The Destabilization Of Africa BLOOD MONEY OUT OF AFRICA From Michael Ruppert 'From The Wilderness' http://www.copvcia.com 5-6-1
[On 6 April, 2001 Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D), GA. Boldly sponsored a forum on the totally ignored rape of Africa - a key part of the current headlong rush toward globalization. FTW has been woefully silent about Africa as we have reported on trends elsewhere in the world. We admit that this has been partially out of ignorance which we begin to correct now by posting (with permission) this report on her forum. As the planet coalesces with frightening speed into three dominant economic regions (The Western Hemisphere, Europe and Asia) it is critical to understand that the carnage in Africa can only accelerate. McKinney, who sits on the House International Relations Committee, is to be commended for her non-partisan critique of both Democratic and Republican Administrations. The following is about as ugly as it gets. - FTW] Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C. Rayburn House Office Building Friday, April 6, 2001 10:00am - 12:00 noon
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OPENING STATEMENT Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
I want to thank you all for coming today.
I especially want to thank our esteemed speakers for traveling, in some instances quite a long way, to be with us today.
Our speakers are courageous individuals who have gone to many of Africa's most dangerous and desperately poor locations, not for wealth or riches, but in order to merely discover the truth. They provide us with a remarkable insight into what has gone on in Africa and what continues to go on in Africa today.
Much of what you will hear today has not been widely reported in the public media. Powerful forces have fought to suppress these stories from entering the public domain.
Their investigations into the activities of Western governments and Western businessmen in postcolonial Africa provide clear evidence of the West's long-standing propensity for cruelty, avarice, and treachery. The misconduct of Western nations in Africa is not due to momentary lapses, individual defects, or errors of common human frailty. Instead, they form part of long-term malignant policy designed to access and plunder Africa's wealth at the expense of Africa's people. In short, the accounts you are about to hear provide an indictment of Western activities in Africa.
The West has, for decades, plundered Africa's wealth and permitted, and even, assisted in slaughtering Africa's people. The West has been able to do this while still shrewdly cultivating the myth that much of Africa's problems today are African made--we have all heard the usual Western defenses that Africa's problems are the fault of corrupt African administrations, centuries-old tribal hatreds, the fault of unsophisticated peoples. But we know that those statements are all a lie. We have always known it.
The accounts we are about to hear today assist us in understanding just why Africa is in the state it is in today. You will hear that at the heart of Africa's suffering is the West's, and most notably the United States', desire to access Africa's diamonds, oil, natural gas, and other precious resources.
You will hear that the West, and most notably the United States, has set in motion a policy of oppression, destabilization and tempered, not by moral principle, but by a ruthless desire to enrich itself on Africa's fabulous wealth. While falsely pretending to be the friends and allies of many African countries, so desperate for help and assistance, many western nations have in reality betrayed those countries' trust--and instead, have relentlessly pursued their own selfish military and economic policies. Western countries have incited rebellion against stable African governments by encouraging and even arming opposition parties and rebel groups to begin armed insurrection.
The Western nations have even actively participated in the assassination of duly elected and legitimate African Heads of State and replaced them with corrupted and malleable officials. Western nations have even encouraged and been complicit in the unlawful invasions by African nations into neighboring counties.
Something must be done to right these wrongs.
