Why the US and France are trying to murder African Revolutionary Leader, Ibrahim Traoré

Traoré’s anti-imperialist and Pan-African stance resonates with global Africans. AFRICOM’s attacks on Traoré backfire as Africans rally in his support

By Alan Macleod at MintPress News on 12th May 2025 via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-GRE Telegram t.me/thefreeonline/3108

Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré is remaking his nation, and in the process, making enemies in the West.

Since taking power in 2022, the young military leader has expelled French troops, ejected Western corporations, and aligned his country with Russia, Cuba, and Venezuela.

Promoting pan-African unity and national self-reliance while surviving coup attempts, Traoré is positioning himself as a radical anti-imperialist and has drawn fire from Washington and Paris. MintPress News explores the project underway in Ouagadougou and the global forces trying to stop it

TRAORÉ IN THE CROSSHAIRS

According to government statements, Traoré narrowly survived a foreign-orchestrated coup attempt last month. Security Minister Mahamadou Sana said that the military junta foiled a “major plot” to storm the presidential palace on April 16.

The plotters, he said, were based in Ivory Coast, a Washington-backed neighbor where American military presence has recently expanded, the Pentagon identified Côte d’Ivoire as a potential site for new Navy bases following the closure of bases in Niger.

Ever since he took power in a military coup in September 2022, Traoré has been drawing criticism from Western governments, not least the United States.

On April 3, General Michael Langley, commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), spoke before the Senate, accusing the Burkinabe leader of corruption and helping Russia and China establish an imperial foothold in Africa.

Michael Langley, head of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and U.S. Marine Corps General, implicated in Ivory Coast sourced coup attempt on Traoré on April 3rd 2025..

AFRICOM, the Pentagon’s regional command for Africa, coordinates U.S. military operations, intelligence gathering, and security partnerships across the continent, often framed as counterterrorism operations.

On the day of the coup, the U.S. Embassy changed its travel guidelines for Burkina Faso to “do not travel.” Langley reportedly met with Ivorian Defense Minister Téné Birahima Ouattara numerous times this year, both before and after the coup.

Since coming to power, Traoré has been systematically limiting the influence of Western powers in his country, calling it a matter of national sovereignty. In January 2023, he expelled the French ambassador, calling the country an “imperialist state.”

Burkina Faso & Mali Vow to Defend Niger’s New Leadership

One month later, he ordered French troops to leave Burkina Faso. This helped spark a wave of other West African nations formerly part of the French empire to do the same.

Shattering the bonds: Will 2025 be the year of freedom for former colonies?

Unless former colonial powers are held accountable for their past injustices, they are likely to find new ways to perform the same old looting and coercion

7 Jan, 2025 from Home / Banned by Mustafa Fetouri, via thefreeonline at https://wp.me/pIJl9-FrC Telegram t.me/thefreeonline

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Good news is coming from West Africa: last November landlocked Chad announced an immediate end to all security and defense ties with former colonial ruler France. The surprise announcement came just hours after the French foreign minister met Chadian President Mahamat Déby.

With this decision, Chad joins a growing list of former French colonies rejecting Paris’ influence and kicking out its troops. OnDecember 26 France handed over the first of its military bases to the Chadian army in Faya-Largeau. Paris will also evacuate troops from two more bases: in the capital N’Djamena and in the eastern city of Abeche.

In a pointed statement, Chadian Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah declared, “France must henceforth consider that Chad has grown up” and is a “sovereign state.” This rebuke reflects a broader wave across Africa, especially in the Sahel, where countries like Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have already cast off French influence.

France’s role in the Libyan tragedy

The last decade saw French domination of former African colonies waning. A new generation of African leaders began to question their countries’ unequal ties to France, with Paris overexploiting their natural resources, leaving them to poverty and corrupt regimes Paris sustains with little tolerance for dissent.

Libya, another African country, is a good example of French intolerance of any challenges to their hegemony. Under the late leader Muammar Gaddafi, Libya played a leading role in creating the African Union, pushed for a unified African military and more continental economic integration. Paris believed that Gaddafi’s aspirations, given his continental popularity and Libya’s vast financial resources, were a threat to its influence across Africa.

Libya is still in chaos in 2025 and the jihadi militia wars caused by his killing still spread across Africa

We Live In A Nightmare – Caitlin Johnstone

A nightmarish authoritarian dystopia, now being updated, has already been here a long time, -but we can transcend it

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Subscribe here ..We Live In A Nightmare .. Caitlin Johnstone.. Jan 5th 25 READ IN APP Listen to a reading of this article by Tim Foley v

Awakening from the propaganda matrix is like being a conservative: you’re frequently disgusted with society and where it appears to be headed.

But unlike a conservative, you’re disgusted by actual problems instead of imaginary nonsense.

Also unlike a conservative, your problem is not with relatively new societal developments like recent immigration waves and LGBTQ acceptance; your problem is with abusive dynamics which have been plaguing civilization for centuries. Capitalism. Imperialism. Militarism. Settler-colonialism. Genocide. Plutocracy.

Exploitation. Consumerism. Many rightists warn urgently that our society is on the verge of plunging into a nightmarish authoritarian dystopia, but if you’re truly unplugged from the indoctrination of the empire you understand that the dystopia is already here, and has been for a long time.

All Authoritarians Condemn Catalonia : Anarchists call for Revolution

Seems like every State and Authoritarian on the planet is virulently against Catalans complaining about 500 years of macho Spanish colonialism. Of course, because their very own ‘cash cow’ populations could go copy-cat. Rebellion is brewing everywhere as wealth is funneled ever more to the tiny hierarchical elite.

