Tag: would

Mozambique: Inside al Shabaab – Insurgents Join Due to Poverty – Many Would Quit, So ‘Best Counter-insurgency Strategy’ is Development & Jobs

April 18, 2021
An important new picture of the inside of al Shabaab is provided by interviews with 23 women who had been captured and eventually escaped, in a study published yesterday by João Feijó, one of the most important investigators of the Cabo Delgado war. Feijo is technical coordinator of OMR, the Rural Environment Observatory, and the

SOUTH AFRICA : Anglo American under fire from would-be ANC president Ace Magashule

March 21, 2021
As he campaigns (though still unofficially) to become president of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party, a position widely seen as a springboard for the top job in the land, the ANC’s current secretary-general Ace Magashule has decided to take on a heavyweight adversary: the mining giant Anglo American. Source link

Susan Collins is baffled as to why the White House ‘would want to alienate’ her

March 20, 2021
Refinery29Marjorie Taylor Greene Excuses Her “Jewish Space Lasers” Comment In A Very Marjorie Taylor Greene WaySince taking office earlier this year, Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon conspiracy theorist, has been exposed for making a number of egregious racist and transphobic remarks. Greene’s old Facebook posts have showed her glorifying violence against Democratic

Want to flip a state blue? Stacey Abrams drops major key, and she would know

November 11, 2020
Abrams’ name trended on Twitter when President-elect Joe Biden inched ahead of President Donald Trump in Georgia, flipping a state that hasn’t backed a Democrat for president since Bill Clinton in 1992. And when Biden went on to be declared the next U.S. president Saturday, a crowd outside of the White House shouted “Stacey Abrams.” Not

Biden picking Rahm Emanuel for cabinet would be ‘divisive’

November 9, 2020
Progressive Democrats and activists will be warily watching Joe Biden’s cabinet choices, US Rep. Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez said Monday — while publicly weighing in against former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. “Someone like Rahm Emanuel would be a pretty divisive pick,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told the New York Times. “And it would signal, I think,

Trump says US would be in ‘massive depression’ if he listened to experts

October 19, 2020
President Trump said the US would be in the throes of a “massive depression” if he had “totally” heeded advice from scientists on coronavirus-related lockdown measures. Trump made the economic prediction at his Sunday rally in Carson City, Nevada, adding that the country would endure another Great Depression if Joe Biden is elected president. “He’s

Trump would reportedly ‘show off’ the capabilities of different weapons systems he was briefed on to impress billionaires

August 8, 2020
Intelligence officials have had a difficult time briefing President Trump on matters throughout his presidency, The New York Times reports. He reportedly often loses interest, unless the subject is heavy on economics or could intrigue other wealthy people, which tended to concern the intelligence community.In the latter scenario, one former senior administration official told The