Richard Leakey had dreams and worries about the future of mankind
Given all that he’d achieved I wondered how he’d been overlooked for a knighthood. “The Brits don’t like me,” he said. “My father was pro Mau-Mau.”
Continue ReadingForeign Correspondent Margot Kiser
Letters to Annie from Kaftanistan
Given all that he’d achieved I wondered how he’d been overlooked for a knighthood. “The Brits don’t like me,” he said. “My father was pro Mau-Mau.”
Continue ReadingAl Shabaab has claimed responsibility for targeting the elite US-trained Danab force in a roadside explosion about 110 km southwest of Mogadishu on Sunday. The attack killed a French national working with Bancroft Global Development, an American private military company. Two other contractors with the company were injured, as well as two senior Somali Brigade […]
Continue ReadingIranian authorities have blamed arch enemy Israel and the exiled opposition group the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, known as MEK, for the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.Here’s a primer on the MEK described herein as a cult, and backed by Trump’s lawyer, Rudi Giuliani, former National Security Advisor, John Bolton, professor/lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, […]
Continue ReadingAmerica is seeking clearance to launch drone strikes against Islamic militants operating in Kenya, according to Pentagon sources, as part of efforts to counter jihadists’ growing reach into Africa.
Continue ReadingThe timing of this verdict is interesting given the imminent US presidential election.Since the attack in 2013 the Kenya and US govs have presented zero evidence (to the public anyway) that any of the four attackers as seen on CCTV were killed. If there were (DNA evidence) the Kenya gov would have been reminding us […]
Continue ReadingThe New York Times has reported that the U.S. military aims to broaden its counterterrorism drone war in Kenya. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/us/politics/shabab-drone-authorities-kenya.html#click=https://t.co/Lam9HALEWU Why now?A couple of things come to mind; damage control (publicity) ahead of presidential elections, and competition with China’s expanding military footprint in Africa.Seems to me that the US conducting drone strikes inside Kenya is […]
Continue ReadingKentucky Fried Chicken, Burger King, Pizza Hut – they’re all here now. The fast food chains started to mushroom soon after President Barack Obama’s visit to Kenya in 2015. Obama brought with him “American interests”. Soft power America wants Kenya or any to be like America so they can more easily do business together. They […]
Continue ReadingIn 2017? If it goes through it will be the first in East Africa. A consortium of Kenyan and Chinese companies is proposing to construct a 1,050 MW coal-fire power plant, only 13 miles from Lamu town. A mega-port now under construction is bad enough but nowhere as degrading to the environment and livelihoods as […]
Continue ReadingOne year ago, on Oct 2nd, a fifteen-man Saudi hit team intercepted journalist/dissident Jamal Kashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. He’d gone there to obtain documents to marry his Turkish fiancé, and settle into their new apartment. But it was a trap. The death squad suffocated then dismembered him. His remains are thought to […]
Continue ReadingDr. Silverstein remarked that he hadn’t heard a sound like that since the Norfolk hotel was bombed by the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1980.
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