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10.11.2024 - 14:44 [ Statista.com ]

1.25 Million Have ‚Top Secret‘ Access in the U.S.

(April 14, 2023)

Peo0le with clearance and access to „Top Secret“ U.S.federal government information, by employee type
Government 605.579
Contractor 472.576
Other 173.803
Total 1.251.958

As of Oct.1, 2019
Source: Office of the Director of National Intelligence via Federation of American Scientists

10.11.2024 - 14:30 [ Washington Post ]

TOP SECRET AMERICA: National Security Inc.

(July 20, 2010)

The Post investigation uncovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America created since 9/11 that is hidden from public view, lacking in thorough oversight and so unwieldy that its effectiveness is impossible to determine.

It is also a system in which contractors are playing an ever more important role. The Post estimates that out of 854,000 people with top-secret clearances, 265,000 are contractors. There is no better example of the government‘s dependency on them than at the CIA, the one place in government that exists to do things overseas that no other U.S. agency is allowed to do.

(…)

Contractors kill enemy fighters. They spy on foreign governments and eavesdrop on terrorist networks. They help craft war plans. They gather information on local factions in war zones. They are the historians, the architects, the recruiters in the nation‘s most secretive agencies. They staff watch centers across the Washington area. They are among the most trusted advisers to the four-star generals leading the nation‘s wars.

11.09.2024 - 17:01 [ Haaretz ]

Report: Netanyahu Says 9/11 Terror Attacks Good for Israel

(April 16, 2008)

„We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq,“ Ma‘ariv quoted the former prime minister as saying. He reportedly added that these events „swung American public opinion in our favor.“

Netanyahu reportedly made the comments during a conference at Bar-Ilan University on the division of Jerusalem as part of a peace deal with the Palestinians.

11.09.2024 - 16:43 [ New York Times ]

A DAY OF TERROR: THE ISRAELIS; Spilled Blood Is Seen as Bond That Draws 2 Nations Closer

(12. September 2001)

Asked tonight what the attack meant for relations between the United States and Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, the former prime minister, replied, “It‘s very good.“ Then he edited himself: “Well, not very good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.“ He predicted that the attack would “strengthen the bond between our two peoples, because we‘ve experienced terror over so many decades, but the United States has now experienced a massive hemorrhaging of terror.“

11.09.2024 - 15:16 [ New York Times ]

We’re Beginning to Learn How the War on Terror Shaped a Generation

(Devember 21, 2023)

That might have been why, when President Biden and Israeli officials said that Oct. 7 was Israel’s Sept. 11, intending the comparison as a rallying cry for self-defense, their words seemed to many instead a cruel provocation of trauma. Were they kidding? The response to Sept. 11 was catastrophic for the Arab and Muslim world and, eventually, terrible for the United States. A similar response to Oct. 7 would be terrible for the Israeli people, and a total reinvention of hell for the Palestinians. We know this because we are Americans. In the Israelis, we saw our own leaders: shocked victims for a day, destroyers of worlds every day thereafter.

10.09.2024 - 15:20 [ Wahlrecht.de ]

Umfragen Brandenburg (#ltwbb)

Wenn am nächsten Sonntag Landtagswahl wäre …

28.08.2024 - 14:04 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Die “Authorization For Use of Military Force” vom 14. September 2001 im Wortlaut

(29. August 2014)

Seit Beginn des weltweiten Terrorkrieges in 2001 herrschten in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika zwei Personen als Kriegspräsidenten und “mächtigste Männer der Welt”, George Bush Junior und Barack Obama. Der Kern ihrer Legitimation für

– fast jede seit dem 14. September 2001 angeordnete militärische Aktion, Operation und Invasion, wie der Eroberung von Afghanistan (2001), Irak (2003), Libyen (2011), Luftangriffen bzw Bodenoperationen z.B. in Somalia, Jemen, Pakistan, Kenia, etc, etc, pp,

– den versuchten Aufbau einer “Totalen Informationskenntnis” (“Total Information Awareness”) über alle Menschen, Gruppen, Strömungen und Organisationen im Macht- bzw Einflussbereich der U.S.A. (also dem, was die Gesellschaft heute als “Totalüberwachung” versteht),

