You are being lied to about pirates
… or, more precisely, only being told half the story. With news of Somali pirates taking a US cargo ship captain hostage (now released by US navy rescue, involving a … Continue reading
Africonned: Somalia in the eye of the storm
BAR’s editor Glen Ford lays out in plain terms what current US foreign policy towards Africa means for Somalia. Audio also available below: U.S-Instigated War Brings Mass Death to Somalia … Continue reading
Pilger on the Clinton era: same wine in new bottles
Rightly finding the Bush neocons abhorrent doesn’t mean that the corollary is that Clinton is somehow held up as a paragon of virtue or that it was an administration that … Continue reading
Ethnic cleansing by L’Oreal: “Because you’re worth less?”
At some point last year, I was introduced to Amina Mire’s work on skin bleaching. I was reminded of Amina’s essay Pigmentation and Empire when coming upon two of these … Continue reading
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