Panama Papers: The Rich, The Powerful and The Ugly

A Journal Of People Report

Theories have been formulated, assumptions have been made, shreds of facts have been unearthed to grasp the extent the elites would go to further enrich their empire of wealth; but none of them could have possibly anticipate what the Panama Papers leak presents.

In what appears to be the biggest leak in the history of journalism, a secret global financial network of bribery, arms deals, tax evasion, financial fraud and drug trafficking is exposed, revealing the ugly face of the rich and the powerful.

Harvard gangsters running the World Bank and the silence of the Western media

by Mikael Mohapi

Pambazuka News | 31 March, 2016

In recent years, over two dozen articles have appeared in African American and African media detailing deep-rooted institutional racism against Black workers at the World Bank. Conspicuously, the Western media has kept the issue out of its radar screen. But branding Africa as “a hopeless continent” comes naturally to the Western media pontiffs.

‘Tropical Gangsters’, a book about the leaders of Equatorial Guinea, was one of the six best nonfiction books in 1990, according to the editors of the New York Times Book Review.

Five years into Libyan disaster

by Abayomi Azikiwe

Pambazuka News | 31 March, 2016

Half a decade after the United States led destabilization and bombing of Libya, the attempts by imperialism to establish a stable neo-colonial dominated regime have not materialized.

On March 19, 2011, the Pentagon and other NATO forces began the aerial bombardment of the once most prosperous nation-state in Africa. After seven months of air strikes and support for an imperialist-directed ground operation by proxy rebel militias, thousands lay dead while millions were displaced amid the ruins of hundreds of development projects and government institutions.

Loving Vincent

Common Dreams | 01 April, 2016