According to its mission statement, “AFI FEST… showcase the best films from across the globe to captivated audiences in Los Angeles. With a diverse and innovative slate of programming, the film festival presents a robust line-up of fiction and non-fiction features and shorts… along with panels and conversations featuring both...

Documentary made by Cinema Libre Studio founder Philippe Diaz punctures Western narrative and shows weakness and corruption of UN The disastrous record of Western military interventions over the last half-century has left pundits grasping at straws to find something positive to point to. Some have come up with Sierra Leone, arguing...

“On the Anglo-Saxon side, and particularly for the US, the solution seemed straight forward: their champion Laurent-Desire Kabila, supported by both Paul Kagame and Yoweri Museveni, respectively presidents of Rwanda and Uganda, would overthrow the marshal , seize power, and never mind if Kivu, the whole east of the...

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things”–Isaac Newton “And simple truth miscalled simplicity” – William Shakespeare Paul Kagame`s Rwanda Fabricated an Enemy The people behind the networks of corporate power blocks, the global supply chain from Congo`s minerals, namely cobalt, have written...

Declining influence in Africa puts U.S. foreign policy establishment in a state of worry. In late June, protests erupted across Kenya against the government led by William Ruto after it enacted an IMF-dictated finance bill imposing hikes in a regressive sales tax, unloading the full burden of the country’s economic...

Just over a year ago we reported on Chanda Creasy, a courageous yoga coach, who had previously managed to work with militants in Africa, making her way up to the position of special assistant to CIA director on global operations. Recently, we found new details of Chanda’s trip to...

John Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a whistleblower and outspoken critic of the Agency, the U.S. intelligence community and the imperialist policies of the U.S. government. He left the CIA in 1976 after serving there for 12 years following service in the U.S. Marine Corps...

As details of state security violence and abuses by British soldiers deployed on training continue to emanate from Kenya, recently declassified files shed light on the historical impact and legacy of the British Army’s presence in the nation. On July 7, 1990, protesters in Nairobi took to the streets...

“Rwanda is not defined by a geographical space; it is a state of mind." – Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) Brigadier General Frank Rusagara. The eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been in a state of permanent war, depopulation and plunder since 1996 when the DRC (then Zaire)...

On May 19, forces calling themselves the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo launched what appears to be a failed coup attempt, attacking the home of the Deputy Prime Minister of Economy Vital Kamerhe, as well as the Congo’s presidential palace, Palais de la Nation...