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The ‘Failed State’ Boogeyman

Posted: 19 July 2010 by Editors in Political Science, Somalia
Tags: 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

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.

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Pirates!

Posted: 27 January 2009 by Jake Towne in International Affairs
Tags: Aden, Afghanistan, Blackwater, Gaza, Hama, international law, Iraq, Israel, Jerusalem Post, Middle East, Mogadishu, Pakistan, piracy, Somalia, Tanter, US, War

Acts of piracy whether committed by Somalian nationals in desperation or by nation-states like the United States are still acts of piracy! (more…)