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."

Death toll Rises to 65 in Nigerian Taliban Attacks

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=101748&sectionid=351020505

"Boko Harram, founded in 2004, is locally referred to as the Nigerian Taliban as the rebels are allegedly inspired by the insurgents in Afghanistan.."

Deadly Nigerian Clashes Spread:

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/07/2009727134953755877.htm... [4]

"The local Daily Trust newspaper quoted Ustaz Mohamad Yusuf, who is purportedly the leader of the group, as saying his followers were ready to die to insure the institution of a strict Islamic society.."

Nigerian 'Taliban' Offensive leaves 150 Dead:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/27/boko-haram-nigeria-attacks [5]

"Ustaz Mohammad Yusuf, leader of Boko Harram which literaly means "education is prohibited," claims the government had been targeting his followers and they would never surrender.."

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

Nigerian Militants 'Under Siege'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8172437.stm

"a group of Nigerian Islamist militants is barricaded inside a district in the city of Maiduguri, after two days of violence in the country's north."

Nigeria's 'Taliban' Enigma

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8172270.stm [8]

"...their mission appears clear enough: to overthrow the Nigerian state, impose an extreme interpretation of Islamic law and abolish what they term "western-style education"..

The Return of the "Nigerian Taliban" (Feb 07)

http://worlddefensereview.com/pham020107.shtml [9]

On January 16, Media Trust Ltd was arraigned before the High Court in the capital of Abuja, accused of 3 counts of terrorism. The director, a Muslim cleric by the name of Mohammad Bello Llyas Damagun, who was described by prosecutors as belonging to a group dubbed the "Nigerian Taliban" was charged with receiving funds from al-Qaeda, sending recruits abroad for training, and aiding terrorist activities within Nigeria.."

Nigera: Police Arrest 6 Foreign Muslim Preachers in Abuya

http://allafrica.com/stories/200812170414.html [10]

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.

Clinton in Africa Promoting US Corporate Interests

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/58287

"There are 3 dimensions to this visit: AGOA, oil and natural resource exploitation, and security. And in each case it is the US corporate interests, not the interests of Africans that are being pushed..?

Hellfire Hillary Pours Oil on Somalia's Fire

http://www.chris-floyd.com/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1813-... [13]

"There is apparently no path blazed by George W Bush that Barack Obama will not eagerly follow. We can add an increasingly direct involvment in the horrific, hydra-headed conflict in Somalia. Clinton has pledged to double the recently announced supply of American weapons to Somalia's 'transitional government' - - a weak reed cobbled together by Western interests from various CIA warlords.."

go look up africom nuff said

Yes indeed. Uncle Sammy has big plans..

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"

Clinton in Africa: Promoting US Corporate Interests

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14691

"It is hardly a coincidence that just as Clinton begins her junket, so AFRICOM announces its MEDFLAG initiative in Swaziland. As Thomas Friedman has put it: 'The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. Macdonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas..And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps.."

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.

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

Wish You Weren't Here: The New Colonialists

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/10-3

"A new breed of colonialism is rampaging across the world. with rich nations buying up the natural resources of developing countries that can ill afford to sell. Some staggering deals have already been done, but angry locals are now trying to stop the landgrabs.."

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 [23]

AFRICOM: Pentagon's First Direct Military Intervention in Africa

http://www.a-ipi.net/article161777.html

"America's AFrica Command is machinery for Western governments to pursue their vested political and hegemonic hemispheric influence at the expense of Africa as well as a backdoor through which Westerners can outmaneover rivals such as China...

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.."

Complicity and Cover-up In The Most Serious Crimes since the UN Founding: UN in DRC - Watchdog of the Great Mining Interests

http://www.saverwanda.org/index.php?id=74&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1280&CH...

This is linked with the following court decision:

http://www.veritasrwandaforum.org/dosier/15.03.09_coltan_pais_en.pdf [27]

And, let's not forget Canada, once again performing the role of satan's little helper:

http://hungryoftruth.blogspot.com/2009/01/chris-black-dallaire-genocide-... [28]

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.."

