En Somalia, los EEUU han vuelto a las antiguas tácticas de asedio para rendir al pueblo por inanición. EEUU intenta evitar que la ayuda de alimentos llegue a las áreas controladas por las fuerzas de la resistencia de Shabab. De todos modos, “si la ayuda internacional se restringiera a las zonas controladas por el gobierno títere apoyado por EEUU, sólo unos pocos barrios en Mogadiscio, la capital, serían alimentados.”
“La conformidad de las Naciones Unidas con las condiciones de EEUU significaría la muerte por inanición de alrededor de tres millones de personas.” Read the full story
In this 2001 image made available on Monday Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab poses with a group of fellow pupils from Lome's International School, Togo, while on a school trip to London. (AP)
see article U.S. Widens Terror War to Yemen, a Qaeda Bastion below
“The White House has authorized an expansion of the C.I.A.’s drone program in Pakistan’s lawless tribal areas, officials said this week, to parallel the president’s decision, announced Tuesday, to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan” — New York Times, December 4, 2009.
“In the midst of two unfinished major wars, the United States has quietly opened a third, largely covert front against Al Qaeda in Yemen” — New York Times, yesterday. Read the full story
The UN children’s agency says one billion children around the world are still deprived of food, shelter, clean water and healthcare 20 years after the adoption of a treaty guaranteeing children’s rights.
Hundreds of millions more children are constantly threatened by violence, Unicef said in a report released on Thursday assessing the situation two decades after the UN adopted the Convention of the Rights of the Child on November 20 1989. Read the full story
On October 8, 2008, a group of pirates return to the Somali coast after seizing a cargo ship. Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason R. Zalasky, U.S. Navy
To combat terrorism, we should address the root causes of poverty, says former “economic hit man”
by John Perkins
November 13, 2009
The following is adapted from Hoodwinked: An Economic Hitman Reveals Why the World Financial Markets Imploded—and What We Need to Do to Remake Them. Random House, 2009.
Navy Seal snipers rescued an American cargo ship captain unharmed and killed three Somali pirates in a daring operation in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, ending a five-day standoff between United States naval forces and a small band of brigands in a covered orange lifeboat off the Horn of Africa.
The New York Times published that article in April 2009. The very words “pirates,” “daring operation,” “standoff,” and “brigands” were typical of the U.S. media; they made it sound as though white-hated cowboys had ridden to the rescue of a town besieged by Billy the Kid and his gang. Having lived in that part of the world as an economic hit man, I knew there was another side to what had happened. I wondered why no one was asking about the causes of piracy. Read the full story
El buque almacenaba 528 toneladas de residuo tóxico, resultantes del proceso de refinación en alta mar
Una multinacional británica lava sus culpas con una barata indemnización. El hecho revela cómo los países industrializados utilizan al continente africano como su estercolero
¿Recuerdan el caso Pfizer Inc? Esta multinacional, famosa por producir la Viagra, intentaba salir ilesa de su crimen: la muerte de 11 niños y fallos orgánicos y daños cerebrales en otros, provocados por un ensayo clínico ilegal en Kano (Nigeria). Para «limpiarse», la compañía tratara de llegar a un acuerdo extrajudicial consistente en una irrisoria suma de millones de dólares con que indemnizaría a las autoridades locales y a las familias damnificadas. Read the full story
Soldados del gobierno somalí miran el cuerpo de un militante islámico - AP
por Maximiliano Sbarbi Osuna
15 de agosto, 2009
En los últimos meses Somalia fue noticia por los ataques de los piratas a los buques occidentales y por las sangrientas peleas entre el ejército y los milicianos de Al Qaeda en las calles de la capital. ¿Por qué las potencias se preocupan tanto por este país? ¿Qué intereses económicos atraen a Estados Unidos, Europa, Rusia y China al convulsionado cuerno de África? Read the full story
We’ve just passed through the CIA assassination flap, already fading from the news after less than two weeks of media attention. Broken in several major newspapers, here’s how the story goes: the Agency, evidently under Vice President Dick Cheney’s orders, didn’t inform Congress that, to assassinate al-Qaeda leaders, it was trying to develop and deploy global death squads. (Of course, just about no one is going to call them that, but the description fits.) Congress is now in high dudgeon. The CIA didn’t keep that body’s “Gang of Eight” informed. A House investigation is now underway. Read the full story
Farah Ismail Eid used to have fishing boats but bought guns. He was captured before he could hijack a ship
By Tristan McConnell in Berbera, Somalia
June 12, 2009
The first time Farah Ismail Eid set out to hijack a ship off the coast of Somalia his boat was easily outrun. On the second occasion he kept pace but his boarding ladder was too short. On the third attempt he was captured. Read the full story
There has been a lot of discussion in the media about how to address piracy off the coast of Somalia. Much less attention has been given to the complex sources of political turmoil, poverty and pollution that have led many Somalis into piracy. In order to prevent more violent hijackings, Washington needs to understand the root causes of piracy. Read the full story
hardknock.tv sat down with K’Naan to talk about what is going on in Somalia with the Somali Pirates. K’Naan explains the other side of the story which is being neglected by the mainstream media. Read the full story
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