Human Security

I recently had an interesting conversation with my Italian roommate, after I had expressed my deep gratitude to the Italian people for taking in African refugees, treating them well, and giving them a chance to start over in Italy.

For those old enough to remember, 4 May was a day of grief, as 40 years ago apartheid’s brutal military launched an unprecedented airborne assault on the small Angolan hamlet of Cassinga, 260 kilometres north of the Namibian border.

Last week, Roméo Dallaire attended a screening of “Rwanda — The Royal Tour” in Chicago.

In defence of President Trump, these allegations could be considered rather unfair, as exhibiting a substantial degree of “instability” might be an inherent demand of the job of US President if not a prerequisite for entry into the highest elected office.

Somalis are anxious to dust off their tarnished name, which has been associated with countless ills. So far the financial and political efforts paid to bring about a “Somali Republic” from the ruins we have all lived through for the last two generations have not yielded better results.

South Africa will need “1.6 times the amount of water than will naturally be available by 2030”[[i]], said Professor Antony Turton of Free State University at a conference early 2018.

My goal in this book was to study the 2011 imperialist aggression against Libya from the perspective of a detective investigating the murder of the Libyan leader. Put simply, this is a study of naked, imperialist aggression.

The United States of America, the United Kingdom and France – an imperialist alliance – have bombed multiple government targets in Syria in an early (Saturday 14 April 2018) morning operation. And, with this act, the imperialist states have violated sovereignty of a country.

In October 2017, a retired New Jersey police chief, Frank Nucera, Jr., a 60-year-old of Bordentown Township was arrested, for hate crimes and violating the civil rights of an African American suspect under custody. A complaint cited that he demonstrated “intense racial animus” towards blacks.

The misinformation campaign also involved the dissemination of a series of fabrications and misrepresentations of the realities on the ground, particularly in terms of the geographical scheme enacted under the ceasefire and the related military agreement between the Frente POLISARIO and Morocco.