[Prefatory Note: The original interview on the coup in Niger with Zahra Mizrafarjouyan of Mehr Agency in Tehran was published on Aug. 14, 2023. A lot has happened since then that affects Niger, and how we understand its relation to that country, to West Africa’s Sahel region, to Africa generally, and to the geopolitical war […]
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/) —— Here are the original youtube news-report and a Web-archived copy of it (in case it becomes removed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJckDws2POM Nigerien Youth Coup Reaction VOA Africa 395 views 6 days ago The military coup in Niger, unlike previous ones in West Africa, has elicited strong support from young people in the […]
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Anyone casting their mind back to the Western media’s reporting of the battle to liberate eastern Aleppo from the Al-Qaeda led Jihadis in the second half of last year will remember the vivid reporting of supposed Russian and Syrian government atrocities the Western media and Western governments engaged in during the battle.
Thus the Russians and the Syrians were accused of terror bombings of civilians, of deliberately bombing hospitals, with the Syrians specifically accused of ‘barrel-bombing’ ie. of dropping inaccurate improvised home made bombs to kill civilians.
Saudi Arabia Salafist top cleric, Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh, listens to a speech of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the Consultative Council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, March 24, 2009. (AP /Hassan Ammar)
In the wake of the massacre in Manchester, people rightly warn against blaming the entire Muslim community in Britain and the world. Certainly one of the aims of those who carry out such atrocities is to provoke the communal punishment of all Muslims, thereby alienating a portion of them who will then become open to recruitment by Isis and al-Qaeda clones.
