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2026-02-20 21:59:02

We Demand the Release of our Compañero Francisco Moreno Hernández and the Rights of the Hernández Family, Members of the CNI, Be Guaranteed

To the Networks of Resistance and Rebellion,
To the National and International Sixth,
To the signatories of A Declaration for Life, on all five continents.
To Rebellious, Dignified, and Rebellious Europe,
To the free and independent media,
To those who walk the word of life,

Prior to the eviction of the Moreno Hernández family from the ejido of Jotolá, Mpo. Chilón, on February 12 of this year, comrade Francisco Moreno Hernández, who along with his family is a member of the National Indigenous Congress in Chiapas, was arrested at 8 a.m. He was unjustly accused of the crime of aggravated dispossession of the lands that his family has held for generations.

As a result of the 1994 EZLN uprising, these lands which had been in the control of the hacienda owner who had kept the Moreno family and members of the community as slaves for generations, were recuperated being and freed up to those who work them. Subsequently, the Jotola ejido was established, where Francisco’s father, Manuel Moreno Pérez, was recognized as an ejido member. Since then, he and his family have worked peacefully, continuously, and publicly on approximately 5 hectares of land.

However, when Juan Cruz Méndez, Medardo Carmelino Cruz Méndez, Rogelio Cruz Méndez, and Guadalupe Cruz Méndez (Los Cruces) arrived from the Ejido de Montelibano, municipality of Oconcingo, from where they had been expelled for alleged crimes such as murder, kidnapping, attempted murder, and alleged links to organized crime, they began to take control of the ejido, causing unrest, social conflicts, and violent incidents in the community. Juan Cruz Méndez is the regional leader of the paramilitary organization ORCAO, which has since attacked the Moreno Hernández family, who under Zapatista principles, have resisted in this area as part of the CNI.

It was then that, without showing an eviction order, at around 11 a.m. on February 12, approximately 30 State Guard police officers, hooded personnel from the INPI and the Agrarian Court, accompanied by more than 50 ejido members led by “Los Cruces” from the ORCAO, gathered to remove the 30 members of the Moreno Hernández family, began beating them and stealing the cell phones of those who were recording, suffocating Francisco’s son until he was unconscious and handcuffing him, even though there was no arrest warrant. They detained Francisco’s mother and wife, Maria de Jesus Sánchez Gómez, while her young children with special needs screamed in fear and helplessness. After being detained, María de Jesus was beaten, groped, and strangled with a knee by the police of the Indigenous Prosecutor’s Office of Yajalón, who then threatened to disappear her, saying, “you’re the one who’s being the most stupid.”

The members of ORCAO, under the protection of the State Guard, a hooded National Guard member dressed in civilian clothes named José Moreno Sánchez (son of the current ejido commissioner of Jotola), and a former soldier dismissed for misconduct, began to destroy the five houses of the eight Moreno Hernández families with sledgehammers, removing and burning their belongings, tearing down the tin roofs, and killing the animals that the family had raised with great effort over many years, as well as their corn, coffee, and plant crops, and stealing their savings. The innocent children were left with irreparable psychological damage, homeless and without rights. Juan Cruz thanked the governor on social media that they could finally carry out what they had been waiting for so long to do.

At the initial hearing, María de Jesus was released under the condition of periodic reporting, as her court-appointed defense attorney argued that she has two children with special needs who depend on her. However, Francisco Moreno Hernández remained in custody until the hearing to determine whether he will be brought to trial, scheduled for Tuesday, February 17, at 9 a.m., as the prosecutor argued that he is the leader of the dispossession carried out by “Los Cruces.” Eight other members of the Moreno Hernández family are also facing arrest warrants. They have lost all their belongings and are in hiding for fear of being detained.

The resistance, work, and dignity that the Moreno Hernández family has shown for years, building their homes, raising their animals, and working the land without government assistance and in common, is under attack by the despotic rule and impunity of those who, with the support of the bad government, seek to end the struggle of their comrades in the National Indigenous Congress.

