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Somali War

Soldiers Defecting from Somalia’s U.S.-Backed Regime

Tue, 05/18/2010 - 20:46 — Anonymous
by Benjamin Joffe-Walt
somali solidersWashington’s puppet government in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, holds sway over only a few blocks of real estate, propped up by U.S.-paid foreign troops. The “government’s” own soldiers are deserting almost as quickly as they can be recruited. “The transitional ‘government’ does not control any territory, run and administer any state bureaucracy or rule over any population.” It is not a state in any meaningful sense of the word.

America's First War in Africa. US AFRICOM Launches Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia

Tue, 03/16/2010 - 21:27 — Anonymous

US forces in Somaliaby Rick Rozoff

Although the US supplies military aid, training and weapons to over 50 of the 54 nations on the African continent, the militarization of US Africa policy, and its decisive contribution to Africa being the mjost war-torn region on earth are simply ignored by corporate US media. Its minerals and energy reserves make Africa a prime target for imperial predation. Incessant wars guarantee that enfeeble African civil societies will be unable to prevent their US trained militaries from handing over African ressources to the West rather than using them to build schools, hospitals and civil societies. US instigated wars in Somalia have killed over a million people since the mid 1990s, and made another million homeless. And now the bombs are falling again.

 

U.S. Wages Food War Against Somalia

Tue, 02/23/2010 - 23:09 — Glen Ford
somali refugeesby BAR executive editor Glen Ford
In Somalia, the United States has reverted to ancient siege tactics to starve the people into submission. The U.S. seeks to prevent food aid from getting to areas controlled by Shabab resistance fighters. However, “if international aid were restricted to areas controlled by the U.S.-backed puppet regime, only a few neighborhoods in Mogadishu, the capital, would be fed.”

Who Demonizes Eritrea and Why?

Tue, 02/16/2010 - 20:41 — Anonymous
by Mohamed Hassan
Eritrea is among the targets of the U.S. imperial offensive in the Horn of Africa. Under American pressure, the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on Red Sea coast nation, claiming Eritrea aids fighters resisting the U.S.-backed puppet regime in Somalia. Washington’s goal is “to control the Middle East and access by Africa to the Indian Ocean.”
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