African Affairs Western Agendas

Somali Americans Subjected to First Obama "Terror" Prosecution

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jul2009/soma-j16.shtml

"The US Justice Department unsealed an indictment in Minneapolis Monday against two young Somali-Americans in what is the latest in a long line of charges charging defendants with the "material support" for terrorism. This case bears particular scrutiny in that it is the first major terror related prosecution initiated under the Obama administration. The frame-up of these young Somai-Americans is an indication that the Obama administration, like its predecessor, is seeking to terrorize the American people with manufactured terror threats in order to suppress opposition to policies of aggressive war abroad and attacks on democratic rights at home."

Hmmm, now I am starting to realize why Harpo cut African aide, in his right winged mind.

Harpo's redirecting Canadian "aid" to Latin America and the Carribean where Canadian business interests will benefit in Haiti, where Canadian mining companies will benefit in Ecuador and Honduras and where the U.S.A. and Canada will extend their military and economic power in Colombia.

go look up africom nuff said

Rwandans Blast Deportation Plan

http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2009/07/25/10257656-sun.html

"Rwandans living in Canada say they're shocked by the federal government's decision to resume deporting people to their troubled homeland. They say Rwanda is still a dangerous country and the government is a threat to the people"

Ladies and gentlemen, this is yet another indication of why we need to do all we can to seriously oppose our(?) Conservafascist government.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is yet another indication of why we need to do all we can to seriously oppose our(?) Conservafascist government.

Somalia: Another Stranded, Forgotten People

http://arabwomanblues.blogspot.com/2009/08/another-stranded-forgotten-pe...

"This is not getting much coverage - Displaced Somalis fleeing in thousands..Somalis are our Muslim brothers and sisters too, and they should not be forgotten. THey have no support from the international community and this innocent people need our help.

It is overwhelming. Where does one start? Iraq refugees, Palestinians, Afghans, Pakistanis, Somalis..

And they tell me the Islamic world is not exclusively targetted?

These wars of imperialism definitely have a "green" flavor to them.

La Hawla wala Quwata illa Bil'lah Al Ale'ee Al Atheem."

Somalia is Obama's new 'Afghanistan'

http://digg.com/politics/Somalia_is_Obama_s_new_Afghanistan

Concern over Uganda Land Giveaways

http://www.africanexecutive.com/modules/magazine/articles.php?article=46...

"The Uganda Land Alliance (ULA), a consortium of local and International NGOs lobbying for land laws, is concerned about the recent spree of land giveaways by the government of Uganda.."

Digging For Gold Mining Corruption:

http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2565/

"One of AFrica's poorest and most embattled country is prey to Canadian mining companies.."

Marchal Critique of New Rwanda Report: Analysis of the Mutzinzi Report

http://cirqueminime.blogcollective.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/8/4449941.h...

"The truth is not one sided. It is a reality made up of many aspects. One must note that the truth about the tragic events of 1994 in Rwanda is especially difficult to get the mind around, here, nearly 16 years after they happened. And while the attack of 6 April 1994 has been universally recognized as the spark that set off the genocide, the United Nations, which was assigned to help Rwandans in the difficult search for peace, has never found it worthwhile to conduct an international investigation of this attack.

After which the entire region of the African Great Lakes was turned into an enormous battlefield, where the victims are numbered in the millions."

For Canadian readers reconsider the roles of Dallaire and Arbour..

South Africans Rise Up Against ANC

http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/02/445984.html

"Angry South Africans rioted this week in protest at the conditions in which they are forced to live. Coming at the same time as the ANC establishment's celebrations of the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release from jail, the uprising exposed the hypocrisy behind the 'new' South Africa.."

No question that China is a big player in Africa

US Special Forces in the Congo

http://www.blacklistednews.com/news-7630-0-20-20--.html

"In February 2010 we learned that US Special Forces  have begun training Congolese troops.."

Billionaires and Mega Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa

http://www.alternet.org/world/145970/billionaires_and_mega-corporations_...

"20+ African countries are stelling or leasing land for intensive agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era.."

East Africa is Next Oil Hot Zone

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18066

"East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big strike in Uganda's Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and even war torn Somalia.."

The US-NATO Conquest of Africa

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18246

"The distinction between the Pentagon and NATO in relation to Europe and Africa - and increasingly the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea Basin, Central Asia, South Asia and the Indian Ocean - is blurred and more and more of a strictly formal nature.

