New Study Claims Over 250,000 Died From 2011 Somalia Famine, U.S.-Al Shabaab Savagery To Blame “Powerful people have that privilege of denying reality,” the Somali scholar, Abdi Samatar, stated when explaining the causes of Somalia’s 2011 famine as it was laying waste to the population.

Jeremy Scahill, Blowback Reporter Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 — and just about no one noticed.  Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as “the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people.”  In his [...]

Premiering this week at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the new documentary “Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield” follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill to Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen as he chases down the hidden truths behind America’s expanding covert wars. We’re joined by Scahill and the film’s director, Rick Rowley, an independent journalist [...]

A simple twist of fate has set President Obama’s second Inaugural Address for January 21, the same day as the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday. Obama made no mention of King during the Inauguration four years ago — but since then, in word and deed, the president has done much to distinguish himself from the [...]

Inmediatamente después de la imposición de la Constitución Provisional, CP, que establece un modelo medieval de gobierno en Somalia, el profesor Ken Menkhaus, experto y asesor del gobierno de los Estados Unidos sobre Somalia, publicó un artículo bajo el título “Somalia, 20 años de experimentos y gobernanza híbrida” en la World Politics Review, y varias [...]

En septiembre de 2008 se registró el supuesto asalto, por parte de un grupo armado en el norte de Somalia, a un convoy que llevaba ayuda alimentaria y cuya operación estaba a cargo de un acaudalado empresario somalí y su esposa. El dueño de la empresa que operaba el convoy culpó del incidente a la Unión [...]

After two successive failed rainy seasons in one year, the Horn of Africa has been confronted with its worst drought in 60 years, a phenomenon environmental scientists are linking directly to climate change. The drought coupled with surging food prices, lack of food aid, and other structural factors have triggered what has been called “the [...]

Miles de refugiados somalís en Kenia y Etiopía La Agencia de la ONU para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO, según sus siglas en inglés) estima que el Cuerno de África necesita 1.600 millones de dólares en doce meses, unos 120 de ellos para asistir urgentemente a 10 millones de hambrientos. Ésa es la conclusión a la [...]

We live in a world of plenty. There is food. So why is one of every seven people in the world going hungry? The food emergency that affects over 10 million people in the Horn of Africa brings to light a disaster that has nothing natural about it. Droughts, floods, and wars serve to exacerbate a [...]

Aún recuerdo el entusiasmo que sentí cuando me dijeron que ya era lo suficientemente mayor como para ayunar en el mes de Ramadán. Mis sentimientos tenían poco que ver con el hecho de abstenerme de comer y beber entre el amanecer y la puesta de sol de cada día. Para un niño, supone una gran [...]