By Guest Writer Garikai Chengu. Of late western media, social networks and US Congressional hearings are ablaze with talk about major U.S. military deployment into central Africa to eliminate one Joseph Kony. Mr. Kony is the leader of Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group that operates in an area the size of France across several African nations. The LRA is ostensibly fighting for religious freedom for Uganda’s underdeveloped north. Mr. Kony’s murderous gang have been responsible for incalculable massacres, rapes, tortures and civilian suffering since 1989. So why is there a sudden push by the Pentagon, western media and certain NGOs to send U.S. troops into central Africa? Read More »
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Chavez, Ahmadinejad and Iran’s nuclear program
The relationship between the United States and Iran seems to be always simmering in a pool of historical malcontent. However, since the West started suspecting that Iran’s nuclear program had more to do with acquiring a bomb than producing energy, the temperature of this “diplomatic kitchen” has reached its boiling point. The recent discovery of an Iranian plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, the assassination of several Iranian scientist involved in their country’s nuclear program, and the crash of a US drone in Iran tells us that desperation is taking over both sides. This week, the media is buzzing about how the US should deal with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime if an escalation of conflict came to happen. Read More »
The end of Gaddafi era
Two minutes and twenty-eight seconds. That was the length of the Gaddafi death video I saw today. Bloody, gory, sickening, and inhumane on many levels. We all knew he had to go and we all were too familiar with his 42 years of dictatorship in Libya. But was this our place to intervene? Read More »