– die folgende Erschaffung eines informationstechnologischen, Privatleben fressenden Frankensteins, eines weltweit vernetzten Golem der “Nationalen Sicherheit AG” bzw dem “sicherheitsindustriellen Komplex”, der allein 800.000 Personen (Stand: 2010) Zugang zu “streng geheimen” Informationen und damit Zugang zu praktisch allen u.a. aus Telekommunikationssystemen wie dem Internet gesammelten bzw geraubten Daten von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern in ungezählten Datenbanken und Tauschbörsen der Spione, Militärs und (Geheim)Polizeien und Behörden allein in den U.S.A. gibt, samt einer bis heute nicht verifizierten Zahl assoziierter Kräfte und Stellen, z.B. in der Republik Deutschland,

– die Errichtung des Lagers Guantanamo, sowie einer unbekannten Zahl geheimer Folterkammern und Kerker auf eigenem Territorium, in Besatzungszonen und / oder in kollaborierenden Staaten, in denen Menschen willkürlich eingesperrt, gequält oder ermordet wurden,

sowie weitere offene oder klandestine Maßnahmen, wie z.B. die “Uminterpretation” von geltendem Recht zu faktischem geheimen Kriegsrecht in ungezählten Staaten, ist ein am 14. September 2001 bei alleiniger Gegenstimme von Barbara Lee durch den Kongress gejagter und, zumindest in der Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, präzedenzloser Gesetzestext: die “Authorization for Use of Military Force”.

Hier dessen gerade einmal 60 Worte und keinerlei zeitliche oder räumliche Einschränkung enthaltende Wirkungstext, beschlossen am 14.09.2001 von beiden Kammern des Kongresses, Repräsentantenhaus und Senat:

17.04.2024 - 06:24 [ FederalTimes.com ]

Lawmakers still benefitting from share trading in defense stocks

(02.04.2024)

With the onslaught of new wars, Congress added $70 billion over the last two years to an already bloated Pentagon budget, much of which is funneled directly into the coffers of defense contractors like Palatir, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. The stock values in these companies have since experienced double-digit growth – a lucrative business opportunity not overlooked by lawmakers calling the shots.

At least 25 members of Congress sitting on national security committees have simultaneously purchased stock in these very same companies. The majority of these members sit on the Senate and House Armed Services committees, the entities responsible for overseeing the Defense Department budget and contracts.

17.04.2024 - 06:04 [ Newsweek ]

Politicians Profit as Military Stocks Soar Since Hamas-Israel Conflict

(02.11.2023)

Since the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, in which more than 1,400 Israelis were killed, shares of Boeing Co, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon Technologies (RTX) have all increased in value, collectively adding roughly $23 billion in market capitalization.

In the weeks preceding the attack, Markwayne Mullin, Kevin Hern, Bill Keating, and Josh Gottheimer purchased shares of those defense companies.

20.01.2024 - 04:10 [ Muhammad Shehada / Twitter ]

Israeli students chase their history teacher & yell at him „cancer“ & „son of a whore“ b/c he dared to humanize Gazan & Palestinian civilians Meir Baruchin was fired from his job & jailed in solitary confinement last November for this, but was just reinstated by a labour court

20.01.2024 - 03:22 [ @ireallyhateyou / Twitter ]

Israeli teacher posted on social media, expressing sympathy with Gazans. School fired him and made a police complaint. He was jailed for a few days & media depicted him as Hamas supporter. After charges were dropped, court ordered to take him back to work. This was his welcome:

17.01.2024 - 20:32 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Die “Authorization For Use of Military Force” vom 14. September 2001 im Wortlaut

(29. August 2014)

Seit Beginn des weltweiten Terrorkrieges in 2001 herrschten in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika zwei Personen als Kriegspräsidenten und “mächtigste Männer der Welt”, George Bush Junior und Barack Obama. Der Kern ihrer Legitimation für

– fast jede seit dem 14. September 2001 angeordnete militärische Aktion, Operation und Invasion, wie der Eroberung von Afghanistan (2001), Irak (2003), Libyen (2011), Luftangriffen bzw Bodenoperationen z.B. in Somalia, Jemen, Pakistan, Kenia, etc, etc, pp,

