{"id":241159,"date":"2023-08-07T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T11:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=241159"},"modified":"2023-08-07T06:30:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T05:30:57","slug":"the-niger-coup-syria-military-escalation-as-u-s-increases-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/08\/the-niger-coup-syria-military-escalation-as-u-s-increases-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"The Niger Coup &#8211; Syria Military Escalation as U.S. Increases Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_241160\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ibrahim-Traore-President-Burkina-Faso.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-241160\" class=\"wp-image-241160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ibrahim-Traore-President-Burkina-Faso.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ibrahim-Traore-President-Burkina-Faso.webp 640w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Ibrahim-Traore-President-Burkina-Faso-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-241160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Captain Ibrahim Traore interim President of Burkina Faso<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>My Two Sections from 2 Aug 2023<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>In section one I<\/strong> cover the recent military coup in Niger and the emergence of a new Pan-Africanist movement led by the Sahel nations of Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali with a combined population of 60 million. It is the 7th military coup to overthrow governments in thrall to French neocolonialism since 2020. The developing partnerships with Russia and China are strengthening African resolve to throw off the chains of colonialism. With Ibrhaim Traore we see a similar ideology to the assassinated Thomas Sankara, one of the most inspirational leaders of all time.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Niger, Burkina Faso leading the Sahel region war against Imperialism\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wZ9KjxkkYD0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Then in section two,<\/strong> I cover the recent events in Syria &#8211; the U.S. military build-up and the recent spate of ISIS attacks triggered by the U.S-led axis of terror occupying one third of Syrian territory.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Syria heads for military escalation as US increases pressure\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y7F-uKwFWNI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>___________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/vanessa-beeley-e1682654357920.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-230114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/vanessa-beeley-e1682654357920.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a> Vanessa Beeley is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" ><em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/em><\/a><em>. \u201c<\/em><em>The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/beeley.substack.com\/p\/syria-military-escalation-as-us-increases?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=716517&amp;post_id=135680850&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;utm_medium=email\" >Go to Original \u2013 beeley.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Section one: The military coup in Niger and the Pan-Africanist movement led by Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali.<br \/>\nSection two: The U.S. military build-up and ISIS attacks triggered by the U.S-led axis of terror occupying one third of Syrian territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":171316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[237,2989,532,1675,1739,767,551,3111,86,413],"class_list":["post-241159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-africa","tag-burkina-faso","tag-colonialism","tag-france","tag-mali","tag-middle-east","tag-neocolonialism","tag-niger","tag-occupation","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241163,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241159\/revisions\/241163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}