Democracy Now: Somalia Piracy Began in Response to Illegal Fishing and Toxic Dumping by Western Ships off Somali Coast
Democracy Now investigates, “While the pirates story has dominated the corporate media, there has been little to no discussion of the root causes driving piracy” i.e. illegal fishing and toxic waste duming off the Somalia coast by European ships. Its telling what the different factions are saying about the latest media circus .. on the blogs the Dems are playing up the failures of the Bush administration in their proxy war on Somalia through Ethiopia; the GOP were just hoping that Obama would be embarrassed in the ordeal so they could mock him for it (Fox Newsers were predicting the rescue would fail right as the operation was being carried out); as usual Democracy Now and other progressive writers like Johann Hari give us the unvarnished truth – mab .. read more
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