I invite you to listen and learn first-hand of the West's activities in Africa.[/b]
UN Security Council approves military intervention in Mali By Ernst Wolff and Alex Lantier 22 December 2012 On Thursday the United Nations Security Council authorized an intervention into the sub-Saharan country of Mali by foreign troops, under the pretext of freeing northern Mali from occupation by Al Qaeda-linked Islamists. The resolution was adopted unanimously. The vote came only ten days after the forced resignation of Malian Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra and his replacement by Django Cissoko. Diarra was an outspoken defender of a foreign military intervention, whereas Cissoko, who was installed by the military junta under Captain Amadou Sanogo, has so far abstained from any commentary on foreign intervention. The United Nations’ decision, which does not contain a specific time-table for military action, comes as a clear warning—firstly to the military junta, but above all to the workers and oppressed masses of Mali—that the imperialist powers intend to control the fate of Mali. Malian Foreign Minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly called the resolution a “historic step,” adding that his government “commits itself fully” to fulfilling its obligations under the resolution. To give itself a democratic touch, the resolution calls for “political reconciliation”, elections “as soon as technically possible,” and the restoration of constitutional order. It also asks UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to “confirm in advance the council’s satisfaction with the planned military offensive operation”. In reality, it is paving the way for another bloody war on African soil, setting the fuse for an explosion of the entire surrounding Sahel region. Mali, one the world’s poorest countries, was shaken by a military coup in March. This was provoked largely by the occupation of northern Mali by heavily-armed Tuareg forces returning from the NATO war in Libya, where they had fought on Gaddafi’s side against NATO. Only months later, the Tuareg militias were forced out by Islamist fighters, who have ties to Al Qaeda and established rule by sharia law. They were joined by several thousand Islamists from North Africa and Asia, reportedly financed from Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The UN resolution backs a decision by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to deploy 3,300 troops in Mali to fight the Islamists. The mission is to be led by Nigeria and has drawn criticism from Algeria, which historically has objected to foreign military deployments in the Sahel. The imperialist powers are trying to hide their agenda behind their regional proxies. The resolution officially authorizes an African-led International Support Mission, known as AFISMA, for an initial period of one year without making any mention of its size. It “welcomes” ECOWAS troop contributions and calls on member states, including those in the Sahel, to contribute troops to the mission. It also mentions providing “a voluntary and a United Nations-funded logistics support packages to AFISMA, including equipment and services for an initial period of one year”. The resolution asks the secretary-general to provide support in critical areas to help the Malian government to “extend its authority during or following a military operation, including in the rule of law, removing land mines, and promoting national dialogue and regional cooperation”. Although the UN Security Council resolution was unanimously adopted, it appears that the detailed planning of an intervention is still ongoing. This is due above all to considerable frictions between the United States and France, the former colonial power in Mali, over the tactics of an invasion. French imperialism is heavily dependent on the Sahel for uranium for it nuclear industry. It is demanding immediate military action—with ECOWAS countries providing ground troops as cannon fodder for the war, while Washington and its European allies provide logistical, air, and intelligence support. Sections of the American ruling class opposed such plans, objecting that ECOWAS troops would not be militarily able to defeat the Islamists, and that other regional powers, such as Algeria, should be involved. US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice recently dismissed France’s plan based on ECOWAS as “crap.” An imperialist-led intervention in Mali as outlined by the UN and discussed by the United States and the European powers would be yet another reactionary war launched on the basis of lies. The claim that the NATO powers must intervene in Mali because they need to halt the spread of Al Qaeda’s influence is absurd. NATO wars are in fact one of the main bases on which Al Qaeda’s influence develops. The fighting in Mali grew largely out of the Libyan war, in which NATO relied to a large extent on far-right Islamists, including forces of the Al Qaeda-linked Libyan Islamic Fighting Group. Today, the US-backed opposition in Syria includes the Al Nusra Front, which the US government itself acknowledges is a terrorist group tied to Al Qaeda. While using Al Qaeda as a tool of its imperialist policies elsewhere, in Mali the NATO powers are citing the threat of Al Qaeda as a lever to organize intervention in Mali and deepen imperialist control over all of western Africa. Negotiations are continuing with the ECOWAS states as well as with Algeria on how to proceed with the intervention. (See also: French president promotes corporate interests, Mali war in Algeria visit ) There are widespread expectations that an invasion of northern Mali will rapidly spread fighting throughout the Sahel, as northern Mali shares long borders with Algeria, Niger, and Mauritania. Comparisons are now openly being made between the war in Mali and the NATO war in Afghanistan, which has since spilled over into Pakistan and other neighboring countries. Thus Algiers University Professor Ahmed Adhimi wrote, “Now we face the Afghanization of the Sahel region. Military intervention means that all adventurers, terrorists, and all those who want to fight the Crusaders will come to northern Mali. Then Algeria would become the Pakistan of Africa, and it would be easy to drag the region’s countries into war… [This would] drag Algeria into a war with which it has nothing to do, its objective is to drain the country’s wealth.”
france are invading mali as part of their agenda to occupy the african continent along with the United States under the banner of AFRICOM, France's involvement has nothing to do with helping mali:
The U.S. Military Swarms Over Africa
“The 2nd Brigade’s deployment is a much larger assignment, aimed at making all of Africa a theater of U.S. military operations.”
