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Once Led By a Fierce Champion of Anti-Colonialism in Patrice Lumumba, the Democratic Republic of Congo Has Effectively Been Recolonized by Western Capital
The United States does the heavy lifting, but Canada provides consistent behind-the-scenes support to enable the plunder of Congo and other nations in the Global South. Continue reading
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Aleela
The tantalum for the capacitors and cobalt for the batteries which power our cell phones are often mined by children in Congo making twenty cents per day. Those children come from a society where rape of women and girls is endemic. Continue reading
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China, Copper, the Democratic Republic of Congo—and the IMF
In a classic example of the witless stenography that passes for Western reporting on Asian and African issues, the actual story – IMF threatens to withhold debt relief unless the Chinese deal is renegotiated – got a bit of a twist – as in Voice of America’s ‘Chinese Mineral Deal Blocking Congo’s IMF Debt Relief.’ Continue reading
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Congo Ignored, Not Forgotten – When 5 million dead aren’t worth two stories a year By Julie Hollar
U.S. media haven’t always ignored the Congo; it was one of the top foreign affairs stories in the early ’60s (In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz, 2002). At the time, the U.S. government was actively working to take down the newly independent country’s leader Patrice Lumumba and pave the way for greater U.S. business participation… Continue reading
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Plundering the Congo
Wayne Madsen: Congo has fallen prey to a lot of people that want to loot its natural resources http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1875001 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
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The Destabilization of Congo
Wayne Madsen: Ethnic divisions are being stoked by client states of the US who arm both sides http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1874988 Posted with vodpod Continue reading
The New Dark Age 