– den versuchten Aufbau einer “Totalen Informationskenntnis” (“Total Information Awareness”) über alle Menschen, Gruppen, Strömungen und Organisationen im Macht- bzw Einflussbereich der U.S.A. (also dem, was die Gesellschaft heute als “Totalüberwachung” versteht),

– die folgende Erschaffung eines informationstechnologischen, Privatleben fressenden Frankensteins, eines weltweit vernetzten Golem der “Nationalen Sicherheit AG” bzw dem “sicherheitsindustriellen Komplex”, der allein 800.000 Personen (Stand: 2010) Zugang zu “streng geheimen” Informationen und damit Zugang zu praktisch allen u.a. aus Telekommunikationssystemen wie dem Internet gesammelten bzw geraubten Daten von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern in ungezählten Datenbanken und Tauschbörsen der Spione, Militärs und (Geheim)Polizeien und Behörden allein in den U.S.A. gibt, samt einer bis heute nicht verifizierten Zahl assoziierter Kräfte und Stellen, z.B. in der Republik Deutschland,

– die Errichtung des Lagers Guantanamo, sowie einer unbekannten Zahl geheimer Folterkammern und Kerker auf eigenem Territorium, in Besatzungszonen und / oder in kollaborierenden Staaten, in denen Menschen willkürlich eingesperrt, gequält oder ermordet wurden,

sowie weitere offene oder klandestine Maßnahmen, wie z.B. die “Uminterpretation” von geltendem Recht zu faktischem geheimen Kriegsrecht in ungezählten Staaten, ist ein am 14. September 2001 bei alleiniger Gegenstimme von Barbara Lee durch den Kongress gejagter und, zumindest in der Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, präzedenzloser Gesetzestext: die “Authorization for Use of Military Force”.

Hier dessen gerade einmal 60 Worte und keinerlei zeitliche oder räumliche Einschränkung enthaltende Wirkungstext, beschlossen am 14.09.2001 von beiden Kammern des Kongresses, Repräsentantenhaus und Senat:

17.01.2024 - 20:21 [ Buzzfeed.com ]

60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History

(Jan 17, 2014)

By the end of the meeting, it was clear that this was the resolution, a single sentence and 60 words:

That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.

That was it. After more than a day of negotiations between the White House and Congress, Republicans and Democrats, this is what had emerged. Congress could take it or leave it. There would be no going back to the drawing board.

16.01.2024 - 21:20 [ Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Independent candidate for President of the United States / Twitter ]

Like his father and Martin Luther King Jr., RFK Jr. believes that violence abroad is linked to violence on our streets and in our schools. Only when America ceases its endless wars will we restore peace at home.

28.11.2023 - 16:42 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Eindrücke zur Friedensdemonstration „Nein zu Kriegen“ in Berlin

Am 25.11.2023 fand in Berlin eine Friedensdemonstration vor dem Brandenburger Tor statt, zu der ein breites Bündnis aufgerufen hatte. Die diffamierende, mediale „Berichterstattung“, von der die NachDenkSeiten bereits berichtet haben, veranlasst Ala Goldbrunner, ihre persönlichen Eindrücke vor Ort ohne Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit wiederzugeben.

Der Ablauf

Trotz unwirtlichem, naßkaltem Wetter fanden sich am letzten Samstag laut Veranstalter ca. 20.000 Friedensaktivisten vor dem Brandenburger Tor ein, um gegen Militarisierung und Krieg, für Frieden, Diplomatie und Abrüstung zu demonstrieren. Die Polizei sprach am Nachmittag von 10.000 Teilnehmern.
Sehr hörenswert waren die überwiegend eindringlichen und dennoch besonnenen Reden, die am Ende des Textes verlinkt sind.

15.07.2023 - 08:44 [ Mark Pocan, Abgeordneter im US Repräsentantenhaus ]

Pocan Derides Nearly $1 Trillion NDAA

“It’s time to say ‘enough.’ Year after year, we spend more and more on our national defense – it’s too much with too little accountability. We have troops on food stamps while at the same time, price-gouging defense contractors are getting richer by the day.