Africom - Latest US bid to Recolonize Continent

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16869

"African revolutionaries now have to sleep with one eye open because the United States of America is not stopping at anything in its bid to establish Africom, a highly equipped US army that will be permanently resident in Africa to oversee the country's imperialist interests.."

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..

Somalia: How Colonial Powers Drag a Country Into Chaos:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17549

"That invisible Al Qaeda is a logo designed to justify to the public opinion military operations.."

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.."

title "Western agendas" a bit parochial, no? the big player in Africa is increasingly China;

when I was in Addis Ababa in 2007, the construction of a new $150 million headquarters complex of the African Union was under way, all financed by ... China

hmmmm .... why would China want to be hip-deep in all the political and resource decisions of an entire continent??

yeah, must be a Western plot

No question that China is a big player in Africa

Niger: The Uranium Coup

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17733

"In yet another odd coincidence, Alan Greyson led a US Congressional delegation that just happened to be in Niger at the time of the recent coup last Thursday that deposed the legitimate elected government of the uranium-rich nation.."

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.."

Winnie Mandela Accuses Nelson of Letting Down South Africa's Blacks

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafri...

"Mandela let us down. He agreed to a bad deal for the blacks. Economically we are still on the outside. The economy is very much 'white'.."

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 [40]

"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.."

America's First War in Africa: US AFRICOM Launches Large Scale Offensive in Somalia

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18099

"In between South Asia and Africa lies Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula. The New York Times report cited earlier reminded readers that 'the US is increasingly concerned about the link between Somalia and Yemen.'

Washington (along with its NATO allies) is forging an expanded war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and into Africa."

#29 above is certainly connected to this

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.."

Obama and the Age of Permanent War

http://www.newstatesman.com/global-issues/2010/03/world-war-pilger-obama...

"Here is news of the Third World War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and now the Horn of Africa. In preparation for an attack on Iran, 'bunker-buster' bombs are said to be arriving at the US base on the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean..."

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 [45]

'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'...

Meddling in Africa

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/997/eg14.htm

"Israel is forging ever-closer ties in the Arab hinterland in Africa, virtually unopposed.."

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.

Very interesting. Thanks.

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..?"

AFRICOM: Military Manoeuvers in the Sahel

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=51438

"Military exercises are under way in the Sahel region as part of the US led Trans-Saharan Counter Terrorism Partnership. Participating militaries are enthusiastic.."

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.."

Election Violence in Rwanda and Burundi

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19305

"Violence, repression and human rights abuse continues to increase as 2010 elections approach.."

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 [54]

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.

US Calls for Rwanda to Release Professor

http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1110ap_us_rwanda_us_arrest.html

"The State Department on Thursday called on the Rwandan government to release a jailed US law professor. Peter Erlinder has been in custody since Friday on charges he denied the central African country's 1994 genocide.."

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.."

South Africa's Bubble Meets Boiling Urban Social Unrest

http://www.monthlyreview.org/100601bond.php

"As the June-July 2010 World Cup draws the world's attention to South Africa, the country's poor and working class people will continue protesting, at what is now among the highest rates per person in the world. Since 2005, the police have conservatively measured an annual average of more than eight thousand 'Gatherings Act' incidents (public demonstrations legally defined as involving upwards of fifteen demonstrators) by an angry urban populace, which reamins unintimidated by the year old government of Jacob Zuma.

The general urban uprising has included resistance to the commodification of life - eg. commercialization of municipal services - and to rising poverty and inequitality in the country's slums..'

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

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.."

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.."

The UN - A Neocolonial Partnership

http://www.nation.lk/2010/07/11/newsfe5.htm

"Facilitating modern forms of 'interventions' unpon sovereign nations is the United Nations (UN) whose laws, protocols, conventions etc have been designed to legalise and necessitate these actions.."

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...

Uganda;    US, NATO Allies Prepare New Invasion of Somalia

http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/uganda-u-s-nato-allies-prepar...

"The 15th biennial African Union summit in Kampala, Uganda ended on July 27 with mixed results regarding support for US and Western European plans to escalate to escalate foreign intervention in nearby Somalia.."

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.."

Gertler's Bling Bang Torah Gang - by Keith Harmon Snow

http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/gertlers-bling-bang-torah-gang/

"Israel and the ongoing holocaust in Congo.."

