"Oil Drives the Genocide in Darfur"

Oil Drives the Genocide in Darfur
A war of the future is being waged right now in the sprawling desert region of northeastern Africa known as Sudan. The weapons themselves are not futuristic. None of the ray-guns, force-fields, or robotic storm troopers that are the stuff of science fiction; nor, for that matter, the satellite-guided Predator drones or other high-tech weapon systems at the cutting edge of today's arsenal.

Angola: War-Damaged Infrastructure the Biggest Challenge to Elections
Angola's biggest challenge will be rehabilitating as much of the dilapidated infrastructure as possible before general elections next year, according to a regional poll expert.

Ghana Stops Importation of GM Foods: A Rejoinder
Food and Agriculture Minister, Mr. Ernest Debrah announced – categorically – that Ghana would reject, without hesitation, the importation of any GM foods, crops and materials into the country, despite the fact that the new technology might help solve some of the country’s food production and famine problems.

Africast Launches America's First Pan-African Movie Channel

UK to compensate Africa for medical 'brain drain'
Britain will seek ways to compensate African countries for the thousands of medical professionals who leave the continent to work in the UK health service.

Yet another black man dies in police custody

Market Famines
In the spring the International Monetary Fund pressured Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja to implement a 19 percent value added tax with foodstuffs included. The tax was added even though food costs rose more then 75 percent in the previous five years. Concurrently the country’s nomadic herders main income – livestock - fell a quarter in value, leaving the poor with less money to purchase basic foods.

The Rise Of The Democratic Police State
Thomas Friedman is a famous columnist on the New York Times. He has been described as "a guard dog of US foreign policy". Whatever America's warlords have in mind for the rest of humanity, Friedman will bark it. He boasts that "the hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist". He promotes bombing countries and says world war three has begun.

Coca-Cola Ordered To Stop Production
The Kerala State Pollution Control Board on Friday ordered stoppage of production at the Palachimada unit of the Coca-Cola Company in Palakkad district for failure to comply with pollution control norms

The Wealth Of The West Was Built On Africa's Exploitation
Britain was the principal slaving nation of the modern world. In The Empire Pays Back, a documentary broadcast by Channel 4 on Monday, Robert Beckford called on the British to take stock of this past. Why, he asked, had Britain made no apology for African slavery, as it had done for the Irish potato famine? Why was there no substantial public monument of national contrition equivalent to Berlin's Holocaust Museum? Why, most crucially, was there no recognition of how wealth extracted from Africa and Africans made possible the vigour and prosperity of modern Britain? Was there not a case for Britain to pay reparations to the descendants of African slaves?

Media Disinformation: Journalists "Disengaged" From Real Gaza Story
There are an estimated four thousand journalists in Gaza now, of whom only fifty are allowed access to the colonies. We are inundated with what to the average American are no doubt heart wrenching pictures of a Jewish soldier painfully opposing a kinsman whom he must reluctantly evict from his beloved home. "We are brothers," colonists with American accents implore the soldiers, a sound-bite that western journalists eagerly convey. What is not mentioned is that the illegal colonists occupy a land inhabited by refugees, the majority of whom originally came from inside Israel's green line, and who, contrary to international law (a phrase rarely voiced on CNN or the BBC), are not permitted to return to their lands and homes.

Election Fraud Continues in the US

The Myth of a "Free and Democratic" Iraq

Family of shot Brazilian say they have rejected $1m offer

Residents say little has altered in 40 years since riots tore apart Watts

Venezuelan Mock-Tribunal Declares Bush Guilty of Imperialism