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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America’s slide from Democracy to Corporatocracy
No government can be perfect, because all governments are composed of humans, especially those humans most attracted by power and profit. Which begs the question, does power attract morally corrupt people or does power morally corrupt people? Nowhere is this question more pertinent than the global bastion of democracy and power – America. Over the past half century, America’s power has waned and she has descended from popular democracy to corporate dictatorship. Read More »
The sanction war between the US and Iran
Sanctions are intended to be a method of discipline and isolation on governments to force cooperation with international law. It expresses disapproval and confrontation by putting restrictions on a certain country to rectify their wrongs. Iran is a country that knows the sanction game all too well. Read More »