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... [67]

"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..

A Tale of Somali Pirates, Ethiopia and the USA

http://www.counterpunch.org/mountain08272010.html

"Pirates, warlords, Marxist guerilla turned G20 statesman and the USA...the real story of the Somali pirates in the Horn of Africa is a tale that needs telling..."

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... [70]

"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... [71]

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

The Rwanda Patriotic Front's Bloody Record and the History of UN Coverups - by Christopher Black

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/black120910.html

"The invasion from Uganda had only one purpose: to clear the path through Rwanda to Zaire (DRC)..It means that the Americans, British particularly with Kagame and Museveni, planned the invasion of Zaire in 1994, probably before that...Mr. Jallow and Louise Arbour and everyone else have been protecting the RPF [President Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front] which hs now resulted in millions of deaths in the Congo and continues up till today.."

Keith Harmon Snow on 'Leaked' UN Report on Atrocities in Congo 1993-2003

http://consciousbeingalliance.com/2010/09/wbai-afrobeat-with-keith-harmo... [73]

"This UN report is another form of whitewash, and it's very interesting to see how the media and the intelligence flaks used as mouthpieces on the media, spin and twist it. Of course the report has major problems, but that's the nature of our racist war against people of colour everywhere...." [ a better version of a posting upstream with additional bg]

The Politics of Denial: The Strange Case of Rwanda - by Gerald Caplan

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/65265 [74]

"...why they want to create such gratuitous hurt for the survivors of the genocide in Rwanda is 'impossible to fathom' says Caplan, but their 'egregious views' relegate this squarely to the lunatic fringe.."

Who's in 'denial?' Once again the NDP comes to the defence of Canadian and western imperialism...

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?

Uganda, America's Pit-Bull, Wants to Lead a Larger War in Somalia

http://blackagendareport.com/

"America's top hit-man in Africa, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, is calling for much larger air, sea adn land war in Somalia - with Museveni's forces on point. The sabre-rattling follows on the heels of Uganda's and Rwanda's threats to withdraw from UN 'peacekeeping' missions, such as Somalia. What's up?

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..

Congolese Try Suing Anvil Mining in Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/11/08/congo-victims-to-sue-...

"Congolese citizens have moved to sue a Montreal-based mining company, alleging it played a role in a massacre in their country six years ago..."

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... [80]

"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?"

France and the Ivory Coast: The Empire Strikes Back  - by Gary K Busch

http://www.saharareporters.com/article/france-and-ivory-coast-empire-str...

"Currently there is an impasse in the runoff of the Presidential elections in the Ivory Coast. The French-linked and funded electoral commission declared that Allasane Outtora won the election while the Constitutional Court declared incumbent President Gbagbo as the victor.

The 'International community' of Western countrys, NGOs, UN appeasers, and a variety of Francofrique cowards and bed-wetters support Ouattora even though massive fraud has been demonstrated at the polls in the rebel-held North

BBC News - Lauran Ggagbo Exit 'Could Worsen Ivory Coast Crisis

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12100340 [82]

"Mr Gbagbo told Euronews he would be prepared to accept a recount, although he did not give any details of his proposals. 'We are negotiating. I ask myself why those who claim to have beaten me oppose a recount of the votes,' he said.

UN Fears Cote d'Ivoire Ethnic Clash

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/12/201012319445597806.html [83]

"Famous French lawyers Roland Dumas and Jacques Verges visited Gbagbo on Thursday to offer their support and professional council. 'France cannot treat Cote d'Ivoire as a colony, it is an independent country we need to respect..."

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

Cables Reveal How US and UK Sought to Plunder Zimbabwe's Resources

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/zimb-j06.shtml

"The US diplomatic cables published by WIkiLeaks continue revealing details of how the United States and Britain sought to further their commercial interests in Zimbabwe.."

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.."

Militarization of Energy Policy: US Africa Command and Gulf of Guinea  -  by Rick Rozoff (STOP NATO)

http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/militarization-of-energy-poli...

