Africa

Bombing Libya: The Origins of Europe’s Immigration Crisis

2021-02-192021-02-19 White Nettle

The US/NATO heavy bombing of Libya led also to the widespread dispersal throughout North African and Middle East hotspots of the gigantic arsenal of weaponry that Gaddafi had accumulated […]

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Libya: Before and after the Fall of Moamer Gaddafi

2021-02-142021-02-14 White Nettle

Compare Libya with and after Col. Moamer Gaddafi. What “American democracy” changed in Libya – a reachest African country during Gaddafi’s “dictatorship” […]

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Remembering Muammar Qaddafi And The Great Libyan Jamahiriya

2021-01-092021-01-09 White Nettle

Those responsible, including Nicolas Sarkozy, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, David Cameron, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and Emir Tamin bin Hamad Al Thani should be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity […]

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Libya: Is this Kosovo all over Аgain?

2020-12-302020-12-30 White Nettle

As with Kosovo, an internal conflict between a government and armed rebels is being cast as a “humanitarian crisis” in which one side only, the government, is assumed to be “criminal” […]

Africa

Italy’s 1937 Ethiopian Massacre Finally Comes to Light

2020-12-272020-12-27 White Nettle

Book Review of Ian Campbell’s “The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy’s National Shame”, New African Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 584, June (2018) 68-71 […]

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Who Will Pray for the Victims of French Colonial Aggression?

2020-12-122020-12-12 White Nettle

Whether you like it or not, France has become an aggressive colonial power in the last decade. The France that was opposed to the 2003 invasion of Iraq has become a nation responsible for the death and suffering of millions of people […]

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Slave Markets in ‘Liberated’ Libya and the Silence of the Humanitarian Hawks

2020-10-292020-10-29 White Nettle

The reports that black Africans are being sold at slave markets in liberated Libya for as little as $400 is a terrible indictment of the so-called humanitarian intervention carried out by NATO to topple the government of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 […]

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A Royal Shame: Abdullah Leaves a Legacy of Regional Militancy

2020-07-022020-07-02 White Nettle

Last but not least, Abdullah, following the template of his American advisors, also sought to outsource some of his country’s regional activity to a degree, ergo the creation of ISIL […]

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How Belgium is being Forced to Confront the Bloody Legacy of King Leopold II

2020-06-212020-06-21 White Nettle

Protesters have called for all statues of the former imperial ruler to be removed in recognition of his massacres in the Congo […]

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Is Slavery Still Exist?

2020-05-212020-05-21 White Nettle

The second decade of the 21st century – Prince William of the UK in ex-British colony in Africa […]

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Hillary Clinton and the Brutal Murder of Gaddafi

2020-05-162020-05-16 White Nettle

The impact of the chaos that has engulfed the country since Gaddafi was overthrown and murdered can be measured by the flood of Libyans who have attempted the perilous journey across the Mediterranean with the objective of reaching Europe. In the process untold thousands have perished […]

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Libya: From Africa’s Richest State under Gaddafi, to Failed State after NATO Intervention

2020-04-242020-04-24 White Nettle

For over 40 years, Gaddafi promoted economic democracy and used the nationalized oil wealth to sustain progressive social welfare programs for all Libyans. Under Gaddafi’s rule, Libyans enjoyed not only free health-care and free education, but also free electricity and interest-free loans […]

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The Vatican and the World

2020-04-102020-04-10 White Nettle

The truth on relations between the Vatican and the rest of the world […]

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British Parliament Confirms: Libya War was Based on Lies

2020-04-072020-04-07 White Nettle

The proposition that Muammar Gaddafi would have ordered the massacre of civilians in Benghazi [which was the basis for the West’s war to overthrow Gaddafi] was not supported by the available evidence […]

Africa

Rapefugees Invasion of Europe

2020-03-262020-03-26 White Nettle

Who are the repefugees coming to Europe as the “immigrants”? Or at least some of them. Here we present some illustrations for the sake of starting to think on the issue […]

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Jomo Kenyatta on Africa and Europe

2020-03-162020-03-16 White Nettle

What was said on Euro-Africa relations […]

