Africa

Spain depleting African fishing reserves

Despite its overwhelming poverty, Africa possesses more resources than most people imagine. One of those resources is fish. Tens of ships sail from Europe to the African continent to extract tons of fresh fish every day. Most European nations including France and Spain join China and Japan in their search for fresh fish near African coastlines where they capture all kinds of sea life, including Bigeye Tuna, a species ...Read full article...

A “Perfect Storm” Is Surrounding One of the Worst Ebola Outbreaks

An Ebola outbreak that has been going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo since August is already one of the worst in history – the 7th worst to be precise – and it looks like it may spiral out of control. Peter Salama, WHO Deputy Director-General for Emergency Preparedness and Response, called the situation “a perfect storm.” Unrest and war in the region combined with community resistance and mistrust ...Read full article...

Seize the transnational corporations to rebuild Syria?

President Trump won the election on his promise to overthrow financial capitalism and restore productive capitalism. From this standpoint, he considers that war damages owed to Syria should not be paid by the United States, but by transnational corporations. Is this revolution in international relations desirable or even possible? 114 member states of the « Friends of Syria » financed its destruction by the jihadists. But after they had ...Read full article...

Why is Washington pressuring Jordan?

Are the Jordanian demonstrations a sign of a new episode of the Arab Spring, or, on the contrary, are they a means of pressuring King Abdallah II to accept the US plan for Palestine? t the beginning of June, Jordan was shaken by a week of peaceful demonstrations against a project for a fiscal law which planned for a rise in taxes of between 5 % and 25 % ...Read full article...

Yemen and The Militarization of Strategic Waterways

Securing US Control over Socotra Island and the Gulf of Aden. “Whoever attains maritime supremacy in the Indian Ocean would be a prominent player on the international scene.” (US Navy Geostrategist Rear Admiral Alfred Thayus Mahan (1840-1914)) The Yemeni archipelago of Socotra in the Indian Ocean is located some 80 kilometres off the Horn of Africa and 380 kilometres South of the Yemeni coastline. The islands of Socotra are a wildlife reserve recognized ...Read full article...

Rape of Yemen Escalates

US imperial viciousness is what the rape and destruction of Yemen is all about – begun by Bush/Cheney drone terror-bombing, escalated by Obama, continued by Trump, waged largely by despotic Saudis and UAE forces. An entire population is at risk, the death and injury toll already many multiples greater than the official UN falsified numbers. The Hodeideh Red Sea port city is Yemen’s sole lifeline for humanitarian aid, amounts ...Read full article...

Elections alone do not make for democracy

Seen from the West, three democratic elections have just been held in Tunisia, Lebanon and Iraq. But for the People of these nations, the votes had little to do with the democratic ideal, because the institutions that were imposed upon them by the West were designed to prevent them from having a free choice of their leaders. The massive abstention during the Lebanese and Iraqi general elections (50 % ...Read full article...

The “moderate rebels” of Ghouta

While the forces of the Republic and the Russian forces are liberating Eastern Ghouta and 800 Syrians are finding refuge every hour in Damascus, we are publishing this study of Western-trained combatants considered as “moderate rebels”. The Western media affirm that Syria and Russia are crushing brave democrats in eastern Ghouta. According to the British and French governments, they would be three armed groups: the Army of Islam, the ...Read full article...

Thirst, Drought and Hunger in Morocco

There is a Morocco that asks for water to plant and another that needs water to drink. The swamps are already at 33% capacity and there is no sign of rain; not even a drop. The drought in Morocco endangers indispensable harvests in a country where agriculture contributes 14% of GDP, twice as much as tourism. The people who aspired to sow to eat broke into the scene this week ...Read full article...

The Psychology of Desperate People: Stampede for Food in Morocco

15 died and 40 others were injured during the food stampede. In prepper lore, there is a theory about how badly desperate people are likely to behave. Many folks outside the community scoff at this theory. They believe that we have become more civilized than to utilize violent measures when hunger strikes. But an incident in Morocco the other day showed us exactly how hungry people behave. And it isn’t ...Read full article...

Yemen decimated by Cholera, Hunger and War

In Yemen, the cholera epidemic is out of control. It already affects 300,000 people while 1,700 Yemenis have lost their lives. The current epidemic is the culmination of a catastrophic situation, which includes a plunge into a war – for more than two years – since March 2015. Civil confrontation faces pro-government forces and Hutu rebels. This battle cannot be understood in its amplitude without taking into account the ...Read full article...

Peace in Syria for the benefit of Israel and Turkey?

As we approach the end of the war against Syria, none of the initial goals of the Anglo-Saxons have been clearly reached. Not only has the Muslim Brotherhood failed to triumph via the Arab Springs, but they seem to be losing all over the region, apart from in Qatar and Turkey. And although Syria is mostly destroyed, Syrian society and its multi-confessional model has resisted – the Silk Road ...Read full article...

US-Supported Terrorists Plan More Chemical Attacks in Syria

Washington wants endless war and regime change in Syria. It wants pro-Western puppet governance replacing sovereign Syrian independence. Along with NATO, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan, it continues recruiting, arming, funding, training and directing ISIS and other terrorist fighters, used as imperial foot soldiers. It systematically tries undermining Russia’s good faith efforts for conflict resolution while claiming otherwise. On Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova provided ...Read full article...

At Least 2,000 detainees subject to Torture in Yemeni Black Sites

According to AP News, at least 18 secret black site torture prisons operate in Yemen. They’re run by the despotic UAE, along with rogue Yemeni elements trained by the Gulf state. Washington is likely behind what’s going on – US citizens complicit in interrogations. None of this would be happening without US involvement and approval. An estimated 2,000 or more detainees are brutalized in captivity – not al-Qaeda fighters ...Read full article...

Yemen Faces Social, Economic and Political Collapse

Yemen is dying. Obama’s war, now Trump’s, complicit with Saudi Arabia, is destroying the nation, killing it. Millions of its citizens suffer from endless war, related blockade, untreated diseases, starvation and overall deprivation – US-sponsored genocide, Saudi terror-bombing doing its dirty work. Stephen O’Brien is UN Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Issuing a statement on what’s ongoing, he said “the situation on the ground has continued to spiral ...Read full article...