The People Speak Radio

The government position on information is clear. President Siad Barre put it this way, years ago: “We have made it our duty to in­form our people of whatever we believe to be of interest to them and to the country.” Nat­urally, the state-controlled radio and press purvey propaganda, directed by … Continue reading →

Rivers of gray mud poured from the melt­ing ice. In winter the rivers fell, exposing vast bars of sediment to the wind. Clouds of wind-blown silt fell all over the Midwest as loess, piling up in hundred-foot bluffs near the Missouri and Mississippi. Successive soils of loess and till weathered … Continue reading →