Bruno
25th October 2017, 11:40
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https://democracynow.org -We look at the U.S. military presence in Africa and what happened during the ambush of U.S. Special Forces by militants in Niger, in which five Nigerien soldiers were killed along with four U.S. Green Berets. The incident is now the subject of a military and FBI investigation. At least 800 U.S. servicemembers are currently stationed in the country to support a French-led mission to defeat militants in West Africa. Meanwhile, Somalia continues to recover from a massive bombing in Mogadishu that killed at least 358 people. We speak with Horace Campbell, who is currently spending a year in West Africa as the Kwame Nkrumah chair at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. Campbell is a peace and justice scholar and professor of African American studies and political science at Syracuse University. We are also joined by Mark Fancher, an attorney and frequent contributor to Black Agenda Report, where his new article is headlined “U.S. Troop Deaths in Niger: AFRICOM’s Chickens Come Home to Roost.”
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This isn't being discussed much in the MSN of course. They are focusing on Trump insulting the family of one of the men killed. Again we all look at Trump so we don't look at where La David Johnson was killed and just what America and other countries are doing in Africa.
Discussion of why Ghaddafi was overthrown. American, French, Chinese and Russian interests in the continent.
The bit about drone bases in Africa and elsewhere really grabbed my attention! Drone bases! Anyone else heard of this? Besides training terrorist organizations in Northern Africa the American military also has a number of drone bases. The goal is of course to minimize American casualties which draw our attention to what is going on over there.
https://democracynow.org -We look at the U.S. military presence in Africa and what happened during the ambush of U.S. Special Forces by militants in Niger, in which five Nigerien soldiers were killed along with four U.S. Green Berets. The incident is now the subject of a military and FBI investigation. At least 800 U.S. servicemembers are currently stationed in the country to support a French-led mission to defeat militants in West Africa. Meanwhile, Somalia continues to recover from a massive bombing in Mogadishu that killed at least 358 people. We speak with Horace Campbell, who is currently spending a year in West Africa as the Kwame Nkrumah chair at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. Campbell is a peace and justice scholar and professor of African American studies and political science at Syracuse University. We are also joined by Mark Fancher, an attorney and frequent contributor to Black Agenda Report, where his new article is headlined “U.S. Troop Deaths in Niger: AFRICOM’s Chickens Come Home to Roost.”
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This isn't being discussed much in the MSN of course. They are focusing on Trump insulting the family of one of the men killed. Again we all look at Trump so we don't look at where La David Johnson was killed and just what America and other countries are doing in Africa.
Discussion of why Ghaddafi was overthrown. American, French, Chinese and Russian interests in the continent.
The bit about drone bases in Africa and elsewhere really grabbed my attention! Drone bases! Anyone else heard of this? Besides training terrorist organizations in Northern Africa the American military also has a number of drone bases. The goal is of course to minimize American casualties which draw our attention to what is going on over there.