The M23 have consolidated their control over the border municipalities of Rutshuru and Massisi, and also occupying critical areas around Goma in what amounts to a military encirclement and an occupation, all of this unchallenged by the Congolese national army… Read More ›
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The 11th Commandment: Thou Shall Regime-Change
Since Summer 2010 and the commencement of the “Libya sequence”, we have been living in a parallel political universe, where the United States of America is GOD and there is an eleventh (11th) Commandment that rules our world: Thou shall… Read More ›
In calls to DR Congo and Rwanda leaders, Ban voices concern over M23 renegades
In calls to DR Congo and Rwanda leaders, Ban voices concern over M23 renegades. By issuing such a statement, the UN Secretary-General has taken the necessary step to put the responsibility squarely on the shoulders of Rwanda for the continued… Read More ›
Rwanda Supported Insurgents M23 Further Destabilize Eastern DRC and Create Basis for Enlarged Regional Conflict
On Friday July 6, the CNDP off-shoot militant group M23 attacked FARDC posts in North Kivu loaded in the town of Butagana on the border to Uganda, striking a very busy and lucrative trading route between Congo and Uganda. North… Read More ›
More Evidence of Rwanda’s Support to Rebel to Destabilize Eastern DRC
allAfrica.com: Congo-Kinshasa: More Evidence of Rwandas Rebel Support. Read this article please. Finally, the Addendum to the last Report of the Group of Experts (also attached below) has been allowed to be published and disseminated widely after two months of… Read More ›
Political Resolution and Mediation Proposal on Syria
No matter which way you see it, Syria is already more complicated and more loaded than Libya or Iraq ever was. Russia and potentially China are involved in Syria this time in total opposition to the proposal by the US… Read More ›
China’s Sphere of Control challenged by India’s Agni 5 and Contestation in the Spratly Islands + Response to Comments
After the introvert-ism of the cultural revolution, China has been steadily building its power and position as a regional, if not a global mega power. During the Cold War, China deliberately took on the-then more powerful US by supporting armed… Read More ›
Conflict in Eastern Congo: The Kivus Could Face Another Major Regional War
Over the last week, CNDP General Bosco Ntaganda defected his FARDC post together with CNDP and PARECO soldiers comprising almost 3 battalions, establishing a rebel HQ in Kitchanga (North Kivu). Bosco, a ICC indicted war criminal, is defying the Government of… Read More ›
My Drone War – By Pir Zubair Shah | Foreign Policy
My Drone War – By Pir Zubair Shah | Foreign Policy. This is a superb piece of insight that supports my blog post on Obama’s new war strategy written a month or more ago! Shah provides credible information in this… Read More ›
The Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols: Do They Still Work for The New Wars We Face Today?
The Geneva Conventions were conceived in the 19th century as a response to centuries of war in Europe, and to the birth of the humanitarian imperative in the minds of man. They gave birth to the spirit and body of… Read More ›
Peace
“Peace is much more expensive then war …” Archbishop Desmond Tutu
