Somalia
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October 29, 2011
29 October 2011 — Stop NATO As Many As 60,000 Libyan Civilians Killed In ‘Most Successful’ War In NATO’s History NATO Gives Libyans Choices: Tyranny Or Theocracy – Russian Envoy Libya: NATO To Stop Bombing But Not War Portugal: NATO Military Committee Builds On Past Wars For New Ones Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October 28, 2011
28 October 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Chief: Libya War ‘Great Success,’ Nation To Revert To AFRICOM Control State Department: NATO Shifts To ‘Post-Conflict’ Role In Libya Expanded Syrian Conflict: The West’s Unwinnable War Second U.S. Drone Attacks Kills Six In Pakistan Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen: U.S. Drones Kill 50 In One Day Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: October 21, 2011
21 October 2011 — Stop NATO Report: U.S. Drone, French Fighter Jet Hit Gaddafi Convoy Albright Applauds Gaddafi Killing, No Loss Of American Lives Senator: Libyan War Inspires Central African Intervention U.S. Trains Djibouti Army For War In Somalia, With Eritrea U.S. Secretary Tells 110-Nation Meeting: Navy Will Continue Global Presence American Destroyer In Joint Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter October 17, 2011: Who Are The One Percent in America?
17 October 2011 — Information Clearing House U.S. Officials Peddle False Intel to Support Terror Plot By Gareth Porter The information about two Iranian officials leaked to NBC News, the Washington Post and Reuters was unambiguously false and misleading, as confirmed by official documents. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29434.htm Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: September 27, 2011
27 September 2011 — Stop NATO Canada Extends Libyan War Mission To End Of Year Afghan Officials: NATO Forces Kill 19 Civilians Afghan War: NATO Triples Size Of Air Base Near Iranian Border Pentagon Deploying 800 More Trainers To Afghanistan Pakistan Warns U.S. Against Unilateral Actions Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 545 19 August 2011: CORPORATIONS, CRIME, REVOLTS AND PROTESTS
19 August 2011 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Books & arts, 6. Highlights French edition, 7. Cartoons Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 10 August 2011: Barack's Satan Sandwich / Obama Slipping / Black Brits Revolt
10 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report: News, commentary and analysis from the black left Barack’s Satan Sandwich Only The First Course: Will We Re-Hire the Chef in 2012 Anyway? Bruce A. Dixon By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver pronounced the debt deal a Satan Sandwich. The CBC is conducting its Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter August 9, 2011: "I Don't Call it Rioting, I Call it an Insurrection"
9 August 2011 — Information Clearing House U.S. Debt Crisis Sidelines an Emergency Attack on Iran By Amir Oren The American trigger finger is itchy. Itchy, but flinching – the wallet is emptier than the magazine. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28801.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter August 05, 2011: Hiroshima: Is this the Greatest Crime in Human History?
5 August 2011 — Information Clearing House NATO Plans Campaign in Syria Tightens Noose Around Iran By RIA Novosti NATO is planning a military campaign against Syria to help overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad with a long-reaching goal of preparing a beachhead for an attack on Iran, Russia’s envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin Continue reading
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Covering the Somali famine- of news By William Bowles
Far from being a ‘natural disaster’ events in Somalia can be traced directly to Western intervention, an intervention carried out in at least one hundred indebted economies the world over in the name of ‘structural adjustment’. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 3 August 2011: Obama Catastrophe / Ruling Class Victory / McKinney Eyewitness Libya
3 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report News, commentary and analysis from the black left Ruin-Nation: The Obama Catastrophe by BAR executive editor Glen Ford After two and a half years of waging war against the Left half of his own party, while seeking a “Grand Consensus” with the GOP, President Obama has finally set Continue reading
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World Food Program in Somalia: Angel of Mercy or Angel of Death? By Thomas C. Mountain
To hear the corporate media tell it, the Shabab resistance in Somalia is to blame for the drought and famine. But ten million people are threatened in the neighboring Ogaden region of Ethiopia, largely populated by ethnic Somalis, many of whom are at war with the Ethiopian dictatorship. Ethiopia restricts the movements of foreigners in… Continue reading
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US-backed forces launch military offensive in Somalia as aid is used as a weapon of war By Susan Garth
African Union forces have launched a military offensive against the al-Shabab militia in Somalia. The African Union is propping up the Transitional Federal Government that was installed by the US-backed Ethiopian invasion of December 2006. Continue reading
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Libyan and Syrian Destabilization Campaigns Shift into Overdrive While Desperation Starts to Take Hold By Scott Creighton
While the people of this country are (rightly) preoccupied with the orchestrated debt ceiling “crisis”, aka the “austerity measures plan for America”, the globalists are using this moment to step up their convoluted destabilization efforts in Libya and Syria. They are becoming desperate and their lines of propaganda and their terrorists activities show it. Continue reading
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Somalia: the Real Causes of Famine By Michel Chossudovsky
Somalia is now facing widespread famine. According to reports, tens of thousands of people have died from malnutrition in the last few months. The lives of several million people are threatened. The mainstream media casually attributes the famine to a severe drought without examining the broader causes. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter July 14, 2011: US Attack Kills 50 People In Yemen
July 14, 2011 — Information Clearing House 300 Somali Children Left for Dead in Drought By MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED Andrew Wander, a spokesman for Save the Children, said his agency provides care to more than 300 unaccompanied children who were found on roadsides after their parents died or abandoned them. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28573.htm Continue reading
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Somalia Newslinks 14 July 2011
14 July 2011 — williambowles.info Horn of Africa drought: Kenya to open Ifo II camp BBC News Kenya has agreed to open a new refugee camp near its border with Somalia, as thousands are fleeing the region’s worst drought in 60 years. Prime Minister Raila Odinga said the Ifo II camp, which can fit up Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 13 July 2011: Obama Sells Out Soc Sec / Somalia Worst World Crisis / Atlanta Cheating
13 July 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Obama’s “Big Deal”: Wallowing with Pigs in Search of a Grand Center-Right Coalition by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Barack Obama is salivating at the prospect of concluding his Big Deal with the Republicans, the one that will move Continue reading
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World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia: So U.S. Sends in the Marines and Drones
A U.S. Marine task force is about to be deployed in the war against Somalia, where American drones are stepping up their predations. For the second time in four years, U.S. aggression threatens the lives of multitudes in the Horn of Africa. ‘A United Nations spokesman describes the food and refugee emergency in Somalia as… Continue reading
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Risk-Free And Above The Law: U.S. Globalizes Drone Warfare By Rick Rozoff
Last week the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major American newspapers reported that the U.S. launched its first unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) missile attack inside Somalia. Continue reading
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