Tag: AFRICOM
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A Hazardous Path
As the UN Security Council approves an African-led military force to intervene in the Mali civil war, France, the US and the African Union bring their own interests to a conflict over the rights of indigenous peoples, complicated by Islamic fundamentalists seeking to take advantage of inter-ethnic hostilities to attack former colonial powers and AFRICOM,…
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Obama the Warmonger
When former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell made his fraudulent claims at the United Nations about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, his assistants hung curtains over the famous anti-war painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso, which hung in the lobby outside the UN chambers. Today, as the…
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Caught in the Crossfire
Writing in Black Agenda Report, Glen Ford notes that the network of bases being built across the African continent for use by the U.S. military is eerily reminiscent of the regime-change-ready project the Pentagon is currently re-implementing in Latin America. Having been behind the Ugandan mercenaries that committed the worst genocide since World War Two,…
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Heart of Africa
Indigenous peoples in Africa face many obstacles to living a free and independent life: Chinese, European and American corporations, AFRICOM, Christian evangelicals and Islamic fundamentalists to name a few. Awash with weapons from the Pentagon and corrupted by the corporations, states like Uganda are a nightmare for environmental and human rights activists, Indigenous or otherwise.…