party, its direction and its program, and the sanctions' effects are minimal anyway?
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Africa Focus: Washington fuels Africa's crisis
Monday, August 17 @ 17:51:38 AST | Lee Wengraf explains why neoliberal policies will only mean more crushing debts and militarization for Africa's future.
By Lee Wengraf
August 17, 2009 - socialistworker.org
Barack Obama made his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa as president in July, speaking in Accra, Ghana, on the heels of the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy. The G8 meeting highlighted--like last year's summit in Hokkaido, Japan--the continued failure of the world's wealthiest nations to live up to their promises of aid to Africa.
This failure is all the more glaring in light of the brutal impact of the global economic crisis on the world's poorest continent. And Washington's agenda holds more crushing debt and militarization in store.
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Africa Focus: Kenya's Mau Mau war: veterans demand justice from Britain
Monday, July 20 @ 19:12:52 AST | Veterans of Kenya’s Mau Mau independence struggle came to Britain in June demanding compensation for atrocities committed by the British.
By Ken Olende
July 10, 2009 - socialistworker.co.uk
Five veterans from the Mau Mau war in Kenya arrived in Britain last month to sue the British government for their imprisonment and torture 60 years ago. In the 1950s, Britain was desperately trying to hold on to its colonial empire and it crushed a nationalist rebellion in Kenya in a shockingly brutal manner.
The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) is bringing the case. George Morara from their legal team told Socialist Worker, “After the horrors of the Nazi era, Britain was central to establishing an international legal system to defend human rights.
“How could a country at the forefront of drafting these laws go on to commit torture on a horrendous scale in Kenya immediately afterwards?
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Africa Focus: Is Obama's African tough love bootstrap theory racist?
Friday, July 17 @ 14:22:55 AST |  By Lloyd Whitefield BUTLER, Jr.
July 17, 2009 - talkzimbabwe.com
In 1863, the Negro was told that he was free as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation being signed by Abraham Lincoln. But he was not given any land to make that freedom meaningful. It was something like keeping a person in prison for a number of years and suddenly discovering that that person is not guilty of the crime for which he was convicted. And you just go up to him and say, 'Now you are free,' but you don't give him any bus fare to get to town. You don't give him any money to get some clothes to put on his back or to get on his feet again in life.
THE Honourable Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States of America made the following statements to the African world during an AllAfrica interview and his recent lecture to the Ghanaian Parliament:
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Africa Focus: Washington suppressed Kenyan exit poll to keep Kibaki in power
Wednesday, February 04 @ 15:04:21 AST | By Stephen Gowans
February 04, 2009
gowans.wordpress.com
Q: When does the US government hide an exit poll that calls a foreign election into question?
A: When it doesn’t want the candidate who got the most votes to win.
That’s what happened when a US government-financed exit poll cast doubt on the victory of Kenya’s president Mwai Kibaki in a December 2007 election.
In a January 31, 2009 New York Times article, “A chaotic Kenya vote and a secret US exit poll,” reporters Mike McIntyre and Jeffrey Gettleman revealed that the “results of an exit poll, paid for by the United States government, that supported the initial returns” favoring the challenger, Raila Odinga, were kept secret.
The exit poll showed Kibaki losing by six percentage points.
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Africa Focus: One Black Man's Critical Notes on Post Inauguration and Black America
Sunday, January 25 @ 14:33:04 AST | Kwame Zulu Shabazz
January 22, 2009
imperfect-black.blogspot.com
As I scanned through a number post presidential inauguration Facebook statuses of my friends and virtual friends, most of them African American, Afro-Caribbean, African, Latino/a, and disbursed throughout every region of the world, I observed many variations of "I love the First Family." But I wondered to myself, "do they have the same passion for black Americans generally?" When I clicked on the profiles of my African American friends I read declarations like "we have to stop watching so much TV!" or "we have to stop making excuses!" or "we must stop settling for mediocrity!" And when I read statements of black American men who intimated that they can only now hold their heads up high and walk tall, I became very troubled. Judging from these declarations one would be led to believe that black folks have been sitting on their hands since 1903 when W.E.B. Du Bois posed the question, "how does it feel to be a problem?"
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Africa Focus: Cholera Outbreak Outcome of West's War on Zimbabwe
Wednesday, December 10 @ 05:47:42 AST | By Stephen Gowans
December 08, 2008
gowans.wordpress.com
The crisis in Zimbabwe has intensified. Inflation is incalculably high. The central bank limits – to an inadequate level – the amount of money Zimbabweans can withdraw from their bank accounts daily. Unarmed soldiers riot, their guns kept under lock and key, to prevent an armed uprising. Hospital staff fail to show up for work. The water authority is short of chemicals to purify drinking water. Cholera, easily prevented and cured under normal circumstances, has broken out, leading the government to declare a humanitarian emergency.
In the West, state officials call for the country's president, Robert Mugabe, to step down and yield power to the leader of the largest faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai. In this, the crisis is directly linked to Mugabe, its solution to Tsvangirai, but it's never said what Mugabe has done to cause the crisis, or how Tsvangirai's ascension to the presidency will make it go away.
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Africa Focus: Somalia: Another CIA-Backed Coup Blows Up
Thursday, December 04 @ 05:39:51 AST |  By Mike Whitney
December 02, 2008
Information Clearinghouse
Up until a month ago, no one in the Bush administration showed the least bit of interest in the incidents of piracy off the coast of Somalia. Now that's all changed and there's talk of sending in the Navy to patrol the waters off the Horn of Africa and clean up the pirates hideouts. Why the sudden about-face? Could it have something to do with the fact that the Ethiopian army is planning to withdrawal all of its troops from Mogadishu by the end of the year, thus, ending the failed two year US-backed occupation of Somalia?
The United States has lost the ground war in Somalia, but that doesn't mean its geopolitical objectives have changed one iota. The US intends to stay in the region for years to come and use its naval power to control the critical shipping lanes from the Gulf of Aden. The growing strength of the Somali national resistance is a set-back, but it doesn't change the basic game-plan. The pirates are actually a blessing in disguise. They provide an excuse for the administration to beef up it's military presence and put down roots. Every crisis is an opportunity.
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Africa Focus: Toxic scandal in Somalia gave birth to new piracy
Sunday, November 30 @ 23:59:40 AST | November 25, 2008
socialistworker.co.uk
The escapades of Somali pirates made headlines last week. But the media has ignored the injustice behind the phenomenon, writes Simon Assaf
When the Asian tsunami of Christmas 2005 washed ashore on the east coast of Africa, it uncovered a great scandal.
Tonnes of radioactive waste and toxic chemicals drifted onto the beaches after the giant wave dislodged them from the sea bed off Somalia.
Tens of thousands of Somalis fell ill after coming into contact with this cocktail. They complained to the United Nations (UN), which began an investigation.
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Africa Focus: Chavez Visits South Africa and Strengthens South-South Relations
Wednesday, September 10 @ 04:04:38 AST |  September 10, 2008
By Tamara Pearson and James Suggett
Venezuelanalysis.com
Mérida, September 3, 2008 — Hugo Chavez arrived in Pretoria, South Africa Tuesday morning with the aim of developing closer relations with Venezuela, to concretize cooperation and "to strengthen the world of the South," he said.
One of the main agreements reached was that South Africa will work with Venezuela in the Petroleum Belt of the Orinoco River. Chavez met with Thabo Mbeki, president of South Africa, to become the first Venezuelan president to visit South Africa. Chavez said that to step on South African land "is to reunite ourselves with the roots of our people."
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