Nigeria
MEMBERS ONLY: Dispatches From the Controlled Chaos Of Nigeria
Photo: Wikimedia Commons This week marked the dubious one-year anniversary of the kidnappings of 219 schoolgirls in northeastern Nigeria by Boko Haram -- an Islamist faction that's terrorized the country for six years, almost with impunity. The havoc wrought by these jihadists ...read more
Sorry Conservatives, President Obama Actually DID Label Boko Haram A Terrorist Organization
Aside from attacking Michelle Obama for publicly showing concern and lying about President Obama, one of the major spokes in the conservative effort to politicize the kidnapping of 284 schoolgirls in Nigeria has been to criticize the Obama administration for not designating Boko ...read more
Glenn Greenwald: Supporting the Effort to Find 270 Kidnapped Nigerian Girls is "Horrifying"
In response to an op/ed in The Guardian that calls for feminists in the west to support the effort to find 270 teenage Nigerian girls kidnapped by Islamic jahadists known as Boko Haram, Glenn Greenwald tweeted the following: So according to Greenwald supporting the effort to ...read more
THE MORNING BANTER: Nigerian Schoolgirls, Apple Shares, 60 Minutes, and Weird Al in Star Wars
Happy Tuesday! Let's just all take one collective sigh before we get going. Here's what's happening on the interweb: 1. US 'Outraged' As Calls Grow to Help Rescue Nigeria Schoolgirls The US says it considers the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamist ...read more
Astonishing Rescue Footage Emerges of Man Trapped 100 ft Underwater for 3 Days
In June of this year, the tragic, yet amazing story of Harrison Okene's survival in a capsized tugboat that sank off the coast of Nigeria stunned the world. Trapped in a 4ft sq. air pocket 100ft underwater in freezing temperatures, Okene survived on no food and some cans of Coca ...read more