15.07.2023 - 08:34 [ New York Times ]

House Narrowly Passes Defense Bill, Setting Up Showdown Over Social Issues

At stake is an $886 billion bill that would grant a 5.2 percent raise to military personnel, include programs to counter aggressive moves by China and Russia, and establish a special inspector general to oversee U.S. aid to Ukraine.

12.07.2023 - 04:29 [ SverigesRadio.se ]

Changes on the horizon as Swedish armed forces prepare for Nato membership

Last night Nato‘s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that Turkey has, after months of negotiations, said yes to Sweden joining the military alliance.

This will mean new tasks ahead for the Swedish armed forces.

09.07.2023 - 11:50 [ New York Times ]

To Foreign Policy Veteran, the Real Danger Is at Home

Mr. Haass recently published a book called “The Bill of Obligations: The Ten Habits of Good Citizens,” outlining ways Americans can help heal their own society, like “Be Informed,” “Remain Civil,” “Put Country First” — all admittedly bromides and yet somehow often elusive these days. (…)

Putting his foreign policy hat aside for now, he said he wants to expand the message from his book and help refocus the country on the core values embodied in the Declaration of Independence as the 250th anniversary of the document approaches three years from now.

29.06.2023 - 18:25 [ The Chris Hedges Report ]

The Enemy From Within

America is a stratocracy, a form of government dominated by the military. It is axiomatic among the two ruling parties that there must be a constant preparation for war. The war machine’s massive budgets are sacrosanct. Its billions of dollars in waste and fraud are ignored. Its military fiascos in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East have disappeared into the vast cavern of historical amnesia. This amnesia, which means there is never accountability, licenses the war machine to economically disembowel the country and drive the Empire into one self-defeating conflict after another. The militarists win every election. They cannot lose. It is impossible to vote against them. The war state is a Götterdämmerung, as Dwight Macdonald writes, “without the gods.”

22.04.2023 - 09:58 [ Dwight D. Eisenhower / EisenhowerLibrary.gov ]

“The Chance for Peace” Address Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16th, 1953

This free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

It knows that the defense of Western Europe imperatively demands the unity of purpose and action made possible by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, embracing a European Defense Community.
It knows that Western Germany deserves to be a free and equal partner in this community and that this, for Germany, is the only safe way to full, final unity.
It knows that aggression in Korea and in southeast Asia are threats to the whole free community to be met by united action.

(…)

We are ready not only to press forward with the present plans for closer unity of the nations of Western Europe but also, upon that foundation, to strive to foster a broader European community, conducive to the free movement of persons, of trade, and of ideas.
This community would include a free and united Germany, with a government based upon free and secret elections.
This free community and the full independence of the East European nations could mean the end of the present unnatural division of Europe.

(…)

Again we say: the hunger for peace is too great, the hour in history too late, for any government to mock men’s hopes with mere words and promises and gestures.
The test of truth is simple. There can be no persuasion but by deeds.

(…)

The test is clear.
There is, before all peoples, a precious chance to turn the black tide of events. If we failed to strive to seize this chance, the judgment of future ages would be harsh and just.
If we strive but fail and the world remains armed against itself, it at least need be divided no longer in its clear knowledge of who has condemned humankind to this fate.

22.04.2023 - 09:48 [ theNation.com ]

Why Eisenhower’s “Chance for Peace” Address Still Matters

(April 19, 2023)

Eisenhower made these comparisons in the early years of the Cold War, shortly after the death of Joseph Stalin. As he told his speechwriter at the time, he was “tired…of just plain indictments of the Soviet regime.… [J]ust one thing matters. What have we got to offer the world?” He was looking for a positive alternative to what he described as the “dread road” the world was then on, which in his view could only lead to one of two outcomes: atomic war or immiseration tied to perpetual military buildups. He described the outcome of continuing with the status quo as “not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

01.03.2023 - 09:26 [ ORF.at ]

Polen kauft 1.000 neue Schützenpanzer

Neben den mehr als 1.000 Panzern umfasst die Bestellung nach Angaben von PAP und TVP Info rund 400 zusätzliche Fahrzeuge, die zum Beispiel der Aufklärung, Koordination und verschiedenen Schutzfunktionen dienen.

