AFRICOM for Dummies

Tony Cartalucci
21st Century Wire
Libya is back in the news, as fighting escalates around the capital, Tripoli.

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We were reading this report by The Intercept detailing the over $280 million being spent on a new drone base for the US Air Force in Agadez, Niger, and couldn’t help but reflect on why the #Resistance in America no longer cares about US imperialism and killing overseas:

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NEW YEARS DAY SPECIAL
Looking forward into the New Year, here are but a few breaking trends to look for, as well as some predictions for the year in 2018.

P.D. Lawton
21st Century Wire
Thomas Sankara, a man in his early thirties transformed the world’s poorest country at that time, Upper Volta, into a self-sufficient modern thinking nation in just four years.

P.D. Lawton
21st Century Wire
A number of major geopolitical moves are currently afoot in Africa. Make no mistake about it: neocolonialism is alive and well on the continent.

Jay Dyer
21st Century Wire
Jay Dyer returns to Our Interesting Times to discuss his recent video “Syria, Assassinations, Wikileaks & the West: The Big Plan Exposed.” We talk about the larger agenda behind NATO’s proxy wars in Libya and Syria and the Anglo-American imperial strategy to destabilize nations.

Shawn Helton
21st Century Wire
New details have emerged regarding the mysterious downing of EgyptAir flight MS804.

Alex de Waal
African Arguments
When UK PM David Cameron opens the Anti-Corruption Summit on 12 May, we should be aware that the greatest fraud perpetrated on the majority of the world’s citizens is all perfectly legal.
Africa loses at least $50 billion a year — and probably much, much more than that — perfectly lawfully.

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Problem, reaction, solution?

This is the second ‘laptop bomb’ plot in Somalia in a month. More security, but to what end? Back in June 2015, we learned that 95 percent of fake bombs made it through airport security in DHS test.

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This is the second installment of our new weekly SUNDAY SCREENING feature, where our editorial team curates a highly informative documentary film for our readers at 21WIRE.