Somali Civilian Deaths: Yet Another Cover-Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgu3OUZ8_4U

The US war in Africa is a poorly kept secret. It isn't too hard to piece together the various theatres, actions and agendas. This is despite the fact that the US mainstream media continues to largely ignore it and is content to keep the public in a state of ignorance.

That said, with no front line and given the fact that the war is being fought in the dark with intelligence agencies, drones, special ops and through proxy forces... it's hard to suss out just what is happening on a day-to-day basis.

Some of these conflicts, such as the one in Somalia have gone on so long they have to be covered and explained in phases. They are on the one hand continuous conflicts. On the other hand, they are really a series of wars and the players of today are not necessarily the same groups and people involved ten let alone twenty-five years ago.

One thing the US has gotten pretty good at is covering up atrocities. These stories harm the US military and the agenda of the State Department and yet probably less so when it comes to Africa. The truth is Western audiences just don't care. It's sad but unfortunately true. The empathy Western media was able to engender when it came to Kosovo dwarfed the monumental catastrophe of the Congo Wars... conflicts in which millions died and yet few in the West have even heard of.

This clip from Democracy Now! is brief and yet informative and helps to understand the nitty-gritty and grievous nature of such wars... and why they spell endless doom to the civilian populations.

American soldiers are in the end soldiers. They're no different than anyone else. They get frustrated, embittered and vengeful. It is inevitable they will begin to look down on the impoverished dark skinned population they must work with and yet at the same time oppress. They find that they can't trust people and often don't understand what is happening. These conditions are a virtual formula for massacre.

The reporter, an independent journalist named Christina Goldbaum had best be careful. The Daily Beast picked up her story but journalists that tell such tales make a lot of enemies. If her profile climbs, it will protect her but if she remains on the margins, she will likely be marginalised.

The State Department will make noise about other countries that imprison dissenting journalists. They accuse Putin's cronies of murdering them. Who doubts it? And while it cannot be definitively proved, a strong case can be made that the US has murdered many investigative journalists and continues to do so. My warning to Goldbaum is real because she epitomises the type of reporter who ends up dying under suspicious circumstances.