NATO has now joined AFRICOM's first war, in Somalia

In 1884 the major European powers gathered at the Berlin Conference to divide up those parts of Africa that had escaped colonization and to create a consortium to dominate and exploit an entire continent and its peoples...126 years later there are ominous indications that the former colonial masters are nostaligic for their past power.."

AFRICOM Backs Bloodshed in Central Africa

http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/04/africom-backs-bloodshed-in-central-afr...

"The eastern Congo remains awash in bloodshed due to western mining companies [Canadian too of course!] and their proxy armies, the military regimes of Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda) and Joseph Kabila (DRC), all hidden behind reams of western newsprint blaming Congolese victims for their own suffering.

Across the continent a new rebellion in western Congo has reportedly engaged Belgian paratroopers and UN 'peacekeepers', in alliance with the DRC government. With massive casualties and more than 200,000 civilians forced to flee western Congo the UN and western media have covered up the new rebellion.

Meanwhile AFRICOM under the Obama administration has major base constructions and secret deployments across Central Africa, with NATO, Dyncorp and Special Operations Command shipping Ugandan grunts to the US wars in Somalia, Afghanistan, Darfur and Iraq.."

Dewar: 'Congo is calling will Canada answer?'/NDP

http://www.ndp.ca/press/dewar-congo-calling-will-canada-answer

'Canada is the largest non-African investor in the mining sector in the DRC': Canada-DRC Fact Sheet, Government of Canada. More blood spilled with your tax dollars and apparently supported by our 'representatives'...

Rwanda and The Democratic Republic of Congo in the Propaganda System

http://www.monthlyreview.org/100501herman-peterson.php

"Elsewhere we have written that the breakup of Yugoslavia may have been the most misrepresented series of major evnts over the past twenty years. But the far bloodier and more destructive invasions, insurgencies and civil wars that have ravaged several counries in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa over the same years may have been subjected to even greater misrepresentation...

To a remarkable degree, all major sections of the Western establishment swallowed a propaganda line on Rwanda that turned perpetrator and victim upside down...What the United States and its Western allies, Britain, Canada and Belgium really did was to sponsor his [President Paul Kagame's] invasion of Rwanda from Uganda and the massive ethnic cleansing prior to April 1994; weaken the Rwandan state by forcing an economic recession and the RPF's penetration of the government and throughout the country and then press for the complete removal of UN troops...

Very big lies about Rwanda are now institutionalized and are part of the common (mis)understanding in the West. In reality, Rwanda's Paul Kagame is one of the great mass murderers of our time, far surpassing Uganda's former dicator Idi Amin. Kagame imposed a Tutsi-dominated dictatorship and [turned] the whole of Central Africa into a rolling genocide that is ongoing. But it is true that he is shining 'star' in the Western firmament and its propaganda system.."

Canada the truth is very different than you have been led to believe. 'Shake hands with the Devil' indeed. 'Peackeepers' indeed.

The Future of Africa, Brought to You by Bono and Bob [and the Glob]

http://www.fair.org/blog/2010/05/12/the-future-of-africa-brought-to-you-...

"So why does it take two rich white men to edit a special issue on Africa..?"

Rocking The Globe

http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/05/18/rocking-the-globe/

"Star struck senior staff let Bono and Bob Geldof edit the Globe and Mail...an editor says - whenever Bono and Geldof went, everybody followed.."

US Attorney Peter Erlinder Jailed By the Kagame Dictatorship in Rwanda

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19502

"Peter Erlinder has never denied the fact that mass atrocity crimes and even genocide were committed in Rwanda, much less that a large number of Tutsi were slaughtered. But he has shown with carefully gathered documentary evidence that an even larger number of Hutu were also slaughtered there, and that Kagame and even the RPF were the initiators and main perpetrators of these mass killings. This ultimately is what the charge of 'denying the genocide' really means. Like a growing body of researchers, Erlinder rejects the version of the 'Rwandan genocide' long since institutionalized within [Canadian], US, Western and RPF establishment circles.."

big story underappreciated for obvious reasons of Canadian complicity:

Rwanda Police Foil Erlinder Suicide Attempt

http://allafrica.com/stories/201006030036.html

Erlinder's exposure of Paul Kagame's crimes along with those of his western accomplices helps explain why Erlinder might now want to exit from Kagame's clutches in the only way possible. Romeo Dallaire and Louise Arbour have done big favours for Kagame, do you think they might help? Probably not...This is real news folks guaranteed not to run on CBC.

