11 November 2017 — Drone Warfare
The RAF has dropped about 3,500 bombs and missiles, which the BBC estimates has already cost £150m in munitions. Each Brimstone missile costs more than £100,000 and the RAF has already fired more than 350, according to the BBC estimate, defence correspondent Jonathan Beale said. During the last week alone:
10 November 2017 — Global Research
US Strikes Soaring in Afghanistan, Along with Civilian DeathsBy Jason Ditz, November 09, 2017
With the US once again escalating the war in Afghanistan, the number of US warplanes dropping munitions on the central Asian country are on the rise, and with it, the number of civilians being killed in those strikes. Continue reading
19 November 2013 — WSWS
Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed, a 27-year-old British citizen of Somali descent, was allegedly tortured in Somalia with the complicity of UK authorities. He was then flown to Britain, where his democratic rights were further abused.
10 October 2013 — John Pilger
Countries are “pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a great game for the domination of the world,” wrote Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, in 1898. Nothing has changed. The shopping mall massacre in Nairobi was a bloody façade behind which a full-scale invasion of Africa and a war in Asia are the great game.
10 October 2013 — John Pilger
Countries are “pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a great game for the domination of the world,” wrote Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, in 1898. Nothing has changed. The shopping mall massacre in Nairobi was a bloody façade behind which a full-scale invasion of Africa and a war in Asia are the great game.
1 October 2013 — Global Research
4 September 2013 — Black Agenda Report
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford29 May 2013 — Asia Times Online
A bombing in the Turkish town of Reyhanli on May 11 killed 51 people but was largely ignored by Turkish media. Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the Syrian government – with no evidence.
29 May 2013 — World Socialist Web Site
Questions continue to pile up over the security services’ familiarity and contact with the two killers of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich, southeast London.
27 May 2013 — Pan-African News Wire
1 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report
By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon10 April 2013 — Black Agenda Report
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by executive editor Glen Ford
The US-NATO military curtain has fallen the length and breadth of Africa. “Zimbabwe and tiny Eritrea are among the few nations on the African continent that have not yet been absorbed into the AFRICOM matrix.” Continue reading
13 January 2013 — Mareeg
BuloMarer (Mareeg) — Reliable sources in and around BuloMarer town in South Somalia where French commandos raided late last night, say that the French commandos first landed at a village called Daaydoog which is located at the seas side and three kilometers away from BulMarur where the French intelligence officer held by Al Shabab militants.
11 January 2013 — Pambazuka News
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<p class=”title”>24 November, 2012 — New Democracy World
<p class=”general_text”><span class=”dropcap_character”>Pundits are perplexed. Why, they ask, does <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Obama carry out the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>drone attacks on Muslims in <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Pakistan, <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Somalia and <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Yemen when he surely knows that the main thing they accomplish is to make more people hate the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>United States government and lean towards joining groups like <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Al Qaeda? The Washington Post reports, in an article titled, “In <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Yemen, U.S. airstrikes breed anger, and sympathy for al-Qaeda,” that “Across the vast, rugged terrain of southern <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Yemen, an escalating campaign of U.S. <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>drone <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>strikes is stirring increasing sympathy for al-Qaeda-linked <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>militants and driving tribesmen to join a network linked to terrorist plots against the <strong class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>United States.” Continue reading
23 March 2012 — Pambazuka
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11 March 2012 — Stop NATO News
4 March 20 — empirestrikesblack
As the American, French, and Israeli militaries help to crush the indigenous Somali resistance, Britain clamours to steal the nation’s rich unexplored oil reserves.
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire
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Back-to-back conferences held Feb. 23-24 to determine the destiny of Somalia and Syria took place outside the respective countries with the full backing of the imperialist states, guaranteeing that these efforts oppose the best interests of the two countries’ people. Continue reading
8 February 2012 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left
‘By far the best left publication, never mind ‘black left’, on the Web. WB’
by BAR executive editor Glen Ford
“Traditional Black progressive and movement politics has been replaced by fear and sycophantism, as Blacks once again circle the wagons around Obama and contort the events of the last three years to justify their unrequited loyalty to the Banker’s President.” Can the proud African American progressive legacy survive another four years of cowing to the corporate servant in the White House? – Read more
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