"The Pentagon and its NATO allies are firmly esconced in the Gulf of Guinea in part to realize one of the decisions agreed upon at last November's NATO summit in Portugal: To 'develop the capacity to contribute to energy security,' as the summit declaration stated. The Pentagon has forged both bilateral and regional military partnerships with every African nation except for

Eritrea, Ivory Coast, Libya, Sudan and Zimbabwe.

What began in the Gulf of Guinea has now absorbed an entire continent.."

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.."

Ivory Coast: Testing Ground for US Backed African Standby Force  -  by Rick Rozoff

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ivory-Coast-Testing-Groun-by-Rick-Rozof...

"Both Gbagbo and Ouattara were sworn in as President and in the interim the drumbeats of military intervention to depose Gbagbo have steadily risen in intensity. Whatever the respective merits of the two candidates' contentions, that the US has entered the fray on behalf of the one declared the loser by the nation's top court, exactly a decade after the  2000 US presidential election was decided by the Supreme Court would prove embarassing to any country other than the world's sole military superpower.

ECOWAS has suspended Ivory Coast's membership in the fifteen-nation group (Niger was suspended in 2009) and pressure is being put on ECOWAS to activate the West African Standby Force brigade under its control for an invasion of Ivory Coast. The African Standby Force, under the nominal direction of the African Union but trained by the US Africa Command and NATO, was to have been activated last year and to have provided brigades of an estimated 3,000 - 4,000 troops each for five regions in Africa: East, west, north, south and central. The West African brigade is to grow to 6,500 troops.

The role of ECOWAS military forces is to prepare the way forward and give an African cover to Western armed intervention in Africa."

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

'Israeli Mercenaries in Kenya'

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/166565.html

"Kenyan lawmakers have strongly condemned Israel for dispatching mercenaries and spreading political unrest in the east-African country, a report says. The lawmakers say the mercenaries of Israeli origin were planning to assassinate high profile political figures and target key government installations.."

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.."

Inter-imperial rivalry, specifically between the previously dominant states of the anglosphere (USA, UK, etc) and the rising influence of China is the barely spoken of undercurrent in many issues in African politics today, eg, Zimbabwe and the issues in the region of southern Africa. It seems like a modern day carving up of colonies in neo liberal disguise.

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.."

Rwanda Genocide: Erlinder v Kagame

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=24253

"Law Professor and former National Lawyers Guild President Peter Erlinder's case against Rwandan President Paul Kagame continues in the court of public opinion, with Erlinder refusing to return to work at the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda..."

ICTR-TPIR International Justice or Judicially Constructed Victors' Impunity

http://afrobeatradio.net/2011/04/10/the-united-nations-ad-hoc-tribunal-f... [96]

"The Director of the International Humanitarian Law Institute, Prof Peter Erlinder, announced the publication of a book-length research work by DePaul University Law School Journal for Social Justice today: The UN Ad Hoc Tribunal for Rwanda: International Justice or Judicially Constructed Victors' Impunity.

Based on previously unpublished UN and US government documents, in the nature of the Pentagon Papers or WikiLeaks exposures, the heavily footnoted narrative is based on documents only in evidence at the UN Tribunal for Rwanda, and published on the IHLI website: www.rwandadocumentsproject.net [97].

The documents explain how the current RPF government became the dominant military power in the country more than a year before the Rwandan Genocide with the outside assistance from Uganda, UK and the Pentagon. The documents include sworn ICTR testimony of former RPF officers and members who testified that Paul Kagame ordered the assassination of the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi on April 6, 1994 that touched off the mass violence predicted by the US Ambassador..."

More on China ...

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

Pilger on the Euro-American attack on Libya

West Makes Ivory Coast Safe For Cocoa   -  by Kalundi Serumaga

http://blackagendareport.com/content/west-makes-ivory-coast-safe-cocoa

"The ultimate tragedy for Cote d'Ivoire is not that Gbagbo had to be driven out by force of arms, but that someone else has replaced him by the same means.."

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..."

Next Steps On Congo  -  by Kambale Musavuli

http://www.fpif.org/articles/next_steps_on_congo

"...For the past 14 years, more than six million Congolese (some say 10 million) have perished in the ongoing conflict triggered by US allies Rwanda and Uganda when they invaded Congo in 1996. As the world focuses on the Western intervention in Libya under the guise of moral responsibility to protect the vulnerable, the global community must question the lack of action by the United States and the coalition on the millions dead in the Congo.."