WE DEMAND:

THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF OUR COMRADE FRANCISCO MORENO HERNÁNDEZ

CANCELLATION OF THE ARREST WARRANTS

AN END TO THE AGGRESSIONS AGAINST THE MORENO HERNÁNDEZ FAMILY

PUNISHMENT OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE PARTIES WITHIN ORCAO AND THE CHIAPAS STATE POLICE

FOR THE FULL RECONSTITUTION OF OUR PEOPLES!

NEVER AGAIN A MEXICO WITHOUT US!

NATIONAL INDIGENOUS CONGRESS

Original text published by the Congreso Nacional Indígena on February 14, 2026.
Translation by Schools for Chiapas.
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2026-02-20 21:55:07

Mosaic Defense Strategy of the IRGC Navy: Doctrine and Operations

The “Mosaic Defense” strategy adopted by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy is based on the philosophy of “decentralized leadership.” Fundamentally, this doctrine aims to neutralize the effectiveness of any sudden attack by turning it into a prolonged war of attrition, dividing the operational theater into structurally and functionally independent defensive sectors. Small, mobile combat units form the backbone of this system. These formations and their branches are given pre-assigned “mission orders” that ensure combat operations continue without the need for constant or direct communication with the central command chain, guaranteeing the sustainability of resistance even if communication networks or command structures are destroyed or compromised electronically.

Operationally, fast boats and naval assets are concealed in fortified underground locations or camouflaged inland areas. They can be transported via land trailers to multiple coastal launch points as needed, executing missions against enemy military targets or commercial shipping based on pre-prepared, extensive target databases.

The integration of local Basij forces is a key element in the success of the mosaic defense concept. “Ashura” and “Imam Hussein” battalions are organized in coastal towns to operate autonomously in defending their designated geographic areas under the supervisory guidance of IRGC provincial commanders.

This approach smartly leverages geographic advantages, such as proximity of logistics centers to operational theaters and the use of coastal road networks, to ensure flexible, rapid movement of combat assets between different sectors. This creates defensive depth that compensates for technological gaps against advanced naval powers. The distributed power structure aims to make it extremely difficult for an adversary to neutralize Iranian defensive capabilities, as each piece of this defensive “mosaic” can independently launch lethal attacks.

Human factors are also critical in Iran’s asymmetric warfare doctrine. Religious and national motivations, shaped by a historical memory of resisting occupation, are deeply embedded—particularly stemming from the Iran-Iraq war experience. The IRGC places ideological belief at the heart of its naval strategy through three pillars: belief in the “Wilayat al-Faqih,” innovation and adaptability under adversity, and a culture of jihad and martyrdom. This vision emphasizes the spiritual superiority of fighters over materially superior opponents.

This ideology is institutionalized through concepts such as “Alawi Warfare,” prioritizing “religious duty” over purely material outcomes, and “Ashura Warfare,” which sanctifies sacrifice against injustice beyond pragmatic calculations, while emphasizing the “insight” (Basirah) of fighters to make field decisions and execute necessary actions without awaiting central directives. The system culminates in bold “swarming” tactics carried out by Basij youth—tactics that Western powers describe as “unprofessional” but which Iran views as a “firm deterrent.” The state continues to cultivate this spirit in new generations using modern technologies to ensure the revolutionary ethos persists in facing external threats.

Source:
Iran’s Evolving Approach to Asymmetric Naval Warfare Strategy and Capabilities in the Persian Gulf
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2026-02-20 21:53:50

Zionist Regime’s Recognition of “Somaliland” Is Destabilizing Somalia and the Horn of Africa

Since 1991, a reactionary element in “Somaliland” has been attempting to secede from Somalia. Those tensions were raised on December 26 when the Zionist entity many call Israel recognized this effort. Its intent is to have a place to which it could permanently expel Palestinians from their rightful homeland and, along with the US, gain a stronger military hold in the region. The entire international community has condemned this move, with the exception of the US. AWB spoke with longtime independent journalist Ann Garrison about the situation and the ramifications of “Somaliland” secession going forward.

