Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that the Black Sea grain export deal designed to keep goods flowing through Ukrainian ports has been extended for two more months.
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Over 1 Million Somali Children Near Starvation as Pentagon Plans New Troop Deployment
The Pentagon wants to send troops back into Somalia on a permanent basis just 14 months after they were ordered to leave. The push for a new deployment comes as the African nation faces a serious drought.
News Roundup 12/27/21
Covid Massachusetts halts all elective procedures. [Link] The USS Milwaukee will remain in Cuba after several sailors tested positive for Covid. [Link] USAID is running out of money to distribute covid vaccinations. [Link] The US donates 1.5 million vaccine doses to...
COI #203: Understanding Conflict in Ethiopia
On COI #203, Kyle Anzalone joins Joanne Leon in interviewing Teodrose Fikremrium. Teodrose, an Ethiopian, discusses the recent history leading up to the recent conflict. He gives his take on various important developments in Ethiopia, including the start of the war....
News Roundup 3/5/21
US News NY Governor Cuomo’s advisors changed Covid numbers to make it appear the governor wasn't responsible for killing as many nursing homes residents as he did. [Link] Biden extends an executive order naming Venezuela as a threat. [Link] Myanmar The US blocked...
US in Somalia
Rick writes: I’m looking for a podcast where you describe the origins of Al Shabaab. I know that Somalia was coming along well under the Islamic courts Union, then we screwed it up when GW asked Ethiopia to invade. Any help is much appreciated. Me: Here's a ton....
News Roundup 1/18/18
A 14-year-old girl was arrested for giving food to the homeless. [Link] Trump give Paul Krugman the fake news award. [Link] Korean Olympic talks upend US Korea strategy. [Link] Koreans will enter Olympics under one banner. [Link] Ethiopia's proposed Nile damn creates...
Foreign Policy Focus #93 – Russia Reset
On Foreign Policy Focus #93, I discuss the US and Russia relations. A new story said Russia offered to reset relations with the US in March. While that offer was passed on, Russia's Foreign Ministry and the US State Department now agree there is no need to continue in...
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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War
From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...
Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...