#Foreign Military Bases

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Overview map of foreign military bases and installations in Africa till recent coups and government changes which expelled or are in process of expelling French and US troops.

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US And Taiwan Should Conduct Military Drills In Horn Of Africa

It is time the @WhiteHouse & #Pentagon greenlight #USA & #Taiwan #exercises in the #HornOfAfrica. #Somaliland provides a unique opportunity to advance #American #NationalSecurity in both #Africa & #Asia. @mrubin1971 @TiborPNagyJr

The Pentagon’s calendar is replete with regular military exercises. Every two years, for example, thousands of American military personnel from almost every service branch descend on Egypt for Bright Star (more…)

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finally got around to watching pantheon season 2, i have a lot of thoughts but most of them come back to her.

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canada’s foreign minister says Canada has worked “proactively” to respond to the ongoing crisis in Sudan, including helping Canadians trapped in the country and joining in the direct international calls for a ceasefire.

Melanie Joly spoke on the government’s efforts during an emergency House of Commons debate Tuesday night as the violent conflict between warring military factions, which upended a move toward a civilian government, stretched well into its second week.

The disruption of the democratic transition was frequently underscored during the debate.

“We have zero tolerance for bad actors, and Canada supports Sudanese civilians committed to a democratic future,” she said. [...]

Joly was pressed on ensuring Sudanese people who flee to Canada are able to make it into the country on an expedited timeline, as well as on Canadian foreign aid efforts. Canada’s international assistance to Sudan totaled $68 million in 2020-21, the government says, which is delivered through local organizations.

Canada has announced a series of immigration supports for Sudanese nationals in Canada, including waiving fees for work and student visa extensions. Canadian border officials will also not return any Sudanese nationals until the situation changes. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

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we stopped being at war (american) for 5 fucking seconds before we went "haha why dont we profit off of the destruction of more countries" again. i so genuinely want to strangle certain people

[workersolidarity]

🇮🇶🇺🇲 🚨 ISLAMIC RESISTANCE OF IRAQ TARGETS U.S. BASE "AIN AL-ASAD" WITH DRONE STRIKE

According to a statement released by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, Iraqi Resistance Forces targeted the U.S. Military Base Ain al-Asad in western Iraq with a drone strike in response to U.S. support for Israel's genocidal war in Gaza.

According to the statement:

"In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful"

"Permission is given to those who fight because they have been wronged, and indeed, God is Powerful to grant them victory."

"In response to the crimes committed by the enemy against our people in Gaza, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeted the American occupation base, 'Ain al-Assad,' in western Iraq, with a drone, which directly hit its target."

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

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Ever think about how foreign military bases are part and parcelle of living on land occupied by people who think of you as a quaint little savage, and if you say you would rather be occupied by a country that isn't the one currently occupying you, because the other country is more socialist you might actually get arrested or shot?

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Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people

Who are the Shompen?

The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.

Why is there risk of genocide?

India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".

Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering “unique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.”

The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.

This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.

The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).

And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that “after all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.” However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.

Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would “virtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groups”. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: “The Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.”

On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that “If the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.”

How to help

The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:

From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.

Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.

Sources:

India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.

‘It will destroy them’: Indian mega-development could cause ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.

Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.

[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.

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Iliya: Will US ‘Take Back’ Horn Of Africa Through Somaliland?

Sources say that #America’s @CIA is in possession of #classified material revealing #China’s intention to meddle in #politics of #Somaliland in support of rro. If true It must act to stop it. #USA hasn't been very aggressive in opposing China's influence. They should not do that

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Weird post, but I was watching vinesauce's robocop stream, which led me to watch some clips of the ED-209s from the Robocop remake, which reminded me of Israel's bullshit, which led me to read the comments of said clips and of course it was mainly people cooming over the sight of big robots killing brown people

And I bet if u made a movie where these big bois stomped around American cities/towns killing white people, audiences would be upset

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Kim Jong Un orders military to speed up war preparations

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the military, nuclear sector and munitions industry to speed up preparations for war to counter what he called unprecedented confrontational moves by the United States, state media reported Thursday.

Kim told a key meeting of the country’s ruling party on Wednesday that Pyongyang would expand strategic cooperation with “anti-imperialist independent” countries in the new year, the KCNA news agency reported. KCNA said:

He (Kim) set forth the militant tasks for the People’s Army and the munitions industry, nuclear weapons and civil defence sectors to further accelerate the war preparations.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrived in the eastern county of Yeoncheon on Thursday to inspect the defence capability of frontline military unit. He called for immediate retaliation in case of any provocation by North Korea.

Read more HERE

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Enough is enough

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[Haaretz is Israeli Private Media]

[According to] a senior [IDF] air force officer[...]

[M]ost of the air force's equipment in the war so far was bought from American companies using U.S. military aid.[...]

With Congress' approval, the Biden administration has sent over unprecedented emergency military aid of $14 billion, on top of the regular annual U.S. military aid of $3.8 billion. Washington has also sent another $500 million for Israel's air defense systems – Iron Dome, David's Sling and Arrow.[...]

The senior air force official told Haaretz that without the Americans' supply of weapons to the Israel Defense Forces, especially the air force, Israel would have had a hard time sustaining its war for more than a few months.[...]

The Iranians thus made clear [in their attack] that they intended to very seriously damage the Nevatim Air Base in the south, where Israel's F-35 squadrons are based. Iran also launched a number of surface-to-surface missiles at the Mount Hermon base in the far north as a deception, but they missed the target.

Thus, the air force's planes and air defense systems inflicted a serious defeat on the Iranians. But this was also done with the vital help of American, British and French planes, and reportedly also from Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and with the coordination of radar and warning systems between Israel and those five countries.[...]

The Arab and wider international cooperation with Israel remains the most important component of the defense of Israel's skies – and this happened at a time when some government officials were disparaging our friends. This cooperation provided the most important contribution to the Iranian failure. We can safely estimate that many of the interceptions were done by foreign militaries.

"What do you even expect Biden or Kamala to do? Israel doesn't even need the US really" [2 Sep 24]