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A Refugee Problem in Europe

2020-03-052020-03-05 White Nettle

Who is guilty for the refugee crisis in Europe? […]

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Libyan Chessboard

2019-02-232019-02-23 White Nettle

The crisis is aggravating because of various Salafist jihadi groups with different ideologies that are in constant conflict in western Libya. Such groups include Libya Dawn (Libya Fajr), the Benghazi Revolutionaries Shura Council, Ansar al-Sharia, the 17 February Martyrs Brigade, the Libya Shield Force, the Libyan Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG), etc. […]

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Libya: Ten Things about Gaddafi They don’t want You to Know

2018-12-022018-12-02 White Nettle

What do you think of when you hear the name Colonel Gaddafi? Tyrant? Dictator? Terrorist? Well, a national citizen of Libya may disagree but we want you to decide. For 41 years until his demise in October 2011, Muammar Gaddafi did some truly amazing things for his country and repeatedly tried to unite and empower the whole of Africa […]

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UN, France & US in Libya and Ivory Coast: Using Violence and Islamic Forces Just Like Kosovo

2018-11-272018-11-27 White Nettle

However, look at Kosovo and the military intervention of this part of Serbia because the objectives in Kosovo appear to be to downsize Serbia and to install a mainly Islamic state at the expense of the deep-rooted Orthodox Christian community […]

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Living Under Libyan “Dictator” Muammar Gaddafi

2018-09-272018-09-27 White Nettle

Gaddafi transformed Libya into a new socialist state called a Jamahiriya (“state of the masses”) in 1977. He officially adopted a symbolic role in governance but remained head of both the military and the Revolutionary Committees responsible for policing and suppressing dissent […]

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Europe’s Forgotten ‘Hitler’ Killed over 10 Million Africans

2018-09-222018-09-22 White Nettle

His name is King Leopold II of Belgium. Most of the people never learned about him in school, and have also most likely never heard about him in the media either. This is because he’s not included in the popular narrative of oppression (which includes things like U.S. slavery and the Holocaust) […]

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Media Erase NATO Role in Bringing Slave Markets to Libya

2018-09-092018-09-09 White Nettle

In March 2011, NATO launched a war in Libya expressly aimed at toppling the government of longtime leader Muammar Qadhafi. The US and its allies flew some 26,000 sorties over Libya and launched hundreds of cruise missiles, destroying the government’s ability to resist rebel forces […]

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European Holocaust had Roots in Africa, Now Namibia is Suing Germany

2018-08-262018-08-26 White Nettle

Without understanding what happened to the Herero and Nama people, it is impossible to understand what occurred right before and during World War II […]

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Before Columbus: How Africans Brought Civilization to America

2018-06-232018-06-23 White Nettle

Clearly, Africans helped civilize America well before Europeans “discovered” America, and well before Europeans claim to have civilized Africa […]

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Media Literacy 101: Kosovo and Libya

2018-06-152018-06-15 White Nettle

News is a business. A news agency is an organization that gathers and disseminates information or news for clients, subscribers, news networks, banks, governments, newspapers, and magazines. There are hundreds of news agencies in the world, but over 90% of all the news is by the Big Four. This is why there is no diversity of views in the news, why there is no marketplace of ideas, no debate. There is monopolistic control of the media […]

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Africa, Russia, United States Imperialism and the Bankruptcy of the International Criminal Court

2018-06-082018-06-08 White Nettle

The plight of the Palestinian people, subjected to nearly 70 years of Israeli occupation, has worsened while the imperialist governments have increased their funding, arming and diplomatic support for Tel Aviv. Gaza, popularly referred to as the largest open-air prison in the world, remains under de facto Israeli occupation along with other areas of Palestine and the Golan Heights in Syria […]

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King Leopold’s Legacy of DR Congo Violence

2018-06-042018-06-04 White Nettle

There is no doubt that Congo’s history, and White King, Red Rubber, Black Death are almost too upsetting to bear, however Leopold did leave, albeit unwittingly, one positive legacy – the birth of modern humanitarianism […]