Day after day, U.S. air strikes have conclusively answered the familiar question of 9/11: “Why do they hate us?” Many people around the world are disturbed by U.S. drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan,…
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U.S., Britain and other NATO states involved in imperialist onslaught against Africa France has launched two major military operations in both West and East Africa under the guise of fighting “Islamic terrorism” on the continent….
The so-called “Arab Spring:” is a distant and bitter memory to those who fought and struggled for a better world, not to speak of the thousands who lost, life and limb. In its place, throughout…
Looming Assault on Kismayo Amid Presidential Vote in Mogadishu: Somalia transitional regime to dissolve with leadership election A parliamentary election held on September 10 was designed to determine who the next president of the Horn of…
Anybody who has studied how the US and NATO worked to topple the Jamahiriya in Libya knows that the US has tried to replicate the same regime-change mechanism in Syria. The formation of multilateral contact…
The hidden agenda in Uganda, Central Africa and the Horn of Africa is the conquest of oil and strategic mineral resources. Going after Joseph Kony and protecting Ugandan children is a cynical smokescreen, a pretext for a “humanitarian intervention” in a region where US sponsored “civil wars” (Sudan, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Ethiopia) have in the course of the last 20 years resulted in more than eight million deaths: “Through AFRICOM, the United States is seeking a foothold in the incredibly resource rich central African block in a further maneuver to aggregate regional hegemony over China. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the world’s largest regions without an effectively functioning government. It contains vast deposits of diamonds, cobalt, copper, uranium, magnesium, and tin while producing over $1 billion in gold each year. It is entirely feasible that the US can considerably increase its presence in the DRC under the pretext of capturing Joseph Kony.” (Nile Bowie, Merchandising and Branding Support for US Military Intervention in Central Africa, Global research, March 14, 2012)
On January 12 a UN Security Council session was devoted to Africa’s role in crisis management on its soil. There was a specific feature important enough to be noticed – it was not South Africa’s…
For the last twenty years, Somalia has been entangled in a “civil war” amidst the destruction of both its rural and urban economies. The country is now facing widespread famine. According to reports, tens of…