Andrew Lebovich

Reportage Afrique - Est du Sénégal: les routiers en première ligne face au conflit [2/5] L’est du Sénégal face au risque de la contagion jihadiste, suite de notre série de reportages. Direction Kidira, dernière ville du Sénégal, sur la route qui relie Dakar à Bamako. Depuis que des jihadi...

It's a small point, but don't miss this Senegalese truck driver noting that JNIM lets drivers pass if they are Senegalese: www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...

Bah gawd they’re playing Glenn Greenwald’s music!

Crise du carburant au Mali : pourquoi Doumbouya ne peut pas vraiment secourir Goïta Alors que les principaux corridors d’approvisionnement du Mali en carburant sont fragilisés par les attaques incessantes, Bamako explore discrètement un passage par la Guinée. Malgré la proximité poli...

One of the points here that is actually the most noteworthy is that Guinea is hesitant to support Mali too much for fear of attracting JNIM's ire: www.jeuneafrique.com/1761976/poli...

The kind of strategic genius you’d have to buy Colby’s book to get otherwise.

What seems fairly certain:
- attack by kamikaze drones on Niamey airbase with fighters on the ground, too. Some pics show dead bodies and a motorbikes w/ a jihadist flag
- authorities had been warned a week before

It’s amusing that Hassan Piker went on a Chinese government junket but didn’t go to Minnesota.

True

What’s the difference, at this point?

An assault on the basic idea of objective truth.

You can’t watch the video of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis and see it as anything but murder.

Either it was a limited operation merely to arrest Maduro and move on, or, it is an ongoing major regime change committment that will open up a transition including international and private sector partners. It really can't be both

This makes me feel crazy. Everyone following this knows it’s true, and there’s been little to no evident effort to try to get the White House to answer even basic questions about it.

more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment

We give lots of assistance to Nigeria, including selling them guided munitions! It’s wild!

Yes, but also, lots of stupid things are very possible with this administration

So Nigeria has significant strike capabilities themselves. Their Air Force is robust and they have a solid up to date drone fleet. There is nothing we can bring to bear *from the Gulf of Guinea* that would have more effect than what they’ve been doing for the last fifteen years.

Paul Saladino is the quackiest of quacks, and it’s terrifying that he has such access and influence at such high levels of government.

I genuinely love the simple naïveté of the idea that thousands of people if not more for decades have known about UFOs, and no one ever leaked actual evidence they exist.

I know it's too easy to grow numb to the constant flood of bigotry that comes out of his mouth but it does seem morally important you don't allow yourself or anyone else to become desensitized to this vile racism as a normal part of our politics

Le blocus de Bamako a connu deux phases: la première a stupéfié un peu tout le monde par son efficacité redoutable, faisant craindre le pire pour Bamako; la seconde a permis aux autorités de redresser la barre et de faire face. Le débat est ouvert quant aux raisons de ce rééquilibrage...

Incomprehensible

Worth remembering this is the famous “yellow cake” uranium that can’t really be enriched for weapons use. But still, the story is nuts.

If French reports are correct, a large convoy carrying 1,000 tons of uranium is traveling soon through areas deeply embedded with JNIM fighters. It’s wild this story hasn’t filtered more into the wider press.

28.11 #Niger
For the past 10 days the Niger government has been preparing the departure of a convoy transporting a reported 1,000 tons of yellow cake Uranium (estimated value $170 million) from Arlit at the site previously owned by French company Orano to the port of Lomé in Togo.

A complete lack of ethics and self-criticism among basically all political journalists?

It is beyond infuriating that Lizza sat on all of this for so long (and let’s not even talk about the Butler anecdote as a cliffhanger for his next installment.) he shouldn’t make another cent from journalism, ever.

I can’t stress enough that in addition to being horrible and grotesque, it seems like Yarvin is also very stupid.

There’s also been a huge amount of stuff about Trump and Epstein in the public record for decades, but it was still treated as a largely fringe story where people just sort of took Trump’s word on things.

On ne va pas se réjouir de cette nouvelle mais le reportage à l'origine de la suspension est un Everest de connerie inégalé. C'est tellement la honte, purée