Tell us you don’t know what Pan-Africanism is without telling us you don’t know what Pan-Africanism is. And tell us you don’t understand what anti-imperialism is without telling us you don’t know what anti-imperialism is.
That’s basically what the Stanford Internet Observatory (@FSIStanford on X) did in a poorly put-together smear piece against African Stream.
In what they call an ‘analysis,’ Stanford scholars Shelby Grossman (@shelbygrossman on X) and David Thiel (@elegant_wallaby on X) quoted US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling us ‘Kremlin propagandists’ and then spent the rest of the piece writing about us as if his statement was a matter of fact rather than an allegation provided without any evidence. They say about our staff, ‘It is unclear if these individuals knew of African Stream’s Russian links,’ without establishing what these links are beyond Blinken’s allegation.
We were going to ignore them. But since the article has become the basis of a Wikipedia page, we felt obliged to respond. Let us know your thoughts.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yNBZFvJ4McgL5DwOWrfjxYgt9Qmovins/view?usp=sharing
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialist-viewpoint-us/mayjun_05/mayjun_05_21.htm
https://www.marxists.org/archive/sankara/1984/october/04.htm
https://www.workers.org/2024/02/76962/
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/civil-war-libya
https://www.news24.com/libya-then-and-now-20150917
https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/civil-war-libya
https://www.news24.com/libya-then-and-now-20150917
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialist-viewpoint-us/mayjun_05/mayjun_05_21.htm
https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/african-stream
https://www.reddit.com/user/AfricanStream/comments
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxVjt7COaf5/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D
https://x.com/african_stream/status/1808102814461080053
https://x.com/JupiterAshu_sgu/status/1837005258913919147
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yNBZFvJ4McgL5DwOWrfjxYgt9Qmovins/view?usp=sharing
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/socialist-viewpoint-us/mayjun_05/mayjun_05_21.htm
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African stream became my go to source for news, because as a African in the diaspora it relates to what I care about.
AS is speaking truth to power and giving a voice to the voiceless. Please keep up the outstanding journalism!
The Stanford hit piece is a piece of garbage. I’m willing to believe that it was written by AI., it’s just that bad. Stanford University should be appalled to have its name associated with this illogical , amateurish, nonsensical, unintelligible trash.
Fuck the US imperialist propagandists
“Don’t care” would suggest you don’t want Africa to succeed from a basis of full truth, self-respect, self-reliance and equally competitive global economic power. I don’t see anything that suggests you don’t want Africa to be truly African, neither manipulated nor used or crippled by foreign forces. This is a cheap stunt from what seems like educated drones largely to turn ignorant Africans and mostly western audiences against you. This is a propaganda attempt to serve self-interests of a dominant economy at the expense of our freedom from all forms of neocolonialism. Keep up the good work. Africans clearly need a fully owned and funded social media platform.