US seems ready to return to Somalia where it wants to be directly involved in an offensive against the rebels
8.03.10
Growing signs indicate that a government offensive with direct backing from the US can soon start in Somalia in an attempt to get rid of the insurgents in Mogadishu and in some other regions. In the following we will try to describe what is going on.
Heavy fighting in Mogadishu / Internal problems for the government
4.03.10
“Somali government forces attacked insurgent-controlled areas in the capital, setting off a gun battle and mortar fire that killed at least 10 civilians and four militants, witnesses said Wednesday. Almost 40 people were wounded”, Associated Press wrote on March 3.
The impending Somali offensive
2.03.10
“Warring sides in Somalia have been preparing for an escalation of the conflict”, told Sim Tack on March 01 in the Geopolitical and Conflict Report. “The reason for this is a planned offensive by Somali government troops to retake the whole city of Mogadishu and strategic towns across South Somalia”, Tack continues and goes on:
Somalia: How Colonial Powers drove a Country into Chaos
26.02.10
Mohamed Hassan:
Somalia had every reason to succeed: an advantageous geographical situation, oil, ores and only one religion and one language for the whole territory; a rare phenomenon in Africa. Somalia could have been a great power in the region. But the reality is completely different: famine, wars, lootings, piracy, bomb attacks. How did this country sink? Why has there been no Somali government for approximately twenty years? Which scandals stand behind those pirates who hijack our ships? In this new chapter of our series “Understanding the Muslim World”, Mohamed Hassan explains for us why and how imperialist forces have applied in Somalia a chaos theory.
Beyond the World Social Forum
23.02.10
The president in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, speak WSF meeting in Brazil in 2009:
23 March 2009 we brought an interview with Eric Toussaint, the president of the Committee for Abolition of Third World Debt about the recent World Social Forum in Brazil under the title, The ninth World Social Forum(WSF) – a new start. Since then it seems that the progress of WSF has been more or less stopped. A new strategy seems now necessary says Eric Toussaint in the following interview overleaf.
Kosova: Albin Kurti trial adjourned to 22 February
21.02.10
Mass demonstratrion arranged by Vetevendosje in Pristana on November 19, 2008:
On February 10, 2007, the leader of the movement for Self-Determination for Kosova (Vetevendosje!), Albin Kurti, was arrested by the police from UNMIK – at that time the of the rulers of Kosova under the name United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo – accused of being responsible for UNMIK-police force killing of two demonestratorts and the wounding of several others.
The 5th congress of Labour Party Pakistan
18.02.10
The two-day Labour Party Pakistan Fifth congress helped to advance the revolutionary process in Pakistan. It brought together comrades from different traditions and trends to discuss the central topic: “build a mass working-class party independent of the influence of the capitalists and feudal elements.” The congress was a bravura expression of the growing influence and strength of emerging left-wing politics in Pakistan.
Opposition in Iran showed on February 11 that it still fight the dictatorship
16.02.10
In spite of heavy suppression and cutting off of the communication lines of the oppositional forces by the help of technology provided by the Finnish based firm, Nokia-Siemens, the opposition showed its strengths in the demonstrations arranged on 11 February to celebrate the anniversary of the popular revolution which brought and end to the Shah regime in 1997. The cries of protests even got so loud that you could hear them at the demonstration arranged by the regime itself to which public employed were forced to take part.