Analysis
Defeat of a dirty military incursion into Venezuela on a Sunday morning
In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 3, speedboats left the Colombian coastlines and headed toward Venezuela. These boats had no authorization to […]
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Reality of Refugees in Uganda During COVID-19: Where are the Donors, UNHCR Uganda, & OPM Department of Refugees?
We witnessed the death of the longtime acclaimed “Uganda Hospitality” towards refugees. This notion which has been imposed for a long time on us and […]
Environment
DRC’s Virunga: Park, Gorillas, and Rangers All Under Attack
Congolese officials are blaming armed Rwandan Hutu refugees for the massacre of twelve rangers and five civilians, but there are any number of other […]
Activism
Resisting COVID-19 in Haiti
by Pierre Labossiere, Haiti Action Committee On March 19, 2020, shortly after international institutions made known that millions of dollars would be available to […]
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Deception? Deception?
In Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie”, a stunned Amanda Wingfield enters the second scene repeating an enigmatic question: “Deception? Deception?” Amanda revels in the […]
Activism
Arundhati Roy: ‘The Pandemic Is a Portal’
The novelist on how coronavirus threatens India — and what the country, and the world, should do next. 3 Apr 2020 – Who can use […]
Activism
Uganda: How music is shaping war on Coronavirus By Denis Nsubuga
It is good to see mainstream artistes step up against coronavirus, even when most of their shows were cancelled Bobi Wine, the Musician-turned-politician, is […]
African Union
What happened to Africa’s ambitious green belt project?
The 15 kilometer (9.3 mile) wide Great Green Wall project stretches over 7,775 km from Senegal on the Atlantic to Eritrea on the Red […]
Non-violence
Inspiration from a Father: Johan Galtung Interviewed by Henrik Urdal
Henrik Urdal | PRIO – TRANSCEND Media Service 15 May 2019 – The Second World War had a lasting effect on me. Especially because my […]
Environment
How is the Covid-19 Crisis Changing the Global Movement Landscape?
by Amber FrenchApril 03, 2020 In this article I offer a big-picture framework for how the Covid-19 crisis is impacting activism, organizing, and civil resistance […]
Activism
‘Vulgarity makes the point polite conversation can’t’ — a conversation with Ugandan dissident Stella Nyanzi
Radical Ugandan activist and academic Stella Nyanzi discusses her recent imprisonment, the power of vularity and anti-authoritarian struggle. Phil Wilmot Appeared on the net […]
Articles
Haiti on the precipice as coronavirus and US-imposed leadership take their toll
HAITIMarch 30, 2020 ShareTweet While Haiti’s widely despised, US-backed government officially promotes social distancing to suppress Covid-19, the stark reality is that most of […]
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Eastern Congo has the world’s largest quinine plantations
A region known for misery also saves lives THE KIVU provinces in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have a tragic reputation. […]
Analysis
Only a global victory can end this pandemic, not a temporary rich countries’ win
Abiy Ahmed The writer is prime minister of Ethiopia and the 2019 Nobel Peace prize laureate Financial Times, March 25, 2020 https://www.ft.com/content/c12a09c8-6db6-11ea-89df-41bea055720b There […]
Art-News
Too Fast to Be a Woman
When South African track star Caster Semenya won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games, critics claimed “she was cheating and had no […]
Human rights
Economists Demand Trump Immediately Lift Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela Sanctions That Are ‘Feeding the Coronavirus Epidemic’
This policy is unconscionable and flagrantly against international law. It is imperative that the U.S. lift these immoral and illegal sanctions. “US sanctions against […]
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The question of election, should be the question of ideology in Zambia! By: Nassoro Kitunda
I heard the claims and lamentations from the leaders of opposition parties and from religious institution about the way tripartite election in Zambia is […]
Society
Uganda’s Kanungu cult massacre that killed 700 followers By Patience Atuhaire
Judith Ariho does not shed any tears as she recalls the church massacre in which her mother, two siblings and four other relatives were […]
Articles
Panic Pandemic – Why are people who should know better buying the Covid19 hype? By Catte Black
Exaggerated or invented, the true danger Covid19 poses is shutting down our sense of reason The only certainty about the ‘novel’ virus is […]
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Pandemics and War Games, Solidarity as an Antidote By Stella Calloni
The coronavirus, a new strain of the already existing one, whose mutation is being investigated has put the world between the solidarity and the […]
Analysis
Cuba’s Contribution to Combating COVID-19
Helen Yaffe— COVID-19 surged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late December 2019, and by January 2020 it had hit Hubei province like […]
African Union
Blood on the Nile is what’s coming if Egypt and Ethiopia continue their war of words over water
The Nile, one of the wonders of the natural world, finds itself the subject of an escalating war of words. It could turn the […]
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The Final Chapter Has Still Not Been Written: Remembering The 2004 Coup in Haiti By Robert Roth, Haiti Action Committee
On February 29, 2004, the democratically elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti was overthrown by a violent coup. This was the second […]
Analysis
The Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes Is Structural Racism
The Difference Between Yams and Sweet Potatoes Is Structural Racism The confusion goes all the way back to the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. “Most American […]
Activism
When A Virus Hits Town, Racists Hit Back!
When A Virus Hits Town, Racists Hit Back! Around the planet, from Peru to Melbourne to Paris, Asians are subjected to threats and abuse […]