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"Well done!" -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African American Researcher, Harvard University, host of "Finding Your Roots"
"I strongly recommend this well-researched article. ...I never explored the oil explanation for U.S. involvement in Somalia the way Nick Alexandrov does here." — Peter Dale Scott, poet and academic, author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
"Excellent piece." -- Jeremy Kuzmarov, historian, author of The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs and Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century
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"Excellent article.... Thanks for putting it out there so clearly and beautifully." -- Dr. Robin Reineke, Founding Executive Director, Colibri Center for Human Rights
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