Die Bestellung ist Teil einer massiven Aufrüstung und Modernisierung der polnischen Armee, die nach Blaszczaks Worten „in sehr schnellem Tempo“ voranschreite.

18.02.2023 - 12:00 [ Tagesschau.de ]

Bundeswehr schult zu Verschwörungsmythen und Propaganda

„Von Verschwörungstheorien und Desinformationen – zum Beispiel aus Russland – können große Gefahren ausgehen“, sagte der Kommandeur des Zentrums Innere Führung in Koblenz, Markus Kurczyk, der Nachrichtenagentur dpa. Man müsse „in diese Themen rein, wir müssen hier die Soldatinnen und Soldaten sensibilisieren“, so der 58 Jahre alte Generalmajor. „Wir erleben auch bei ihnen das Risiko, in falschen Informationsblasen des Internets gefangen zu sein.“

12.02.2023 - 11:20 [ ZDF ]

So einsatzbereit sind Europas Armeen

Viele Länder in Europa haben seit dem Ende des kalten Krieges bei ihren Militärausgaben gespart. Der Krieg in der Ukraine macht nun die Mängel deutlich, nicht nur in Deutschland.

12.02.2023 - 09:25 [ ZDF ]

Braucht Deutschland eine Kriegswirtschaft?

(01.02.2023)

Geld allein löst aber weder eine Bestellung aus, noch beantwortet es die offenen Fragen bei den bürokratischen Hemmnissen. Komplizierte Ausschreibungsvorschriften, endlose Prüfverfahren, militärische Spezialwünsche, parlamentarische Kontrolle und haushaltsrechtliche Einschränkungen stehen oft gegen schnelle Beschaffungen.

„Wir brauchen eine anderen Rechtsrahmen, eine andere Haushaltsgesetzgebung, ein anderes Vergaberecht“, fordert Wüstner, wenn er seine „Art Kriegswirtschaft“ definiert. Und er erhält Unterstützung, etwa für die Reform des Budgetrechts.

21.12.2022 - 03:18 [ Reason.com ]

Biden Is Set To Sign $858 Billion Pentagon Budget—One of the Biggest Ever

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is expanding the military budget enormously. Pentagon spending is set to hit levels not seen since the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

21.12.2022 - 03:17 [ Fox News ]

Senate passes National Defense Authorization Act, bill heads to President Biden

Both chambers of Congress have passed the bill, and it will now head to President Biden‘s desk.

The bill passed by a vote of 83-11, with 60 votes needed for approval.

29.06.2022 - 19:04 [ DailyMail.co.uk ]

Europe‘s new Iron Curtain: The defences designed to keep Putin out as Biden announces a new permanent base in Poland – while Sweden and Finland are formally invited into alliance and Russia blasts ‚destabilising‘ move

Joe Biden, speaking at a NATO summit in Madrid today, announced the creation of a new base for the US Fifth Army Corps in Poland – the first permanent American base in the country – along with 3,000 extra soldiers to be sent to Romania and ‚enhanced‘ troop rotations for the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Two more squadrons of F-35 fighters will be deployed to the UK, Biden added, along with additional air defence systems for Germany and Italy, and another two destroyers which will be stationed at Rota Naval Station in Spain, bringing the total to six.

26.06.2022 - 10:39 [ Veterans for Peace ]

Veterans For Peace Statement on Ukraine

Veterans For Peace (VFP) unequivocally condemns Russia‘s horrific invasion of Ukraine. VFP opposes western militarism and increased US military spending, and we are deeply concerned about even the possibility of nuclear warfare.

13.06.2022 - 19:00 [ Tagesschau,de ]

Aufgaben werden gebündelt: Bundeswehr bekommt territoriales Führungskommando

Zudem soll das Kommando verantwortlich für die operative Führung nationaler Kräfte im Rahmen des Heimatschutzes sein. Dazu gehört etwa die Amts- und Katastrophenhilfe und die zivil-militärischen Zusammenarbeit. Außerdem soll das Kommando wesentliche Aufgaben bei der Führung der Streitkräfte in Deutschland übernehmen, während das Einsatzführungskommando in Schwielowsee bei Potsdam die Auslandseinsätze führen soll. Die Bundeswehr soll damit zwei Führungskommandos für unterschiedliche Aufgaben haben.