Lawyers Who Reveal the Truth: The Arrest and Threats to the Life of Attorney Professor Peter Erlinder

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19621

"This is a new phase which we are witnessing, with governments collaborating in the arrest, detention and assassination of these lawyers who simply reveal the truth available in documentary and other records in defense of their clients...

The real reason for the arrest and detention is that Professor Peter Erlinder has written and spoken of overwhelming evidence from UN records produced before the Rwanda War Crimes Tribunal that it is the RPF (the present government of Rwanda) that started the war which resulted in the deaths of Tutsis and Hutus and the killings in the Congo...

As I write, it has been reported that bail was denied by the Court in Rwanda on 7th June despite the Counsel for Professor Peter Erlinder submitting to the Court in Rwanda that Professor Erlinder was in urgent need of medical treatment for which he desired to return to United States..

It is necessary to maintain a daily vigil for Professor Peter Erlinder's release, even while contrasting what he faces to the impunity granted to those who invade and attack countries, bomb civilian populations and continue the illegal blockade of Gaza who never face a single Security Council constituted Tribunal.."

Release Professor Peter Erlinder by Cynthia McKinney

http://www.sfbayview.com/2010/cynthia-mckinney-rwanda-release-professor-...

"Urgent need for a high profile campaign to release Professor Peter Erlinder, an eminent voice for international peace who stands uncompromisingly for justice for all.."

please forward this link to all concerned human rights

Crisis in Rwanda: Kagame Releases Defence Lawyer Erlinder on 'Medical Grounds'

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19780

"The associated Press reported on June 17 that Rwanda had released US Law Professor Peter Erlinder from a Rwanda prison due to medical conditions.."

Apocalypse in Central Africa

http://www.consciousbeingalliance.com/2010/07/apocalypse-in-central-afri...

The Pentagon, Genocide and the War on Terror

Yes, Canada is an enthusiastic participant. Has been from the get go. What the hell do you think our participation in Rwanda was really about - stopping the genocide? Yeah right...

US Backs Plans to Send More Troops to Somalia

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/aug2010/soma-a02.shtml

"The US is eager to deploy non-Christian troops to placate Somali Islamists.."

Why is Canada Blocking Congo Debt Forgiveness?

http://mostlywater.org/why_canada_blocking_congo_debt_forgiveness

"Why would Canada want to interfere with releiving a poor country from illegitimate debt?"

Gertler, Quantum Inc, Israel, Canada and DRC holocaust

Paul Kagame: America's Genocidaire in Central Africa

http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/paul-kagame-americas-genocid...

"Precisely like his predecessor, President Obama empowers a pro-western Murder Inc in Black Africa.."

with great support from Canada who helped install Kagame in power..

Keith Harmon Snow on UN 'Leaked' Report on Atrocities in the Congo 1993-2004 (audio)

http://afrobeatradio.net/2010/09/05/keith-harmon-snow-on-un-leaked-repor...

"The United Nations has accused Rwanda of wholesale war crimes, including possibly genocide, during years of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. An unprecedented 600 page Report based on investigations by the UN High Commission for Human Rights catalogued years of murder, rape and looting in a conflict in which hundreds of thousands were slaughtered...

The Report accuses the Tutsi dominated Rwandan army of killing tens of thousands of ethnic HUTUS - including women, childen and the elderly over a period of seven years and two invasions - acts, it says, may amount to genocide..

Among the accusations, is that Rwandan forces and local allies rounded up hundreds of mean, women and children at a time and butchered them with hoes and axes. On other occasions Hutu refugees were bayoneted, buried alive or killed with hammer blows in large numbers. While the story of the HUTU Genocide has been around for a few years, it is the first time the UN has published such forthright allegations against Rwanda, a close ally of Britain and the US [*AND CANADA* who helped install Kagame in power as part of the US regime change operation...ps 'Romeo Romeo wherefore art thou..?]

Rwanda's TUTSI leaders will be particularly discomfited by the accusations of genocide when they lay claim to the moral highground for bringing to an end the 1994 genocide in their own country.."