BLACK ALLIANCE FOR PEACE: Thank you for joining us again.

ANN GARRISON: You’re welcome. Glad to be with you.

BAP: For those unfamiliar with the complex history of the current situation in Somalia, talk about 2-3 factors and events one could start at to get up to speed on the current tensions?

AG: Thanks for asking that question. Somalia receives so little media attention that it’s often hard to know where to start. I’d actually like to talk about 4 factors.

First, “Somaliland,” the secessionist state within Somalia, no longer exists within the colonial borders of British Somaliland.

Maps published by the New York Times and other corporate media show Somaliland within those borders, but that just indicates their ignorance and indifference to Somalia’s recent history and facts on the ground. It’s typical of their ignorance and indifference regarding Africa as a whole.

The secessionists based in Hargeisa, the state capitol, still control roughly half the former colony, but nationalists won the other half in the Las Anod conflict, which took place between early February and August 2023. There were hundreds of deaths, thousands injured, and over 200,000 displaced before nationalists prevailed and raised the Somali national flag above their new capital, Las Anod.

The border between the secessionists and nationalists is still patrolled by armed forces on both sides, but nationalists maintain military and administrative control. They elected an 83-member regional parliament, and on July 31, 2025, Mogadishu formally recognized the territory as Somalia’s Northeast State, one of its seven federal member states.

The nationalist victory makes it inaccurate to talk about “Somaliland” because the secessionists in Hargeisa still claim that it includes what is now the Northeast State. The quotation marks around “Somaliland,” which you also used, are the best solution for now.

Israel has made obscure Somalia a hot topic, the African frontier of Greater Israel. It came out that even Jeffery Epstein and his associates had sick and twisted designs on “Somaliland,” particularly Berbera Port, but there’s still very little interest in the Somali people.

Second, polarization around Israel, Palestine, and Somaliland will destabilize Somalia, the Horn of Africa, and the wider region.

As you noted in your introduction, much of the world is incensed by the idea that Israel will expel survivors of the Gaza Genocide to the secessionist state. It should be noted that Somalis, including many “Somalilanders,” are among the most incensed because they support the Palestinian people. Israeli and Hargeisa’s announcement inspired protest across Somalia, but Hargeisa quickly suppressed protest in the area under its control.

Somalia is one of only 26 to 29 nations that have never recognized the State of Israel.

In late December 2025, Dr. Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, an Israeli think tank close to the Israeli government, stated in an X space discussion that “Somaliland’s” leaders had made a “very generous offer” to absorb up to 1.5 million Palestinians, approved by “Somaliland’s” president around December 20, 2025.

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Sudan all condemned Israel’s recognition of the secessionist state and its presumed intent to exile Palestinians there, but Kenya, Ethiopia, and the UAE, all of which have increasingly closer ties with Israel, have remained silent. In Kenya, Israel has an outsized presence, including military cooperation. Its embassy is the largest in Nairobi.

Ethiopia has traditionally supported Palestine, but it abstained on recent UN General Assembly resolutions, most notably on the September 18, 2024 resolution demanding that Israel end its unlawful presence in Occupied Palestine. It welcomed Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in Addis Ababa in May 2025 as the genocide continued.

The UAE are signatories to the Abraham Accords normalizing relations with Israel, along with Bahrain and Morocco. Sudan also signed but its signature has become irrelevant since the Gaza genocide and the Sudanese civil war began.

The UAE has also been a large investor in both Somalia and “Somaliland,” but Somalia has canceled all its lease agreements with the UAE and expelled it from the country since Israel recognized the secessionists.

Somalia and Saudi Arabia have signed a military cooperation agreement to counter Israel’s recognition of Somaliland. How will the US respond to its Gulf allies lining up on either side of this? With regard to Israel’s move, the US has said that Israel is a sovereign nation with the right to recognize whomever it pleases.

“Somaliland” has lobbyists in the US, including the Heritage Foundation, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, and Idaho Senator James Risch, but the US doesn’t need to recognize “Somaliland” to get Berbera Port and whatever else it needs strategically. “Somaliland” never says no to the US as is.

