Agence France Presse July 23, 2009. Fifty-nine journalists have been killed around the world so far this year, in an alarming rise from 2008 that has become a "bloodbath" of the media, a watchdog said Thursday.
John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus. April 27, 2009. With the world's maritime chokepoints at risk, pirates are emerging as the latest non-state threat: the terrorists of the seas.
Leon Fink, AlterNet. April 16, 2009. Though they may be the most violent actors at sea, the Somali pirates' mercenary motives place them in the mainstream of today's shipping world.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: PEEK. April 14, 2009. It's creepy to see so many Americans are exulting over the fact that the United States military managed to shoot three teenagers.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. April 13, 2009. A plane carrying Rep. Donald Payne (D-N.J.) out of Mogadishu, Somalia, on Monday came under mortar fire from insurgents.
Johann Hari, Independent UK. April 13, 2009. Some are clearly just kidnappers and gangsters. But others are trying to stop illegal dumping and devastating fishing.
Jeremy Scahill, Rebel Reports. April 8, 2009. Reports say the crew of a U.S. cargo vessel seized early today has retaken the ship, but there's more to the story of rising "pirate" attacks.
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK. February 27, 2009. More U.S. troops in Afghanistan will spark a backlash in which religion combines with nationalism to oppose foreign intervention.
Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Foreign Policy in Focus. February 11, 2009. Among the many booby traps left by the Bush administration for the Obama team, Somalia could be one of the most complicated and bizarre.
Steve Bloomfield, Independent UK. August 6, 2008. Especially in Africa, forces supposedly sent to protect the world's most vulnerable people are increasingly focused on protecting themselves.
Barry Lando, AlterNet: PEEK. April 24, 2007. Barry Lando: If you want any more evidence of the threat that an unchecked George W. Bush represents to the rest of the world, take a look at Somalia.
Barry Lando, AlterNet: PEEK. April 6, 2007. Barry Lando: While we've been obsessing with Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, Dubya's been waging another battle in the Horn of Africa.
Salim Lone, TomPaine.com. January 8, 2007. The Bush administration, undeterred by the horrors and setbacks in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, has opened another battlefront in this oil-rich quarter of the Muslim world.
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