February 10, 2026
How can one take a straight, razor-sharp steel blade, pair it with a cold, rock-hard, lifeless surface, and create an explosion of gracefully curving, joyfully passionate, life-affirming beauty? Watch 1988 Olympic gold…
December 15, 2025
Let’s start with the basics. We are told this is “one of the deadliest and longest-running wars on the planet.” Millions dead, villages erased, women raped on an industrial scale, more than seven million…
December 15, 2025
Technological innovation is far outpacing social, economic, and political innovation to our extreme peril. More precisely, the implementation of technological innovation, driven by profit motives, is suppressing our potential to harness advancements…
November 21, 2025
Lands managed by Afro-descendant peoples in the Amazon experience dramatically lower deforestation and house some of the planet’s richest ecosystems—showing how centuries-old stewardship can guide global conservation.
November 3, 2025
Khalid Elwalid in Khartoum ‘Hemedti’ now controls all of Darfur, continuing the genocide that began with the Janjaweed. Source: THE CONTINENT The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized El Fasher this week after…
August 4, 2025
In On a Highway to Hell, former weapons inspector and anti-nuclear activist Scott Ritter alerted us to an ominous threshold crossed last September, warning that “by allowing the US nuclear posture to shift…
July 24, 2025
Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire’s arrest belies Rwanda’s pretense to liberal democracy and its pretense to self-defense in DRC. Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire has been denied bail and remanded to prison…
June 18, 2025
Robert Amalemba in Nairobi Over the weekend, Kenyans learned that a 31-year-old teacher and blogger, Albert Ojwang, had died in police custody. He was arrested in Homa Bay, a town on the…
June 18, 2025
In recent months, the viability of France’s nuclear arsenal has been making headlines with talk of a French “nuclear umbrella”that might shield its allies on the European continent. In the face of the…
March 8, 2025
UNICEF/Roger LeMoyne The Congolese Action Youth Platform (CAYP) is campaigning for the recognition of the Genocide against the people of DR Congo to be commemorated on August 2nd, the anniversary of…
February 12, 2025
The situation in eastern Congo is once again escalating dramatically. After long months of the planned advance of the M231 mercenaries – reinforced by other alliances of so-called rebels and units of the…
January 2, 2025
Thirty years of economic warfare over raw materials in eastern Congo by Peter Küpfer On 9 November 2024, the Paris Court of Appeal punished a deserving research- er and author with Cameroonian roots, ignoring important facts. For years, his well-researched non-fiction books…
October 8, 2024
September 3, 2024
BEIJING — September 02, 2024 8:59 AM China rolled out the red carpet on Monday for leaders from across Africa, seeking to deepen ties with the resource-rich continent it has furnished with…
August 26, 2024
Tags: Africa, Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, NATO, Niger, Predatory Capitalism, Resources, Sahel, Savage Capitalism, Violent conflict The Sahel, this vast arid region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, a region that has long been a battleground for various forces, shows…
July 4, 2024
Between June 6 and 9, residents of the European Union (EU) went to the polls to elect a new European Parliament. There were fears in advance of a breakthrough by the far…
June 20, 2024
Life under occupation is a constant struggle. This is continually expressed at the international media conference in a refugee camp in Western Sahara. The conference takes place from May 1–5 and is…
May 6, 2024
Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service 3 May 2024 – When I think of the values of journalism, I think of trust, truth and integrity. I…
April 24, 2024
Before our very eyes yet another humani- tarian catastrophe unfolds in East Congo. Many alarming reports from the region it- self prove this. Thematter-of-fact eyewit- ness account of an East Congolese priest…
April 17, 2024
Music awakens and inspires the inex- haustible creativity of man. It creates mo- ments of happiness, brings people togeth- er, and enables them to better cope with life. Across all continents and…
April 15, 2024
22 Mar 2024 – In recent past weeks, the situation in Haiti has drawn international attention due to reports of escalating violence. Various media outlets have brought to light the alarming uprising…
April 15, 2024
Tags: Africa, D.R. Congo, DRC, Genocide, Paul Kagame, Rwanda Hundreds of thousands of refugees poured into Congo after Paul Kagame seized power in Rwanda. Judi Rever risked her life to write the true story of the Rwandan…
April 7, 2024
IT IS NOT ZUMA AND LAZINESS, IT IS POVERTY AND INEQUALITY! Nassoro Kitunda (Political Economy Analyst- Tanzania) Also, Assistant lecturer, in Unity of Sociology and Social work (Mwenge Catholic University-Tanzania). Email: nassorokitunda@gmail.com…
April 5, 2024
Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei is under fire from his counterparts in the region for comments made during an interview with CNN Español. In response to his comments, wherein he called Colombia’s…
March 20, 2024
A Palestinian man holds a child as he mourns the death of twin babies Naeem and Wissam Abu Anza, killed in an overnight Israeli air strike, during their burial in Rafah in…