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JAMIL AL-AMIN: U.S. POLITICS IRRELEVANT FOR BLACK PEOPLE

What Jamil al-Amin said 57 years ago is as relevant as if said today.

Still using his government name, H Rap Brown, the former chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, made the case in 1968 for why US elections don’t matter for Black people.

Despite the oppressed having the right to vote, Amin said none of the candidates in the 1968 US presidential election represented their interests, a case that is just as true today. Take the previous elections, where the choice between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump only represented two sides of the same imperialist coin. None of them pushed pro-people policies. Plus, after Trump’s election, he reneged on campaign promises, such as ending endless wars, as seen in his attack on Somalia and Yemen while supplying Israel with more arms for its military onslaught in Gaza.

Continued……Now, what if the president was Black? Amin raised the hypothetical situation in 1968, but it became a reality in 2008. Again, Amin’s premonition stood the test of time. Despite Barack Obama being the first Black US president, he bailed out big banks that caused the 2008 financial crisis, doing nothing for the victims of subprime mortgages, many of them Black.

Since this interview, the US government has imprisoned the 81-year-old Amin twice. A movement is helping to liberate this elder who’s been behind bars since 2000. Visit imamjamilactionnetwork.org and its social media accounts, @FreeImamJamil (IG and X).

Video credit: @hamptonthink (IG and X)

Sources

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us/trump-to-west-point-grads-we-are-ending-the-era-of-endless-wars-idUSKBN23K0PQ

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-teams-war-plans-group-chat-triggers-avalanche-of-memes/ar-AA1BEhFb

https://jacobin.com/2017/12/obama-foreclosure-crisis-wealth-inequality
https://jacobin.com/2021/06/barack-obama-ezra-klein-nyt-wall-street-bailouts

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/2008-financial-bailout-809731

https://imamjamilactionnetwork.org

HAITI AMBUSH BRINGS KENYAN COP DEATH TOLL TO 3

Kenya’s US-backed police deployment in Haiti has come under increasing scrutiny as the death toll amongst its officers rises, with three now confirmed dead since the UN Security Council-sanctioned occupation began in June 2024. 

The latest fatality, Bénédict Kabiru, was k*lled during an ambush in the Artibonite region while attempting to recover an armoured police vehicle from a ditch. Another officer, Samuel Tompoi, was k*lled in February. Plus, another senior officer en route to Haiti died mysteriously in a US hotel in the same month.

Critics argue that Kenya’s intervention merely supports US interests rather than addressing the root causes of Haiti’s instability. Past foreign interventions, including UN missions, have not only failed to bring lasting security but have led to about 10,000 cholera deaths, plus murders and s*xual violence.

Continued……Haiti’s ongoing crisis stems from foreign interference that dates to its 1804 revolution, where the enslaved ousted French enslavers from the island. France then forced Haiti to pay an estimated $21 billion in ‘reparations’ to former enslavers, which further weakened Haiti’s economy. Since the early 20th century, the US has undermined Haiti’s sovereignty by occupying the country, assassinating leaders, installing governments and looting the country’s resources. 

In the meantime, so-called gang violence reportedly continues to spiral out of control, displacing thousands and worsening food insecurity for more than 5 million, or almost half the country

Sources

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/26/americas/haiti-mss-kenya-officer-missing-gangs-intl-latam/index.html

https://x.com/MSSMHaiti/status/1897630291428008275

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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/18/490468640/u-n-admits-role-in-haiti-cholera-outbreak-that-has-killed-thousands

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https://www.democracynow.org/2016/10/11/bill_clinton_s_trade_policies_destroyed

https://canada-haiti.ca/content/how-us-came-dominate-haiti-seizing-gold

https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2017/12/06/in-1825-haiti-gained-independence-from-france-for-21-billion-its-time-for-france-to-pay-it-back

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/26/americas/haiti-mss-kenya-officer-missing-gangs-intl-latam/index.html

EMACIATED WAR PRISONERS FREED IN KHARTOUM

The liberation of Khartoum has been celebrated across Sudan. For the men who were being held captive in the capital by the United Arab Emirates-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF), it may have saved their lives. Despite enduring grim conditions and torture and suffering from malnutrition, with some unable to walk, their joy at being freed is palpable in the videos that have emerged online. Many prisoners were not so lucky, dying in RSF captivity. The two-year proxy war is exacting a terrible human cost. After the first year of war, US special envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello estimated that some 150,000 could have been killed. The UN says 11.3-million Sudanese are currently internally displaced, while almost 4 million have fled to neighbouring countries. On top of that, nearly 25 million are facing acute hunger.

