In 1943, after having flown over the Sahara Desert on his way to a Casablanca conference with Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt remarked to his son Elliott, that with the recreation of a lake in the depressed flats in North Africa, “The Sahara would bloom for hundreds of miles.” He […]
International Affairs
Lawrence Freeman on President Trump’s Fundamentally Flawed Africa Policy
Even before President Trump’s latest outrage against the nations of Africa (along with Haiti and El Salvador) referring to them vulgarly as [expletive deleted] countries, whose people should not be welcomed as immigrants, the failure of the administration’s policies toward Africa was addressed in this article by Africa expert Lawrence […]
Sudan: Sanctions Lifted, Now Development Is Imperative
By Lawrence Freeman October 24, 2017 On October 12, the U.S. announced the long overdue, official removal of some sanctions on Sudan. Now, new and exciting potentials lie ahead for the future of Sudan and its people. This is not the time to delay; the government of Sudan should seize […]
New Attack on Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine leaders Dr. Natalia Vitrenko and Vladimir Marchenko
On Victory over Fascism Day, May 9, Neo-Nazi “National Corps” (former Azov Battalion unit) staged new attack on Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine leaders Dr. Natalia Vitrenko and Vladimir Marchenko May 12—Early Tuesday morning, as the USA, Canada, and European countries had celebrated V-E Day (May 8), the 72nd anniversary […]
Moscow Points to London, Obama as Drivers of War Danger
By Rachel Douglas April 18—As the Trump Administration of the USA exercised a quick trigger-finger in attacking Syria’s Shayrat airbase with cruise missiles on April 7, and has made increasingly ominous statements about unilateral action to terminate North Korea’s military programs, Russian political leaders and diplomats, so far, have kept […]
SAVING AFRICA’S LAKE CHAD: A Cornerstone for Collaboration of US and China
By Lawrence Freeman, Political-Economic Analyst for Africa and Vice Chairman of the International Scientific Advisory Committee to the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC). Over recent weeks, there has been considerable, long-overdue international attention given to the horrific conditions for the people living in the nations of the Lake Chad Basin […]
Famine in Africa: More Than Humanitarian Aid Required
By Lawrence Freeman, Political-Economic Analyst for Africa Famine is stalking Africa, threatening unprecedented levels of starvation. Famine has already been officially declared in parts of South Sudan’s Unity State, Somalia, and sections of the Borno State in Nigeria. Somalian officials reported 110 human beings perished from hunger in forty-eight hours […]
Anglo-American war party seeks to blow up Ukraine, wreck U.S.-Russian prospects
By Rachel Douglas Feb. 14—“If I were Michael Ledeen,” a European friend of mine said yesterday, “and I wanted to intensify a clash with Russia, I would use Ukraine.” He was talking about the U.S. neoconservative operative and the author of Universal Fascism, who has been flitting around the newly […]
Political repression in regime-changed Ukraine: The case of Natalia Vitrenko’s Progressive Socialist Party
by Rachel Douglas 17 Jan.— One of the departing Obama Administration’s last acts of hostility towards Russia was Vice-President Joe Biden’s 16 January visit to Kiev, where he declared that “the international community must continue to stand as one against Russian coercion and aggression.” Biden has been an active booster […]
Vitrenko’s Progressive Socialists Dramatize Economic Hardship, Rights Violations in Ukraine
August 24, 2016 was the 25th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. There was little to celebrate, with civil war continuing sporadically in the eastern Donbas region, and economic austerity tightening around the population struggling to survive in the debt-ridden country. It is a fitting moment to remember Ukraine, which has dropped […]