White man’s burden: Affleck and Prendergast in Congress for Congo
KPFA Weekend News broadcast March 12 http://www.anngarrison.com/images/mp3s/whitemansburden.mp3 by Ann Garrison KPFA News Anchor Cameron Jones: On Tuesday the House Foreign Relations Committee held a...
View ArticlePierre Labossiere on welcoming Aristide home to Haiti
Interview by Minister of Information JR You are listening to another Block Report with the Minister of Information JR on Hard Knock Radio. Today we’re going to be talking about the country of Haiti....
View ArticleAfrica for the Africans: U.S.-Euro forces out of Libya and Cote d’Ivoire
by Cynthia McKinney April 20 – All of our institutions have failed us if they do not use their power and act against this crime against humanity being carried out in Africa today. I received a call...
View ArticleWikiLeaks: Haiti’s elite tried to turn the police into a private army
by Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives The people of Cité Soleil march on Jan. 26, 2008, to stop a series of U.N. massacres. – Photo: Jean Ristil, HaitiAnalysis.com Leading members of Haiti’s bourgeoisie tried...
View ArticleHaiti: the next round
by Robert Roth The indomitable spirit of Haiti burns in the eyes of three little boys memorialized by the camera of one of Haiti’s greatest photojournalists, Wadner Pierre. The boys must wonder,...
View ArticleRwanda: Colonizing Eastern Congo with U.S. support
by Ann Garrison http://www.anngarrison.com/sites/default/files/mp3/Rwanda%27s%20Colonization%20of%20the%20Kivus_1.mp3 KPFA Weekend News Anchor Cameron Jones: The secession of South Sudan rekindled...
View ArticleRwandan President Paul Kagame on the night of Troy Davis’ execution
by Ann Garrison Rwandan and Congolese march in Paris to protest Kagame’s visit. The banners say: “No to the cruelty and brutality of Kagame!” “Rwanda, free all political prisoners!” As Troy Davis was...
View ArticleGuest Amoeblogger JR Valrey presents ‘The Black Experience Study Guide: My...
Guest Amoeblogger JR Valrey on the air at KPFA Berkeley – Photo: Ali Thanawalla For this special Black History Month Amoeblog, we’ve invited author, journalist, broadcaster and activist JR Valrey, aka...
View ArticleThe UN’s cholera epidemic in Haiti
Time to clean up one of the UN’s biggest crimes by Mark Weisbrot Haitians have had a long and arduous struggle just to achieve the rights that most people in the rest of the hemisphere have enjoyed....
View ArticleUN capitalizing on cholera, playing both arsonist and fireman
by Ezili Dantò, founder and president of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network “Haiti may have many problems but until 2010 cholera was not one of them. In fact, the country had no known history of...
View ArticleUPDATE: Haitians protect Aristide from attack on Lavalas
by Malaika Kambon President Martelly-appointed Haitian Prosecutor Lucmane Delille, a former member of the GNB (Balls Up Your Butt) movement that worked to oust Aristide in 2004, has arrested 21 Lavalas...
View ArticleThe sequester and the Tea Party plot
by Robert Reich Imagine a plot to undermine the government of the United States, to destroy much of its capacity to do the public’s business and to sow distrust among the population. Around the...
View ArticleTreating us like slaves: an analysis of the Security Threat Group Step Down...
by Dadisi Kambon, Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, Abdul Olugbala Shakur, Sondai Kamdibe Dumisani, Mutope Duguma and Abasi Ganda For the past two years we’ve heard the state claim it’s reforming its long term...
View ArticleKagame’s charm offensive in American universities
by Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa French translation by Marceline Nduwamungu follows. Paul Kagame has been touring top American universities giving speeches deceiving unsuspecting students and uncaring top...
View ArticleHaiti: Where will the poor go?
by Seth Donnelly During my last trip to Haiti this June with a delegation of students and human rights observers, we were exposed to the raw violence of the ongoing forced dispersal of the poor. On May...
View Article15 US lawmakers ask Haiti Senate to make way for mock elections
Open letter from the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN) regarding the Sept. 15 U.S. Congressional letter addressed to the Haiti Senate urging it to clear the path for another round of mock...
View ArticleBBC asks ‘What really happened in Rwanda?’ (with French translation)
by Ann Garrison KPFA Weekend News for Oct. 11, 2014 http://sfbayview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BBC-on-Rwanda.mp3 French translation follows A new BBC documentary challenges the world’s most basic...
View ArticlePattern of practice: Centuries of racist oppression culminating in mass...
by Mutope Duguma In 1619, the first Africans were brought to North America by force to be slaves. From 1619 to 1776, this brutal chattel slave system was able to flourish in the 13 British colonies....
View ArticleMaking torture legal
by Mumia Abu-Jamal In the wake of the Senate Intelligence Select Committee’s report on CIA torture of terror suspects, we are reminded how little Americans know about how the U.S. Central Intelligence...
View ArticleThe third edition of the ‘Monumental Battle Cry for Cuba and Zimbabwe’ has...
by The People’s Minister of Information JR Writer, reporter and Pan Africanist Obi Egbuna, the U.S. correspondent to the Zimbabwean national newspaper The Herald, is one of the most active and...
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