2013 is the year the U.S. kicks off its wholesale military occupation of Africa. The escalation should come as no surprise, since the Army Times newspaper [8] reported, back in June, that a U.S. brigade of at least 3,000 troops would become a permanent presence on the continent in the new year. On Christmas Eve, the Pentagon announced that 3,500 soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division’s 2nd Brigade, in Fort Riley, Kansas, will be sent to Africa, supposedly to confront a threat from al-Qaida in Mali, where Islamists have seized the northern part of the country. But the 2nd Brigade is scheduled to hold more than 100 military exercises in 35 countries [9], most of which have no al-Qaida presence. So, although there is no doubt that the U.S. will be deeply involved in the impending military operation in Mali, the 2nd Brigade’s deployment is a much larger assignment, aimed at making all of Africa a theater of U.S. military operations.The situation in Mali is simply a convenient, after-the-fact rationale for a long-planned expansion of the U.S. military footprint in Africa.
The Pentagon’s larger purpose in placing an army brigade on roving duty all across the continent is to acclimate African commanders to hosting a permanent, large scale U.S. presence. This is a very different kind of invasion – more like an infiltration-in-force. The Pentagon’s strategy is designed to reinforce relationships that the U.S. Africa Command has been cultivating with African militaries since the establishment of AFRICOM [10] during George Bush’s last year in office. As an infiltrating force, AFRICOM has been a phenomenal success.
[b]“Militarily, the West Africans are totally dependent.”
Militarily speaking, the African Union has become an annex of the Pentagon [11]. The AU’s biggest operation, in Somalia, is armed, financed and directed by the U.S. military and CIA. The 17,000 African troops on so-called peace-keeping duty in Somalia are, for all practical purposes, mercenaries for the Americans – although poorly paid ones. Ethiopian and Kenyan forces act as extensions of U.S. power in the East Africa. U.S. Special Forces roam the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic – ostensibly looking for the fugitive warlord Joseph Kony but, in reality, establishing a web of U.S. military infrastructures [12] throughout center of the continent. Uganda and Rwanda keep the eastern Congo’s mineral riches safe for U.S. and European corporations – at the cost of 6 million Congolese lives. Their militaries are on the Pentagon’s payroll.
In northwest Africa, the 16 nations of the region’s economic community await the intervention of the United Nations [13] – which really means the United States and France – to “expel the Islamist forces” [14] from Mali. Militarily, the West Africans are totally dependent. But, more importantly, they show no political will to escape this dependency – especially after the demise of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi.
The creeping, continental U.S. expeditionary force, soon to be spearheaded by the 1st Infantry Division’s 2nd Brigade, will bunk down in African military bases throughout the continent, not as invaders, but as guests. Guests who pay the bills and provide the weapons for African armies whose mission has nothing to do with national independence and self-determination. Three generations after the beginnings of decolonization, the African soldier is once again bowing to the foreign master.[/b]
For Black Agenda Radio, I’m Glen Ford. On the web, go to BlackAgendaReport.com.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com [15].
Janet Jackson is an American singer with a net worth of $150 million. Born in Gary, Indiana, the youngest of the nine Jackson children, Janet moved with her family to a mansion in Encino, California at the age of four. She performed with the Jackson Five on an occasional basis, and began her solo career at the age of sixteen, with her debut album Janet Jackson. In 1991, Jackson began to distance herself from her family’s music empire, signing a contract valued at between $32 – $50 million with Virgin Records and thereby taking on the title of the highest-paid female artist in contemporary music. Her first album with Virgin, janet., debuted at number one on the Billboard charts and included five number-one singles, including the Grammy-winning single “That’s the Way Love Goes.”
Her next two albums, The Velvet Rope and All For You, also debuted at the top of the charts and sold a combined total of sixteen million copies worldwide; she remains an important pop artist with a long legacy. In 2004, Jackson became the most-searched news story in Internet history (as reported by the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records) when, during the Super Bowl halftime show, Justin Timberlake tore her shirt open, exposing one breast; Jackson called the moment an accident and refused to apologize to CBS. Jackson has also appeared in several films—she got her start in 1993′s Poetic Justice and returned to the big screen in The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps and Why Did I Get Married?, all three of which opened first at the box office. Forbes Magazine ranked Jackson the seventh-richest woman in the entertainment business.
Not sure.[/quote][quote author=tpia@]He is a shareholder of an upscale retail store where the richest people in the world shop, why does he need to break into the american market, when he has already cornered one of the most lucrative markets and has stores in 26 countries?
