Congo
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16 Years Ago. 7 April 1994: The US was behind the Rwandan Genocide: Installing a US Protectorate in Central Africa By Michel Chossudovsky
From the outset of the Rwandan civil war in 1990, Washington’s hidden agenda consisted in establishing an American sphere of influence in a region historically dominated by France and Belgium. America’s design was to displace France by supporting the Rwandan Patriotic Front and by arming and equipping its military arm, the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) Continue reading
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AFRICOM’s First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia By Rick Rozoff
In a feature titled “East Africa is next hot oil zone,” the news agency disclosed that “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… Continue reading
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Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa By John Vidal
Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than 13-million people needing food aid, but paradoxically the government is offering at least 7.5 million acres of its most fertile land to rich countries and some of the world’s most wealthy individuals to export food for their own populations. Continue reading
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CONGO COMMUNIQUE: PATRICE, THE MARTYR, ALI THE “KILLER” AND TALES FROM CENTRAL AFRICA By Danny Schechter
When Lumumba finally was killed, in January 1961, no one was surprised when fingers started pointing at the CIA. A Senate investigation of CIA assassinations 14 years later found no proof that the agency was behind the hit, but suspicions linger. Today, new evidence suggests Belgium, Congo’s former colonialist ruler, was the mastermind. According to… 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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Is There a Save Darfur Industrial Complex? By Bruce Dixon
The backers and founders of the ‘Save Darfur’ movement are the well-connected and well-funded U.S. foreign policy elite. 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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A Congo Journey By Makeda Crane
He spoke of U.S., Britain, Rwandan and Ugandan companies profiting from the unregulated mining and selling of Congo’s vast mineral deposits, and I wondered: How many Congolese lives had been sacrificed to produce the coltan in my cell phone? Continue reading
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The conflict in the Congo is a resource war waged by U.S. and British allies By Kambale Musavuli
Herman Cohen’s ‘Can Africa Trade Its Way to Peace?’ in the New York Times reflects the disastrous policies that favor profits over people. In his article, the former lobbyist for Mobutu and Kabila’s government in the United States and former assistant secretary of state for Africa from 1989 to 1993 argues, ‘Having controlled the Kivu… 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
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Keith Harmon Snow: Merchants of Death: Exposing Corporate Financed Holocaust in Africa Part 2
War in Congo has again been splashed across world headlines and the same old clichés about violence and suffering are repackaged and rebroadcast as ‘news’. Meanwhile, early indications out of America are that President-elect Barack Obama will assemble a foreign policy-team primed for business as usual. Continue reading
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China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. America’s New Military Command By F. William Engdahl
Just weeks after President George W. Bush signed the Order creating a new US military command dedicated to Africa, AFRICOM, events on the mineral-rich continent have erupted which suggest a major agenda of the incoming Obama Presidency will be for the son of a black Kenyan to focus US resources, military and other, on dealing… Continue reading
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Edward Hooper October 10th, 2008: AIDS Origins – HIV-1 in 1908? Another sad comedy of errors from Michael Worobey
A much simpler and better-supported explanation for the recently- discovered 1960 HIV-1 fragment is that both it and the 1959 HIV-1 fragment are the results of the administering in Leopoldville and elsewhere in the Belgian Congo from 1957 onwards of different batches of an experimental live vaccine. This vaccine, an oral polio vaccine (OPV) called… Continue reading
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Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil By William Bowles
15 November 2007 AIDS, truly the white man’s burden It’s taken decades to unmask the story of how AIDS came to be, and far from being an ‘act of nature’, the real story of its origins is one of ruthless ambition and professional rivalries, entrenched interests, racism and the arrogance and the indifference of the Continue reading
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‘The Geography of Blame’ – Haiti, AIDS and Racism in the Mainstream Media By William Bowles
Nobody bothers much about what’s happening in Haiti these days until that is, a spurious piece of work appears which asserts that AIDs made its way to the US from Haiti via a single individual, then and only then does Haiti makes the headlines. Continue reading
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The Media’s killing fields…and so it goes By William Bowles
Channel 4 TV broadcast a ‘documentary’ “Congo’s Killing Fields” (17/08/03) that purported to be a report on the current situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The hour-long doccie had me hopping mad from the very beginning to its very end and cursing the box sitting in the corner of the room. Continue reading
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The coup de grace By William Bowles
Whatever pronouncements USUK have made over the past months, all are exposed for what they are, utter shams. Shams moreover, that they have been forced to make under public pressure, though it’s of little comfort and makes little difference. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 