Highlighting U.S. intervention in the further destruction of Somalia and as Ugandans mourn a terrorist attack from Somali militants and Fareed Zakaria noting the non-threat of ‘failed states’ and the imminent blowback induced by the failed missions of nation building.
Posts Tagged ‘failed states index’
The ‘Failed State’ Boogeyman
Posted: 19 July 2010 by Editors in Political Science, SomaliaTags: AFRICOM, Ahmed Hassan, Al Shabaab, AMISOM, anarchism, anarchy, AQN ExOrd, Awil Salah Osman, Bush Administration, CENTCOM, child soldiers, CIA, civilian casualties, Clinton Administration, covert operations, Defense Department, Donald Rumsfeld, Ethiopia, failed state, failed states index, Fareed Zakaria, fascism, Greg Jaffe, Horn of Africa, human rights, humanitarian aid, humanitarian crisis, Jeffrey Gettleman, Jeremy Scahill, Kampala, Karen DeYoung, Lord’s Resistance Army, Mark Fineman, military welfare, Mogadishu, Mohamed Abdi Godane, Mohamed Siad Barre, Newspeak, oil, Paul Wolfowitz, Pentagon, SOF, Somalia, Special Ops, Stefan Molyneux, Stephen Cambone, Suzanne Goldberg, terrorism, Uganda, UN, UN Security Council, UNSC, USAID, War, War on Terror, Xan Rice
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Evening Briefing—22nd June 2010
Posted: 22 June 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Andy Worthington, Apple, Bagram Air Base, Barry Eisler, blood diamonds, Chicago, Chuck Mertz, Ehud Barak, failed states index, gold, Guantanamo Bay, Hamid Karzai, iPhone, Iran, Israel, Kashmir, Lashkar-e-Taiba, LeT, Lockheed MArtin, military industrial complex, military suicides, Mullah Omar, Netherlands, piracy, Quetta Shura, renminbi, Richard Daley, settlements, silver, Somalia, Spain, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, torture, UN, Wal-Mart, War on Terror, West Bank, Wikileaks, yuan, Zimbabwe