By Thomas C Mountain, THE genocidal war being waged in South Sudan today is “Obama’s War”. Why? Because the Obama regime is paying for it. Thanks to Wikileaks we know that the CIA began paying the salaries of what is today the South Sudanese “rebel army” led by Reik Machar in 2009. And the CIA […]
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By Steve Straehley, GAYLE E. Smith, a member of the National Security Council staff, was nominated on April 30, 2015, by President Barack Obama to lead the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Smith, who was 59 when she was nominated, is from Bexley, Ohio. She attended Bexley High School, where she was a cheerleader, […]
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By Mohamed Keita, PRESIDENT Obama’s decision to tap top White House aide Gayle Smith to take over the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has drawn plaudits, but also serious concerns from some long-time Africa watchers about the role of American assistance in abetting repression on the continent. The New York Times described Smith as […]
Continue ReadingBy Thomas Mountain, GAYLE who? Obama’s quiet consigliere Gayle Smith is rarely in the public eye and seems to prefer it that way. At least most of the time, so when she mounted the podium to deliver a eulogy at the funeral for Ethiopia’s late, genocidal strongman Meles Zenawi in Addis Ababa in 2012 I […]
Continue ReadingWARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES AND VIDEO — South African police open fire on striking miners armed with sticks at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine, killing 34 people in the bloodiest security operation since the end of white rule. By Thomas C Mountain, As the legendary life of South African leader Nelson Mandela draws to a close his legacy to his […]
Continue ReadingBy Sudan Tribune, Prime minister of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi, told the U.S. administration that toppling the government led by Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir would be the ideal scenario for Washington, according to leaked diplomatic cable. The January 30, 2009 note released by Wikileaks, detailed discussions that took place between Zenawi and Acting Assistant Secretary of […]
Continue ReadingBy Thomas C. Mountain, As the U.N. famine warning center issues urgent reports that millions of Ethiopians are once again starving in the Somali populated Ogaden, the International Committee of the Red Cross publishes a statement that the Ethiopian government has denied the Red Cross an operating permit to carry out relief work in the […]
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