The African Union has adamantly opposed Israel’s recognition of “Somaliland.”

Given all these alliances and counter alliances, it should be obvious that, as the Black Alliance for Peace wrote, Israel’s action and US blessing will further destabilize Somalia and the Horn of Africa.

Third, “Somaliland’s” Berbera Port is a geostrategic prize.

The secessionists control Berbera Port on Somalia’s Gulf of Aden coast, where the Bab el Mandeb Strait connects the Red Sea to the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean. Berbera sits at the interface of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Ten to twelve percent of the world’s global maritime trade was passing through the Bab el-Mandeb, including roughly 10% of its oil, until 2024, when Houthi rebels began attacking ships associated with Israel, causing a 50% decline and forcing cargo carriers to use a much longer and more costly route around the Cape of Good Hope. Recent reports say it’s now dropped by 60%. Berbera is also, as you mentioned, an ideal location for firing on the Houthis.

Just east of the Bab el Mandeb Strait is the Strait of Hormuz, which connects the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Oman, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean. Roughly 20% of the world’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has threatened to close if attacked by the US and Israel.

These are the most contested waters in the world, with chokepoints so critical that all the world’s major powers and some mid-level powers maintain a naval presence here. The US, France, China, Japan, and Italy have naval bases in Djibouti, a tiny nation on the Bab el Mandeb between Eritrea and Somalia, but Djibouti’s lease agreements stipulate that none of them can use these bases to attack another nation. The secessionists have not indicated that they would impose any such restriction on bases in Berbera Port.

Russia, just to indicate the significance of these waters, is reported to be negotiating with Sudan to build a base on its Red Sea coast. It’s also reported that Eritrea may collaborate with Saudi Arabia to develop its Assab Port, also on the Red Sea.

The US 2022 National Defense Authorization Act referred to “Somaliland” more than to any actual African nation, describing plans to establish a US military base in Berbera. Then and now, however, the US has reiterated its respect for the territorial integrity of Somalia, even though it negotiates with the secessionists as if “Somaliland” were independent.

Fourth, Somali society is organized into clans.

The modern nation state is a governance structure established in Europe after the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia. Europe imposed it on Africa, often trapping people who don’t speak the same language or share the same ethnicity or clan in a single, unfamiliar governance structure.

Somalia is almost unique in SubSaharan Africa in that its people speak the same language and share the same culture. Many Somalis also speak English and/or Arabic, but Somali is most widely spoken throughout the country. Clan competition for resources is the primary source of conflict.

The future of African nations divided by ethnicity, like Sudan and South Sudan, depends on whether they can forge a national identity that supersedes ethnic identities. Somalia’s future depends on whether it can forge a national identity that supersedes clan identities.

A passionate Somali identity has at times emerged in conflicts with Somalia’s neighbors, Ethiopia and Kenya, because Somali populations were included within these nations’ unnatural colonial boundaries. The dream of “One Somalia” has inspired border wars including the Ogaden War with Ethiopia and the Shifta War with Kenya, but at the same time, clan conflict divides Somalia internally.

The Isak clan controls the prized Berbera Port and Hargeisa, and many Somalis call it “a one-clan enclave.”

BAP: In 2011, South Sudan was severed from the formerly unified state of Sudan becoming the newest recognized sovereign state in the world. Needless to say, its recognition did not bring any more stability to the region as espoused by the West. In fact the opposite continues to this day. Can you compare and contrast the two situations? What could we learn from the West playbook under the Obama administration, facilitating that split?

AG: First, I recently did a long interview with Ahmed Kaballo, Sudanese editor of Sovereign Media, which is posted on the Black Agenda Report YouTube Channel. That’s the best source I can recommend for understanding Sudan and South Sudan right now.

As to the balkanization of Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, or any other African nation, it’s often promoted by outside powers like Israel in Somalia. The UAE’s proxy, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), is fighting for a second partition of Sudan, which would make the new partition a de facto UAE colony.