The Spanish Right, unreformed, rabid and clerical have wallowed in repressive robbery and mass murder for centuries. But recently some of the tens of thousands of politicians have been caught with their greedy fat fingers in the public cash box.

No prison, no punishment, of course, but the far right PP almost got voted out. And one way they could keep power was by BLAMING THE CATALANS. For 5 years we have suffered an incessant racist campaign against these hospitable and long suffering people. And now provoking a tidal wave of racist and sexist male violence against them.

Until finally… We want back the democratic Republic your military took from us by murder and massacre. We don’t want your King, appointed by a fascist dictator, or your Constitution, agreed only under the threat of 40 more years of total repression.

Hopefully the blind authoritarianism of the stomping PP nationalists will be the death throes of the imperial mentality,. If not the Catalans will resist, the debts won’t be paid, and the entire economic House of Cards could tumble down.

Then maybe we can build something better in Iberia.

New Joint Declaration from Anarchist Trade Unions

viaJulius Gavroche, with thanks…….. The government of Catalonia declares its independence from Spain; the Spanish government in response dismisses the Catalan government, assumes direct control of the region and declares regional elections for the 21st of December. What happens from hereon in is unknown. Below is a statement from the country’s principal anarchist labour unions before the unfolding of events …

The undersigned organisations, national labour unions, share our preoccupation with the situation in Catalonia, because of the State repression unleashed, because of the decrease in rights and freedoms that this presupposes and will presuppose, and because of the growth of a rancid nationalism that again shows its face in a great part of the country. Continue reading “All Authoritarians Condemn Catalonia : Anarchists call for Revolution”

FREE ALPHABET PICTURE BOOK ABOUT EUROPE’S VIOLENT COLONIAL RACISM

by Eye Candy at AfroPunk Spain-based Peruvian writer Daniela Ortiz’s new book is the history lesson I never got as a child but always needed. free download HERE.

The ABC of Racist Europe seeks to expose how Europe’s racist, colonial laws came to be and can still be felt today in xenophobic migrant and refugee policies.

According to Telesur, the book began as part of an exhibit showcased earlier this month at The Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art in Middlesbrough, England.

“Each letter has an imperialist message, for example, the letter K was for King … where the image shows a king imprisoning Africans, an image that today would be unacceptable,” Continue reading “FREE ALPHABET PICTURE BOOK ABOUT EUROPE’S VIOLENT COLONIAL RACISM”

British killed 5 million Irish in Colonial ”famine”.

Read this site and weep. Weep for the agonies and deaths of your people at the hands of genocidists.

The authorities who imposed the curriculum, the teachers and professors who funneled it into you, have carefully kept you uninformed as to which British regiment, or that any regiment, murdered your people. Until now, that information was kept from you. You had no access to it. You do now – you read it on your computer screen! Commit the regiment’s name to memory…..

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Never, ever, forget it!

Learn its British HQ town. As no Jewish person would ever refer to the “Jewish Oxygen Famine of 1939 – 1945”, so no Irish person ought ever refer to the Irish Holocaust as a famine……..

The cover-up is accomplished by the same British terrorism and bribery that perpetrated the genocide. Consider: why does Irish ex-President Mary Robinson call it “Ireland’s greatest natural ¹ disaster” while she conceals the British army’s role? Potato blight, “phytophthora infestans”, did spread from America to Europe in 1844, to England and then Ireland in 1845 but it didn’t cause famine anywhere. Ireland did not starve for potatoes; it starved for food.

On Sunday 22nd May there will be a memorial event in London to the Irish Famine which many refer to as a genocide.. CLICK HERE

Ireland starved because its food, from 40 to 70 shiploads per day, was removed at gunpoint by 12,000 British constables reinforced by the British militia, battleships, excise vessels, Coast Guard and by 200,000 British soldiers (100,000 at any given moment).

The attached map shows the never-before-published names and locations in Ireland of the food removal regiments (Disposition of the Army; Public Record Office, London; et al, of which we possess photocopies). Thus, Britain seized from Ireland’s producers tens of millions of head of livestock; tens of millions of tons of flour, grains, meat, poultry & dairy products; enough to sustain 18 million persons.

The Public Record Office recently informed us that their British regiments’ Daily Activity Reports of 1845-1850 have “gone missing.” Those records include each regiment’s cattle drives and grain-cart convoys it escorted at gun-point from the Irish districts assigned to it. Also “missing” are the receipts issued by the British army commissariat officers in every Irish port tallying the cattle and tonnage of foodstuff removed; likewise the export lading manifests. Other records provide all-revealing glimpses of the “missing” data; such as: …

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also more at: http://www.irishholocaust.org/home

Breaking the media gag in Western Sahara

‘Equipe Media’ are a group of youths in Western Sahara dedicated to exposing the oppression and pillage by the occupying Moroccan State

Western Sahara was seized by Morocco when the Spanish withdrew in 1975

photo freon rooftop by Equipe Media shows Moroccan police attacking women when dispersing Saharawi demo. — photo from rooftop by Equipe Media shows Moroccan police attacking women when dispersing Saharawi demo.

Moroccan officials charged against demonstrators, particularly against women, during a protest in Laayoune in images captured by Equipe Media from the roof of one of the surrounding buildings. Credit: Courtesy of Equipe Media. Continue reading “Breaking the media gag in Western Sahara”