In These New Times

A new paradigm for a post-imperial world

Archive for the ‘Zimbabwe’ Category

« Previous Entries
Next Entries »

Is Zimbabwe Violence a British Operation?

Posted by alfied on July 5, 2008

By Douglas De Groot

Executive Intelligence Review

African military intelligence sources have told EIR that the brutality and professional, execution-style nature of the killings and violence during the period leading up to the June 27 Presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe were obviously not the actions of misguided youth, but reminded him of the British-style special-forces counterinsurgency operations that were used against the freedom fighters in Zimbabwe before independence, which were carried out by the Rhodesian Selous Scouts. Reports indicate that the gruesome violence, unprecedented since independence (in 1980), that the London-based Anglo-Dutch financial cartel-dominated international press is using to work world opinion into a frenzy against Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, is controlled top-down as a high-level British-run counterinsurgency operation. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Zimbabwe | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Robert Mugabe: Victim or Villain?

Posted by smeddum on July 4, 2008

African Executive

Robert Mugabe

When sharks smell blood, they go into a feeding frenzy and attack relentlessly. There is feeding frenzy about Zimbabwe preceding the run-off elections scheduled for 27th June. Thwarted in their bid to install their man, Tsvangirai in power, the forces of Western neo-colonialism are ratcheting up media pressure. Some African leaders seem to have bought into this propaganda campaign.

Stories in the Western press about ‘government-sanctioned violence’ in Zimbabwe focus on lurid details quoting one-sided and opinionated anonymous sources without much verifiable data. Remember the gory reports about Saddam’s troops in Kuwait during the first Gulf War bayoneting babies in their incubators? Many of these stories later turned out to be fabrications.The same type of campaign is operating in Zimbabwe now. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Zimbabwe | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Stephen Gowans on Zimbabwe election

Posted by seumasach on July 4, 2008

Click here to listen to this interview.

Posted in Zimbabwe | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Zimbabwe political analysts should join ‘Pop Idol’

Posted by smeddum on July 3, 2008

http://www.talkzimbabwe.com/
Zimbabwe political analysts should join ‘Pop Idol’

Philip Murombedzi

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:20:00 +0000

DO you not cringe when you see Zimbabwean so-called political analysts and lawyers on the BBC or some other international media trying to look philosophical and intellectual talking ‘dirty’ about their own country and its leadership, but failing to condemn the sanctions regime that has crippled the country’s economy, or put Zimbabwe in its right political context?

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Zimbabwe | Tagged: , , , | Leave a Comment »

Myths of “humanitarian” imperialism

Posted by seumasach on June 30, 2008

By Stephen Gowans(What’s Left)

Myths of ‘humanitarian’ imperialism
Posted: Sunday, June 29, 2008

By Stephen Gowans
June 29, 2008
gowans.wordpress.com

Timothy Garton Ash, a columnist for the British newspaper The Guardian, has called on “people outside Zimbabwe” to “help the majority inside Zimbabwe have its democratic will recognized” by doing seven things, the first of which is to press their governments for stronger sanctions on Zimbabwe. Ash’s column is titled, “We don’t need guns to help the people pitch Mugabe from his perch.” Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Zimbabwe | Tagged: , | 3 Comments »

Guardian caught lying about Zimbabwe

Posted by seumasach on June 29, 2008

I’m not for one moment suggesting that this is the only lie the Guardian has published about Zimbabwe.As Seumas Milne, their associate editor puts it:”The British media have long since largely abandoned any attempt at impartiality in its reporting of Zimbabwe” . But it’s certainly a particularly blatant one.

On 25th June, they published an article attributed to MDC leader Tsvangirai calling for UN peacekeepers to be sent to Zimbabwe. In this highly indiscreet piece Tsvangirai calls for “the words of indignation from global leaders to be backed by the moral rectitude of military force”.

According to today’s Independent the Guardian now accepts “that he [Tsvangirai] had not approved the commentary” so either that or the original attribution is a lie. The most likely interpretation is that the Guardian, or someone who deceived them, were trying to bounce Tsvangirai into adopting this suicidal position . Perhaps as the same Independent article tends to suggest Tsvangirai has outlived his usefulness to his political masters.

