Somalia
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 12 July 2011: How The Empire Rationalizes Murder
12 July 2011 — Information Clearing House How The Empire Rationalizes Murder Drone strikes are police work, not an act of war? By Sanjeev Miglani The idea that the United States can arrogate to itself the right of life and death of people around the world can set off a dangerous precedent. Continue Continue reading
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5 Videos: Black Agenda Video Update — Eyewitness Libya, Confronting the Black Caucus on Libya
We usually send weekly updates on Wednesday. But events are moving quickly and the tide of corporate media disinformation is rising. The illegal and unjust war in Libya, along with similar adventures in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Pakistan grind on. A handful of US citizens, among them former GA congresswoman Cynthia McKinney have gone… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 6 July, 2011: People are Awakening: The Revolution Has Begun
6 July 2011 — Information Clearing House Palestinian People Power By Alan Hart Marching to the borders of pre-1967 Israel is what the Palestinians should now do, and not only the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip prison camp. They should be joined by Palestinian refugees from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and 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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The Anti-Empire Report by William Blum – Libya: Unending American hostility
If I could publicly ask our beloved president one question, it would be this: “Mr. President, in your short time in office you’ve waged war against six countries — Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen and Libya. This makes me wonder something. With all due respect: What is wrong with you?” Continue reading
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Yemen: The Covert Apparatus of the American Empire By Andrew Gavin Marshall
Yemen is perhaps an excellent example of America being on the “wrong side of a world revolution,” as the secret war in Yemen being exacerbated in the name of “fighting al-Qaeda” is in actuality, about the expansion and supremacy of American power in the region. It is about the suppression of natural democratic, local, revolutionary… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 1 October, 2010: Beware of Governments Trumpeting Terror Threats
1 October, 2010 — ICH ‘Horrifying’ Swat Valley Executions By Jane Perlez WARNING- Video Contains Graphic Images An Internet video showing men in Pakistani military uniforms executing six young men in civilian clothes has heightened concerns about unlawful killings by Pakistani soldiers supported by the United States, American officials said. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26486.htm New U.S. Raids on Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter: Why The US Doesn't Talk To Iran
29 September, 2010 — ICH Robert Gates: 'We're Not Ever Leaving' Afghanistan By Marcus Baram In a shocking indication of a split between the White House and the Pentagon over the war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates believes that the U.S. military will never leave the war-torn country. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26477.htm Statement By The Afghan Resistance Continue reading
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RED SEA ROILING
In the last two years, Washington and its allies have trained their gaze upon the western tip of what Zbigniew Brzezinski and others have called the “arc of crisis.” The capture of several merchant vessels by pirates in the Red Sea and the failed underwear bombing of Christmas 2009 have prompted extensive media coverage, much… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 2 September, 2010: Flying the Flag, Faking the News
2 September, 2010 — Information Clearing House Obama’s Iraq Speech An Exercise in Cowardice and Deceit By Bill Van Auken The most chilling passage came at the end of the 19-minute speech, when Obama declared, “Our troops are the steel in our ship of state,” adding, “And though our nation may be traveling through rough Continue reading
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U.S.-backed War in Somalia Comes to Uganda, Threatens to Set Whole Region Aflame A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
The bombs that exploded in Kampala earlier this month, killing 76 people and unleashing a wave of arrests and deportations by the Ugandan regime, are chickens coming home to roost from the U.S.-sponsored war in Somalia. U.S. corporate media routinely fail to note that the Ugandan military and other U.S. African allies are all that… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 21 July, 2010: Black America's Real Priorities / Reparations for Current Racism / Somalia War Expands
21 July, 2010 — Black Agenda Report Tea Partyers, Fox News, “Negativity” Against the President? Are These Really Black America’s Most Pressing Problems? From the established civil rights organizations like the NAACP to legions of elected Democrats and preachers and even people like our good friends at Color of Change, the main activity these days Continue reading
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When Empires Join Hands: Japanese Military Joins U.S. And NATO In Horn Of Africa By Rick Rozoff
Djibouti rests at the confluence of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, across from strife-torn Yemen, and borders the northwest corner of equally conflict-ridden Somalia. The narrow span of water separating it from Yemen is the gateway for all maritime traffic passing between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean via the Suez… Continue reading
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16 Years Ago. 7 April 1994: The US was behind the Rwandan Genocide: Installing a US Protectorate in Central Africa By Michel Chossudovsky
From the outset of the Rwandan civil war in 1990, Washington’s hidden agenda consisted in establishing an American sphere of influence in a region historically dominated by France and Belgium. America’s design was to displace France by supporting the Rwandan Patriotic Front and by arming and equipping its military arm, the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 April, 2010: Are Blacks Sinking to New Bottom? / Burn Hollywood Burn!
The Black job market is imploding, even as the moneyed classes congratulate themselves on having “turned the corner” toward economic recovery. Alarming Black unemployment patterns indicate that “a perfect storm of racial disadvantage” has occurred. “Virtually nothing prevents the boss from acting out his prejudices and greed with impunity.” There’s nothing “post-racial” about the current… Continue reading
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Obama, Britain and the age of permanent war By John Pilger
In the coming election campaign in Britain, the candidates will refer to this war only to laud ‘our boys’. The candidates are almost identical political mummies, shrouded in the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes. As Blair demonstrated a mite too eagerly, the British elite love America because America allows them to barrack and… Continue reading
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NATO: AFRICOM’s Partner In Military Penetration Of Africa By Rick Rozoff
AFRICOM was conceived, carried, nurtured and delivered by the Pentagon’s European Command (EUCOM), based in Stuttgart, Germany where AFRICOM headquarters are also based as no nation in Africa has yet volunteered to be the host. Continue reading
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