Larger states are better able to defend themselves militarily and to develop more resources, playing to regional strengths, but size is of course not enough in itself; popular organization and good leadership are prerequisites. Nigeria and DRC are large but they have neither, and they are among the most exploited nations in Africa.

In Sudan, before partition, the grievances of the Southern people were 100% legitimate, but as Ahmed said, “If you have a corrupt military dictator like Omar al-Bashir, the solution is to get together to get rid of him and build something better that serves everyone.”

Sudan has become the world’s worst humanitarian crisis since partition. South Sudan has become its poorest country.

Sudan is in its second civil war and South Sudan is in its second since partition.

BAP: In the Black Alliance for Peace statement condemning the recognition of Somaliland, it refers to the current Somali government as “comprador.” Can you talk about how the Somali federal government has been complicit in creating the pathway to this point, even though it officially opposes the move?

AG: In Sudan, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, despite his responsibility for the current war, can at least be seen as the defender of Sudan’s sovereignty. Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud doesn’t seem to defend anything but enriching himself and his family and staying in power.

He has not objected to the US’s drone bombing campaign, even as it accidentally hits innocent families, and despite its absolute failure, for 19 years, during which Al Shabaab has only grown stronger.

With regard to the secessionist state’s promises to militarily collaborate with the US and give it full access to Berbera Port, he has claimed that he’s the one with the right to give it all away.

The previous president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, aka Farmaajo, understood that sovereignty required sovereign security forces. He sent Somali troops to train in Eritrea and tried to negotiate a timetable for foreign forces’ departure.

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud squandered the forces trained in Eritrea on feckless missions and made no attempt to expel foreign forces.

BAP: Opposition to terrorism is the most common pretext for the militarization of the Horn of Africa. To the degree such entities such as Al Shabaab do exist, who funds such groups and why?

AG: Al Shabaab taxes and otherwise extorts funds from the population in areas that they control and extorts wealth in other areas by threat.

Countries looking for a strategic edge in Somalia also fund Al Shabaab. The US and UK have been known to acquire intelligence from Al Shabaab assets, and intelligence isn’t free.

BAP: What would “Somaliland” independence mean for neighboring Ethiopia and what role has that country played in arriving at this point in the situation?

AG: Ethiopia is a large landlocked nation determined to gain sovereign sea access. This might have been negotiated during the period between 2018 and 2020, after Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea signed a regional agreement to collaborate on security, culture, and regional trade and development. The US undermined that agreement by backing the TPLF in the Northern Ethiopian Conflict and moving to replace Farmaajo with Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.

In January 2024, Ethiopia outraged Somali nationalists by signing an MOU with “Somaliland” to lease a stretch of its coast for a commercial port and naval base. Ethiopia reportedly agreed to recognize “Somaliland” in exchange, but the details of the MOU were never revealed, and it was never implemented.

“Somaliland” can’t hope to become a UN member state because China would veto its application in the Security Council. It might become a quasi-state like Kosovo, which is recognized by NATO nations but not by Russia, China, or the UN. That might reduce resistance to Ethiopia’s lease of that stretch of its coast.

BAP: Why should people in the US, especially working-class Africans, care about what is going on in Somalia, and how do the current attacks on the Somali community living in the US tie into all this?

AG: Malcolm X said that the African struggle is global, shifting his focus from purely American civil rights to a struggle against colonialism and imperialism. I couldn’t say it better, and of course working-class Americans have most reason to care because those in what Black Agenda Report calls the Black Misleadership Class have long since abandoned the struggle for African liberation.

The rest of the anti-imperialist movement in the US should of course oppose US aggression in Somalia and everywhere else.

As to Trump’s ugly attacks on Somali Americans, they degrade him and all the Americans applauding, but they also give him an excuse for doing whatever he wants to Somalia. If it’s “not even a country,” then why should he respect its sovereignty?

BAP: Complex issues, what would you like to add that we did not address?

AG: LOL. This is 2500 words, as much as BAR can publish, but I wrote 3500, so maybe you can publish the long version on the BAP website.

