Zambia ready for regional integration – Chikwanda

LINDA NYONDO, Lusaka
MINISTER of Finance Alexander Chikwanda says Government is ready to expeditiously move and make progress on a development agenda which has elements of regional integration programmes.
Officiating at the African Union (AU) workshop on Agenda 2063, the first 10 years implementation plan in Lusaka yesterday, Mr Chikwanda said African countries are fighting to emancipate the continent from socio-economic poverty.

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Terrorism is “Made in the USA”. The Global War on Terrorism is a Fabrication, A Big Lie

Prominent academic and author Dr Michel Chossudovsky warned that the so-called war on terrorism is a front to propagate America’s global hegemony and create a New World Order. Dr Chossudovsky said terrorism is made in the US and that terrorists are not the product of the Muslim world.

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Corporations and Countries Complicit in Ripping off Africa

boko In the past 50 years, more money has illegally left Africa than the amount of money received in aid, and the private sector is mostly to blame. Corporations and organised crime rings have channelled US$1-trillion away from the host countries in Africa where they operate, using a range of tax-cheating mechanisms known as illicit financial flows. This money is defined as money illegally earned, transferred or used, and the biggest culprits of the practice are multinational corporations operating in Africa, mainly in the extractives industry. Sub-Saharan Africa loses about US$50-billion a year, or 5.5% of gross domestic product, through illicit financial flows.

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Demobilized in the USA: Why There Is No Massive Antiwar Movement

libertyThere was the old American lefty paper, the Guardian, and the Village Voice, which beat the Sixties into the world, and its later imitators like the Boston Phoenix. There was Liberation News Service, the Rat in New York, the Great Speckled Bird in Atlanta, the Old Mole in Boston, the distinctly psychedelic Chicago Seed, Leviathan, Viet-Report, and the L.A. Free Press, as well as that Texas paper whose name I long ago forgot that was partial to armadillo cartoons.

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