Tag Archives: World War II
By Paul Craig Roberts March 19, 2013. Ten years ago today the Bush regime invaded Iraq. It is known that the justification for the invasion was a packet of lies orchestrated by the neoconservative Bush regime in order to deceive … read more »
This article was co-written by Christine Garcia. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has struggled to uphold the human rights of its citizens since the establishment of Belgium’s colonial authority in 1870. More than 5.8 million Congolese have died … read more »
Posted in Article, Central Africa, DR Congo
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Tagged Belgium, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, IndepthAfrica, Satellite Sentinel Project, United Nations, United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, United States, World War II
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Speech by Mikael Wossen (Ph.D.) The following is a speech Mikael Wossen (PhD), chairman of Ethiopian Genocide Committee (EGC), delivered at a panel discussion held on November15, 1212, at the African Heritage Dance Center. This landmark Center is located in … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Duce, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, Fascism, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, latest ethiopian news, Nazi, Nazism, news ethiopia, Washington DC, World War II
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by Jon Basil Utley The greatest threat to America is not what foreigners do to us; rather it is what we do to ourselves. The greatest recent example is 9/11, Bin Laden’s attack. Our response was to virtually bankrupt ourselves, … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Libya, Mali
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Tagged Benghazi, IndepthAfrica, James Pinkerton, Mali, Third World, United States, Washington, William Lind, World War II
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By John A. Akec “There is no shortage of funding in the world, only shortage of fund-able plans”- Author’s personal conviction South Sudan obtained its independence from Sudan in July 2011, six months after voting overwhelmingly to secede from the … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged IndepthAfrica, Marshall Plan, South Kordofan, SouthSudan, Sudan, Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement, United States, World Bank, World War II
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By Mohamed Dheeg Sovereignty is the theoretical principle that gives a people the freedom to form their own government, state form and structure. The principle is often used by ethnic minorities in a geographic area where there is oppression or … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somali
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Tagged Ethiopia, Ethiopia news, Ethiopian government, ethiopian news, Kenya, Ogaden, Ogaden National Liberation Front, Ogaden news, South Sudan, Sudan, World War II
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Valentin KATASONOV Part I As noted in the previous part of the paper, the global drug mafia is a three-level formation. The strategic objectives pursued at the executive Level 3 are: • The whitewashing of the cash flows generated by … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Valentin KATASONOV
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Tagged Afghanistan, Antonio Maria Costa, Coleman, Committee of 300, East India Company, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Organized crime, Western Hemisphere, World War II
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By: Alan Caruba On June 20, 1936, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia addressed the League of Nations following the annexation of his nation by Italy the previous year, after Mussolini’s army had invaded. Both nations were members of the League. … read more »
Posted in Article, Ethiopia
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Tagged Alan Caruba, IndepthAfrica, indepthafrica africa news, Iran, Israel, League of Nations, Netanyahu, United Nations, United Nations General Assembly, World War II
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South Africa-based Zimbabwean businessman and academic, Mutumwa Mawere, has thrown his hat into the Zimbabwe Presidential race as leader of the newly formed United Movement for Democracy. UMDP is predominantly made up of breakaway MDC99 structures. Influential and brave former … read more »
Posted in Hottest News, News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Africa Business News, Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, Africa news, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Harare, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Mutumwa Mawere, reuters africa news, Robert Mugabe, Simon Mawer, World War II, Zimbabwe
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Shane Claiborne, a popular pacifist evangelical, recalled the 67thanniversary of Hiroshima by quoting the pacifist remarks of a Catholic priest who, having served as a chaplain in the Pacific during World War II, 40 years later regretted his military service. … read more »
analysis Somalia’s post-transition government will face an array of complex challenges in reforming the country. Somalis have largely been disillusioned with the various governments that have ruled over them for the past few decades. If the new post-transitional government is … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, News, Somali
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Tagged Bradley Strawser, Geneva Convention, IndepthAfrica, James Cartwright, Naval Postgraduate School, Pakistan, Unmanned aerial vehicle, White House, World War II
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By Severine Autesserre The situation in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo has deteriorated significantly since the end of the transition to peace and democracy in late 2006. The Congo has officially become the least developed country … read more »
Posted in Article, Central Africa, DR Congo, News
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Tagged Africa Countries, africa facts, africa for kids, africa karl wolf, africa lyrics, Africa news, africa news today, africa song, africa toto, african food, African History, Central Africa, Congo, Democratic Republic Congo, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Kivu, reuters africa news, Rwanda, United Nation, World War II
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By Richard Dowden Questioned last week on the BBC’s Hardtalk about the connection between Rwanda and the M23 rebel movement in eastern Congo, President Paul Kagame denied all involvement. He said: “We are not connected at all with the cause … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, News, Rwanda
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, breaking news, Congo, Democratic Republic Congo, East Africa, Hutu, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, Nigeria news, niheria newspapers, nothafrica, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwandan, Tutsi, West Africa, World War II
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The global community is welcoming the decision of an international court to convict former Liberian President Charles Taylor of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone. A special tribunal in The Hague on Thursday found … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, Liberia, News, West Africa
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, africa news today, African news, Ban Ki-moon, BBC Africa, bbc africa news, Charles Taylor, East Africa, Hague, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, latest africa news, map africa, map of africa, news, news 24, news in africa, North Africa, Revolutionary United Front, Sierra Leone, South Africa, south african news, Taylor, travel to africa, Victoria Nuland, West Africa, World War II
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On this day in 1994 what is considered the worst example of genocide since the Second World War began with the deaths of 10 Belgian UN peacekeepers at the hands of Rwandan forces. Their murders by Hutu members of the … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Hottest News, News, Rwanda