Cailean Bochanan

The Guardian have, unsurprisingly, removed the article from their website but it can be found here. 

Posted in Zimbabwe | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Zimbabwe Attack on Dirty Tricks Deflated UK Initiative at UN

Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2008

 

27 Jun 2008

June 25, 2008 (LPAC)–Zimbabwe’s permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Boniface Chidyausiku, neutralized a British-initiated special meeting of the UN Security Council June 23 when he told the SC meeting “that there have been numerous cases of MDC-T supporters going around dressed in Zanu-PF regalia and beating up people. [Movement for Democratic Change-T is the party of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, and ZANU-PF is the party of President Robert Mugabe].

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Drive to Global War, Zimbabwe | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

Violence in Zimbabwe and the MDC and its Social Imperialist Supporters

Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2008

By Stephen Gowans(What’s Left)

wednesday, june 25, 2008

It was MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai who said to Mugabe, “If you don’t want to go peacefully, we will remove you violently.” [1]

It was MDC faction leader Arthur Mutambara who said he was “going to remove Robert Mugabe, I promise you, with every tool at my disposal” and that “We’re not going to rule out or in anything – the sky’s the limit.” [2]

It was secretary general of Tsvangirai’s MDC faction, Tendai Biti, who warned of Kenya-style post electoral violence if Mugabe won. [3]

It was opposition principal Pius Ncube, then Archbishop of Bulawayo, who said he was “ready to lead the people, guns blazing,” to oust the Mugabe government. [4]

It was the Zimbabwe Resistance Movement that promised to take up arms against the Zanu-PF government if “the poodles who run the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission,” failed to declare Tsvangirai the victor of the presidential run-off election. [5]

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Drive to Global War, Zimbabwe | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

Zimbabwe Herald: Knighthood withdrawal on President a blessing’

Posted by alfied on June 27, 2008

QUEEN Elizabeth’s decision to withdraw an honorary knighthood bestowed on President Mugabe in 1994 is actually a blessing in disguise as it removes one of the last vestiges of colonial titles on an outstanding African statesman and revolutionary, analysts said yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Drive to Global War, Zimbabwe | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

How come Zimbabwe and Tibet get all the attention?

Posted by seumasach on June 27, 2008

“The British media have long since largely abandoned any attempt at impartiality in its reporting of Zimbabwe, the common assumption being that Mugabe is a murderous dictator at the head of a uniquely wicked regime.”

Almost a lone voice in Briish journalism, Seumas Milne cuts through some of the lies about Zimbabwe and exposes the  “transparently racist agenda’ being conducted by the senile Brits of both left and right.He shows that he has clearly grasped that collective punishment will be inflicted on the Zimbabweans if they vote Mugabe back into power.

If a government wants to abuse human rights and rig elections, it needs to have the support of – or be – the western powers

Seumas Milne

 Guardian (UK), April 17, 2008

There is no question that the struggle over land and power in Zimbabwe has brought the country to a grim pass. Nearly a decade after the takeover of white-owned farms and the rupture with the west, economic breakdown, hyperinflation, sanctions and Aids have taken a heavy toll. With the expectation now that a second round of elections, mired in claims of fraud, may after all keep President Mugabe in power, the prospect must be of continued economic punishment and crisis.

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Drive to Global War, Zimbabwe | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

SWP: fellow-travellers of British imperialism

Posted by seumasach on June 26, 2008

 

Zimbabwe: Mugabe cracks down on opposition.(Socialist Worker)

 

 The SWP has adopted openly pro-imperialist politics over Zimbabwe. Under the veneer of supporting worker’s power they are helping to hand Zimbabwe back to the imperialist in London and Washington. Our message on this issue is simple;

Hands off Zimbabwe! Defend Zimbabwe’s sovereignty!

 

(Posted with our own commentaries)

Ken Olende looks at the current crisis and what the opposition can do

The situation in Zimbabwe continued to deteriorate as Socialist Worker went to press.

 

[Support for the opposition is assumed both by the author and in the reader. The situation in the world is deteriorating; is it all Mugabe’s fault?]

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Drive to Global War, Zimbabwe | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

« Previous Entries
Next Entries »