The year and a half long protest movement of the majority Shi’ite people of Bahrain could be forewarning of a crippling migraine headache for the USA if it succeeds in overthrowing the Western installed Al Khalifah dictatorship that has ruled Bahrain since “independence.” Continue reading
Faced with a combination of body blows ranging from spiking prices for maize, import dependent Kenya’s staple food, IMF mandated food subsidy cuts, a foolhardy USA instigated invasion of Somalia, election triggered ethnic warfare and a simmering independence movement by the Muslims in the Mombasa coastal region Kenya is in trouble, serious trouble. Continue reading
With the passing of Alexander Cockburn, journalist extraordinaire, Africa has lost a friend, a really good friend. Continue reading
With its foundations irreparably cracked and its edifices of power crumbling, the Ethiopian regime headed by Meles Zenawi is turning more and more to the CIA to make the critical decisions in the ministries of power in the capital Addis Ababa. Continue reading
For the first time in modern history, the leadership of Ethiopia’s Muslim community, which makes up a majority of the country, has become politically active and is calling for the overthrow of the USA-backed Meles Zenawi regime. Not even in the darkest days of the Soviet Union-backed Mengistu regimes Red Terror of the 1970s and 1980s did Ethiopia’s Muslim leaders call for their followers to rise up against the regimes’ tyranny. Continue reading
The so-called “Save Darfur Coalition” raised tens of millions of dollars, some say a hundred million or more, to help the people of Darfur, yet an investigation by this writer can find no evidence of any of this money reaching Darfur refugees on the ground in Sudan. Continue reading
After many years of often rancorous debate, Africa’s last, lost, great civilization, The Land of Punt, has been proven to be located in the modern East African country of Eritrea. Continue reading
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) recently issued their annual report on the status of freedom of the press in the world in which the lead article charges, amongst other things, that there are no independent journalists allowed in the East African country of Eritrea. Continue reading
The African Union (AU) has mutated into a particularly corrupt and brutal enforcer of Western rule in Africa. When it comes to the interests of Pax Americana, you must start with the crimes committed in the AU’s “War on Terror” in Somalia, a.k.a., the War on the Somali people. Continue reading
South Sudan’s leaders have stolen at least $10 billion in oil revenues shared with them by Sudan in the past 7 years. With somewhere between $12 to $17 billion turned over to South Sudan, Africa’s newest “nation,” during this period, some say estimates of only $10 billion stolen is too conservative. Continue reading
Western style “democracy” is destroying Africa. It seems everywhere you look in Africa you see elections marked by violence and bloodshed. “Buy, rig or steal” is the name of the game and if that doesn’t work, send in the French army and UN “peacekeepers” and rocket the presidential residence and just take over by brute force. Continue reading
While southern Ethiopia and the Ogaden continues to suffer from the worst drought and famine in 60 years, the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) has been turning over all its food aid for the region to the Ethiopian military which uses it to feed the paramilitary death squads conducting a counterinsurgency in the region. Continue reading
Holly-weirdo George “The Looney” Clooney has been one of the CIA/US State Department’s most high profile “volunteer” spokespersons for the Horn of Africa these past few years. Continue reading
The “Lone Gunman” story being peddled by the USA explaining how another dozen or two Afghan civilians got wasted during just another night raid in the AF-PAK war has several witness accounts saying it was a group of American soldiers that were part of the massacre. Continue reading
In a worrying sign for the powers that be in the West, the Somali national resistance under the umbrella of Al Shabab has made its first major breakthrough in the northern region of Somalia by bringing into its folds the Islamic Resistance in Puntland. Continue reading
The visit to Djibouti by US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in late 2011 seems to be an omen foretelling the rebirth of the US African Command’s (AFRICOM) base in the Horn of Africa. Continue reading
The head of the Western-backed military junta that has ruled Egypt for the past year, Gen. Tantawi, is not known for either his intelligence or independence, in fact just the opposite. Continue reading
When it comes to the new malaria vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) now being tested on infants in the east African country of Tanzania, I will let the words of an industry insider tell it best . . . Continue reading
While Liberia could afford an election in which President Ellen Johnson ran unopposed, the people of the country have neither electricity nor running water. Continue reading
As South Sudan implodes in a growing mass insanity of ethnic violence and once again tens of thousands have to flee for their lives, the warning signs all point towards the US plan to destabilize Sudan having begun to hit its stride. Continue reading
Chinese oil workers once again seem to be at the center of a nasty counterinsurgency in the Horn of Africa, in the Ogaden, located in south east Ethiopia. Continue reading
In the bizarre world of the UN inSecurity Council, the Monday, Dec. 5, passage of further “sanctions” against Africa’s fastest growing economy, targeting Eritrea in the Horn of Africa with its projected 5 years’ double-digit growth rate, should come as no surprise. Continue reading
The Horn of Africa is one of the most strategically critical regions in the world with the narrow passage where the Red Sea joins the Indian Ocean, the Bab el-Mandeb, being a potential chokepoint for much of the world’s commerce. Continue reading
Barack Hussein Obama, son of an African and the first black US president, has supported the lynching of untold thousands of Africans and Black Libyans by the racist paramilitaries who now rule Libya. Continue reading
For the past decade, Hollywood movie star Angelina Jolie has been an official “Goodwill Ambassador” for the United Nations Humanitarian Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and has been so overflowing with goodwill that two years ago she called for the USA to declare war and bomb Sudan. Continue reading
It is not very often that a long serving African President is given a hero’s welcome by his people in New York City but on Sunday, September 25, over 5,000 Eritreans from all over the eastern USA and Canada converged on Manhattan to do just that for Eritrean President Issias Aferworki. Don’t take my word for it go to eastafro.com and see for yourself. Continue reading
It is Pay To Play at Google and whoever pays the fee gets their listing first on Google’s search engine results and woe be to the victims if a slander ends up leading the page. Continue reading
After some 8,000 bombing raids, with estimates of four bombs used per attack, NATO has already dropped over 30,000 bombs on Libya. That’s almost 200 bombs per day for 6 months, some tens of thousands of tons of high explosives. With an estimated two Libyans killed per bomb and without a single NATO casualty, the Western regimes have massacred over 60,000 Libyans in the past half year with the rebels themselves having said there have been 50,000 Libyan deaths. One hell of a humanitarian intervention, isn’t it? Continue reading
ASMARA, Eritrea—Just exactly what influence Omar “The Secret Minister” Suleiman retains over the military junta that rules Egypt is a question of utmost importance for those who live on the banks of the Nile River. With a resume including 20 years as head of Egyptian Intelligence, he is not someone any one of those who helped bring about the downfall of Mubarak can afford to ignore. Continue reading
ASMARA, Eritrea—Most people in Africa spend most of their income on food. With food prices rising by over 50 percent, drought is not the only cause of hunger in the Horn of Africa. While southern Ethiopia, home to half of Ethiopia’s 80 million people, is suffering under its worst drought and famine in 60 years, residents in the northern capital of Addis Ababa are feeling the pinch of hunger due to near record high food prices. Continue reading
ASMARA, Eritrea—The World Food Program (WFP), one of the U.N.’s biggest aid agencies, has a very nasty history in Somalia. Continue reading
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Isolating a nation; Afshin Rattansi’s groundbreaking documentary on Eritrea
Posted on November 27, 2012 by Thomas C. Mountain
Award winning independent producer Afshin Rattansi has released the groundbreaking documentary Eritrea; A Nation In Isolation on PressTV. Continue reading →