"China In Africa - The New Imperialism"

China In Africa - The New Imperialism
China’s increased presence in Africa is part of a wider effort to ‘create a paradigm of globalisation that favours China. In the past China’s African presence benefited from a shared history as an object of European imperialism and its ideological commitment to anti-imperialism and national liberation. China’s declared principles of respect for national sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs appealed not only as a contrast with the suspect motives of former colonial powers, but for less elevated reasons to rulers threatened with internal dissent.

Bill Would Reserve Quotas for Blacks, Indigenous Students
Universities, which have traditionally reproduced or heightened social inequality in Brazil by consolidating the position of the wealthy élite, are now being called upon to do the opposite, by opening their doors preferentially to the poor, and to blacks and indigenous people.

Afro-Venezuelans denounce divide-and-conquer scheme
Eve Golinger-Moncada, a Venezuelan-American attorney and author of “The Chavez Code,” is reported by Afro-Venezuelans to be denouncing Afro- and Indigenous Venezuelans on radio and television in Caracas. She alleges that they are taking money from U.S. government agencies – NED, IRI and USAID – to destabilize and overthrow the Bolivarian Venezuelan government of President Hugo Chavez.

You've 21 Days to Quit N/Delta, Itsekiris Threaten Oil Firms
THE Niger Delta crisis took a new twist yesterday when the Itsekiri in Delta State ordered multinational oil companies operating in their land to vacate within 21 days or face grave consequences. They warned that they will not guarantee the security of oil workers at the end of the ultimatum.

Chicago Divided Over Proposal to Honor a Slain Black Panther
Along a little-traveled block of Monroe Street on the city's West Side, a lot has changed, and a lot has not, since the early morning in 1969 when a police raid here left Fred Hampton, the local chairman of the Black Panther Party, dead in a storm of gunfire. The homes, including the one Mr. Hampton died in, have been razed and new ones have been built. And a construction team was hammering away on a new building this week, even as Fred Hampton Jr. showed a visitor the street he wants renamed in his father's memory.

Congolese troops turn against UN peacekeepers
CONGOLESE soldiers who were fighting alongside United Nations (UN) peacekeepers against ethnic militiamen have turned against their co-fighters, ransacking a UN camp and firing on a helicopter belonging to the world body.

Roots of rising homicides found in forgotten Black history
As San Francisco officials try to address the city's rise in homicides, killings by and of young African-American men have also increased in Richmond and West Oakland across the Bay, and in Newark, Washington, D.C., and other Black communities across America. The roots of violence in America's African-American neighborhoods have multiple explanations, but a critical factor was white resistance to ensuring that federal War on Poverty programs and benefits of the 1960s and '70s reached Black recipients.

Eritrea rejects UN criticism over peacekeeper death
Eritrea Thursday rejected criticism by the U.N. secretary-general, who urged the country to lift a ban on U.N. helicopter flights in its airspace after the death of a peacekeeper who had to be evacuated on a longer flight to Ethiopia.

In memory of Minister of Defense Huey Newton
It is somehow fitting that February, the shortest month, has been designated Black History Month. For whatever Black folks have gotten from this country, it was given grudgingly, through gritted teeth, if at all.

What Does the Katrina Video Say About Bush?
The tape is proof that Bush is not, and never was, the man of action his spin-masters made him out to be.

Iraq occupation makes possible record profits for British private military contractor

Country Paying a Steep Price for Leaders Ignoring the Truth

Blair: 'God will be my judge on Iraq'

Bush's NSA Spying Program Violates the Law

IAEA says no evidence of Iranian Nuclear Weapons plan