Filed under: Africa | Tags: African Union, Al Shabab, Capitalism, Captialist Powers, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Forces, Ethiopian Occupation, Ethiopian Regime, Ethiopian Troops, Foreign Capital, Horn of Africa, Islamic Courts Union, Middle East, Mogadishu, Occupation, Piracy, Pirates, President Abdullahi Yusuf, Puntland, Self-Determination, Shipping Lanes, Somalia, Somaliland, Transitional Federal Government, Troop Pull-Out, Washington, Western-Backed Occupation
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21 January 2009
Source: Party for Socialism and Liberation
Struggle for Self-Determination Not Over
The last Ethiopian troops in Somalia left Jan. 15, ending a two-year occupation. The hatred of the occupation was on full display when the pullout began just two days earlier, as hundreds of Somalis lined the route of the retreating military forces and cheered their departure.
Ethiopian troops invaded and occupied Somalia in 2007 at the behest of Washington. U.S. officials were alarmed that the government they backed, known as the Transitional Federal Government, was at risk of collapsing.
The TFG is a collection of various warlords who had been ripping Somalia apart since 1991, following the collapse of the (more…)
Filed under: Africa | Tags: Africa, Al-Shahab, China, Ehiopian Government, Illegal Fishing, India, Invasion, Islamic Courts, Islamic Courts Union, Mogadishu, NATO, Occupation, Piracy, Puntland, Russia, Somali Pirates, Somalia, Somaliland, United States, Washington
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( Dated Piece – 26 December 2008 )
Source: Party For Socialism and Liberation
Piracy smokescreen used to step up military action
At the behest of the United States, the U.N. Security Council unanimously voted Dec. 16 to authorize nations to pursue Somali pirates onto land, an action which had previously been prohibited. The resolution comes at a critical juncture for Somalia, and in the shadow of Washington’s politico-military strategy in the African continent.
The pirates were originally groups of fisherman who, due to the stateless nature of Somalia, turned to piracy to combat illegal fishing vessels from around the world. They soon found their new trade much more lucrative.
The resolution also called for a regional office to coordinate the actions of a number of nations that currently have naval forces deployed in (more…)
Filed under: Middle East | Tags: Afghanistan, Arab Regimes, Arab States, Barack Obama, Bush Administration, Chechnya, Collective Punishment, Colonial Power, Colonialism, Dispossession, Egypt, Ethic Cleansing, Euro-Supremacy, Fatah, Gaza, gaza Strip, Hamas, Hilary Clinton, Hosani Mubarak, Imperialism, Iraq, Israel, Israeli Apartheid, Jerusalem, Jews, Joe Biden, Jordan, Lebanon, Logic, Mahmoud Darwish, Muslim, Muslim World, National Liberation, Native Americans, Nazi Germany, Palestinain Liberation Organization, Palestine, Palestinians, Qassem al-Mughrabi, Racism, Shiite Iraqi, Somalia, State Terror, Syria, Tawfiq Jaber, Terrorism, United Nations, White Supremacy, Yemen, Zionism, Zionist
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31 December 2008
Source: Guardian – Comment Is Free
I have spent most of the Bush administration’s tenure reporting from Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Somalia and other conflicts. I have been published by most major publications. I have been interviewed by most major networks and I have even testified before the senate foreign relations committee. The Bush administration began its tenure with Palestinians being massacred and it ends with Israel committing one of its largest massacres yet in a 60-year history of occupying Palestinian land. Bush’s final visit to the country he chose to occupy ended with (more…)
