US Government Report Undermines Zimbabwe Opposition's
Claim of Independence
October 04, 2008 - 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.
Stephen Zunes' False Statements on Zimbabwe and Woza
September 30, 2008 - By Stephen Gowans
Stephen Zunes is making a career of legitimizing fundamental US government assessments of all but a few of its foreign policy targets, uncritically mimicking State Department slanders of target countries and falsely declaring US funded regime change organizations to be "progressive organizations which could by no means be considered American agents."
Zimbabwe and the Battle of Ideas
September 26, 2008 - By Netfa Freeman
This year on September 11th Zimbabwe's two rival parties, Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T, representing a faction lead by presidential hopeful Morgan Tsvangiria) signed a power sharing agreement that details several critical points.
The Assigned Role of South Africa in the Internationalisation of the Zimbabwean National Problems
Submitted: August 06, 2008 - By Sehlare Makgetlaneng
The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in its address to the national situation has been focusing on the political governance. Its position is that since in its inception as the opposition political party, the country has not been governed democratically and that it has structurally been prevented from winning credible, transparent, free and fair elections. In other words, for the country to have credible, transparent, free and fair elections, President Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) will lose elections.
Stephen Rwangyezi Speaks
September 05, 2008 - AfricaSpeaks.com The Ugandan cultural group Ndere recently completed a very successful tour to Trinidad and Tobago as part of this country's Emancipation celebrations. The troupe was founded by Stephen Rwangyezi in 1984. In this interview, Stephen Rwangyezi shares his perspectives on a range of issues, including African/Ugandan culture, the contribution of the African ethos to world civilization, the debilitating effects of Slavery and Colonialism, and his visit to T&T
Negative Image: Robert Mugabe through the Lens of Western Propaganda
August 14, 2008 - 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.
VIDEO: Zimbabwe; Halfway There?
August 4, 2008
Discussion on Zimbabwe, broadcast on Iran's English-language 4 Corners program, Press TV with Netfa Freeman and Esther Stanford
Mugabe's Biggest Sin: Anglo-American and Chinese interests clash over Zimbabwe's strategic mineral wealth
July 30, 2008 - By F. William Engdahl
It is the fact that Mr. Mugabe has been quietly doing business, a lot of it, with the one country which has virtually unlimited need of strategic raw materials Zimbabwe can provide–China. Mugabe's Zimbabwe is, along with Sudan, on the central stage of the new war over control of strategic minerals of Africa between Washington and Beijing, with Moscow playing a supporting role in the drama. The stakes are huge.
Who's To Blame For Zimbabwe's Tragedy?
July 22, 2008 - By Ghali Hassan
The British and U.S. governments have condemned and demonised the Zimbabwean
government of President Robert Mugabe. They imposed economic sanctions on
Zimbabwe, and claim to be committed to democracy, human rights and ending
the suffering of the Zimbabwean people. Aren't they crying wolf?
The return of colonial relations?
July 21, 2008 - By Marion O' Callaghan
The Patriotic Front, whether the ZANU or before this ZAPU, has held that (a) land reform was a priority and that (b) compensation must be paid by the colonising power: Britain. This is the fundamental issue.
Western Lies and Hypocrisy:
How Zimbabwe Exposes Mainstream Media
July 20, 2008 - Ras Tyehimba
The recent Zimbabwe elections saw an escalation of attempts by external forces to intervene in the sovereign and independent nation. Given the complex circumstances surrounding Zimbabwe, for the millions of people in the Caribbean and around the world, it has been difficult to get balanced views...
In Defence of Robert Mugabe
July 10, 2008 - By Timothy Kalyegira
After all the intense international media focus on Zimbabwe last week, once again we must ask: why? Why the frantic effort to isolate President Robert Mugabe, all out of proportion to any wrongs he and his government might have done --- in essence, using artillery fire to blast a mosquito? What is going on?
The Dirty Operation Against Zimbabwe:
Soros, Abramoff, and British Africa
July 09, 2008 - By Anton Chaitkin
The British empire's effort to overthrow the Zimbabwe government is run through the political apparatus of billionaire speculator George Soros, via the U.S. government-based National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and the NED's London partner organization, the U.K. government-funded Westminster Foundation.
Africa Advocacy and The Zimbabwe Factor
July 10, 2008 - By Netfa Freeman
The disproportionate attention on Zimbabwe has intensified in the last few weeks as a result of the presidential run-off that took place Friday, June 27th. African (Black) people should see this attention clearly as a reason for extremely critical analysis on the matter.
Robert Mugabe: Victim or Villain?
July 03, 2008 - By Amengeo Amengeo
When sharks smell blood, they go into a feeding frenzy and attack relentlessly. There is feeding frenzy about Zimbabwe that preceded the June 27 run-off elections.
Zimbabwe at War
June 25, 2008 - By Stephen Gowans
This is a war between revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries; between nationalists and quislings; between Zimbabwean patriots and the US and Britain. Comments
Worried over Robert Mugabe vs. the Western World's Press?
Jun 22, 2008 - By Lloyd Whitefield Butler, Jr.
SHOULD you be worrying about 84 year old Robert Gabriel Mugabe, duly elected President of the Republic of Zimbabwe returning Zimbabwe land to Zimbabweans in national security mode?