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

Canada Mines African Discontent

by Linda McQuaig [103]

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 [104].

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 [105]

Obama Sends US Military Advisers to Help Track LRA's Kony  -  by Jim Lobe

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105474

"In his latest military intervention overseas, US President Barack Obama announced Friday that he is dispatching about 100 'Combat equipped' military personnel [Special Forces] to East Africa to help track the fugitive Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and its top commanders. The move appears to mark another victory for 'humanitarian intervention' advocates.."

yeah right.

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.."

Somalis Under Relentless Drone Attack as US Tightens Military Grop on Continent

http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/somalis-under-relentless-drone-...

"Africa under President Obama, is an expanding theatre of war for the United States. There are few points on the African map where the US military does not operate, independently, through proxies, or by agreement with local governments and militaries. AFRICOM has penetrated the armed forces of the continent to a degree no single European power could have ever aspired to.

Indeed, the US has so thoroughly infiltrated African armies, many if not most, would be of no use for national defense against the Americans. Meanwhile, the NATO attack on Libya threatens to set the whole northern tier of Africa ablaze, a pretext for further US and French operations..."

only one country refused to join Africom - Libya

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..."

'US After Uganda's Oil Revenues' (and vid)

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207370.html

"...experts are saying that the US has entered the troubled region to fain favor of Uganda's newly discovered oil deposits, and to support its proxy war against the al Shabab movement in Somalia.."

One of the favoured few Western oil companies already active in Uganda and also in Libya is TSE-listed Heritage Oil. Its CEO Tony Buckingham was also associated with Sandline International and Executive Outcomes - corporate mercenary firms.

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

Non-Consensual Research in Africa: The Outsourcing of Tuskeegee

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

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

Nigeria: The Next Front For AFRICOM?  -  by Nile Bowie

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28520

"In the presence of US State Department Officials, employees from the Rand Corporation and Israeli military personnel, a military exercise was undertaken which tested how AFRICOM would respond to a disintegrating Nigeria on the verge of collapse amidst civil war.."

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..."

General Strike Rocks Nigeria  -  by Matt Swagler

http://zcommunications.org/general-strike-rocks-nigeria-by-matt-swagler

"...A GENERAL strike has brought business and transportation in key Nigerian cities to a complete standstill over the past week. Millions of Nigerians have refused to work in protest over the government's decision to cut a state gasoline subsidy. The SIGNIFICANCE of a general strike in Nigeria cannot be overemphasized. It is the most populous country in Africa..

The LOSS of the gasoline subsidy is seen as particularly outrageous in a country that is the world's sixth largest supplier of crude oil--producing nearly as much as countries like Kuiwait..

In addition to controlling the Niger Delta, the US government is now talking about a new fron in the 'war on terror' -- against an amorphous Islamist group in Nigeria called Boko Haram...

The strike has also become a protest against the incredible wealth accumulated by Nigerian leaders and foreign companies at the expense of the Nigerian people.."

Nigeria is currently Canada's second largest trading partner in Sub-Saharan Africa

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.."

Nigeria: Thrown into Chaos and a State of Civil War - The Role of the IMF  -  by F William Engdahl

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28900

"Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and its largest oil producer, is from all evidence, being systematically thrown into chaos and a state of civil war...

Nigeria today is one of the world's most important producers of light, sweet, crude oil - the same high quality crude oil that Libya produces..."

more blood for oil...

South Africa Buries Its Freedom Charter

http://blackagendareport.com/content/south-africa-buries-its-freedom-cha...

"The ANC has transformed itself into a handmaiden of multinational capital. Its program of Black capitalism has served only to graft a corrupt Black political class onto the already existing structures of corporate rule. The Freedom Charter is a dead letter..."

Mali Soldiers Mutiny, Seize Presidential Palace

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/232720.html

"Malian soldiers have mutinied, attacked the presidential palace in capital Bamako, and taken full control of the state broadcaster, sparking fears of a coup d'etat.