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Hutu, IndepthAfrica, Roméo Dallaire, Rwanda, Shake Hands With The Devil, Tutsi, Uganda, United Nations, World War II
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By Robele Ababya Purpose of this piece The Italian Fascist military garrison and observation post at Deneba in north Shoa is an indelible symbol engraved in my mind of famous patriots and their followers comprising the Oromo and Amhara ethnic … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Ethiopia, News
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Africa news, African, African news, Amhara, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, Indepth Soccer, Meles Zenawi, oromo, Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, TPLF, World War II
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Sydney – Australia on Monday said it was “appalled and disgusted” by the desecration of Commonwealth war graves in Libya and was working to determine whether its own soldiers’ headstones had been affected. The attacks, on the British and Commonwealth … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News
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Tagged Africa news, African, African news, Benghazi, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Craig Emerson, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, Indepth Soccer, Julia Gillard, Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, National Transitional Council, World War II
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Rafe MAIR Governments hate civil rights and have for eons. People get uppity when they exercise their right to liberty especially the right to speak one’s mind. “Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!” is a quotation attributed to Patrick … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Africa news, African, African news, Canada, France, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, Indepth Soccer, Patrick Henry, Rafe MAIR, Thomas Paine, united state, Women in Islam, World War II
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y wife and I just saw the film “In Darkness,” which tells the true story of a Polish man who saved a dozen Jewish men, women and children from the Nazis by hiding them for 14 months in sewers. The … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Holocaust, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Israel, Jew, Nazi, Nazism, United States, World War II
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By Stephen Lendman Wolfgang Borchert: German, author, playwright, poet. His experience under Hitler and Wehrmacht service changed his life. Never a Nazi supporter, he deplored compulsory Hitler Youth time. Finally he got out. In 1940, the Gestapo arrested, then released … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Eastern Front, Hamburg, History, Hitler, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nazi, Twentieth Century, Wehrmacht, World War II
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Internecine war of 1998 -2000 The root cause of the ugly internecine war of 1998 – 2000 between Ethiopia and Eritrea that claimed 100, 000 lives, numerous injuries, dislocation of innocent citizens and colossal damage to the economy should be … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ethiopian people, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Somalia, World War II
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JERUSALEM—Now that their country has gained independence, thousands of migrants from South Sudan must leave Israel or face deportation, Israel’s Interior Ministry said Tuesday. Some 7,000 South Sudanese are believed to be in Israel, part of a larger influx of … read more »
Posted in News, North Africa, Refugees/Migrants, South Sudan
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Tagged immigration, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Interior ministry, Israel, South Sudan, Sudan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, World War II
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Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Britain, Diego Garcia, Harold Pinter, Harold Wilson, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Iran, United States, William Blum, World War II
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Anti-Americanism is, of course, as European as Apfelstrudel. But over the last few years it’s rollercoastered like the stock market. The invasion of Iraq sent it skyrocketing. It was muted somewhat by the election of a black man as President … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Holocaust, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Nazi, Nazism, Norway, Osama bin Laden, United States, William Colby, World War II
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Over the past couple of weeks, we have heard much about how important it is to catch the remaining Nazi war criminals before they die. The average age is nearly 100. My own family, Americans who served in World War … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Germany, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Israel, List of Axis personnel indicted for war crimes, Mossad, Prisoner of war, United States, war crime, World War II
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One U.S. veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan attempts suicide every 80 minutes, according to new study and 1,868 veterans made suicide attempts in 2009 alone. Taught to kill in a morally unjust occupation and pacified by drugs, many … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Afghanistan, American Psychiatric Association, Day Of Deceit, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Iraq, Jonathan Shay, Pearl Harbor, United States, World War II
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December 3, 2011 by benim
The international community and the secretary general of the U.N. must explain why they are not calling out irregularities in the elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), instead of just saying that things are going relatively well … read more »
Posted in Article, Central Africa, DR Congo, Election
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Tagged Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Human Rights Watch, IndepthAfrica, Joseph Kabila, Kinshasa, United Nations, United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, World War II
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November 30, 2011 by benim
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is insane and should not be punished, an official report has recommended. The 243-page psychiatric report says the 32-year-old was mentally ill and therefore not responsible for his actions when he killed a total … read more »
Posted in Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, breaking news, Breivik, East Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, Mental disorder, Norway, nothafrica, Oslo, Psychiatry, Svein Holden, Utøya, West Africa, World War II
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Mogadishu – The United States and United nations have condemned a car-bomb attack on a government compound in Mogadishu which killed over 70 people in the deadliest attack by Somalia’s Shabaab rebels. Witnesses described the carnage from Tuesday’s attack as … read more »
Posted in East Africa, News, Somali
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Tagged African Union, Al-Shabaab, Ban Ki-moon, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Mogadishu, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Somalia, Southern Africa, United Nations, United States, West Africa, World War II
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When war is raging through your city, you are either fighting or enduring the hardships that it brings. The people of Tripoli have either fled their homes if the fighting has come too close, or stayed indoors and prayed for … read more »
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