Oilprice.com Israel has greenlighted plans for 3,5000 new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank, while Israeli media report that the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expecting to be in Gaza for at least 10 years with the initial stage of war lasting 1-2 years, following by eights years of stabilizing a new […]
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Good piece from Yves Engler Amidst the horrific devastation in eastern Libya the Canadian media has largely refused to mention the central role NATO’s war played in the country’s instability. In a report on the thousands killed by flooding in eastern Libya Global National offered some context to the tragedy that’s thought to have left […]
Hattip over to Gallier2 who left us all an interesting comment The western backed Gabon government has been overthrown- There was a recent election, the results showed the challenger Ondo Ossa had won. However Ali Bongo overthrew the results and claimed the win and the power! Gallier has extended family present in the area. Gallier’s […]
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Alas, poor Prigozhin….
WOW, the headlines and news coverage is simply astonishing. Progozhin headlines are running the gamut. He’s being lionized, which is quite a change from the usual. We’ve got conspiracy theories galore from the main stream media who are the biggest promoters of conspiracy theories on the planet! Let’s consider these points of interest while thinking […]
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/08/19/6671692464624/ Delegates from the Economic Community of West African States arrived in Niger Saturday to begin talks with the military leaders now in control of the landlocked country of more than 25 million people. The ruling military junta’s leader, Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani agreed to meet the delegation Earlier in the week, ECOWAS confirmed it was […]
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Niger Closes Airspace
There was a deadline, which has come and gone, for reinstatement of the ousted government. The present government has closed the airspace above Niger, obviously in anticipation of some foreign intervention via the skies above. Clearly, an attempt to thwart this intervention. The US has had direct contact with the present day government and have […]
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Niger coup: Thousands march to support junta Thousands of people in Niger’s capital, Niamey, have participated in a peaceful protest in support of the recent military coup in the country. The protesters condemned West African nations that have imposed sanctions on Niger and called for the departure of foreign troops, including those from the US […]
This is an interesting deal considering the government in Libya is “contested” at this time. DW Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has signed a gas deal worth billions on a visit to Libya. The plan is for Italian and Libyan energy giants to jointly develop two offshore gas fields. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited […]
This takes in Brazil of course. But not just Brazil! Africa as well. Remember this previous report? Stimson.org Picture from Stimson- Check the picture in my report linked above The United States has failed to realize the strategic importance of the Global South. Russia’s war in Ukraine and Washington’s inability to secure a wide diplomatic […]
That’s a fact. The ‘west’ is with Ukraine. The rest of the world is not. If that is unchanged to date- it’s not likely to change. This is the reality. This month, South Africa’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mathu Joyini, took a moment from a debate in the U.N. General Assembly about the humanitarian […]