Frans Timmermans, Vice-President of the European Commission, following recent negotiations over the so-called refugee crisis, remarked to reporters: āWe have to patrol our borders better.
Given the Westās strategy of co-opting sectarian militias as proxy armies for its coming wars against Libya and Syria at this time, it was clear which of these men would be best suited for resurrecting the old ājihadiā-imperialist alliance. It is no coincidence, then, that just as these wars began to get underway, Bin Laden was taken out and his organization effectively handed over to Zawahiri
Africaās classic depiction in the mainstream media as a giant basketcase full of endless war, famine, and helpless children creates an illusion…
The scale of the ongoing tragedy visited on Libya by NATO and its allies is becoming clearer with each passing day. Estimates…
Africa, the key to global economic growth,” was a refreshingly honest recent headline from the Washington Post, but hardly one that qualifies…
On July 8, 1981, on the Falls Road in Belfast, Nora McCabe stepped out of her house to go to a nearby…
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