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About Thomas C. Mountain

May 3, 2013October 26, 2016 Global AuthorHawaii Black History Committee, journalist in Africa, Thoma C Mountain

Thomas C. Mountain is a long time revolutionary political activist and anti-racist educator. His background includes participation and leadership roles in the environment, land and housing struggles, labor, cultural work and education. He is founding co-chair of the Hawaii Black History Committee (1985), founding VP of the Hawaii Alliance for Peace and Justice in the Middle East (1982), co-editor… Read More

OP-ED

The Real Deal on the War in Yemen

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 Thomas C MountainWar in Yemen

The latest war in Yemen, ongoing since 2015, started when the Houthi tribes in the north made a deal with former President Saleh (whose son remained head of the army under the agreement made with the Saudis to get him to vacate the Yemen Presidency) to work together to conquer all of Yemen militarily. The Houthis and the Yemen Army… Read More

Why the USA is NOT about to attack Iran

July 14, 2019July 14, 2019 Thomas C Mountainattack Iran, Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi

Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, professor extraordinaire of Iran, said it best when asked on Al Jazeera if the USA was going to attack Iran. He stated something so obvious that you would think western journalists would have already come to this realization, that “as long as the USA is sending its military to the Persian Gulf they are not about… Read More

Middle East Opinions

Shia Insurrection In Saudi Arabia; The Battle For Awamiya

November 9, 2017 Global AuthorSaudi Arabia, The Battle For Awamiya, Wahabi is as Wahabi

By Thomas C. Mountain Since May, 2017 an ongoing insurgency has been raging in the Shia heartland town of Awamiya in eastern Saudi Arabia and its only thanks to the BBC being allowed to enter the area and film the destruction that the world can see how the House of Saud’s war against the Shia population of Yemeni has now expanded… Read More

Liberia West Africa

Africa’s War Lord Queen; The Bloodstained Career of Liberia’s Eleanor Sirleaf Johnson

May 5, 2017May 5, 2017 Global AuthorAfrica’s War Lord Queen, Charles Taylor, Eleanor Sirleaf Johnson, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Thomas C. Mountain, UN, USA

If all you know about Liberian President Eleanor Sirleaf Johnson is what you read in the U.S. corporate media, you probably think she is a Nobel Prize-winning reformer. In fact, Sirleaf is a U.S. imperial puppet whose hands are steeped in blood, the “right hand woman“ of deposed warlord Charles Taylor, and a servant of multinational banks. “The lords of… Read More

Middle East

USA moves toward major intervention in Yemen

April 23, 2017April 23, 2017 Global Author“Mad Dog” Mattis, Europe and Asia, Fallujah, Iraq, Saudi airstrikes on Yemen, Yemen

The USA, according to Defense Secretary “Mad Dog” Mattis, he who ordered the use of chemical weapons in Fallujah, Iraq, is about to take a major step towards direct intervention in support of Saudi Arabia’s war on the Yemeni people. According to Jeffrey St. Clair, editor of CounterPunch, this war has already seen 90,000 Saudi airstrikes on Yemen, or one… Read More

North Africa Opinions

Preventing Cultural Genocide with the Mother Tongue Policy in Eritrea

October 26, 2016October 26, 2016 Global Authoreast African nation of Eritrea, Eritrea, Thomas C. Mountain

by Thomas C. Mountain “Many of the languages that remain are threatened because the children of these ethnic groups are not literate in their mother tongue.” The small east African nation of Eritrea has implemented the Mother Tongue policy nationwide to prevent cultural genocide within its nine different ethnic groups. This is done by educating all children in tribal environments… Read More

Opinions

Eritrea; The African Cuba

October 23, 2016October 26, 2016 Global AuthorAfrican Cuba, Cuba, Eritrea, Latin America, UN, USA

by Thomas C. Mountain This article was originally published on telesurtv.net. “Both countries have been maliciously accused of supporting terrorism and seen their peoples life’s made hard due to the embargoes.” Eritrea is the African Cuba with the similarities between the two small, revolutionary, socialist countries almost too many to list. To start with, Cuba is the only country in… Read More

Mandela, Godfather of Neo-Apartheid South Africa

December 24, 2013 Global AuthorMandela, South Africa

As Nelson Mandela lies on his death bed, his legacy as the godfather of neo-Apartheid South Africa has been firmly established. Today in South Africa, life for many if not most is nearly as precarious and undignified as when Mandela was first inaugurated as president some 20 years ago. So the best way to describe “modern” South Africa is it... Read More

Mali, Wahabis and Saudis; Following the Money Trail

January 27, 2013 Global Author

The US and Western-backed overthrow of Libya's Ghadaffi irrevocably altered Africa's continental landscape. Chad and Mali, already paralyzed by excessive debt and climate change, are in the crosshairs of well-armed rebel “movements” operating across the Libyan border, backed by the West and financed by Saudi Arabia. . Read More

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