Burkina Faso

Après le Burkina Fasso, où le président français a tenu un discours indigne, puis la Côte d’Ivoire, Emmanuel Macron a conclu sa visite de trois jours en Afrique par un passage au Ghana, pays anglophone.

This week’s documentary film curated by the editorial team at 21WIRE.
The story of Thomas Sankara is unknown to many in the west. He was a visionary and a revolutionary – a charismatic army captain who came to power in a popular coup in Burkina Faso in 1983. Regarded as Africa’s ‘Che,’ his brief four-year rule inspired a generation and inspired African self-reliance as an alternative to the neo-liberal IMF ‘development’ model imposed by the West on Africa. Watch:

P.D. Lawton
21st Century Wire
Thomas Sankara, a man in his early thirties transformed the world’s poorest country at that time, Upper Volta, into a self-sufficient modern thinking nation in just four years.

Copcast, banned weapons and amateur drones + this day in history w/the NYC blackout and our song of the day by Alex Lahey on your Morning Monarchy for August 14, 2017.

Première de couverture de « L’occident terroriste. D’Hiroshima à la guerre des drones », André Vltchek, Noam Chomsky, tarduction Nicolas Calvé, Montréal, éd. Ecosociété, 2015, 174 p.

By Alex GORKA | Strategic Culture Foundation | 25.04.2017 How biased are the US media, really? This is a frequently asked question. The answer is – they are biased very much and they know how to instill the vision of things in a quiet and unobtrusive way. Here is an example to prove the point. […]

Le président du Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré a saisi la perche tendue par son homologue français François Hollande sur l’avenir du FCFA. Pour le Burkinabé, le défi lancé par son homologue est « gros » et les présidents africains doivent le révéler.

Du 3 au 8 février 2017, Mon ciné vous propose une série de nouveaux rendez-vous avec une cinématographie diverse et méconnue, celle du continent Africain.

The desert town of Agadez in Niger is currently best known as a stop on the people-smuggling route between West Africa and Europe, but it is about to take its place in the geopolitical stage as the American military has announced it will build a drone base on its outskirts. Reportedly costing U.S.

Significant sums in Canadian “aid” are spent promoting international mining initiatives.
In a press release last week Ontario-based Carube Copper said it acquired over “500 square kilometres of the most prospective ground in Jamaica based on historic showings, the work completed and reported in 1993 by the Canadian International Development Agency (‘CIDA’).”