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Cyril Ramphosa Schools Trump’s Distorted Presentation on Racism in South Africa

by Ranjan Solomon, published on Countercurrents, May 23, 2025 This article is lightly edited. [jb] When it was announced that South African President Cyril Ramphosa was to visit the White House, there was speculation over whether Ramphosa would have to cope with the kind of bombardment and mistreatment that Zelensky went through on his visit to the White House. Trump[…]

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Propaganda Watch: Kagame is Not Traoré

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, May 21, 2025 A recurring social media trope casts Rwandan President Paul Kagame as a defiant African hero, like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré, resisting the West’s dictates, but nothing could be further from the truth. Anti-imperialists, socialists, and peace and justice communities across Africa and the world are inspired by the newly[…]

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Burkina Faso Gains International Recognition for Revolutionary Stance Against Imperialism

by Abyomi Azikiwe, published on Global Research, May 15, 2025 On April 30, 2025, millions of people across Africa and the world held mass demonstrations in defense of the revolutionary leadership in the West African state of Burkina Faso under the leadership of the charismatic 37-year-old Capt. Ibrahim Traore. Since 2022 with the ascendancy of Traore to power, he has[…]

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Defend Ibrahim Traoré and the Alliance of Sahel States!

by Arjae Red, published on Workers World, May 5, 2025 Africa is rising, the days of colonialism are finished: This is the call being echoed around the world, from the masses of Burkina Faso and countries across Africa to Jamaica, Haiti and the whole Caribbean, to Paris, London and New York City. Millions of people have answered the call to[…]

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The US/EU/NATO’s Regime Change Playbook For Burkina Faso and Captain Ibrahim Traoré

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, April 30,  2025 The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project. On April 3, US Africa Command (AFRICOM) Commander Michael Langley testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee during an excruciating two hours obsessively devoted to the ill-fated project of preserving US[…]

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Podcasting Star Mario Nawfal Talks to Rawandan President Paul Kagame

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, March 12, 2025 High-profile X podcaster and Elon Musk protégé Mario Nawfal recently produced some slick propaganda with Rwandan President Paul Kagame. His team repeatedly asked me to record a six-minute response but then neither played it nor explained why. Mario Nawfal recently traveled to Rwanda to interview Rwandan President Paul Kagame,[…]

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Marco Rubio’s Diplomatic Attack on South Africa is Punishment for Standing Up to Israel

by Ziad Motala, published on Mondoweiss, Marh 15, 2025 The Trump administration’s extraordinary and unprecedented move to effectively expel South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was done for one reason: South Africa had the audacity to hold Israel accountable for the Gaza genocide. In an extraordinary and unprecedented move, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has declared South African Ambassador[…]

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Plundering Africa – Income Deflation and Unequal Ecological Exchange Under Structural Adjustment Programmes

by Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel,  published on Black Agenda Report, March 12, 2025 Originally published in ROAPE . During the 1980s and 1990s, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank forced governments across Africa to implement neoliberal structural adjustment programmes (SAPs). SAPs compelled post-colonial governments to cut public services and public-sector production, remove labour market regulations and wage[…]

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HTS Offensive in Syria: A Proxy for Imperialist Domination

Statement from Black Alliance for Peace, March 12, 2025 The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) unequivocally condemns the recent announcement by Colonel Hassan Abdul Ghani, spokesman for the HTS-led Syrian Ministry of Defense, regarding the “second phase“ of military operations against so-called “remnants” of the former Assad government. This escalation of violence is not merely a local or regional conflict[…]

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Congo Activists to NBA: Black Lives Matter in DRC, Cut Ties With Rwanda

by Ann Garrison, published on Black Agenda Report, February 19, 2025 As Rwandan troops tightened their grip on the capitals of DRC’s Kivu Provinces, activists protested the National Basketball Association’s close collaboration with the Rwandan regime. Activists protested the National Basketball Association’s close relationship with Rwanda outside the NBA All Star Game at San Francisco’s Chase Center on Sunday, February[…]

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