The Crimes of Bongo: Apartheid and Terror in Africa's Garden of Eden
http://www.bestcyrano.org/?p=2827
"The truth about Gabon's dictator.."
African Affairs Western Agendas
Sat, 2009-07-18 03:23
#1
African Affairs Western Agendas
Sat, 2009-07-18 14:46
#2
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."
Mon, 2009-07-27 17:20
#3
Death toll Rises to 65 in Nigerian Taliban Attacks
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=101748§ionid=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.html
"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
"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.."
Mon, 2009-07-27 17:34
#4
remind
Hmmm, now I am starting to realize why Harpo cut African aide, in his right winged mind.
Thu, 2009-07-30 14:02
#5
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
"...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
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
Fri, 2009-07-31 10:21
#6
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.
Sat, 2009-08-08 08:24
#7
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-...
"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.."
Sat, 2009-08-08 10:36
#8
Rexdale_Punjabi
go look up africom nuff said
Sat, 2009-08-08 10:38
#9
NDPPgo look up africom nuff said
Yes indeed. Uncle Sammy has big plans..
Sat, 2009-08-08 11:29
#10
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"
Mon, 2009-08-10 05:49
#11
NDPPNDPPgo look up africom nuff said
Yes indeed. Uncle Sammy has big plans..
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.."
Mon, 2009-08-10 06:10
#12
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.
Mon, 2009-08-10 06:25
#13
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.
Mon, 2009-08-10 06:27
#14
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.
Tue, 2009-08-11 04:14
#15
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.."
Sun, 2009-08-23 23:19
#16
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
Wed, 2009-08-26 14:37
#17
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...
Wed, 2009-09-09 16:47
#18
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.."
Fri, 2009-11-20 01:38
#19
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
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-...
Tue, 2009-11-24 02:05
#20
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.."
Sat, 2010-01-09 19:02
#21
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.."
Wed, 2010-02-10 00:08
#22
Marchal Critique of New Rwanda Report: Analysis of the Mutzinzi Report
http://cirqueminime.blogcollective.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/8/4449941.html
"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..
Thu, 2010-02-11 11:12
#23
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.."
Sun, 2010-02-14 00:30
#24
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.."
Sun, 2010-02-14 15:41
#25
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
Sun, 2010-02-14 22:31
#26
No question that China is a big player in Africa
Mon, 2010-02-22 14:23
#27
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.."
Sun, 2010-03-07 18:38
#28
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.."
Fri, 2010-03-12 04:45
#29
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'.."
Fri, 2010-03-12 05:40
#30
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.."
Sun, 2010-03-14 03:05
#31
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
Sat, 2010-03-20 22:48
#32
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.."
Fri, 2010-03-26 02:31
#33
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..."
Sun, 2010-04-11 01:42
#34
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'...
Sat, 2010-05-08 03:31
#35
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.."
Tue, 2010-05-11 20:29
#36
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.
Wed, 2010-05-12 01:04
#37
Cueball
Very interesting. Thanks.
Sat, 2010-05-15 02:32
#38
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..?"
Sun, 2010-05-16 01:17
#39
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.."
Tue, 2010-05-18 22:21
#40
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.."
Mon, 2010-05-24 02:12
#41
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.."
Thu, 2010-06-03 04:13
#42
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.
Fri, 2010-06-04 03:27
#43
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.."
Tue, 2010-06-08 22:48
#44
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.."
Sun, 2010-06-13 16:20
#45
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..'
Mon, 2010-06-14 09:19
#46
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
Mon, 2010-06-14 09:20
#47
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.."
Fri, 2010-06-18 13:05
#48
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.."
Sun, 2010-07-11 03:45
#49
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.."
Mon, 2010-07-26 09:55
#50
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...
Sat, 2010-07-31 22:35
#51
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.."