Ann Garrison is a Black Agenda Report Contributing Editor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 2014, she received the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for her reporting on conflict in the African Great Lakes region. She can be reached at ann@anngarrison.com. You can help support her work on Patreon.

source: Black Agenda Report
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2026-02-20 21:51:45

Marco Rubio Reveals the White Supremacy at the Heart of Western Foreign Policy

‘This is why we do not want our allies to be shackled by guilt and shame. We want allies who are proud of their culture and of their heritage, who understand that we are heirs to the same great and noble civilization, and who, together with us, are willing and able to defend it.” – Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the 2026 Munich Security Conference

Marco Rubio, Secretary of State of the United States, received a very warm welcome at the recent Munich Security Conference with wild applause and a standing ovation from those listening to his remarks of some 3,000 words. The theme of Rubio’s speech was rather simple. He told Europeans that they are great, very great, and superior to people in the rest of the world. He only expressed criticism of their failure to continue colonizing and for allowing Global South people to liberate themselves.

This son of Cuban immigrants declared himself to be European, highlighting his ancestors from Spain and Italy. If Rubio is like many Cubans, he probably has some African and indigenous Taino ancestry too. But any mention of those possibilities would have ruined his speech. He made a clear connection between the settler colony of the United States and the Europeans whose genocides made the establishment of that country and others in the western hemisphere possible.

Having completely erased his own heritage in deference to a white supremacist celebration, Rubio proceeded to tell his audience, full of vassal states, that they must be resolute in their Christian beliefs and their cultural ties of Western civilization. His speech was astounding, but not actually because he said anything they didn’t already believe, but because he spoke of the partially hidden belief in white supremacy publicly to a wide international audience.

It is appropriate that the speech was condemned, because the expression of racist beliefs should never be met with acceptance. Of course, for centuries, Europeans have practiced violent and racist policies. Most of the nations that Rubio referred to consider themselves to be, “. . . heirs to the same great and noble civilization.” Greatness and nobility are subjective terms, but it must be pointed out that there would have been no European economic power without theft of land, resources and human beings. Predation made Europe rich and keeps it that way. Rubio referenced “. . . its missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe.”

There were already empires in the states of Africa and Asia, and what became known as the Americas. They were defeated by the bloodshed from the invaders of Europe. There are millions of African descended people in North and South America and the islands of the Caribbean. They were stolen from their homelands and most are now Christians because their cultural memory was deliberately stolen in order to make them compliant in enslavement.

Rubio ignored his Cuban heritage in his speech, but there was an indigenous civilization on the island that became Cuba, too. It was the home of the Taino people and they called their island Cobao or Coabana or and Cubao. The arrival of the Spanish wiped out nearly the entire population in the northern Caribbean islands that now comprise Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico, with 85% of an estimated 3.5 million people perishing from disease, forced labor, and murder. Their leaders, such as Hatuey, resisted but were ultimately overwhelmed. Hatuey traveled from what is now Haiti to Cuba to fight the Spanish, but he was defeated and burned at the stake in 1512. Rubio may also have Taino ancestry, but he wouldn’t get a hero’s welcome in Munich if he brought up any such inconvenient information. The Spanish and French and British and Dutch and Portuguese should be “shackled by shame.” But their histories show that by and large they have no such sentiments.

The most ironic thing about Rubio’s speech is that it assumed his audience didn’t already believe as he does. The Germans are thoroughly guilt-wiped by Israel and have paid more than 800 billion Euros in compensation to Israel and to holocaust survivors since 1952. This generosity towards Jewish people is quite different from its treatment of Namibians who were colonized by Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Between 1904 and 1908, some 80% of the Herero people and 50% of the Nama people were killed by German colonizers in their war of resistance. The first genocide of the 20th century took place in Africa, and unlike Israel, Germany has paid nothing in compensation to African survivors in Namibia. Rubio can relax. Germany is not shackled by any shame regarding its genocides which took place outside of Europe as we can see with the rise in popularity of its rightwing, white supremacist political party Alternative for Germany (AfD).

