In American Holocaust, (Oxford University Press, 1992), David Stannard offers an important, readable, and frank history of the four-century holocaust perpetrated in what has become known as the Americas. In the first of three sections, Stannard repopulates what have been cast as the “empty lands” of North, Central, and South America, documenting thousands of […]
Good ol’ girl who enjoyed cruelty
By SHARON CHURCHER in Fort Ashby
May 7, 2004
POINTING crudely at the genitals of a naked, hooded Iraqi, the petite brunette with a cigarette hanging from her lips epitomised America’s shame over revelations US soldiers routinely tortured inmates at Abu Ghraib jail near Baghdad.
Lynndie England, 21, a rail worker’s daughter, comes […]
*by Jeremy Tavares*
It is probably true that the US “isn’t a country, it’s a world”–so different, so separate that everywhere else is, well, everywhere else, one blended reality not just separate, but distant too. The most obvious problem is that the American world is on display in ours. Americans exist beneath a one-way magnifying glass […]
Charlotte Denny and Larry Elliott
Friday May 23, 2003
The Guardian
President Bush is preparing to bury a radical French plan which would help some of the world’s poorest farmers by ending the dumping of subsidised western food in Africa.
A war of words over the plight of the world’s poorest continent was brewing last night after European officials […]
The United Nations’ Aids agency, UNAIDS, reported that in 2001 sub-Saharan Africa was the most afflicted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic of any region in the world. UNAIDS statistics include:
A total of 28.5 million people in sub-Saharan Africa infected with HIV/AIDS.
In 2001, 3.5 million new cases of infection in the region.
Some 2.2 million […]
A Conversation with Professor Horace Campbell
Q. Is it legitimate to raise the grievances of Arab and Muslim countries toward the West at this time?
A. It is legitimate to raise not only the grievances of the peoples of the societies that have a majority of its population that follow the Islamic faith, but also to ensure […]
New African Initiative?
From Chris McGreal in The Guardian
Leaders of African states formally launched an ambitious plan to rebuild their continent yesterday through a partnership in which good and accountable government and an end to conflict is rewarded with significantly increased western aid and other help.
A dozen presidents met in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to hail […]
U.S. Policy Toward Political Islam
* U.S. policy toward the Islamic world is skewed by negative stereotypes of Islam that fail to recognize its diversity.
* Radical Islamic movements often arise out of the legitimate needs and grievances of oppressed sectors of the population who see the U.S. as partly responsible for their suffering.
* Washington has encouraged […]
Makani N. Themba, Durban Diary: Up Close and Black at WCAR
As I look out the window of my high-rise hotel, I see lots of Black folk that I feel strong kinship with but I know in many ways we are different. Fifty percent of the very poor n Durban, just beyond my hotel, are Black. […]
Salih Booker, Making a Statement in Durban
It is important this historic world summit on racism focus on four points. One is a declaration that the slave trade and the enslavement of Africans were crimes against humanity. Two, the right to reparations for slavery, colonialism, apartheid, and continuing racism. Three, the cancellation of Africa’s external debts. […]