Report from Algeria: Revolutionaries, Roman ruins & soccer

 

 

Report from Algeria:  Revolutionaries, Roman ruins & soccer

 

      There I was, hanging out in a small family restaurant on the outskirts of Algiers on the night of the 2026 All-Africa soccer semi-finals.  Algeria was playing Congo.  The score was zero to zero.  They'd just gone into overtime.  Sudden death was in the air.  You could hear a pin drop.

     The waiters weren't even pretending to serve me.  I didn't care.  The cook even came out of the kitchen.  All eyes were focused on the big screen.  Could Algeria possibly pull this off?  Score!  Yes!  Everyone in the restaurant went crazy -- even me.  Welcome to Algeria.

     The Phoenicians first conquered Algeria thousands of years ago, followed by the Romans.  Then the Muslims, Ottomans and French all staked their claims here.  But who owns Algeria now?  Probably the oil barons.  Who knows.

     Back in the day, Romans just loved North Africa.  It was their breadbasket.  "But I thought that region was all just sand dunes and desert," you might say.  No, only the southern part of Algeria contains the Sahara.  Camels, Berbers, sheiks, midnight at the oasis, that sort of stuff.  But the northern part of North Africa is as green as Pennsylvania.

     There are still Roman ruins all over Algeria right now.  It was as Romanized as Tuscany or Pompei back in the day.  And I must have trudged over, under, around and through every single Roman ruin here.  Lovely.  That Ozymandias moment.  At any second I expected to see the Statue of Liberty poking out through the sand.

     But my favorite history of all here in Algeria was when its ragtag band of revolutionaries kicked their evil French colonialists to the curb back in 1962.  Gives me hope, even for Gaza.

     First I visited the legendary Casbah, with all its winding alleyways and secret hidey-holes that allowed Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth to hide out, lie low and fight back.  Next I visited the Martyrs Museum.  "During the bloody 130 years of French occupation," said the sign, "approximately six million Algerians were murdered by their occupiers.  During the seven years of active revolution between 1955 and 1962, over one and a half million Algerians died for the cause."

     1,500,000 freedom fighters were murdered by the French?  That's almost as evil as the Nazi holocaust in Germany, and even as evil as the current Zionist genocide of Palestinians.  Like the Zionists treat Palestinians today, the French occupiers also treated Algerians as sub-human.  They maimed, raped, tortured and abused them.  But eventually you can't stop an idea whose time has come, and eventually the French were defeated.  They simply couldn't afford the high price of their empire any more.

    But let's move on to cheerier stuff -- next, I visited the beautiful city of Constantine.  "The City of Bridges."  Bridges built by the Romans, the Ottomans, the French and whoever is in charge of the government today.  Lovely Constantine.  Mountains and valleys and bridges and couscous.  I think I'm in love with Algeria!  It's heroic, historic and beautiful.  You should visit Algeria too.

 

PS:  Speaking of empires, can America actually afford the high price of its empire any more either?  Obviously not.   

Resources:

Midnight at the Oasis by Maria Muldar:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9FGdq_4150

We are all being constantly propagandized 24/7.  We basically live in a sea of it:  https://planetwavesfm.substack.com/p/so-much-trouble-in-the-world-whats?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=email

 

Let's look at the Big Picture -- our world is crumbling before our very eyes:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZflEqbfwtM

Rome was under the thumb of oligarchs too -- sooo deja vu:  https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/west-under-oligarchs

Attacking Iran means the price of heating our homes will skyrocket:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNGjPrX93EA

People still remember Patrice Lumumba.  You can murder the man but not his ideals:  https://substack.com/home/post/p-185864573

 

Everything you ever wanted to know about Epstein -- and more:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1HTuRhEKR8 

 

The past is prologue, a history of Michael Parenti's views of liberal America:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynp4_Y7JetU 

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