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By Andre Vltchek  February 26, 2016 - " Counterpunch " -   Philosophers have been muzzled by the Western global regime; most of great modern philosophy concealed from the masses. What has been left of it, allowed to float on the surface is toothless, irrelevant and incomprehensible: a foolish outdated theoretical field for those few remaining intellectual snobs. Philosophy used to be the most precious crown jewel of human intellectual achievement. It stood at the vanguard of almost all fights for a better world. Gramsci was a philosopher, and so were Lenin, Mao Tse-tung, Ho-Chi-Minh, Guevara, Castro, Frantz Fanon, Senghors, Cabral, Nyerere and Lumumba, to name just a few. To be a thinker, a philosopher, in ancient China, Japan or even in some parts of the West, was the most respected human ‘occupation’. In all ‘normally’ developing societies, knowledge has been valued much higher than material possessions or naked power. In ancient Greece and China, peo

Somaliland: “That dream became a nightmare” Awil Ali Du’ale DE JORGE FERNANDEZ "Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn’t exist”, writes Ryszard Kapuncinsky in his introduction to The Shadow of the Sun. “What can I say about a country that I cannot find on the map of a continent that doesn’t exist?”, asks herself Hayat in the documentary. It is true that Somaliland had ceased to exist for a while such as we understand the existence of a state. In 1991 there was no government, no army or police, no hospital or a single school, no people and no animals. There were only scattered stones on a burnt out terrain. After the colonial period, Somalis had a dream; to unify all their clans under the same territory, the Greater Somalia that Mussolini had envisioned was to integrate British Somaliland, French Djibouti, Ogaden in Ethiopia and north eastern Kenya with Somalia