This is a must-hear interview!! There should be serious questions asked in the evil talkshop in Ottawa over Canada's role in this part of Africa and the actions of resource interests based here.

UN Admits Failing DR Congo Victims

http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2010/09/201098142513393312.htm...

"A senior United Nations official has admitted that UN troops failed to protect women and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. More than 500 rapes have now been reported there in the past month alone, including 242 women and children who were raped over several days just 30 km away from a base used by UN peacekeepers.."

The Peacekeepers (NFB)

http://www.ipexview.com/solution/videos/National_Film_Board_of_Canada/Th...

"The Peacekeepers provides an intimate and dramatic portrait of the struggle to avert another Rwanda disaster..."

No International Justice for Congo: UN Coverup of War Crimes

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21403

"Human Rights activists around the world have called for international justice and an end to impunity in the wake of the UN Mapping Report on Human Rights Abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The report, which covers the period from 1993 to 2003 was released on October 1st, by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says that, though it covers a period ending in 2003, these crimes continue because the perpetrators have never been prosecuted.

Defense lawyers for the International Criminal Tribunal in Rwanda (ICTR) say, however, that there is no reason to expect justice from an international criminal tribunal. ICTR defense lawyer Christopher Black, who recently published The Rwanda Patriotic Front's Bloody Record and the History of UN Coverups, in Monthly Review Zine, says that the ICTR will never charge officers of Kagame's army because if charged they will implicate their US and European allies:

''They're never going to charge the RPF, because it would be too dangerous. If you start charging the RPF, RPF officers, to save their necks, are going to start talking about others. And then you're going to get up to the Americans and the British and the Canadians and the Belgians. The whole thing would fall apart. They don't dare do that.."

Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo?

Rwandan Opposition Leader Victoire Ingabire Arrested

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21459

Opposiiton leader Victoire Ingabure Umuhoza has been arrested in Rwanda, according to members of her FDU-Inkingi Coalition of Rwanda Political Parties, who also report that authorities have taken her to an undisclosed location.."

Kagame - another vicious western proxy and 'friend' of Canada who helped install him..

Obama Take Heed: French Judge Files Charges Against Kagame Allies

http://sfbayview.com/2010/obama-take-heed-french-judge-files-charges-aga...

"On December 15 a French judge filed preliminary charges against six people close to Kagame, including Rwandan Defense Minister James Kabarebe, for the 1994 assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Rwandan and Burundian presidents at the time, that triggered the Rwanda Genocide.

If I were Louise Arbour or Romeo Dallaire I would be sweating...

Coalition to UN Security Council: Address UN Congo Mapping Report and Enforce Justice for Victims

http://sfbayview.com/2010/coalition-to-un-security-council-address-un-co...

"This month the US and UN Security Council must choose - Will they hold accountable major perpetrators of continued atrocities in the Congo or collaborate with them to put the blame on a few guilty but minor scapegoats and some innocent people who are guilty only of challenging the major offenders?"

West African Leaders To Pressure Gbagbo Again

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2011/01/03/ivory-coast-gbagbo.html

See first comment by Sygei S

Paul Kagame: 'Our Kind of Guy' -  by Ed Herman and David Peterson

http://www.voltairenet.org/article167972.html

"What really happened was not a genocide by the Hutu power against Tutsis, but a secret US war that butchered an equal number of victims on both sides. At the heart of this slaughterous game we find the impervious Paul Kagame.."

Israelis Can Tell the Whole Story of Sudan's Division - They Wrote the Script and Trained the Actors

http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/articles/middle-east/1955-israelis-c...

"It is clear that Israel has been eyeing southern sudan for more than half a century. While Israel was supporting the southern rebels with arms, Western countries were continuing their diplomatic efforts to arrange the division of Sudan through a referendum..

Self-determination appears to be acceptable, indeed highly desirable, if it will weaken a predominantly Arab state, but off the agenda when it involves the Palestinians obtaining their rights against the Zionist state of Israel.."

Amid Rumours of Rebel Groups Unifying in Congo Countries in Region Discuss Joint Military Action

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2011/0124/Amid-rumo...