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Kslib: Why are you insulting the guy?? You are the one who is full of shiiit and a fooool at that.. How can you say the whites pioneered MEDICINE: weren't my ancestors taking herbal medicines before they came in contact with the whites.. Let me tell you,medicine is as old as man himself.. The evil whites created the deadly hiv,and a handfull of blacks have found the cure for hiv but powers that be not are trying to silence them. I guess that might not interest you,cos you think all black men are as dumb as you.. Dont you dare say the whites pioneered medicine... ARCHITECTURE: Is it the white man/men that built the pyramids of egypt or other well structured ancient african villages/towns.. It's like saying someone pioneered eating,sleeping and bathing.. It doesn't make sense... ASTROLOGY: Do you know that astrology dated back to the time of jesus... What did the three wise men used to locate jesus?? Then ask yourself,are the three wise men white?? Some of you just think the white invented everything cos they made you beleive so.. Have you ever heard about ancient black civilisation?? Inshort,with the way you talk/reason,i wont be surprised if doctors open your brain one day and tell you it is "made in usa" and you"ll gladly beleive them...
see me see trouble oh -
bros i was abusing the guy for failing to acknowledge what our african ancestors achieved in terms of astrology, medicine, architecture, etc - why are you attackng me ?
of course i know that the white man invented the hiv disease which he is now using to decimate our people - bros me and you are on the same side
nigerians are one people - i have so many friends and relatives who have married people of other nigerian tribes and they are living happily as man and wife, stop comparing petty tribalism to racism. racism is on a whole nother level and it is about CONTROL OF POWER, WEALTH AND RESOURCES , IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PETTY DIFFERENCES OR DISLIKE BETWEEN DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS - if you have been a victim of racism at the hands of whites as a black man you will instantly understand where i am coming from.
shymexx: The U.S. Dept of Immigration also classify Nubians as Caucasians and Aborigines as black other...
So your point is......??
they make the rules because they are currently on top.
they dictate who falls into which category because they invented the concept of race to suit their agenda which is to ensure that they remain in control of the world 's resources.
control of the world's resources = control of the world,
many dumb fools on this forum do not understand that racism has nothing to do with dislike of someone of another race but CONTROL OF THE WORLD'S RESOURCES WHICH EQUALS TO GLOBAL POWER, WHEN YOU CONTROL THE WORLD'S RESOURCES, YOU CONTROL HOW PEOPLE THINK, FCK, EAT AND SLEEP, THE WHITE MAN HAS FIGURED THIS CRUCIAL FACT OUT AND YET DUMB NEGROES ARE STILL CHASING THEIR TAILS TALKING ABOUT DISLIKE OF SOMEONE OF ANOTHER RACE - WTF!!! RACISM IS ABOUT POWER AND THE ABILITY TO DICTATE THE DESTINY OF THOSE WHO BELONG TO A DIFFERNT RACE FROM YOURS IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT YOUR OWN RACE REMAINS IN A POSITION OF POWER TILL ETERNITY!!!!
[quote author=Alaba_Slim]The lady is racist simple. The WHITES feel they are superior cos they most likely INVENTED everythin we BLACKS hav used & 're continuin usin....i sumtyms wonder how lazy the southafrican whites are?[/quote]you are full of sh.it
who are the pioneers of astrology, medicine,philosophy, architecture, please dont let me abuse you on this forum - go and research your history please and stop embarrassing yourself and your race.
[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Lets not give the western media all the credit. Nairaland gets 25% blame.[/quote]apart from nigerians resident in nigeria and abroad, and a few non nigerian blacks who really logs on to nairaland?
compare that to the coverage that the western media has
the bottom line is that the woman has no respect for blacks thats why she was mouthing off about smelly nigerians - the western media has succeeded in making anything to do with nigeria synonymous with filth, degradation and negativity and she is just another brainwashed white b.tich who has been conditioned to hate blacks, the guy is also full of displaced anger -the funny thing is that guys like him will sooner date a white or mixed race woman than their own black women so in many ways he deserves the abuse he got from this white/mixed race bitch. London is a strange place - its full of people from different racial backgrounds but there is always an undertone of racism bubbling away just beneath the surface, many of the black british people hate themselves and hate being called african - maybe thats why this guy went ape sh.t when the racist bi..ch verbally abused him, the fact that she's sleeping with a black man does not mean she doesnt have contempt for blacks in general, many whites love sleeping with blacks but have zero respect for black people, who you sleep with has nothing to do with what you think about a race in general. i beleive at some point a race war will erupt between the brainwashed blacks who think they are white and white people, because sooner or later the brainwashed blacks in the UK are going to realise that nothing has really changed since the 1950s in this country when it comes to race.
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.
