Africa - Where the Next US Oil Wars Will Be?
Black Agenda Report - February 28, 2007
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Africa
- Where the Next US Oil Wars Will Be?
by Bruce
Dixon
On Feb. 7 George Bush announced the formation of
AFRICOM, the new Pentagon command charged with planning and
executing its oil and resource wars on the African continent
under the pretext of combating "terrorism". What does this
mean to African Americans? And to Africans? BAR consults
Prexy Nesbitt, an architect of the international campaigns
against apartheid in the 70s and 80s, to find out.
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Freedom Rider: Top
Ten Questions for Would Be Presidents
by Margaret
Kimberley
Although only Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, among
Democratic presidential hopefuls, can rightfully claim to be
a progressive, the rest of the pack will eventually have to
face scrutiny from the party's grassroots "base." Under no
circumstances should the political evaluation process be
left to shallow corporate media and celebrity chatter. Ms.
Kimberley has assembled a list of ten questions with which
to challenge the candidates, ranging from Katrina to Iraq to
national health care.
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The Letters
Column
by our readers, and Glen Ford, BAR Executive
Editor
A Looming Intra-Black Civil War?
The Tavis Show
-- Where Is It Leading?
The Contemptible Condoleezza
Rice
Read more...
New Orleans: The
Right to Return, 18 Months Later
by Bill Quigley
A
year and a half after Katrina, much of New Orleans remains
in ruins, with government at all levels actively preventing
reconstruction that would allow hundreds of thousands of
exiles to return. Locals refer to the devastation as having
"the Grand Canyon effect" - when you see it in person it can
take your breath away. Yet amidst official cruelty and
callous neglect, volunteers feed hundreds of thousands of
meals to their neighbors, and thousands of non-Louisianans
donate their time and skills in the struggle to resurrect a
city that was left to die.
Read more...
White as
‘Average’ and ‘Normal’
by Seth
Sandronsky
If being white in America is "normal" then what
are the rest of us? A recent Salt Lake City shopping mall
shooting spree by a young white man described as
"average"-looking once again reveals the
"white-as-normative" syndrome as pervasive in American life.
Inevitably, it seems, whites are shocked to witness insane,
homicidal behavior by people that look like them, while
appearing to anticipate in advance anti-social conduct from
non-whites.
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The Hearts of
Darkness: How European Writers Created the Racist Image of
Africa
by Milton Allimadi
As European powers
consolidated their colonial conquests in Africa, their
book-writers and journalists churned out volumes of
justifications for white supremacy. Not only were Africans
unfit for self-rule, said the racial propagandists, Blacks
were "too low down, too completely severed from the white,"
to even express indignation at being reduced to non-persons
in their own countries. White writers were so brazen as to
judge which African groups were most or least attractive and
intelligent - praising the Masai, for example, as coming
closest in appearance to "very respectable Europeans" while
describing other Africans as "ape-like creatures." After
generations of defamation, Africans on the continent and in
the Diaspora were arguing among themselves over who "is
closer to the white man."
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The Black Stake in
Iraq Withdrawal and Bush Impeachment
by BAR
Executive Editor Glen Ford
If the Iraq war is allowed to
continue, the chances for achieving any of the goals of the
Black political and economic agenda will dwindle to nil. And
if George Bush is permitted to serve out his second stolen
term in office without even the threat of punishment for his
daily shredding of the Constitution, African Americans will
be left near-naked to future assaults by an unrestrained
white majority. Impeachment and Iraq withdrawal should be
top priorities for African Americans, who have the most to
lose from presidential lawlessness and U.S. imperial
policy.
Read more...
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