Al-Shabaab Kills Private Military Contractor in Roadside Explosion

Al 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 […]

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Holy Wars : Israel and Iran

Iranian 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, […]

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2 Men Found Guilty of Aiding in 2013 Kenya Mall Attack

The 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 […]

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Why is the U.S. Military Authority Seeking to Expand its Counterterrorism Drone War to Kenya?

The 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 […]

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Kenya’s Creeping Americanization

Kentucky 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 […]

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A Coal-Fired Power Plant in Lamu? 

In 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 […]

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The Israeli-Saudi Love Affair

One 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 […]

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