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because most africans (especially nigerians are ignorant, self hating crawling fools who have no knowledge of self and are obsessed with empty materialism.
if i had my way i would nuke all of these coons off the surface of the earth and rebuild a new race of militant, radical proud nigerians.
the united states should go fck themselves - not all of us are stupid we are aware of ur diabolical plan - AFRICOM - go fck yourselves you demonic vultures.
US, France deploy troops to Central African Republic
by Patrick O’Connor The US and France are deploying additional troops to the Central African Republic (CAR), as anti-government militias close on the capital, Bangui. The intervention is part of a wider ratcheting up of imperialist military operations across Africa, with Washington and its European allies working to maintain their strategic domination of the continent and control of its natural resources.
The US and France were already conducting military operations in CAR before a rebel offensive threatened to topple the government of President François Bozize.
CAR is one of several central African countries in which at least 100 American Special Forces are active, supposedly pursuing fighters of the Lord’s Resistance Army. President Barack Obama advised Congress on Saturday that he had ordered a “standby security force” of 50 troops to CAR, citing a “deteriorating security situation” that required the withdrawal of US embassy staff and other American citizens from Bangui.
France has likewise intervened, on the basis of protecting its 1,200 citizens in the country. After maintaining soldiers in CAR on a near continuous basis since granting formal independence to its former colony in 1960, Paris has in recent days boosted its previously existing 250-troop deployment to nearly 600.
Another 500 foreign troops deployed by the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), mostly from neighbouring Chad, are also in the country. The Chadian government has pledged to send another 2,000 troops to support the CAR government.
President Bozize’s administration this month lost control over much of CAR. Seleka (“alliance” in the Sango national language), a loose coalition of anti-government militias, has seized towns across the country’s north and east and is reportedly within 75 kilometres of the capital. Seleka accuses the government of reneging on 2007-2008 peace agreements mandating payments to rebel guerrillas and their integration into the national army.
Some residents of Bangui, population 600,000, are fleeing in fear of a rebel offensive, while the price of basic foodstuffs has reportedly risen by more than 25 percent. The government has imposed a night-time curfew that is reportedly being enforced by young people armed with machetes at makeshift barricades erected across the city’s main roads.
CAR is one of the most desperately impoverished countries in the world. Life expectancy is just 50 years, only three other countries have a worse infant mortality and maternal mortality rate, and the majority of CAR’s 4.5 million people survive through subsistence agriculture. The stark contrast between the country’s extreme poverty and its significant natural wealth—including diamonds, gold, uranium, timber, and oil—reflects both the devastating legacy of colonial rule and ongoing imperialist oppression.
Washington has seized on the crisis to further extend its military operations in Africa. The CAR deployment comes just days after the US military announced that a dedicated army brigade, with about 3,500 troops, would carry out continuous activities across the continent. The newly created brigade is a component of Obama’s drive to ramp up the Pentagon’s Africa Command (AFRICOM), which was first created in 2007.
A renewed scramble for Africa is underway. US imperialism’s aggressive pursuit of the continent’s oil and other natural resources is part of the Obama administration’s drive to counter China’s growing strategic influence, in the Pacific and internationally. Beijing has been developing close diplomatic and economic ties with several African states in recent years. The continent is now an important source of energy resources for both the US and China. With greater frequency, Washington is retaliating with military force.
The relatively limited American military deployment to CAR could quickly develop into a wider intervention. Pretexts are readily available—a worsening humanitarian crisis in the country and the role Islamic fundamentalist elements reportedly play in the Seleka force. The occupation of northern Mali, in western Africa, by Al Qaeda-linked militias has provided the rationale for the preparation of a foreign military intervention, authorised by the UN Security Council earlier this month. The US and France have been at the forefront of agitation for an intervention into Mali, following the country’s destabilisation through the US-NATO regime-change operation in neighbouring Libya last year.
CAR President Bozize has urged the US and France to intervene against the rebel forces. In a speech last Thursday, Bozize accused unspecified “foreigners” of backing the rebels and suggested that the unrest was triggered by his granting of oil exploration contracts earlier this year to Chinese and South African corporations.
“Before giving oil to the Chinese I met with [oil company] Total in Paris and told them to take the oil. Nothing happened. I gave oil to the Chinese and it became a problem,” he said.
French corporation Areva is currently developing one of CAR’s largest foreign investments, a uranium mine in the country’s south.
Pro-intervention protests, organised by or tacitly endorsed by the government, were staged outside the American and French embassies in Bangui last week. Demonstrators reportedly accused Paris of supporting the rebels.
