December 19, 2012
The Obama administration was on the defensive about the U.S. relationship with Rwanda and its U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice at the Dec. 11, 2012, U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Two days after the hearing, Rice withdrew her name from consideration to become secretary of state. In President Obama’s statement on Susan Rice, issued the same day, he praised her work but did not mention Rwanda, Uganda or Congo.
July 11, 2011
Ethiopian troops are in the oil rich, contested Sudanese Abyei region in accordance with a new U.N. Security Council resolution invoking sovereign nations’ “responsibility to protect” vulnerable populations from genocide and mass atrocities if their own governments aren’t protecting them. But what about Ethiopia’s own genocide in the Ogaden Basin that the West is funding?
June 14, 2011
Nobody can assure us that in its agony, the empire won’t be dragging human beings down to catastrophe.
December 4, 2008
To an African hip hop beat, learn about the struggle by Africans and Americans to stop the U.S. military from occupying Africa – on the excuse of providing “humanitarian assistance” (that’ll be the day!) and protecting oil reserves. Amidst many… Read the rest »