Tag: Mali
From Nice to the Middle East: The Only Way to Challenge ISIS
ISIS is only a component of a much larger and disturbing course of violence that is rooted in foreign intervention.
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The Sahel, Libya, and the Crime-Terror Nexus
The Western intervention in Libya has enabled an abundance of criminal financial streams unique to the Sahel to profit local terrorist organizations.
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Israel’s Courtship of African Countries: An Emotional Thing
It is becoming increasingly obvious that elected African leaders have been neutralized as players on the world stage.
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The Death of Mokhtar Belmokhtar Is Not the Boon Everyone Thinks It Is
The world will not miss Belmokhtar, but in a perverted irony, the world, and the Saharan region in particular, may have become a more dangerous place.
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Barack Obama, David Cameron, and the NSA/GCHQ Issue
Obama and Cameron in their desperation have used universal electronic surveillance of citizens that will inconvenience the Islamists but gradually destroy the civil liberties of Americans and Britons.
Read MoreAsking the Wrong Questions: Did Arab Revolutions Fail?
Arab revolutions have not failed, but they have not succeeded either. They have simply challenged the status quo like never before.
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The Western slogan of ‘Terrorism’ in Mali: Facade and Reality
The French-led Western intervention in Mali, which was (is) being justified in the name of fighting the ‘Islamic fundamentalists’, displays a usual pattern of direct and indirect Western interventions in different countries since the end of the second World War.
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Creating a Lasting Peace in Mali
Through understanding these past rebellions and peace agreements, it would seem that the current security efforts in Mali will not be a permanent solution unless economic development follows.
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The French-British Intervention in the Sahel
There is a lot to fight for, but there could be a heavy price to pay.
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The Crisis in Mali: A Historical Background
In order to get a better handle on the situation, there must first be an understanding of the domestic actors, namely the Tuareg people.
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No Security Firms for African Refugees: Opportunities and War in Mali
From Libya to Mali a typical story is forming, coupled with lucrative contracts and massive opportunities of all sorts.
Read MoreTwin tragedies in North Africa: Reading between the lines
Why the people in Mali and Algeria and the truth about Western engagement there are casualties of the latest developments
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Exploited and Misused: The Impossible Discourse of the ‘Arab Spring’
To advance our understanding of what is transpiring in Arab and other countries in the region, we must let go of old definitions.
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Mali: Disregarded Lessons in ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention
Western powers are engaged in yet another military intervention, this time in Mali, a country whose troubles are in no small part a consequence of the U.S./NATO war on Libya to overthrow the regime of Muammar Gaddafi.
Read MoreMali, Wahhabis, and Saudis: Following the Money Trail
This latest in a series of extremist Wahhabi movements exploded on the scene following the western attack on Libya and the destruction of the Gaddafi government in 2011.
Read MoreMali: West Africa’s Gate to Convenient Chaos, Intervention
A long-drawn new ‘war on terror,’ will justify further intervention in West Africa and more meddling in the affairs of ECOWAS countries.
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