"WHEN THEY SAY "AID", THEY MEAN "RAID""

WHEN THEY SAY "AID", THEY MEAN "RAID"
Recently, the news columns were full of a supposed dispute between the Americans and the British about foreign aid relief to Africa. If the news reports are to be believed, the British wish to push the Americans further, to provide more debt relief for countries staggering under their economic burdens.

The media image that arises is one of the rich, Western, White nations caring about the lives and conditions of of starving Black Africa. And like many media images, it simply isn't true.

Humiliated once more

Chávez Brings Hope to Afro-Venezuelans
"There's not a better moment for us than now, under our president, Hugo Chávez Frias," said Máryori Márquez, assistant to the director of culture in Venezeula's Sucre City. Marquez explained that only under Chávez have Blacks been able to celebrate their culture and their ethnicity.

Viruses, Security Issues Undermine Internet
E-mails were flooding in from all over the country. Something strange was going on with the Internet, alarmed computer users wrote. Google, eBay and other big sites had suddenly disappeared. Kyle Haugsness scanned the reports and entered crisis mode. Part of the Internet was broken. For the 76th time that week...

A new wave of Pan-Africanism may be in the making
For Jamaican poet and Rastafarian Mutabaruka, the question of whether Pan-Africanism is still relevant is almost incomprehensible, so obvious is the answer to him. “It must be relevant, because most of the Jamaican population is of African stock, and we have never been able to forge that link between the Motherland and the Caribbean,” he told IPS. “It’s very important to decide on our next step (to develop) a South-South relationship, because we’ve always been looking to the North.”

America: World's No. 1 jailer
“The U.S. incarcerates Blacks at a higher rate than the former South African apartheid regimes.”

US Military:The Excessive Use of Weapons and Banned Weapons

Loggers cut Madagascan rainforest with impunity
When loggers came to hack up centuries-old ebony trees from their sacred forest, the people of Ankalontany village knew something was wrong.

S.Africa to change university dominance of English
South Africa has embarked on a shake-up of its educational system to enable students to be educated in any of the country's 11 official languages ranging from Afrikaans and English to Xhosa and Zulu.

Officials describe the policy as an important step toward developing indigenous African languages which were ignored or suppressed under decades of white apartheid rule.

Help that hinders

Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq