IN 25 U.S. STATES AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, A HOMELESS PERSON CAN LOSE HIS/HER CHILDREN BY THE ACT OF TRYING TO OBTAIN SOCIAL SERVICES TO HELP PROVIDE FOR THEM. As in so many ways that the homeless are “criminalized” rather than being provided for, these states make application for assistance actionable instances of “abuse [...]
THE AFRICAN UNION HAS BECOME AN “ANNEX” OF THE PENTAGON. As Glen Ford noted last June, the expansion of U.S. forces in Africa (AFRICOM) is operating as an “infiltration” exercise of American forces being placed as “guests” of various African nations comprising the African Union. These “guests” are in a peculiar positions for guests: [...]
WHAT COUNTRY IS REALLY THE “DE-STABILIZING” COUNTRY IN THE HORN OF AFRICA? One might think this would be the tiny country of Eritrea, since it has been singled out for “sanctions” for its supposed support of “terrorist” elements in Somalia. Actually, says Glen Ford, even UN monitors have found no such support, and those [...]
KWAME NKRUMAH’S DREAM OF A “UNITED STATES OF AFRICA” HAS MORPHED INTO—THE AFRICOM MILITARY DOMINATION OF THE COUNTRY. The leader of Ghana was deposed by a U.S.-backed coup 1966, as was his successor, visionary Muammar Gaddafi in Libya in 2011. Now, in what Glenn Ford describes as a process of Africa “re-enslaving itself,” 53 [...]
THE BEASTS OF AFRICA—AND THE KEEPERS WHO FEED THEM. (Black Agenda Report) A White House paper called “U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa” captures the attention of Glen Ford. The paper is yet another of President Obama’s platitudinous pronouncements of the high ideals of democracy and development for a continent racked by military dictatorships and poverty. [...]
HUMANS IN LIBYA: HOW’S THAT HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION THINGY WORKING OUT FOR YOU? (World Socialist) Not very well, latest reports indicate, as the NATO effort to relieve Libya of the humanitarian disaster supposedly threatened by forces loyal to Gaddafi becomes a real disaster in the “regime change” agenda of NATO. Daily and frequent bombings have taken [...]
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