Prof. Dr. Bischara Ali Egal

When Bhagat Singh and his colleague gave the slogan of ‘ Death to Imperialism’ , they were of course  more immediately concerned with British rule in India, but in addition,  of course, they were very  aware of the need for wider and even longer duration struggle against imperialism. In fact soon after the rapidly growing freedom struggles of several countries as well as the changing balance of power in the world following the second world war led to the end of direct colonial rule in more and more countries, many-sided preparations started to continue the hold of imperialism in less…

Here’s one of the things I now do every morning. I go to the online Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center and check out the figures there — global coronavirus cases and deaths, U.S. coronavirus cases and deaths. And I do so the way that, not so long ago, I would have opened the sports pages and checked out the latest scores of whatever New York team I was rooting for. Where it was once a matter of the Knicks winning 109-92 or the Mets losing 4-2, it’s now those other, always rising, ever grimmer figures — say, 29,607,486 and 538,087. Those are…

Pfizer execs have informed the company’s investors of a “significant opportunity” to hike the prices of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Speaking at the virtual Barclays Global Healthcare Conference last week, two high-ranking Pfizer employees – CFO Frank D’Amelio and Chuck Triano, senior VP of investor relations – said there would be a chance for Pfizer to raise prices for the vaccine when COVID moves from a pandemic state to an endemic situation and the virus circulates continually in pockets around the globe. Frank D’Amelio: “If you look at how current demand and current pricing is being driven, it’s clearly not being…

All Global Research articles can be read in 27 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). *** “Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.” – Edward W. Said. (Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)”  “Geographically, the Horn of Africa is normally understood to comprise Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. As foreign military forces operate in ways that link deployments on land, in the air and at sea, for the purposes of…

At the age of 24, Mariam Khaled Dabboussi is carving out a career at Google that many twice her age would be proud of. As the company’s youngest team member in the Middle East and North Africa, her rise from Tripoli in Lebanon to become a central component of Google Assistant for Arabic speakers was meteoric. Since joining the Dubai office of one of the world’s largest tech companies, Ms Dabboussi helped to bring Google Assistant’s services in Arabic to life via laptops, mobile phones, smart watches and home speakers. With more than 285 million internet users across the Arab world,…

“We should not allow the pandemic to slow-down the momentumj in our relations with Africa.” ~ Rejep Tayyip Erdogan. INTRODUCTION-HISTORICAL BACKGROUND                Turkish -Somali relations goes bk centuries during the Ottoman empire rule in the Coastal Northern Somalia of Zeiylac (Adal Sultanate) , Berbera , Xees & Meyle Somali settlements which were ruled by the Ottomans.(1) Imam Ahmed Gurrey sooth and received Ottoman support in his holly war against the combined Portuguese Slave- Traders & Mercenaries and Their Christian Abyssinian Highlanders- the Menelik between 1522- 1600. The Ottaman empire ruled somalia from (1559 -1867). The Ottamans supported Somali Anti-Imperialist and…

Discussion of Islam in Western languages, and latterly much of it in the languages of the Islamic world as well, is bedeviled by polemic and reductionism. Islam itself always seems to be in the dock. One school of thought wishes to prove that Islam as such is responsible for all the abuses and cruelties to be found in the Islamic world, as though such abuses and cruelties were quite unknown elsewhere. Another, in its most extreme form, argues not merely that abuses and cruelties are contrary to Islam properly understood but even that whatever is valuable in other civilisations or…

Social media initially served as “soft power” tools, which the United States used globally. It was utilized for the American image, American lifestyle, American globalization, and finally, for American hegemony. It was promoted through democracy, freedom of expression, and mass sentiment. Social media companies, digital investments were given extraordinary support and fortified for this purpose. They were transformed into economic giants. They became leaders in technology, as well as the driving forces of the global economy. They became pronounced as a global power. Social media companies now carrying out military interventions! Once they reached this stage, the U.S. administration then…

The armed clashes along the border between Sudan and Ethiopia are the latest twist in a decades-old history of rivalry between the two countries, though it is rare for the two armies to fight one another directly over territory. The immediate issue is a disputed area known as al-Fashaga, where the north-west of Ethiopia’s Amhara region meets Sudan’s breadbasket Gedaref state. Although the approximate border between the two countries is well-known – travellers like to say that Ethiopia starts when the Sudanese plains give way to the first mountains – the exact boundary is rarely demarcated on the ground. Colonial-era…