THE SECOND SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA'S RESOURCES IS NOW ON WHILE THE GIANT IMBE.CILE OF AFRICA AKA NIGERIA IS STILL IN A DEEP COMA, NIGERIA WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO GROW A SPINE AND EMANCIPATE YOURSELF FROM ENSLAVEMENT - WAKE THE FCK UP AND RECLAIM YOUR BIRTH RIGHT AND DON'T SENTENCE GENERATIONS UNBORN TO A LIFE OF ENDLESS SUBSERVIENCE TO EUROPE AND AMERICA.

Scrambling for Africa’s Resources - Stepehn Lendman 26 december 2012
Africa's rich in oil, gas, gold, silver, diamonds, uranium, iron, copper, tin, lead, nickel, coal, cobalt, bauxite, wood, coltan, manganese, chromium, vanadium-bearing titanium, and much more.

It’s more than about oil, stu..pid. It’s for vast African riches. Resource/mineral wars define America’s agenda.

On December 15, 2006, the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) was authorized. On February 6, 2007, it was announced.

On October 1, 2007, it was established. On October 1, 2008, it became operational. It’s mission is controlling Africa’s riches.

They’re vast. They’re some of the world’s largest and richest. Potential new deposits await to be found. Others known about await development. Modern exploration methods enable global exploitation. Virtually nothing escapes discovery.

Africa’s rich in oil, gas, gold, silver, diamonds, uranium, iron, copper, tin, lead, nickel, coal, cobalt, bauxite, wood, coltan, manganese, chromium, vanadium-bearing titanium, and much more.

Continental agricultural lands are valued. So is offshore fishing.

Congo, Southern Sudan’s Darfur region, Gulf of Guinea, Libya, Nigeria, and Niger, among other areas, hold special interest.

So does Mali. Last October, Reuters headlined “Mali war plan to be ready within weeks: AU,” saying:

Military intervention is planned to reclaim territory seized by “Islamist militants.” On March 22, an army coup toppled President Amadou Toumani Toure.

At the time, France signaled readiness to intervene. Malian junior officers revolted. They control northern areas. Obama officials call Mali a “powder keg.” Conditions threaten regional destabilization, they say.

Reasons are invented to intervene. Obama wants congressional funding. He prioritizes wars. He’s eager to begin term two with new ones. Permanent ones define his agenda.

NATO/EU partners are pressured to go along. Last October, the Security Council approved an international military mission to Mali. Ban Ki-moon was enlisted to help develop military intervention plans. Finalizing them was planned for end of November.

France drafted the UN resolution. It was Washington’s lead attack dog on Libya. It may have the same role on Mali. US special forces and drone attacks may be planned.

They’re already involved. Covert ops and surveillance began months ago. They’re prelude for what’s planned. Operations may replicate Somalia, Yemen, or Libya 2.0 with less sustained air support.

Reuters called Mali “paralyzed by twin crises.” Leadership is divided. Last June, reports said African Union officials asked for Security Council intervention authority.

On December 20, it came unanimously. Timing was left unaddressed. Authorization signaled Washington’s intention to intervene. Obama already has. Greater invention is planned.

Security Council members voted days after Malian Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra’s resignation.

Coup members arrested him. They forced him out. He strongly supports intervention.

Django Cissoko replaced him. He’s silent so far on favoring it. Malian Foreign Minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly called authorization “historic.” His government supports it.

It asked Ban Ki-moon to “confirm in advance the council’s satisfaction with the planned military offensive operation.”

Ban’s a reliable imperial ally. He’s replicated the worst of Kofi Annan’s failures and betrayal.

Both men abhor peace. They support Washington’s wars and occupations. They ignore Israel’s worst crimes. They’re indifferent to human suffering. They call aggressive wars liberating ones.

They endorse America’s agenda. Mali’s in line to be attacked, destroyed and controlled. Ban’s comfortable with more African bloodshed. The entire Sahel region and beyond are threatened.

The Security Council resolution authorized an unspecified troop strength African-led International Support Mission (AFISMA). An initial one-year period was called for.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) wants 3,300 troops in Mali. They’ll be US/Western proxies. Nigerian forces appear designated to lead them.

They’ll conduct ground operations. US, French, and other NATO logistical, air, and intelligence operations will support them.

Timing remains undecided. Tactics are being planned. Clarity may come post-holidays. Perhaps after Obama’s January 21 inauguration.

UN peacekeeping head, Herve Ladsous, suggested that logistical planning may delay intervention until September or October.

France’s UN ambassador, Gerard Araud, called it premature to say when military operations will begin. African and Malian troops must be trained, he said. Much depends on political considerations.

Extreme weather may intervene. In late March, monsoon season begins. It lasts months.

Timbuktu’s Mayor Halle Cisse asked for “rapid military action to liberate our cities.”

“There is no school. There is no work and no money,” he added. “We are fed up with this situation.” Timbuktu depends on tourism. Conflict keeps people away.

Media scoundrel fear mongering said Islamists imposed sharia law. Managed news misreporting made lurid claims. Propaganda substitutes for truth. Claims about banned public male/female socializing were featured.

Other accounts stressed attacking bars selling alcohol, recruiting child fighters, stonings, whippings, beheadings, amputations, and other punishments against non-believers.

