race, surveillance, and empire

Significantly, the racial underpinnings of the War on Terror sustain not just domestic repression but foreign abuses—the war’s vast death toll in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and elsewhere could not be sustained without the dehumanization of its Muslim victims. ..

false pledges to africa in the crisis

Obama’s recent high-profile announcement allocating $10 million to back up Somalia’s government against al-Shabab Islamist forces will only fuel a conflict that has driven 160,000 people from the capital, Mogadishu, since May 2009, alone. ..

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