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Pentagon’s African Command: “We Don’t Consider You a Legitimate Journalist”

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“The command has deflected questions about the killing in Mali, offered murky and shifting explanations of the attack in Niger, and cleared U.S. personnel of wrongdoing in Somalia before launching a new investigation into the killings. All of this comes as the Defense Department as a whole has become less transparent and accessible, according to numerous journalists who cover U.S. national security. At the same time, according to the Pentagon’s Inspector General, there has been a rise in complaints of misconduct by senior officials, as well as reprisals against whistleblowers.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/13/we-dont-consider-you-a-legitimate-journalist-how-i-got-blacklisted-by-the-pentagons-africa-command/

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Double standard: Mugabe ‘was leasing out land to whites’, says report

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“As recently as late October, Mugabe said black owners who invited whites back to rent and work seized fields would lose their farms.  But the Zimbabwe Independent reports that the former first family was doing exactly that: leasing out part of Mazowe Citrus Estate to a company in which some of the main shareholders were white.”

Read more: https://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/revealed-mugabe-was-leasing-out-land-to-whites-says-report-20171211

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How Bitcoin Is Saving Lives in Venezuela

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“Many people in Zimbabwe don’t have bank accounts. But a growing number own smartphones. And that’s all you need to buy bitcoin.  But this isn’t just happening in Zimbabwe.  The people of Venezuela are becoming increasingly desperate. And many are buying bitcoin to survive.  That’s because bitcoin doesn’t lose value by the day like the bolivar, Venezuela’s currency. Instead, it becomes more valuable.”

Read more: https://www.caseyresearch.com/how-bitcoin-is-saving-lives-in-venezuela/

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Zimbabwe army takes control but denies coup

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“In a televised address early on Wednesday morning, military spokesperson, Major General SB Moyo, said the army was seeking to ‘pacify a degenerating, social, and economic situation’ in the country.  The army spokesperson said that once the military’s objectives have been achieved, the situation in the country would return to normal, before urging Zimbabweans to continue with their lives as usual.”

Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/zimbabwe-army-seizes-state-tv-denies-coup-ongoing-171115051459998.html

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U.S. African Military Activity Is a “Recruiting Tool” for Terror Groups

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” U.S. efforts, primarily focused on training allies and proxies, are flawed, often ineffective, and can have destabilizing effects on countries that military operations are meant to strengthen, according to experts. Cast as benign training operations, they can lead to unforeseen consequences and dangerous blowback.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2017/10/26/its-not-just-niger-u-s-military-activity-is-a-recruiting-tool-for-terror-groups-across-west-africa/

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A U.S. Soldier Died in Niger. What on Earth Are We Doing There?

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“If you were surprised to learn the U.S. has nearly a thousand troops in Niger, you’re not alone. Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who serves on the Armed Forces Committee, told NBC he ‘had no idea.’ Neither did Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat.  Well, the surprises may keep coming.”

Read more: http://otherwords.org/u-s-soldier-died-niger-earth/

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Manchester Bomber Was Product of West’s Libya/Syria Intervention

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“A radicalized Libyan whose family fled Gaddafi’s secular Libya, and later trained to be an armed ‘rebel’ in Syria, fighting for the US and UK ‘regime change’ policy toward the secular Assad government, Salman Abedi was the direct product of US and UK interventions in the greater Middle East.”

Read more: http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2017/may/24/manchester-bomber-was-product-of-wests-libyasyria-intervention/

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Bringing back the Somali shilling

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“One famous answer to the riddle of fiat money is that governments use force to ensure that fiat money is valued. But this can’t be the case in Somalia: it hasn’t had a government since 1991, yet shillings continue to be accepted.”

Read more: http://jpkoning.blogspot.ca/2017/03/bringing-back-somali-shilling.html

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China’s military makes move into Africa

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“China is establishing its first military base in Africa, according to a top U.S. general, providing yet another sign of its growing reach beyond the Asia-Pacific.  ‘They are going to build a base in Djibouti, so that will be their first military location in Africa,’ U.S. Army Gen. David Rodriguez, the commander of U.S. Africa Command, recently told defense reporters.  There has been speculation for years that China might establish a base in Djibouti. Rodriguez told The Hill that China has signed a 10-year contract with the African nation.  The base, he said, would serve as a logistics hub for China to be able to ‘extend their reach.'”

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/261153-chinas-military-makes-move-into-africa

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The Trouble With Sovereign-Wealth Funds

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“The world’s sovereign-wealth funds together have assets of $7.2 trillion, according to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, which studies them. That is twice their size in 2007, and more than is managed by all the world’s hedge funds and private-equity funds combined, according to J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The number of funds tracked by the Institute of International Finance is up 44% to 79 since the end of 2007. Nearly 60% of sovereign-wealth-fund assets are in funds dependent on energy exports. Now, some funds are shrinking or are being tapped by governments as oil revenues fall. That is forcing them to borrow or sell investments, potentially pressuring global markets.”

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trouble-with-sovereign-wealth-funds-1450836278

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