The Burkinabe Time Bomb Is About To Blow, and It Might Take Down West Africa

December 29, 2019

The landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso is a time bomb that's about to explode as evidenced by the drastic increase in terrorist-related violence there over the past year and its attendant …

The Mali-Burkina Faso-Niger Border Triangle is the New “Syraq”

May 19, 2019

Opinion

Terrorist groups in West Africa are dangerously trying to transplant the “Syraq” model of transnational destabilization to the Mali-Burkina Faso-Niger border triangle in order to turn it into a simila…

AFRICOM: A Neocolonial Occupation Force?

December 12, 2018

Opinion

Amid the George HW Bush imperial death-orgy, the endless saga of Midtown Mussolini’s daily news cycle, the seemingly unprecedented political upsurge in France, and countless other show-stopping news s…

Burkina Faso Is the New Flashpoint in France’s War on Terror

October 14, 2018

Opinion

France’s Sahel-wide “Operation Barkane” has recently been forced to pay increasing attention to the upsurge of terrorism in Burkina Faso, which is quickly turning into another flashpoint in the War on…

Liberal Fear Mongering: Bribe Migrant Smugglers or They’ll Turn Into Terrorists

July 1, 2018

Opinion

The UK’s Guardian is contributing to senseless fear mongering in propagating the narrative that former migrant smugglers – and assumedly, the sub-Saharan population at large – will turn into terrorist…

Trump Drones On. Pentagon Drone Air Bases in Niger, Targeting Libya and Nigeria

June 30, 2018

Opinion

They are like the camel’s nose, lifting a corner of the tent. Don’t be fooled, though. It won’t take long until the whole animal is sitting inside, sipping your tea and eating your sweets. In countrie…

Ethnically Driven Terrorist Murders in Mali Might Spark a Regional Meltdown

May 14, 2018

Opinion

40 members of the Tuareg minority that’s indigenous to the sparsely populated but geographically grand two-thirds of Mali were killed near the Nigerien border by what are suspected to be Fulani member…

Migrant Crisis 2.0 Might Come From Africa

May 8, 2018

Opinion

A prominent UN official warned earlier this week that the next Migrant Crisis to crash into Europe might come from Africa and not the Mideast, and that its second iteration might be much more devastat…