"As previously reported here, Rwanda, Burundi and the DRC met in Kigali last week to discuss the military situation in the eastern Congo. At the end of the meeting, they alleged that a new coalition of rebel groups had formed in Kivus region...Some sources familiar with the closed-door meeting suggest that the three countries were not just sharing information. Allegedly new joint military actions on Congolese soil are being discussed.."

the feeding frenzy over the riches of Kivus/DRC continues

Africa: Global NATO Seeks to Recruit 50 New Military Partners   - by Rick Rozoff  STOP NATO

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23307

"A recent article in Kenya's Africa Review cited sources in the African Union (AU) disclosing that the 28 member North Atlantic Treaty Organization is preparing to sign a military partnership treaty with the 53 nation AU.

The author of the article, relaying comments from AU officials in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where the organization has its headquarters, wrote that although 'the stated aim is to counter global security threats and specifically threats against Africa, some observers read the pact as aiming to counter Chinese expansion in Africa.."

Ivory Coast and Libya, Dismantlement of International Law: A New Strategy of Global Elite

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/04/06/dismantlement-internati...

"The western media shower their audience with allegations that Gbagbo lost the 2010 elections and should therefore step down. Their key argument - the head of the elections commission declared Outterra the winner - ignores the fact that in the Ivory Coast it is up to the Constitutional Council, not the elections commission to decide who prevailed in the race over presidency, in case the outcome of the vote is called into question.

As for the Constitutional Council, it gave victory to Gbagbo, meaning that as of today, he is the legitimate president of the Ivory Coast and that the offensive meant to dislodge him is an outright aggression...Africa seems to have become a proving ground for suspicious novelties in the sphere of international law.."

More on China ...

"Libya, along with Angola and Nigeria, is China's principal source of oil."

Pilger on the Euro-American attack on Libya

Ivory Coast Uncovered - The Untold Story  - by Dr Kwame Osei

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24368

"...With the ongoing civil war in Ivory Coast seemingly close to an end it is appropriate to tell the real story..."

Published on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 by The Toronto Star

Canada Mines African Discontent

by Linda McQuaig

While Canadians may think of ourselves as best known for owning the Olympic podium, among Africans we may actually be better known — and not particularly liked — for owning their natural resources.

Once beloved on the continent, Canada is no longer so fondly regarded in Africa.

The new, less enthusiastic view of Canada was vividly illustrated last month when more than 1,500 desperately poor Tanzanian villagers picked up machetes, rocks and hammers and stormed the mining compound of Canadian-owned African Barrick Gold.

The uprising — leading to the shooting deaths of seven of the villagers by police and security forces at the mine — is a startling reminder that theories widely held in the West about the benefits of foreign investment for the developing world are not always shared by people on the receiving end....

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/07-0

US Is About to Stir Another Hornet's Nest (and vid)

http://rt.com/news/uganda-us-commandos-africom-067/

"America's plan to send commandos to Africa to help eliminate terrorists in Uganda appears to have all the ingredients for getting the US military bogged down in a new prolonged Afghan-like military quagmire.."

Strings Attached: US in Uganda (and vid)

http://rt.com/news/us-sending-troops-uganda-179/

"The US denies an interest in Uganda's oil, but there are many other reasons for its presence in the region, none of them altruistic, claims war correspondent Eric Margolis. The first American troops already arrived in Uganda last week and will soon deploy elsewhere throughout the region once other nations in the area approve the actions..."

American Troops in Uganda: Is it the Thin Edge of the Wedge? (and vid)

http://www.presstv.ir/Program/206722.html

"Why is the US sending its troops to finish off a fractured band of bush fighters (LRA) in the middle of Africa"?

discussion with experts

Your World News Interview With Keith Harmon Snow: The Politics of Genocide (and vid)

http://www.consciousbeingalliance.com/2011/12/your-world-news-interview-...

DHS Targets Nigerian Islamist Group Boko Haram  -  by Nile Bowie

http://nilebowie.blogspot.com/2012/01/dhs-targets-nigerian-islamist-grou...

"Regardless of the group's legitimacy, remarkable unoriginality and possible foreign nurturing, the case for marketing foreign military intervention to Western audiences is steadily increasing..."

Nigerian Unions Suspend General Strike As Army Deploys in Cities

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jan2012/nige-j17.shtml

"Nigeria's two main trade union federations, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have called off the strike against President Goodluck Jonathan, as army forces moved into cities around the country.."