Destabilization In Africa: Coup in Mali - by Tony Cartalucci

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.ca/2012/03/destabilization-of-africa-coup-...

"...Above all we must not let the obscurity with which nations in Africa are treated involve apathy, because in the creation of a global empire, even the farthest flung nations can play a pivotal role in either bolstering or obstructing imperialist ambitions.."

Mali Uprising Claims a President

http://libya360.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/possible-coup-in-mali/ [122]

"...There are going to be three million people affected by the food security problems in Mali come April [2012], warned Abdoulaye Samara, advocacy officer with Oxfam in Bamako. 'There is a danger that the government will put all its political, financial and decision making capacity into sorting out the crisis in the north..."

Mali Coup Led By US-Trained Captain

http://rt.com/news/mali-coup-american-trained-377/

"A US Africa Command official officially confirmed on Friday the leader of a military coup in Mali has visited the US on several occasions, receiving professional military education. Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo participated in the America's International Military Education and Training Program, sponsored by the US State Department, Public Affairs representative Patrick Barnes revealed to the Washington Post. Foreign officers are handpicked for the program by US embassies in respective countries.."

Arc of Instability in Africa May Turn into Battlefield - Moscow Envoy

http://rt.com/politics/mali-africa-arab-spring-538/ [124]

"A 'green arc of instability' is being formed from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa. Therefore careful monitoring of events in the region is necessary not to allow the transformation of this arc into a battlefield,' the official stressed.."

Malian Tuareg Rebels Seize Key Northern Town of Timbuktu

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/234132.html

"Tuareg rebels say they have gained control of Mali's strategically important town of Timbuktu in the north as the coup leader pledges to bring back order to the country..."

Separatist War Looms in Post-Coup Mali - by Nile Bowie

http://nilebowie.blogspot.ca/2012/03/separatist-war-looms-in-post-coup-m... [126]

"...The influx of arms from NATO's regime change programme in Libya has created dire prospects for a heavily armed civil war in Mali. The worsening situation in both Mali and Nigeria provide further justification for foreign intervention and war profiteering.."

Pentagon: All US Elite Commandos in Mali 'Accounted For'

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/dotmil/2012/03/23/pentagon-all-us-elite... [127]

"The Pentagon confirmed Friday that all US Special Operations forces in Mali are safe amid an attempt by rogue military forces to topple the east African nation's civilian government. As part of a counterterrorism effort in Trans-Sahara Africa that incudes Mali and eight other nations, US military and government personnel have worked with Malian forces to counter extremist groups, 'discrediting terrorist ideology,' and improve nations' military cooperation, according to US Africa Command."

US--Hands Off Mali!

http://warisacrime.org/content/us-hands-mali

"Recent developments in the West African Republic of Mali are raising serious concerns about the possibility of yet another US intervention. We say: US Hands Off Mali!"

USA Militarizing Africa (podcast

http://www.voxunion.com/militarizing-africa/ [129]

Part 1 of a 4 part radio documentary series about the destructive impact of US imperialism in Africa

Mali: Junta Agrees on Power Transfer Deal with ECOWAS

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/234959.html

"Mali's military rulers have agreed with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to adopt a framework for a return to Constitutional rule. Earlier, ECOWAS rebuffed a declaration of independence by Tuareg rebels who captured power in the north of the country.."

The 'Specter' of Al Qaeda in Africa - by Finian Cunningham

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30151 [131]

"...The pretext of anti-jihadist counter-terrorism by Western powers is shifting to Africa. The purported AQ link in Mali appears incongruous..."

Help Keep Hope Alive in the Sahel Region

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/997/560/708/

"Nearly THIRTEEN MILLION PEOPLE are in urgent need of help surviving this year's failed harvest and drought. But will this be enough to make the world's media sit up and take notice? Take action today: Pledge to spread the word and help keep hope alive for people of the Sahel region.."

ends here and continues

here:

http://rabble.ca/babble/international-news-and-politics/african-affairs-...

US Resource War Against China  -  by Nile Bowie

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31343.htm

"Further militarization of the African continent. Recent policy shifts toward an increased US military presence in Central Africa threaten deepening Chinese commercial activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo, widely considered the world's most resource rich nation.."