The Plot Thickens

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 12:03 pm

From the Ramparts
Junious Ricardo Stanton
The Plot Thickens

/“Darfur is reported to have the fourth largest copper and third largest
uranium deposits in the world. Darfur produces two-thirds of the world’s
best quality gum Arabic—a major ingredient in Coke and Pepsi. Contiguous
petroleum reserves are driving warfare from the Red Sea, through Darfur,
to the Great Lakes of Central Africa. Private military companies operate
alongside petroleum contractors and “humanitarian” agencies. Sudan is
China’s fourth biggest supplier of imported oil, and U.S. companies
controlling the pipelines in Chad and Uganda seek to displace China
through the US military alliance with “frontline” states hostile to
Sudan: Uganda, Chad and Ethiopia.
Israel reportedly provides military training to Darfur rebels from bases
in Eritrea, and has strengthened ties with the regime in Chad, from
which more weapons and troops penetrate Darfur. The refugee camps have
become increasingly militarized. There are reports that Israeli military
intelligence operates from within the camps, as does U.S intelligence.
Eritrea is about to explode into yet another war with Ethiopia.” /The
US’s War In Darfur By Keith Harmon Snow
http://www.countercurrents.org/snow231107.htm

The role of US imperialism in Africa is becoming wider known now as the
multi-headed hydra of globalism, militarism, neo-colonialism and racism
escalates its attempts to wreck havoc on the continent. Things are
moving so rapidly they can no longer do it quietly. I have been saying
for many years now, the US has Africa in its cross-hairs and is itching
to pull the trigger. They plan to bum rush the continent so they can
seize and expropriate Africa’s rich natural resources and raw materials
and use Africa’s geo-strategic location to their advantage. The
corporate mind control apparatus suppresses news about Africa and the
rapacious programs of exploitation, predation, depopulation and genocide
the West is conducting in our motherland. The Europeans play their
divide and rule trump card and rig the games so our brothers and sistahs
over there are discombobulated and thwarted in their efforts to be
self-determined self-actualized beings in their own lands. Using the
bogus War on Terror and the totally disingenuous notion of
humanitarianism as pretexts, the Bu$h administration is attempting to
establish a permanent military presence on the continent called Africom
so they can have a launching and staging base of operations from whence
to do additional dirt.
But the good news is so far the Africans (even some bought and paid for
by the CIA) are baulking at this program. It remains to be seen how
successful they can be in keeping the wolves at arm’s length. “The Bush
administration's new obsession with AFRICOM and its militaristic
approach has many malign consequences. It increases U.S. interference in
the affairs of Africa. It brings more military hardware to a continent
that already has too much. By helping to build machineries of
repression, these policies reinforce undemocratic practices and reward
leaders responsive not to the interests or needs of their people but to
the demands and dictates of U.S. military agents. Making military force
a higher priority than development and diplomacy creates an imbalance
that can encourage irresponsible regimes to use U.S. sourced military
might to oppress their own people, now or potentially in the future.
These fatally flawed policies create instability, foment tensions, and
lead to a less secure world. What Africa needs least is U.S. military
expansion on the continent (and elsewhere in the world). What Africa
needs most is its own mechanism to respond to peacemaking priorities.
Fifty years ago, Kwame Nkrumah sounded the clarion call for a ‘United
States of Africa.’ One central feature of his call was for an Africa
Military High Command. Today, as the African Union deliberates
continental governance, there couldn't be a better time to reject U.S.
military expansion and push forward African responses to Africa's
priorities. Long suffering the effects of militaristic ‘assistance’ from
the United States, Liberia would be the worst possible base for AFRICOM.
But there are no good locations for such a poorly conceived project.
Africa does not need AFRICOM.” AFRICOM: Wrong for Liberia, Disastrous
for Africa By Ezekiel Pajibo and Emira Woods (July 26, 2007 )
http://www.africaresource.com/content/view/404/68/
AFRICOM will be the tactical assault arm of US imperialism put in place
to work in conjunction with and augment the covert ops and destabilizing
economic policies of the IMF, World Bank and US-AID presently employed
throughout the continent. In the US a cunning media propaganda campaign
to justify military intervention in Sudan has been underway for several
years now, while news of covert resource wars in Chad, Congo and
elsewhere in the region have been deliberately suppressed. The media’s
focus in Sudan is on the killing and displacement going on in Darfur.
However the media is doing the bidding of the ruling elites, obfuscating
the real issues, and disguising the real objectives which are to secure,
control and expropriate the wealth throughout that region of Africa.
“The Darfur region of western Sudan has been a hotbed of clandestine
activities, gunrunning and indiscriminate violence for decades. The Cold
War era saw countless insurgencies launched from the remote deserts of
Darfur. Throughout the 1990s, factions allied with or against Chad,
Uganda, Ethiopia, Congo, Libya, Eritrea and the Central African Republic
operated from bases in Darfur, and it was a regular landing strip for
foreign military transport planes of mysterious origin. In 1990, Chad’s
Idriss Deby launched a military blitzkrieg from Darfur and overthrew
President Hissan Habre; Deby then allied with his own ethnic group
against the Sudan government. Sudanese rebels today have bases in Chad,
