Remember how the US contracted Ethiopia to "restore order" in Somalia? The East African dictatorship was to help install a UN-backed government of warlords and former communist apparatchiks in order to "free" Somalia. They ended up obliterating the delicate gains the...
Obama Doesn’t Quite Hate Freedom Enough for Some Republicans
Every time I see these unfortunately ambiguous wire story headlines -- "Key US lawmakers assail Obama on detainees" -- I think some American lawmakers are finally standing up to the executive-run torture-state and its gulags. A closer look is always disappointing....
Media Muddle Cause of Somalia Famine
As the UN is set to declare Somalia in famine, we are treated to grim descriptions in wire stories of children on the verge of death as their families rot in hot, dry refugee camps both on Mogadishu's outskirts and at the borders of Kenya and Ethiopia. The suffering...
OOPS! Again.
...allegedly "hacked" software, in the case of the CIA, is now being used to guide killer drones to their targets, according to IISI's legal pleadings, despite the fact that the modified software doesn't function properly... --CIA Drone-Code Scandal Now Has...
Uganda’s Detached Outrage
This week in totally f*cking insane Somalia news, Ugandan officials declare their utter shock at the random, unprovoked attacks on Kampala last week which killed over 70 people. As the very first sentence in a long and entertaining piece in AllAfrica.com says,...
Somalia Spin Could Make You Dizzy
Actually, that seems to be the very point of idiotic statements by none other than the President of the United States, shocking I know, referring to the recent Uganda bombings, such as: "On the one hand, you have a vision of an Africa on the move, an Africa that is...
Somali-American ‘Terrorists’ Victims of Unfortunate Labeling
I wish it weren't always necessary to lay out the recent history of Somalia every time it comes up. But it seems with every current event -- like US bombings and piracy -- Americans are starting with a fresh mental slate. And so it is with the recent cases of...