05.06.2022 - 10:51 [ Neues Deutschland ]

Umkämpfte Verfassung: Die Einführung des Sondervermögens für die Bundeswehr ins Grundgesetz hat unrühmliche Vorgänger

Trotz allen Wider­stan­des trat die Bun­des­re­pu­blik 1955 der Nato bei und die Bun­des­wehr wur­de gegrün­det, was 1956 meh­re­re Grund­ge­setz­än­de­run­gen zur Fol­ge hat­te. Die KPD hat­te nicht mehr viel Zeit, sich dazu zu äußern; sie wur­de – als ein­zi­ge kom­mu­nis­ti­sche Par­tei in West­eu­ro­pa – noch im glei­chen Jahr verboten.

Die hier­nach ein­set­zen­de Ruhe hielt bis zur Mit­te der 60er-Jah­re. Die 1966 ins Amt gekom­me­ne Gro­ße Koali­ti­on aus SPD und CDU/CSU mach­te Ernst mit den Not­stands­ge­set­zen. Sie fin­den 1968 Ein­gang in die Ver­fas­sung. Ein­ge­führt wur­den damit diver­se Mög­lich­kei­ten zur Ein­schrän­kung von Grund­rech­ten und demo­kra­ti­schen Ver­fah­ren bei Krie­gen, Auf­stän­den oder Kata­stro­phen.

02.06.2022 - 13:59 [ tagesschau / Youtube ]

Volksabstimmung in Dänemark: Mehrheit für Teilhabe an EU-Sicherheitspolitik

Die EU-weit einzigartige Sonderregelung bedeutet, dass sich das Land bislang zwar an zivilen, nicht aber an militärischen Missionen der EU und auch nicht an der gemeinsamen Entwicklung etwa von Waffensystemen beteiligen konnte.

14.10.2021 - 11:25 [ theGrayzone.com ]

Behind NATO’s ‘cognitive warfare’: ‘Battle for your brain’ waged by Western militaries

The US-led NATO military cartel has tested novel modes of hybrid warfare against its self-declared adversaries, including economic warfare, cyber warfare, information warfare, and psychological warfare.

Now, NATO is spinning out an entirely new kind of combat it has branded cognitive warfare. Described as the “weaponization of brain sciences,” the new method involves “hacking the individual” by exploiting “the vulnerabilities of the human brain” in order to implement more sophisticated “social engineering.”

23.09.2021 - 18:54 [ Portal amerika21.de ]

Von Danzig in den Chaco

Mit dem Niedergang des Britischen Empires Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts und Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts versuchten immer mehr Großmächte, ihren Einfluss in Lateinamerika auf britische Kosten auszubauen.

22.09.2021 - 18:27 [ teleSUR ]

Colombia and the United States Strengthen Military Alliance

On Tuesday, the United States Ambassador to Colombia Philip Goldberg and United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) Commander Faller Craig delivered two Hercules C-130 aircraft to President Ivan Duque‘s administration.

14.08.2021 - 14:46 [ Global Research ]

U.S. Out of Africa: U.S. Imperialism in Somalia

Worse still, the U.S. planned to use the strategic City of Berbera as the base of its newly launched AFRICOM (Africa Command), a Pentagon-orchestrated scheme aimed at completing the militarization of the entire African continent.

28.04.2021 - 13:29 [ ]

US Allocates $310m for Central America, More Militarization

A group of advocates and grassroots organizations such as the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), School of the Americas Watch, Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective, and the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) among others, denounced that this aid contributes to the militarization of the region and the strengthening of neoliberal policies that damage the communities and its natural resources and boost migration.

21.04.2021 - 18:50 [ France24 ]

Mahamat Idriss Deby, son of slain president, emerges as Chad’s new strongman

The presidency moved swiftly to put the reins of power in the hands of the 37-year-old general and tear up Chad‘s constitution, establishing a „Transition Charter“ that lays out a new basic law for the desert country of 16 million people.