Despite rhetoric about aid to the poorest people in the world, the Harper Conservatives have worked assiduously to ensure that Canadian corporations profit from Africa’s vast mineral resources.

A video released last week showing the beating and torture of Saadi Gaddafi is not an anomaly in contemporary Libya where the Pentagon and NATO waged a war of regime-change in 2011.

INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

July 16, 2015

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama:

Greetings! Mr. President.

The main point of the summit of leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa last week was host Vladimir Putin’s demonstration of economic autonomy, given how much Western sanctions and low oil prices keep biting Russia.

West Africa has a growing and worrying drug problem. Yet much of global drug policy has focused on reducing drug supply in South American countries like Colombia, and the heavy use of law enforcement against street dealers and users.

A year ago, Israel began its assault on the Gaza Strip. More than 2,100 Palestinians died in the bombing — seven out of ten were civilians, according to the United Nations. Israeli bombs killed 500 Palestinian children and orphaned 1,500 more.

On 12 June 2015, the High Court in Mombasa dismissed all charges against Haki Africa and Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI) on the basis that there was no evidence against them, yet, twenty days after the High Court's ruling, the bank accounts of the organisations remain frozen.

To understand why the BRICS bloc’s proposed bank is a different and new banking dynamic, you need to identify and understand the nature of Empire in Africa.