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The Killing of Pan-Africanism: The CIA Drew First Blood. AFRICOM Salted the Earth. Africa’s Elites Signed the Sale to Western Capital.

By Jon Jeter ● Jon's Africa Column ● July 30, 2026

Malcolm called it the ballot or the bullet. The empire answered with coups, and when the coups were done, it sent contracts. Defender Global Correspondent Jon Jeter has watched the sale for twenty-five years, from a Johannesburg corporate suite to an Addis Ababa classroom, and files a dispatch from the deathbed of the dream and the streets that refuse to bury it.

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Kansas City: Inside America’s Nuclear Weapons Capital, As It Builds the Newest American Bomb

By Ryan S. ● Global Briefing ● May 6, 2026

For seventy-seven years, Kansas City has built most of nearly every American nuclear weapon. On May 7, the federal government will hold a hearing to ask if Kansas City consents to the next chapter.

The Trump Administration’s Extortion Plan to Harvest African Biological Data

By Jon Jeter ● Jon's Africa Column ● May 6, 2026

This is what colonization looks like in the biotech century. In the latest dispatch of the Plunder Papers, Defender Africa Correspondent Jon Jeter investigates America’s push to extract the cells, pathogens, and medical records of millions of Africans. Countries that refuse are told their HIV patients will die.

🚨 Kill the Imperialist Lies: The Truth on the U.S. War Against Iran

By Ryan S. ● Global Briefing ● March 23, 2026

Your government launched an illegal war, bombed 66 schools, killed 165 schoolgirls, and is asking you to pay $200 billion for it. Here is everything Western media won’t tell you.