Public sentiment is being prepared for intervention. US-style responsibility to protect (R2P) perhaps plans Libya 2.0 light.

For months, France and Washington held secret intervention talks. Rousting “Islamist militants” is pretext. So is waging war on terror. Resource control is policy.

Thursday’s resolution welcomed ECOWAS troop pledges. It called for member states’ help. Chad, Mauritania and Niger were asked to contribute. Their troops have desert warfare experience.

Resolution language stressed two-track planning. Political and military were called for.

US and French special forces operate in Mali. They’re active in other regional countries. They conduct covert operations. They’re training Malian forces. Stepped up efforts are planned.

AFRICOM head General Carter Ham called Malian and other regional conditions “vastly different than they were previously. There are now non-Al Qaeda associated (militant) groups that present significant threats to the United States.”

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) raises most concern, he said. It’s also called “the Salafist Group for Call and Combat.” Other regional groups include “the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa.”

“It is clear to me they aspire to conduct events more broadly across the region, and eventually to the United States,” claimed Ham.

“That is the ideology. That is the campaign plan. Establish the caliphate and spread the ideology. Attack Western interests. Attack democrat forms of government. We are certainly seeing it.”

America creates pretexts to intervene. When enemies don’t exist they’re invented. Imperial strategy prioritizes it.

Algiers University Professor Ahmed Adhimi believes Afghanistanizing the Sahel region looms.

Military intervention will attract “adventurers, terrorists, and all those who want to fight the Crusaders” like flower-containing pollen and nectar draw bees to produce honey.

Cross-border conflict may follow. Algeria may become Africa’s Pakistan. Washington may drag Algiers into a war it doesn’t want. It’ll end up victimized like other US targets. Obama perhaps plans it.

A Final Comment

CIA elements operate covertly virtually everywhere. So do US special forces in 120 or more countries.

Fifty-four nations comprise Africa. In 2013, the Pentagon plans sending “small teams” to over 35 of them. Perhaps they’re already in most of the other 19.

Reports about their role limited to training and equipping efforts don’t wash. US forces everywhere are combat trained and ready.

Special forces are assassins. They specialize in search and destroy, extrajudicial assassinations, and other lawless acts.

Washington wants unchallenged African dominance. AFRICOM was established to rape the continent’s riches.

Proxy and direct wars are prioritized. Expect much more in resource-rich areas.



Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

His new book is titled “Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.”

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THIS BROTHER SPELLS IT OUT IN BLACK AND WHITE:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4wIH_Hn-mc

We not only need to kick them out; we need to recover our stolen resources!

Whites may not be the real problem. Our most challenging issues are the crooked ones who can sell their own country on purpose to come to power and kill anybody who opposes this crime.
Just think about the sell-out who are now in power in Cote d'Ivoire. Think about the fake muslims stirring trouble in northern Mali.Think about all these african leaders on foreign secret services payroll.
If you make the mistake to go to Burkina, Togo, Gabon, Liberia, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Algeria,Chad, Mauritania,Niger , Libya today and talk about a strong Africa you could well end up 20 feet underground (dead).

panafrican: Whites may not be the real problem. Our most challenging issues are the crooked ones who can sell their own country on purpose to come to power and kill anybody who opposes this crime.
Just think about the sell-out who are now in power in Cote d'Ivoire. Think about the fake muslims stirring trouble in northern Mali.Think about all these african leaders on foreign secret services payroll.
If you make the mistake to go to Burkina, Togo, Gabon, Liberia, Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Algeria,Chad, Mauritania,Niger , Libya today and talk about a strong Africa you could well end up 20 feet underground (dead).

If those guys don't obey they die or get verthrown like Sankara, Lumuba, Gaddaffi or Gbagbo.

igbo2011:

If those guys don't obey they die or get verthrown like Sankara, Lumuba, Gaddaffi or Gbagbo.

Have you ever thought that the people can make those leaders fear them more than they fear the Imperialist ? For us to do that we must be enlightened and be clear minded enough to throw away the western style of Democracy. I was reading a piece about how third world countries are always deceived with the word " Modern" and with that stupidly jump into their destruction, Modern Democracy -involving a very large porous goverments and polls election which is easily manipulated and penetrated by foreign agents, Modern Global Economy- involving mass privatisations ending the public sphere, reduction or total removal of subsidies and price inflation and speculative pricing that stresses to destroy the middle class resulting in a society comprising of just a few extremely rich and a massive extremely poor class. Modern Culture - involving eroding the local culture and morals and promoting greed,selfishness and consumerism resulting in a society that is not cohesive and can never come together to fight for there common interest, a society riddled with crime,rape,homosexuality and total lack of responsibility and purpose(corporate and government embezzelment) people that lacks the moral strength to reject a bribe.
Infact i like to call it Modern Domination Strategy and it works on our people against us.

thoth:
For us to do that we must be enlightened and be clear minded enough to throw away the western style of Democracy.

Yes. This thing ( Democracy) in which questionable elections data give power to a questionable "majority" to totally ignore the grievance of a minority can bring nothing but bitterness and civil war. Today in most African countries people's energy is being swept by bickering about elections fraud, whereas China with its one billion+ people is making smooth changes in leadership.
Africans should work more towards rotating leadership (with respect to region and age ) through consensus.