Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest continent, after Asia. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. -Bard
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The Children Are Still Dying: Violence is Not News | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust August 22, 2012 Somewhere in my home I have a set of photo albums I rarely go near. I fear the flood of cruel memories that might be evoked from looking at the ...
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Time to Talk Camp David | Ramzy Baroud
Will New Egypt Meet Old Expectations? Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 11, 2012 -- Despite early assurances by Egypt's new President Mohammed Morsi regarding his “commitment to international ...
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Starving and Broke: Yemen's Renewed 'War on Terror | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 30, 2012 -- Yemeni forces continue to push against Islamic fighters affiliated with al-Qaeda. Their major victories come on the heels of the inauguration of Abd ...
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East Africa at the Brink | Ramzy Baroud
Hidden Hands behind Sudan’s Oil War Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Apr. 27, 2012 -- Once again Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir waved his walking stick in the air. Once again he spoke of splendid ...
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America: The Price of Supremacy | John Michael Greer
Apr. 18, 2012 (Archruid Report) -- A complex and self-justifying mythology has grown up around the process by which, during and after the Second World War, the United States made the transition from ...
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The Logic of Unintended Consequences: The ‘Mess in Mali’ | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Apr. 11, 2012 -- The intentional misreading of UN security council resolution 1973 resulted in Nato's predictably violent Operation Odyssey in Libya last year. Not ...
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America: The Gasoline War | John Michael Greer
Apr. 11, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- I apologize in advance to those of my readers who find military history uninteresting. The next part of the story I’m exploring just now, the story of the British ...
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The 'Specter' Of Al Qaeda In Africa: A Cover For Western Reconquest Of The Continent | Finian Cunningham
Global Research, April 5, 2012 A British foreign policy think tank has this week released a study claiming that the terror group Al Qaeda is regrouping in Africa creating “an arc of instability” ...
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Empires Then And Now | Paul Craig Roberts
Mar. 26, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- Great empires, such as the Roman and British, were extractive. The empires succeeded because the value of the resources and wealth extracted from conquered lands ...
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The Nature of Empire | John Michael Greer
John Michael Greer Feb. 15, 2012 (The Archdruid Report) -- Niall Ferguson is arguably the most uneven of our living historians. His The War of the World is perhaps the best one-volume survey of the ...
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The lost bases of the US empire (Tarak Barkawi)
The US maintains permanent bases in South Korea, established in 1954, that house some 28,500 personnel The United States maintains more than 700 military facilities on foreign soil that may not be ...
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