> Dear Dr. Don: Two wrongs don't make a right.
>
> It is up to Africans to negotiate a fair price and to set environmental and
> work safety standards - of course as in America, Africa has
> non-representative governments and therein lies the problem & maybe again
> imposed Western style so-called Democratic governments aren't going to work
> in other cultures that are tribally and religiously divided - Hells Bells
> they aren't working too well in the West!
>
> I would be surprised if the West is paying the various militias in the
> eastern DRC fair market prices for their strategic minerals, or the Marxist
> regime in Angola fair market prices for oil, etc. across the sub-Continent.
> While China is doing business in its frontal assault on Africa, the West is
> using its military as the spear point in its foreign policy - resulting in
> the deaths of millions of people in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
> China is leaving the West behind in Africa as you well know. Everywhere the
> West goes it leaves a trail of devastation - physical and humanitarian from
> Vietnam, Latin America back in the 1960s/70s/80s, the Franco-American proxy
> wars in the DRC, Congo Brazzaville, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya (I heard today
> it has turned into a country of "City-States" with armed militias
> representing various clans), etc.
>
> Africa, regardless of who comes in, has to start calling the shots or Africa
> loses.
>
> Beware of Trojan Horses (Foreign Aid such as USAID, DFID, CIDA, IMF/WB) -
> there are no free lunches, and as for Capitalism - the way it is playing out
> today, if you let me take advantage of you so I can maximize my profits - so
> be it. "Capitalism Without a Conscience" - as called by some and currently
> practiced has failed the world every bit as badly as Communism.
>
> In fact, what I believe we see today is a form of Fascism, where the
> Government (in the USA - State and the Military) open the door for the
> Private Sector (as France with support from the USA just did in Ivory Coast
> and Libya - and don't tell me either was about bringing Democracy to the
> Developing World - it was all about oil and other resources) - using
> whatever it takes and if millions die along the way - Sooo Sorry!!
>
Ford Information Clearing House Oct 2011 U.S. Tightens Military Grip on Africa
By Glen Ford
http://www.ethiopianreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=32237
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29515.htm
October 25, 2011 "Information Clearing House" -- Scores of Somali
civilians have been killed in U.S. drone attacks in the southern
region of the country, as Washington tightens its military grip on
much of the continent. The current offensive involves thousands of
Kenyan troops that are threatening the major Somali city of Kismayo.
The American drones are supporting the Kenyan invasion. The drones'
origins are officially secret, but it is known that the U.S. operates
drone bases in Ethiopia and Djibouti, which is home to a huge American
base.
For all practical purposes, the U.S. has made proxies of Ethiopia and
the five member states of the East African Community: Kenya, Uganda,
Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda. The Ugandans and Burundians safeguard
the airport that is the lifeline for Somalia's puppet regime in
Mogadishu, where the CIA operates a major facility. In September, the
militaries of the East African Community held joint exercises with
AFRICOM, the U.S. Africa Command.
Such exercises with American forces have become commonplace. The U.S.
Defence Department is busily training the militaries of Mali, Chad,
Niger, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, the Central African Republic,
Ethiopia, Gabon, Zambia, Uganda, Senegal, Mozambique, Ghana, Malawi
and Mauretania. ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States,
is considering asking the U.S. navy to help it out with its pirate
problem. Most of the militaries of the African Union already
communicate with American command-and-control equipment, requiring
U.S. advisors. The overlapping entanglements have allowed the U.S.
military to achieve deep penetration of the armed forces of most
African nations.
In such a web of dependency, few standing African armies are capable
of defending themselves if the aggressor is the United States. But in
most cases, the U.S. would likely get its way without a fight, since
the officer class of so many African militaries have direct ties with
their American counterparts. The U.S. has so thoroughly infiltrated
African armies, many, if not most, would be of no use for national
defence against the Americans.
The Americans are almost everywhere, but the French never left Africa.
Although France and the U.S. were long-time rivals in Africa, waging
proxy wars against each other through their African flunkies, their
joint actions against Haiti and Libya, and in bringing down the
government in the Ivory Coast, signal that the French and Americans
are full partners in neo-colonialism.
Now President Obama has officially sent 100 U.S. Special Forces troops
to Uganda and neighbouring countries, ostensibly to track down a rebel
force. They will also operate in the new nation of South Sudan.
Meanwhile, the NATO attack on Libya threatens to set the whole
northern tier of Africa ablaze, a pretext for further U.S. and French
operations. American penetration of Africa has reached the point that
any nation "such as Eritrea "that does not have a military
relationship with the United States is marked for regime change.
Instead of the pan-Africanist dream of a United States of Africa, we
are seeing an Africa under the military thumb of the United States.
Glen Ford, executive director, Black Agenda Report
http://www.scribd.com/doc/61839666/Indo-Pak-Wars-A-Pictorial-History
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22457862/Military-Decision-making-and-leadership
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22455178/Letters-to-Command-and-Staff-College-Quetta-Citadel-Journal
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23150027/Pakistan-Army-through-eyes-of-Pakistani-Generals
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23701412/War-of-Independence-of-1857
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