Essam Elkorghli
Essam Abdelrasul Bubaker Elkorghli is a Libyan doctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, researching imperialism, ideology and education with a primary focus on Libya. He serves as the assistant editor to the Middle East Critique Journal, and member of the Global Pan-African Movement. He writes frequently for the Black Agenda Report and Pambazuka News. His Twitter.
NATO’s summit ended with custom-engraved .357 Magnum — a Turkish-made Gümüşay and live ammunition souvenir to its leaders amid an increased synergy between the summit and the military industrial complex in the West. Elkorghli examines the synergy and highlights the contradictions in the alliance’s principle of “attack on one, attack on all,” the manufacturing of fear in service of militarism and finance, and doubts about the invincibility of western defence projected during the Summit in the light of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and Israel/US aggression on Iran.
Tagged under Global South & Transnational Struggles
The son of President Muammar Qaddaffi, Saif Qaddafi, has been assassinated by local forces, some of whom contributed to the destruction of a flourishing Libya. A background to the murder and Libya’s struggles for reconstruction.
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An analysis of geopolitical violence against Venezuela, the imperial actors driving it, and solidaric resistance rooted in the Bolivarian Revolution.
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Elkorghli offers thought provoking examination of the utility of Malcolm X’s revolutionary ideas and practice for forging unity among peoples oppressed by unified networks of imperialism and repression.
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Essam brings to the fore the silenced debilitating, malignant, and acute health
consequences of NATO interventions due to its use of depleted uranium on the peoples who
are bombed.Tagged under Global South & Transnational Struggles
Pan-Africanism or barbarism! Given the colossal human suffering in Palestine and Congo, the people of Global Africa must take position on the liberation movements in the Sahel and anti-people reactionary regimes that serve imperialism and Zionism.
Tagged under Global Pan-Africanism Zionism