While Rubio lamented “anti-colonial uprisings,” he didn’t mention that most of them failed in their struggle to become truly sovereign. Nations may have achieved what is called “flag independence,” but now, 70 years after the heroic war for independence in Kenya, their comprador leadership sends police to Haiti to do U.S. bidding or leases large tracts of land to Israeli interests. This continued domination does not occur for lack of effort. U.S. and European corporations own diamond mines in Congo, and seaports on the west coast of Africa from Mauretania to Congo-Brazzaville. When states do not comply they are destabilized, proxies and compradors in the pay of “great and noble civilizations” do their dirty work or are overthrown through brute force.

In Cuba, Rubio is committed to destroying its revolution by starving people and depriving them of oil. Schools are shut, hospitals cannot care for patients, and the ever-tightening screws of sanctions punish any country that might think of being in solidarity. It is little wonder that Rubio speaks of his ancestors from Spain and Italy. He would be embarrassed if he spoke of his descent from a country he is now tasked with destroying.

Europeans were upset by Donald Trump’s attempt to snatch Greenland from Denmark only because he was doing to them what they all do to the rest of the world. Far from encouraging liberation movements, the French killed 5.6 million Algerians in total during the colonial period and 1.5 million during the war of independence, while the British killed at least 20,000 Kenyans during their independence struggle and interned up to 200,000 in concentration camps and then destroyed evidence of their atrocities. Nor do European atrocities take place only in the distant past. When Libya was destroyed by the U.S. and NATO in 2011, the prime minister of the United Kingdom and president of France showed up in person to rub salt into the wound.

The awful Europeans are U.S. vassals who have allowed their patron to destroy their economies in an effort to defeat Russia. Joe Biden blew up their NordStream pipeline, which provided them with inexpensive Russian gas but they have remained silent. The term Stockholm Syndrome comes to mind as they mindlessly worship the country that keeps them in the status of secondary imperialists who can also be shoved under the bus at opportune moments.

Europeans are compliant puppets and will do whatever Rubio or any other U.S. Secretary of State tells them to do. Rubio and his boss, Donald Trump, don’t have to lecture Europeans about restricting Global South immigration. They are already doing that without any need of encouragement. They already act on behalf of the U.S. and they work together to keep a sordid business going. Little Marco Rubio has no worries and anyone who was shocked by the blatant racism and eliminationist rhetoric should know that he differed only in saying the quiet parts out loud for all to hear.

Margaret Kimberley is the author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents. You can support her work on Patreon and also find it on Twitter, Bluesky, and Telegram platforms. She can be reached via email at margaret.kimberley@blackagendareport.com

source: Black Alliance for Peace
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2026-02-20 21:03:35

Popular Resistance Committees on the Siege of the Rafah Crossing

We emphasize that the partial opening of the crossing and its limited operation do not meet the scale of the worsening humanitarian catastrophe faced by more than 20,000 sick and wounded individuals waiting for the opportunity to travel for treatment abroad, in light of the lack of necessary medicine and medical equipment. We stress that the right to treatment is not a favor or a pressure card, but an inherent right that must be protected to save lives. Continued zionist procrastination means more suffering and is a flagrant violation of the operational mechanisms guaranteed by the ceasefire agreement.

The tightening of the siege and the military control over the lists of travelers through the Rafah crossing is a systematic criminal decision to turn the Gaza Strip into an uninhabitable area and to undermine all international efforts.

We hold the American administration fully responsible for the catastrophic conditions and for the practices of the zionist enemy at the Rafah crossing, including non-compliance with the designated numbers and systematic violations against returnees, which have manifested in physical and psychological abuse, harsh interrogation, extortion, and the use of its outlawed gangs and militias to terrorize, question, and threaten returnees.

We call on the mediators and guarantor states to take urgent action to put an end to these flagrant breaches and violations, and to compel the zionist enemy to open the Rafah crossing in accordance with the standards of international and humanitarian law, and to begin implementing the second phase of the agreement, which stipulates the zionist withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

Resistance Committees in Palestine
Thursday, Ramadan 02, 1447 AH, corresponding to February 19, 2026 AD
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