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Canada brands Al-Nusra Front a terrorist organization

11 November 2013
The honourable Steven Blaney, Canadian Minister of Public Security, announced on November 8th 2013, that his government has registered the groups Jabhat al-Nusra li Ahl al-Sham (a.k.a « al-Nusra Front ») and al-Muwaqi’un Bil Dima on the list of terrorist entities, by virtue of the criminal code.
This decision comes at a time when the historical leader of Al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is reorganizing his base in Syria. In September, the two armies that represented it, the Islamic State of Iraq and (...)

France hides "collateral damage" caused by its airstrikes in Mali

10 February 2013
French aircraft bombing around the city of Konna caused more deaths among civilians than among Islamists, but the French media keep silent about the "collateral damage" and glorify the "militaristic and triumphalist discourse" of Paris.
Reporting from Konna, Russia Today correspondent Wancha Gonzalo informed that the Islamists were not routed but had simply retreated.
Regarding the number of victims, the RT correspondent cites the specific example of one of the 25 villages that make up (...)

"No, war is not what France is all about"

by Dominique de Villepin

Paris (France) | 10 February 2013
Mali, a friendly country, collapses. Jihadists advance towards the south, the situation is urgent.
But let’s not give in to the reflex of war for the sake of war. The unanimity of those wanting to go to war, the apparent haste, déjà vu arguments of the "war against terrorism" concern me. This is not France. Let us learn from the decade of lost wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya.
These wars have never built a strong and democratic state. Instead, they promote separatism, failed states, the iron (...)

The recolonization of Africa

Condemnation of Mali war and denunciation of Western neo-colonial plot

Brussels (Belgium) | 4 February 2013
On January 11, 2013, France launched a military intervention in Mali, an African country where nearly half the population lives on less than $ 1.25 per day. Paris’ reasons for justifying this operation come straight out of the "war on terror" rhetoric, so dear to the Bush Jr. administration. On January 17, independent MP Laurent Louis denounced before the Belgian Parliament the real goals of the intervention. The only legislator to oppose Belgium’s backing of the French operation, Laurent Louis points out that Western countries - including France - have supported and continue to support, in Syria, the same jihadists that Paris claims it wants to fight in Mali.

Mali and AFRICOM’s Africa Agenda: Target China

by F. William Engdahl

31 January 2013
Out of the blue in the last days Mali has suddenly become the focus of world attention. France has been asked to militarily intervene by Mali’s government to drive Jihadist terrorists out of the large parts of the country they claim. What the conflict in Mali really is about is hardly what we read in the mainstream media. It is about vast untapped mineral and energy resources and a de facto re-colonization of French Africa under the banner of human rights. The real background reads like a John LeCarre thriller.

French press reveals colonial nature of Mali intervention

30 January 2013
The French authorities take great care in their communications to emphasize that they are intervening in Mali solely at the request of the interim President and to support the Malian army.
Thus, the French Ministry of Defence stated: "After seizing Gao on the night of 26-27 January, Operation Serval troops, in coordination with Malian units, took control of the airport tonight and gained access to the city of Timbuktu through an air-land maneuver."
However, the French press did not resort (...)

"The Art of War"

The strategy of tension

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 24 January 2013
It is too obvious that Western economic interests in Mali are not enough to explain France’s intervention there. Similarly, it is clear that islamism is not enough to explain vast terrorist action conducted simultaneously at an Algerian gas site. For Manlio Dinucci, this cocktail contains the classic ingredients of the strategy of tension. The target is Algeria, Mali is the rear base for the attack, and the islamists are a pretext for intervention.

"Before our very eyes"

Mali: One war can hide another

by Thierry Meyssan

Damascus (Syria) | 23 January 2013
A long time in the making and announced by François Hollande six months in advance, the French intervention in Mali was portrayed as an emergency decision in response to dramatic developments. This scheme aims not only at seizing Mali’s gold and uranium, but more especially at paving the way for the destabilization of Algeria.

William Engdahl: Mali a US operation with France as a junior partner

21 January 2013
As French soldiers pour into Mali in the fight to push back the advancing Islamist militants, questions have been raised as to the motives behind the intervention.
Author William Engdahl told RT the US was using France as a scapegoat to save face.
RT: At a time when France and the rest of the Eurozone are trying to weather the economic crisis, what’s Paris seeking to gain by getting involved in another conflict overseas?
William Engdahl: Well, I think the intervention in Mali is another (...)

Once derided, Gaddafi’s warnings about jihadists now used to justify Mali intervention

by Stephen Gowans

21 January 2013
Always on hand when needed, cameleontic jihadists serve as enemies in Mali, friends in Syria, and air force in Libya.

Security council reunion about the situation in Mali

New York (USA) | 20 December 2012
The meeting was called to order at 3.25 p.m.
Adoption of the agenda
The agenda was adopted.
The situation in Mali
Letter dated 13 December 2012 from the Secretary-General addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2012/926)
The President (spoke in Arabic): Under rule 37 of the Council’s provisional rules of procedure, I welcome His Excellency Mr. Tiéman Hubert Coulibaly, Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Mali, and the represenative of Côte d’Ivoire (...)

Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa

31 July 2012
Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don’t collectively challenge Western influence in the region.
The Republic of Mali is fast becoming the Afghanistan of Africa. The reference is being applied with growing enthusiasm by Western media. The tragic reality is that Mali, with massive size and relatively sparse population - 1,240,000 km² and a population of nearly 15.5 million - was, until a few months ago, paraded as a model of stability (...)

Mali: U.S. Africa Command’s New War?

by Rick Rozoff

Chicago | 9 April 2012
President Obama’s statement on defense strategy announced a stronger U.S. presence in Asia-Pacific, while keeping Africa under the radar. Yet, recent developments clearly suggest that the Black Continent has become the new U.S. military playground of imperial conquest. It is now Mali’s turn to have plunged into turmoil. In this article, written in February 2012 when the latest "Tuareg rebellion" erupted in northern Mali, Rick Rozoff connects the dots between these events and Mali’s pivotal role in Washington’s strategy for Africa, conjecturing that, after Libya, the stage is possibly being set for another U.S. led intervention.

Mali: Masses March in Support of Muammar Gaddafi

18 October 2011
Mass demonstrations took place Friday in Mali against the European-American aggression on the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the leader of the Libyan revolution, Colonel Muammar Qaddafi.
The protesters wore T-shirts and placards bearing the image of Colonel Gaddafi and chanted their readiness to die to save Libya. International brigades are being formed to stand up against the re-colonization of Africa.
The Jamahariya devoted part of its oil revenues to the development (...)