Today, in his groundbreaking series on the U.S. military’s under-the-radar “pivot” to Africa, Nick Turse takes us to Chad, a country 99% of Americans have never heard of, and shows us just how deeply that military is embedding itself on that continent and just how poor the results have been. The U.S. military, Turse has reported, is now involved in one way or another with 49 of the 54 countries in Africa. Here he focuses on just one of them, as he tries to pry information out of U.S. Africa Command on whether a “base camp” is a base camp and a disaster-in-the-making is a disaster-in-the-making in an African country you’re likely to hear more about in the future and not in ways that will please any of us. This is, as with so much of this award-winning author’s investigations, a little instant classic. Don’t miss it. Tom From TomDispatch this morning: Ever deeper into Africa with the U.S. military -- Nick Turse, “The Outpost That Doesn’t Exist in the Country You Can’t Locate, A Base Camp, an Authoritarian Regime, and the Future of U.S. Blowback in Africa” tomdispatch/blog/175925/
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:15:26 +0000
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