and Chadian rebels have bases in Darfur, with Khartoum’s backing.[GN2]
When the regime of Ange-Félix Patassé collapsed in the Central African
Republic in March 2003, soldiers fled to Darfur with their military
equipment. Khartoum supported the West Nile Bank Front, a rebel army
operating against Uganda from Eastern Congo, commanded by Taban Amin,
the son of the infamous Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin, who heads Uganda’s
dreaded Internal Security Organization. Darfur is the epicenter of a
modern-day international geopolitical scramble for Africa’s resources.”
The US’s War In Darfur By Keith Harmon Snow
http://www.countercurrents.org/snow231107.htm
The West’s long range plan is to totally destabilize the whole region,
balkanize it and bring it under the sway of the US, Britain, Israel and
sordid Western powers. They want it all for themselves and most
importantly they want to minimize the influence of China in the region.
But China is not to be denied. “As for Sudan, as far back as the 1970s,
before Sudan's civil war first started, American oil giant Chevron spent
$1.2 billion dollars prospecting for new oil in Sudan. However after
being kicked out of Sudan it was only a matter of time before America
helped engineer and partly finance Sudan's civil war by backing the
Christian rebels. Today what complicates this ugly situation is keen
interest from China in Africa. With China's growing energy hungry
economy and an increasingly unstable and arguably less predictable
Middle East, China wants to dominate and take the largest resource slice
out of Africa. Powerful states such as China are anxiously looking to
diversify and find new alternative energy sources. China sources an
estimated 30% of it's oil needs from Africa. In Sudan it has invested
more than $5 billion dollars as it uses up to 80% of Sudan's daily
domestic production estimated anywhere between 500,000-750,000 barrels
of oil per day. It is estimated that Sudan holds at least 5 billion
barrels of oil, mostly located in the South.” Darfur: The Colonial
struggle over Sudan http://www.khilafah.com/kcom/analysis/africa/darfur
For AmeriKKKa to get its hooks and pipelines into Darfur and Africa as a
whole, they'll need a military presence. The bogus Global War on
Terrorism provides the pretext for AFRICOM. AFRICOM will be the official
US military presence on the continent, a rapid deployment force able to
go anywhere to put their foots on the necks of recalcitrant natives the
corporate media will brand as “terrorists” simply for having the
temerity to demand the right of self-determination and who are willing
to fight for their own country! Make no mistake about it, the
multi-national corporations already have their private mercenaries on
set as protection, but to make sure they can extract and exploit
Africa’s resources they will need the protection and might of Uncle
Sam’s killers.
Resources are at the heart of the conflicts throughout Africa. “Resource
wars in the Congo (over diamonds and coltran) and in West Africa (over
oil) have set the continent on fire. The U.S. has thus far engaged with
these conflicts through Africa's national armies, who have increasingly
become the praetorian guards of large corporations. None of this can be
justified directly as a protection of the extraction of resources, so it
has increasingly been couched in the language of the war on terrorism.
The Pan-Sahel Initiative (created in 2002) draws U.S. Special Operations
Forces to Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. In 2004, the U.S. extended
this to the major oil producing countries of Algeria, Nigeria, Senegal
and Tunisia and renamed it the Trans-Saharan Counter-Terrorism
Initiative. After 9/11, the U.S. moved a Special Operations Force into a
former French Foreign Legion base, Camp Le Monier, in Djibouti. In July
2003, the U.S. earned the right to deploy P-3 Orion aerial surveillance
aircraft in Tamanrasset, Algeria. Under the guise of the War on
Terrorism, the U.S. government has moved forces into various parts of
Africa, where they were able to train African armies and to intervene in
the increasingly dangerous resource wars. If the U. S. government is
quieter in its approach, right-wing think tanks in the U. S. feel no
such compunction. The Heritage Foundation has lobbied for the creation
of AFRICOM for several years, and it is arguable that its work moved
Donald Rumsfeld to consider an African Command. In a 2003 study entitled
‘U. S. Military Assistance for Africa: A Better Solution,’ the Heritage
Foundation argued, ‘Creating an African Command would go a long way
toward turning the Bush Administration's well-aimed strategic priorities
for Africa into a reality.’ Rather than engage Africa diplomatically, it
is better to be diplomatic through the barrel of a gun. ‘America must
not be afraid to employ its forces decisively when vital national
interests are threatened.’ Nevertheless, the U.S. will not need to
always send its own soldiers. ‘A sub-unified command for Africa would
give the U.S. military an instrument with which to engage effectively in
the continent and reduce the potential that America might have to
intervene directly.’ The AFRICOM would analyze intelligence, work
‘closely with civil-military leaders’ and coordinate training and
conduct joint-exercises. In other words, the U.S. would make the
friendly African military forces ‘inter-operatable’ not only with U.S.
hardware but also with U.S. interests. When AFRICOM became reality
Heritage's Brett Schaefer welcomed the ‘long overdue’ move. ...”
http://alexconstantine.blogspot.com/2007/08/africa-oil-heritage-foundation-american.html

Keep in mind that large reserves of oil were only confirmed in the
Darfur region within the last several years. As more and more of the
natural resources that fuel Western lifestyles and technology are
discovered in Africa, the psychopaths will move to instigate and foment
more discord and wars to expropriate and exploit them. The plot thickens