Hear Us Roar: https://news.1rj.ru/str/AfricanStream

THOMAS SANKARA REJECTS FOOD AID

Thomas Sankara (1949-87), Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader until his assassination, famously stated, ‘He who feeds you, controls you.’

In this 1987 interview, he elaborated on that point by explaining that foreign aid through Western institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), impose conditions on African countries that distract from the path to true independence.

‘Where is imperialism?’ Sankara asked. ‘Look at your plates when you eat. The imported grains of rice, corn and millet? That is imperialism. Let’s not look any further.’

He said food aid creates dependency on imports, keeping African farmers from selling their crops at a fair rate. For Sankara, true food aid came in the form of agricultural tools and technologies that would lead to food sovereignty and self-sufficiency.

Continued……. Today, Burkina Faso is once again following the path that Sankara laid out, this time under Captain Ibrahim Traoré (@capitaineib226 on X), who came to power like Sankara. In 2022, a people-backed military coup d’état ousted a Western-aligned leader. Since then, the new Burkinabé government has distributed farming equipment to local farmers as well as purchased tractors and other important farming technology. Furthermore, the country is industrialising food production by constructing factories, such as two that churn tomatoes into paste, another that mills grains into flour and yet another that refines rice.

Burkina Faso has $330.2 million in outstanding IMF loan debt. However, it looks like the country will soon be able to produce what it consumes.

Video credit: ‘Concerning Violence,’ Final Cut for Real, Helsinki Filmi Oy, Göran Olsson (2014)

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https://www.imf.org/en/Countries/BFA

HOW SOVEREIGN IS U.S. DEFENCE PARTNER EGYPT?

France’s President Macron is reportedly flying to Egypt 7-8 April to discuss Cairo’s proposed reconstruction plan for Gaza, which was provisionally endorsed at the Arab Summit earlier in March.  The African country has shown regional leadership, pushing back against an outrageous rival plan by the Trump administration that includes proposals to turn the devastated Strip into a luxury resort and move out its surviving population (critics would rightly say: ethnically cleanse the territory). 

Continued……But Egypt’s ability to chart an independent path remains constrained by neocolonial financial shackles. Given how heavily the country depends on Washington for its defence capabilities - and, indirectly, for its access to IMF loans - it’s unclear whether Cairo really has the clout to take a sovereign course.  We explores the issues at play.

Sources

1. https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-egypt/

2. https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/_/egypt-and-the-us-a-partnership-rooted-in-the-past

3. https://egyptianstreets.com/2025/02/14/why-egypt-does-not-need-us-aid/

4. https://www.newarab.com/news/egypt-denies-report-it-will-absorb-500000-gazans-sinai

5. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/arab-leaders-endorse-egyptian-counterproposal-to-trumps-gaza-plan

6. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/29/egypts-el-sisi-rejects-trumps-suggestion-to-take-in-palestinians

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PT. 4: GRENADA’S EDUCATION REVOLUTION 🇬🇩

This month marks 46 years since the revolution in Grenada.

On 13 March 1979, The New JEWEL Movement—New Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education and Liberation—carried out a bloodless coup that ousted the US-backed dictatorship of Prime Minister Eric Gairy (1922-97).

They established the People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG) headed by Maurice Bishop (1944-83).

The new government set out to build a society anchored on revolutionary socialist values, which did not please Washington. In October 1983, the US invaded Grenada and overthrew the PRG.

This video examines how that invasion overturned the revolution’s educational programmes, forcing a US-funded newspaper onto the population and the exile of many revolutionaries.

SWORN IN: NIGER’S REVOLUTIONARY NEW PRESIDENT

He’s been leading Niger for some time, but now it’s official: General Abdourahamane Tiani has been sworn in as the country’s president for the next five years. The move was backed by civil-society groups last month, with the inauguration happening on Wednesday. He’s also popular with the people, especially for kicking out the French military and for nationalising uranium mines.

Sources

https://www.aa.com.tr/fr/afrique/niger-abdourahamane-tiani-investi-président-de-la-république-pour-un-mandat-de-5-ans-renouvelable/3520505
https://www.sidwaya.info/assises-nationales-du-niger-les-bases-de-la-refondation-du-pays-jetees/

https://www.aa.com.tr/fr/afrique/burkina-faso-des-assises-nationales-les-25-et-26-mai-pour-statuer-sur-la-suite-à-donner-à-la-transition/3219932