The Movement for Democratic Change: The Continuity
of its Theoretical and Practical Weaknesses
June 10, 2008 - By Sehlare Makgetlaneng
The Movement for Democratic Change is characterised by unique and frightening theoretical and practical weaknesses. It is as if it is not an opposition political party in the former settler colonial society in the region which was the victim of settler colonial rule.
Zim's political opposition deploys its own WMD claim
May 22, 2008 - By Stephen Gowans
ZIMBABWE'S political opposition and its Western-sponsored civil society allies are concocting stories of an impending genocide to call for Western intervention to oust the economic nationalist Zanu-PF government of Robert Mugabe.
South Africa and the Rest of Africa and the World:
Its Inheritance of Racists
May 20, 2008 - By Sehlare Makgetlaneng
Why is South Africa regarded as the leader of the African continent in terms of socio-political, economic, financial, technological, military and human resources development and transformation?
Even at MRZine the ruling ideas on Zimbabwe
are the ideas of the ruling class
May 19, 2008 - By Stephen Gowans
So pervasive is the use of the word "independent" to disguise the influence of corporations, imperialist governments and their foundations, that "independent" should become a warning sign: Caution: Ruling class interests ahead.
Zimbabwe Crisis: Real or Feigned?
May 19, 2008 - By Timothy Kalyegira
As I focus these days on the dark deception at the international level, we turn today to the most extreme example: Zimbabwe. Why is Zimbabwe, once one of Africa's most promising countries, where it is today? Or more pointedly, why is Zimbabwe reported and portrayed to be where it is today?
Western countries want Mugabe out
May 11, 2008 - By Mohau Pekho
...the MDC is in collusion with the US administration and the British government, who both acknowledge that they are working with the MDC to bring down the President Mugabe Government.
Zimbabwe: More Than Complicity of Silence
May 01, 2008 - By Netfa Freeman
Today Zimbabwe has taken a high profile place in corporate media headlines. Are we getting the truth this time and can we rely on the same progressives who broke through misinformation around Iraq to do the same for us again?
Expressions of imperialism within Zimbabwe
April 27, 2008 - By Stephen Gowans
Zimbabwe's Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa on Friday denounced the US and Britain for their interference in Zimbabwe's elections. At the same time, he decried the Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), and its civil society partner, the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN), as being part of a US and British program to reverse the gains of Zimbabwe's national liberation struggle.
Zimbabwe: Self-determination is at root of conflict
April 22, 2008 - By FinalCall.com
Final Call staff writers Nisa Islam Muhammad and Saeed Shabazz went one on one with
Ambassador Machinvenyika Tobia Mapuranga to discuss the political situation in Zimbabwe and issues facing the southern African nation.
How come Zimbabwe and Tibet get all the attention?
April 17, 2008 - By Seumas Milne
If a government wants to abuse human rights and rig elections, it needs to have the support of - or be - the western powers
Zimbabwe and the new Cowardly Colonialism
April 03, 2008 - By Brendan O'Neill
Western intervention against Robert Mugabe's 'evil regime' put Zimbabwe into an economic straitjacket and disempowered its people.
In Zimbabwe, Opposition Follows Washington's Plan
March 31, 2008 - By Stephen Gowans
The color revolution in Zimbabwe (yet to be given a color) unfolds as other US- and British-government and foundation-directed color revolutions have unfolded in Yugoslavia, Georgia and Ukraine.
Zimbabwe Election Déjà Vu
March 28, 2008 - By Netfa Freeman
Just as they did three years ago detractors of Zimbabwe's governing party ZANU PF and President Robert Mugabe are already forecasting that the election in Zimbabwe is rigged, even though it has not happened yet. All of the propaganda machines are in motion to plant misgivings about any outcome that announces victory for Mugabe.
Brown, Mugabe and the Lisbon summit December 16, 2007
Britain had no qualms about the ravenous profits scooped up by British firms from the toils of expropriated and virtually-enslaved Africans under the apartheid regime, but hates the guts of President Mugabe who led Zimbabwe's liberation struggle against British colonialism and has striven to dismantle the power base of British proxies since his country regained its independence.
New Imperialism, Old Justifications
November 30, 2007 - By Stephen Gowans
The old imperialism, backed up by an old set of racist justifications, is back in fashion. It's called the new imperialism, only there's nothing new about it, or the arguments used to justify it.
Pan-African coalition rallies support for Zimbabwe
July 04, 2007
Pan-Afrikan United Front (PAUF), a coalition of Pan-African groups in Ghana, has convened a solidarity forum in Accra to voice their support for the land reform policy of the Zimbabwean government.
How sanctions are making the economy 'scream'
New African, May 2007 - By Mahoso, Tafataona
Britain and its Western allies claim that they have only imposed "targeted sanctions" and "travel bans" on the Zimbabwean leadership and not economic sanctions on the whole country. "Who do they think they are deceiving?," asks Dr Tafataona Mahoso, head of Zimbabwe's Media and Information Commission.
An Investigation of Zimbabwe's Different Path
May 22, 2007 - By Brendan Stone
Zimbabwe's different path and the penalty it has incurred: The academic and media framing of Zimbabwe's difficulties, and an investigation of external and internal causes.
Statement by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Comrade R. G. Mugabe, on the occasion of the 62nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, 26 September, 2007 Text and Real Player Video
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