Posted by smeddum on December 8, 2008
‘Fight sanctions’
Herald Reporter.
ZIMBABWEANS should unite and fight sanctions be-cause they do not affect the Government or targeted individuals, but the entire population, Cuban Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Cosme Espinosa has said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on December 1, 2008
Ahmadinejad blasts West
Web posted at: 11/30/2008 5:52:4
Source ::: THE PENINSULA
DOHA: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday called for developing an alternative economy in the face of the “total failure” of socialism and capitalism.
Addressing the plenary session of the International Conference on Financing for Development here, Ahmadinejad hit out against the “capitalist bloc”.
“Knowing (the problem) is the best way to address the problem. The capitalist bloc is facing an impasse in its philosophical, cultural and economic arena”, he said. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on November 24, 2008
Annan was not barred from Zim: Mumbengegwi
Sunday Mail/TZG Zimbabwe Guardian
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:25:00 +0000
THE Zimbabwe Government has not barred former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his team of “Elders” from visiting Zimbabwe, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Simbarashe Mumbengegwi, told reporters during a press conference in Harare yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 5, 2008
US Government Report Undermines Zimbabwe Opposition’s Claim of Independence
Filed under: Civil Society, Zimbabwe — gowans @ 10:20 pm
By Stephen Gowans
The US government had a hand in formulating the policy platform of the Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, and funded community-based newsletters to create a platform to persuade Zimbabweans to accept Washington’s point of view, according to a US government report. The report boasts that Washington is the undisputed leader in nurturing anti-government civil society organizations in Zimbabwe, operating through a CIA-interlocked organization led by former New York investment banker and Michael Milken right-hand man, Peter Ackerman. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on September 30, 2008
Zimbabwe and the Battle of Ideas
By Netfa Freeman
September 26, 2008
blackagendareport.com Africaspeaks
The U.S. admits to actively engaging in efforts for regime change.
Cuban revolutionaries often point out the significance of what they call the “battle of ideas” and they explain how “ideas are worth more than weapons.” It stands to reason then that the goal in such battles is to win the hearts and minds of people. Because the so-called Western World dominates the most sophisticated and pervasive methods of information today, people should carefully scrutinize ideas pushed and popularized by these sources. This means we should never take for granted anything we read or hear and only half of what we see. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on September 28, 2008
Heidi Holland’s Dinner with Mugabe: Failed Demonography
Filed under: Zimbabwe — gowans @ 5:31 pm Whats Left
By Stephen Gowans
Journalist Heidi Holland’s biography of Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe, Dinner with Mugabe, begins with the assumption that Zimbabwe’s long-standing president is a monster. In addition, Mugabe, who recently struck a deal with factions of the opposition MDC to share power, is accused by his biographer of creating “a de facto one party state,” [1] and of “failings and excesses” that have left Zimbabweans “starving” [2] – standard fare from Western journalists.
The fact that Zimbabwe’s opposition now controls the legislature and is due to hold a majority of cabinet posts clashes violently with Holland’s depiction of the country as a de facto one party state. By comparison, no one, much less Holland, complains about South Africa, truly a de facto one party state, which suggests that whatever beefs she has with Zimbabwe have nothing to with it being a de facto one party state, (which it isn’t) otherwise we might expect South Africa, and not just Zimbabwe, to fall within her sights (which it hasn’t.) Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on September 20, 2008
“The time has come to challenge the Westerners to state the real reason they imposed the sanctions, and why they do not want to scrap them even though Zimbabweans have closed ranks.
What the Western stance tells us is that the fight is far from over, in fact, it may have just begun.
The forces ranged against us are not happy and obviously want to torpedo the agreement, because what they are after is regime change not inclusion.”
African Diaspora: Zimbabwe: Land at Core of Western Anger
Posted on Friday, September 19 @ 07:24:35 EDT by admin Rastafarispeaks
By Caesar Zvayi
September 19, 2008
IN our Shona culture, just as in any other culture, suspicion is always aroused whenever an outsider mourns more than the bereaved.
Then vanasorojena (the elders) tend to question the relationship between the mourner and the deceased and all his/her family.
Well, since the power-sharing agreement was signed by Zanu-PF, MDC-T and MDC on Monday, the Anglo-Saxon Alliance led by the EU and the US have been wailing like a newly-wed widow who has just been robbed of the joys of wedded bliss. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 15, 2008
Negative Image: Robert Mugabe through the Lens of Western Propaganda
What’s Left
By Stephen Gowans
Leaders who have committed offenses against democracy, human rights and international law on a level far graver than the offenses Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has been accused of committing, are rarely, if ever, vilified by Western government officials, the media and left intellectuals. By contrast, Robert Mugabe has been subjected to a sustained barrage of criticism, often bordering on the hysterical, for crimes that, laying aide whether they’ve been committed or not, are minor in comparison. I’ll show that an inconsistency in the treatment of Mugabe does indeed exist, and explore the reasons why. I’ll also show that there are compelling reasons to be skeptical of the case against Mugabe. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on August 3, 2008
NAM backs Iran’s right to acquire peaceful nuclear energy
Posted: 2008/08/02
Mathaba
The 15th meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement ”NAM” foreign ministers wound up on Wednesday releasing a final statement and two documents on Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities and the Zimbabwe crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on July 29, 2008
By Stephen T. Maimbodei
July 29, 2008
The Herald
I have said it before and I will say it again without any apologies. Even then, there are still some who are awestruck at the continued attempts by the West (read Britain and America) to make Zimbabwe Africa’s protracted battleground for their imperialistic and hegemonic interests.
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Posted by smeddum on July 27, 2008
Race and History
Herald Reporter-AFP.
July 26, 2008
The Herald
BORDEAUX. THE ongoing talks between Zanu-PF and the two MDC formations have softened the European Union’s stance on Zimbabwe and has now thrown its weight behind President Thabo Mbeki’s mediation. Read the rest of this entry »
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