Dr. Horace Campbell, PhD

On Friday August 5, one of the world’s leading credit rating agencies, Standard & Poor’s, downgraded the United States’ top-notch AAA rating for the first time ever. S&P cut the long-term US rating down to AA+ with a negative outlook, citing concerns about budget deficits and political gridlock. In their statement justifying the downgrade the…

General Magnus Malan, the chief architect of the total onslaught of the apartheid military, passed away on 18 July 2011. This total onslaught strategy was the idea that South Africa was threatened by a communist conspiracy and that the South African apartheid state must respond with economic, political, ideological, psychological and military tools to defend…

On May 11, 2011 it was thirty years since Bob Marley joined the ancestors. Bob Marley was a cultural artist who became internationally known as a defender of love, freedom and emancipation. This week we remember him, his songs and his contributions to both revolutionary consciousness and his call for us to emancipate ourselves from…

Before Osama Bin Laden, there was Luis Posada Carriles. The news of the killing of Osama Bin Laden by US military forces hit the airwaves on Sunday May 1, prompting jubilation among many people in the United States and other places around the world. This triumphalism of US citizens, who have been directly or indirectly…

The Western bombardment of Gaddafi’s forces in Libya has become an opportunistic public relations ploy for the United States Africa Command (Africom) and a new inroad for US military stronghold on the continent. This involvement of Africom in the bombardment is now serving to expose the contradictions and deceit that have surrounded the formation of…

The Great Wells Of Democracy (2003) His most recent book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011), was issued on Monday April 4, three days after he joined the ancestors. From the press reports of the book, this work of over 600 pages will ignite new debates and discussions on one of the principal figures…

The renewed energy of the popular power in the streets of Egypt ensured that the political initiative remained in the hands of the grassroots mobilizers who had come together to trigger an uprising that is now called “the people’s revolution.” Their continued tenacity and strategic planning shocked observers, who were already reporting that “the protests…

‘It was a victory parade – without the victory. They came in their hundreds of thousands, joyful, singing, praying, a great packed mass of Egypt, suburb by suburb, village by village, waiting patiently to pass through the “people’s security” checkpoints, draped in the Egyptian flag of red, white and black, its governess eagle a bright…

The full explosion of the Tunisian revolutionary process is now taking root across Africa, far beyond the town of Sidi Bouzid, from where Mohammed Bouazizi had sent a message to youths all across the world that they should stand up against oppression. The overthrow and the removal of the dictator, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali on…