French President Francois Hollande claimed neutrality, declaring: “If we are present, it is not to protect a regime, it is to protect our nationals and our interests, and in no way to intervene in the internal affairs of a country, in this case Central Africa. Those days are gone.”
Behind this bogus “non-intervention” posture, the French government is undoubtedly working hand in hand with the Obama administration to determine the outcome of the crisis in CAR.
France has been intimately involved in every change of government in its former colony since 1960. Bozize received French military training before becoming CAR’s youngest general when he was just 32, under the notorious self-declared emperor, Jean-Bedel Bokassa. Paris armed and financed Bokassa while he was in power between 1966 and 1979, before he was replaced in a coup that was spearheaded by an invasion of hundreds of French Special Forces.
After spending years in exile in France, Bozize attempted several military coups before finally seizing power in 2003. The French government then provided crucial support, including having French military forces direct operations and launch air strikes against rebel guerrillas in 2006. If Paris now refuses to come to Bozize’s aid, it suggests that French imperialism either wants anti-government forces in power or some other change in government in Bangui.
After meeting with African Union Chairman Thomas Yayi Boni yesterday, Bozize declared that he was willing to form a new “national unity” government with Seleka. Negotiations between the government and the rebels are scheduled for early next month in the West African country of Gabon
toluene12: In Asia; india, singapore, malaysia, indonesia, thailand, vietnam middle east: qatar, bahrain, U.A.E, kuwait. you may argue that these countries are oil rich states but so also is nigeria, algeria, equitorial guinea, angola, and gabon. we need an holistic approach to this problem and should not limit our scope to africa, or else we wont come to the understanding of what post colonial development is all about. if states in other continent can overcome the burden of colonial imperialism and move forward, I see no reason why african countries should still be groping in darkness and battling with colonial mentality more than 50 yrs after independence. That the world is yet to produce her first successful black nation goes a long way to show that the problem is within and not from the former colonial powers
i said - can i have examples of other AFRICAN COUNTRIES WITH THE SAME COLONIAL EXPERIENCE AS NIGERIA THAT HAVE MOVED FORWARD not asian countries, america and europe have a different relationship with asia compared to the relationship they have with africa - asia was given vast financial and developmental assistance from america after the second world war in order to prevent communist china from gaining control over those areas, japan was rebuilt with US financial aid, indonesia is a puppet state of america and it operates one of the worlds worst human rights records, have you ever heard of a country called east timor ? it is very close to indonesia and under instructions from america was invaded and its people massacred as part of indonesia's bid to expand its territory.
Democratic systems in indonesia were dismantled and a US puppet by the name of suharto was placed in office in 1965 and during this period he was given a list by the united states govt of people that should be rounded up and executed - is this the country you are holding up as a good example for nigeria to follow? would you like to live in a country where your entire family could be rounded up and executed by govt secret services?
Africa was designated as a a supplier of cheap raw materials and that position has not changed - why did france invade ivory coast ? why was libya invaded by NATO despite being the only african country whose standard of living rivalled those of many european countries, how come libya is now in ruins despite having no foreign debt
J12: More financial transactions are used with the US dollars, also the demand for dollar securities is still very strong. China is the biggest investor of US government treasuries and bonds. Their major concern as investors, is the payment of their interest. Yes, recently, they(china, Singapore, Japan) have lost interest in dollar securities and have made huge investments in eurobonds, swissfranc, kroner and other small currencies. . This decision was taken probably because they needed to diversify their investments towards other currencies. However, this won't cause the dollar fall flat on its back because like I said, the demand for dollar securities is still strong.
no china is gradually trying to disengage from the dollar because they know that the US dollar is losing its value on a daily basis, if china decides to dump the dollar its value will plummet drastically and this will lead to a stampede by other nations to dump it as well this will ultimately lead to the collapse of the US dollar, for now china is playing it cool - but the risk of this happening is still very high.
J12: 6 billion or 12 billion? Anyway, it was a good we thing we paid because we were favored by the "Naples Terms". It was a good bargain.
a good bargain to give away $12 billion of your foreign reserves when argentina (a richer country than us) that owed $6 billion to the same creditors paid nothing?
and did you know that we had already paid over $35 billion of the principal amount - that $12 billion was payment in respect of the interest only.
Foreign Affairs › Re: France Helps Mali To Fight Rebels by cap28: 3:07pm On Jan 13, 2013
