Category: Editorial

Ethiopia: Civil War and Nation Building in the 21st Century

2 Dec 2020 – In light of the Ethiopian central government’s military clash with regional forces in Tigray province, Ann Garrison speaks with a member of the Oromo people,…

Myanmar: Fair Elections But Challenges Ahead by Rene Wadlow

The 8 November 2020 elections for the two houses of the Myanmar Parliament were carried out with little violence. The National League for Democracy (NLD) headed by Aung…

What Africa and Europe can learn from the American elections ?

Jude Oboh, a Dutch cityzen from Nigeria living in Atlanta(Georgia) gives us his observations on the 2020-elections and their impact in the world especially in Africa and Europe.…

CGNK at the Human Rights Council 45th sessions: Truth and progress

Despite a complicated health situation, the Human Rights Council has preserved the core of its work and started to return to a more usual functioning, noticeably with informal…

Text Messages | The words of Che Guevara

His image may be instantly recognisable as the face of revolution but Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara’s words are no less powerful, guided as they are by ‘great feelings of…

What World Are We Moving Into? EDITORIAL By Johan Galtung

I don’t know.  But I think I know something…  At least I think, hence I may know… Not a world of nation states.   Their time is over, except for…

Modi’s Brutal Treatment of Kashmir Exposes His Tactics – And Their Flaws

A year after a ferocious crackdown, I see the region facing nothing less than cultural erasure. ‘Why did Narendra Modi decide to inaugurate the Ram Mandir now?’ Photograph:…

Ernest Wamba dia Wamba, a healer from within BY Jacques Depelchin

We should honor Professor Ernest Wamba dia Wamba by carrying on his life’s work. In the early hours of July 15, 2020, at the University Hospital in Kinshasa,…

When France Extorted Haiti – the Greatest Heist in History

When France Extorted Haiti – the Greatest Heist in History The indemnity Haiti paid to France is the first and only time a formerly enslaved people were forced…

The Commodification of Black Death

As corporations and large universities attempt to profit off of the movement against racial violence, it’s apparent that racism and capitalism are as intertwined as ever. by Nia Imara…

‘We will coup whoever we want’: Elon Musk and the overthrow of democracy in Bolivia by Vijay Prashad, Alejandro Bejarano

What role did billionaire Elon Musk and his thirst for lithium play in the coup in Bolivia? Vijay Prashad and Alejandro Bejarano discuss. Elon Musk with Vice President…

A Message from the Peasant Organizations in Haiti

Haiti Action Committee | Malaika H Kambon 31 May 2020, Port-au-Prince – Haiti Action Committee is honored to distribute this message of solidarity  from peasant organization in Haiti. It…

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 fantasy world of her…

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 the population is likely…

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 that a great deal…

Overlooked No More: Andrée Blouin, Voice for Independence in Africa By

Politicized by her child’s death, she went on to counsel the first post-colonial leaders of Algeria, both Congos, Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea and Ghana.   Andrée Blouin around…

Analysis of Violence for Peacebuilders: Galtung’s Triangle

A conflict analysis is a nonnegotiable first step when preparing a conflict transformation and peacebuilding intervention. Understanding violence is part and parcel of this initial assessment. Johan Galtung’s Triangle is…

UNDERSTANDING THE MEANING OF CORRUPTION By Jacques Depelchin

In these current times, corruption seems to be everywhere. And yet, depending on the place where it is being discussed, the finger tends to be pointed against one…

Meanwhile, Around the World

There is much diversity.  Let us praise that mega aspect of our world as multipolar, passive but peaceful, coexistence of civilizations: Anglo-American; Latin American-Caribbean; Islamic; African pre-, post-colonial;…

Africa’s Great Lakes Region and Nyiragongo’s curse

Dear Tingasiga; I am a child of the mountains, at once hopelessly enamoured by their beauty and intimidated by their silent, motionless and brooding majesty. It is a…

The Lasalin Massacre: Is it an accidental event, a fight between rival gangs to control an area, or a calculated and planned political act? by Vladimir Durace.

This article, originally written in Haitian Kreyol for Haiti Solidarity in February 2019, was translated by Haiti Action Committee. Lasalin, a shantytown in the capital of Haiti, is…

Tribute to Patrice Lumumba Assassinated On 17 January 1961

FacebookTwitterGoogle+LinkedInStumbleUponTumblrPinterestRedditVKontakteOdnoklassnikiPocketShare via EmailPrint  Patrice Lumumba Why was Lumumba killed? Because he was a ‘relentless, dedicated, intelligent, passionate anti-colonialist, Pan-Africanist and Congolese nationalist’ with ‘the unstinting support of the…

On January 1st, 1959, the Rebel army led by Fidel Castro overthrew Batista's dictatorship.

Ethiopia: PM ABIY AHMED’S DOWNSIZED CABINET SEES 50 PER CENT WOMEN MINISTERS ASSUME KEY POSITIONS

For the second time since becoming Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed formed a new cabinet today. But unlike the first one, PM Abiy has downsized the number of…

Divide and Conquer, Cui Bono? – The US and Former Yugoslavia

Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service Human beings are social creatures whose survival depends on cooperation and mutual support.  Only in an atmosphere of perceived scarcity, threats and…