There are few authentic leftists. Universalism, egalitarianism, and open borders are leftist principles that weaken any group that adopts them. When a figure is a “progressive� for America but a nationalist for his own people, he’s not a progressive at all. He’s simply a nationalist for his own side. Ilham Omar is a prominent example.... Read More

Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, there was one thing I learned: there are no two groups of people who hate each other more than American blacks and Somalians. It’s surprising that this violence doesn’t flare up and spill over into the news a lot more often. New York Post: Yeah, of course it did. 100%... Read More

Earlier (2017) The Immigrants Who Bring Their Slaves To America, And The Press That Doesn't Want You To Know Sir Mo Farah is a Somalia-born citizen of the United Kingdom who won Olympic Gold twice for the UK—which is basically the reason he’s Sir Mo Farah (“created a Knight Bachelor for services to athletics"). He... Read More

I quipped in a TakiMag column a few months ago that the Pacific island nation of Niue may be the first country in the world to be completely emptied out by emigration. As you were. I have a new candidate for the title: Somalia. The current population of Somalia is listed as 9.9 million, but... Read More

Okay, I know that the Fuzzies were Sudanese followers of the Mahdi and that the Somalis are ethnically different, but they all do have bushy hair, which is what Kipling was referring to. I have been following the debate over what to do about the Somali pirates with some interest, particularly as assiduous readers of... Read More

Until a month ago, no one in the Bush administration showed the least bit of interest in the piracy off the coast of Somalia. Now that's changed and there's talk of sending in the Navy to patrol the waters off the Horn of Africa. Why the sudden about-face? It could have something to do with... Read More

"Pirates of the Caribbean" and cute little Johnny Depp they are not. Somalia's pirates tote AK-47's and RPG rockets, chew the narcotic shrub qat, use satellite cell phones for their negotiations, and are just about the only people in strife-ravaged Somalia these days who have a regular job. The Strait of Malacca between Singapore and... Read More

While I normally think that armed intervention in other peoples' quarrels generally turns out poorly, there are times when a little overwhelming force can be salutary. The current situation with pirates operating freely out of Somalia, which has no effective government, begs for just such a solution. The pirates use well established and well known... Read More

While George Bush was breezing through photo-ops at the G-8 summit in Japan; his Ethiopian proxy-army in Somalia was grinding out more carnage on the streets of Mogadishu. More than 40 civilians have been killed in the last 48 hours. On Sunday, Osman Ali Ahmed, the head of the UN Development Program in Somalia, was... Read More

osted this on American Footprints on November 13 Maybe one reason the Bush administration is unable to develop a coherent foreign policy is because it’s stuck in reactive mode, flinching as fresh catastrophes come down the pipe and scrambling to come up with new excuses and rationales for initiatives that—had they worked out—would have been... Read More

The imperial system is much more complex than what is commonly referred to as the “US Empire�. The US Empire, with its vast network of financial investments, military bases, multi-national corporations and client states, is the single most important component of the global imperial system. Nevertheless, it is overly simplistic to overlook the complex hierarchies,... Read More

"The US has opened a fourth front in the war on terrorism" the Pentagon announced last week, as if the US did not have enough failing wars on its hands with al-Qaida, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In a striking irony, F-18 fighter-bombers from the carrier "USS Eisenhower," deadly AC-130 gunships from the US base at Djibouti,... Read More

The "war on terror" is back with a bang. First Afghanistan, then Iraq and now Somalia. And Iran could well be the next Islamic nation to be bombarded by the US - as President George W Bush telegraphed in his "surge" speech on Wednesday. The Pentagon is thus already well engaged in its self-described "arc... Read More

Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia under cover of the Christmas holiday was a blatant aggression that is likely to widen the arc of conflict across the dangerously turbulent Horn of Africa. It also marks the opening of a new front in Washington's war against Islamic militants and reformers. Claims by Ethiopia that Somalia, a nation without... Read More