Conflict Diamonds: ?A Linguistic Deception?
by M Quinn
Global Research, December 7, 2006
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According to the westernized thingish way of thinking, everything must
be assigned a name, label, or definition. Many times the categorization
assigned to things, tends to lead people further away from the truth,
rather than closer to it. Nevertheless, the minds of western
phraseologist are at it again, with an extremely disingenuous
classification regarding the wars and conflicts within the diamond rich
regions of Africa.
The terminology being employed by these specialists of misinformation
is ?conflict diamonds?. This phrase was apparently created to describe
the persistent wars on the continent of Africa, while attempting to
reduce these conflicts to merely ethnic factions fighting one another
over diamonds, hence the term.
However, the western architects of this twenty first century jargon
have apparently - once again; left out an extremely critical element of
how many of these wars are created, subsidized, and maintained.
Over the past several decades, the United States, Britain and the
imperial powers of the western world have funneled billions of dollars
into the continent to fund these alleged wars; and have likewise
supplied countless countries on the continent with an enormous amount
of military hardware; such as heavy machine gun weaponry, tanks,
armored personnel carriers, rocket launchers, military airplanes and
logistic satellite communiqué in support of these so-called ethnic
conflicts. The disguised narrative for supporting these conflicts rest
in the western powers necessity in protecting their investments - the
billions, of dollars in natural resources pilfered from the continent
annually.
The constant supply of military weaponry has produced millions of
deaths on the continent, and has likewise produced famine, starvation
and abject poverty.
Through the strategy of divide and conquer implemented by the imperial
powers of the west; these never-ending wars and conflicts provide a
cover for them to continue to financially exploit the continent of its
natural resources, .i.e., (diamonds, gold, iridium, osmium, titanium,
manganese, cobalt, etc.) ? not to mention the vast food supplies, such
as fish, shrimp, soybean, wheat, etc.
The strategic minds of the western world understand, that the path to
power for ?Black? African people to insert themselves back onto the
world stage ? once again; is to control the natural resources of their
homeland, and the richest real estate on the planet, ?Africa?. This
remains one of the primary reasons that we have been lead to believe
that the myriad of regional wars and conflicts in Africa are merely
Black folk fighting one another over diamonds and other natural
resources - which is categorically not the truth in its entirety.
To date, some eighty to ninety percent of the alleged ethnic and
regional conflicts in Africa are funded by those in charge of the
social, political and economic system of the western world, with an
uncompromising policy of self preservation.
In fact, in an article posted on the Project Censored website,
entitled; ?The Repackaging of Colonialism in Africa?; the following is
articulated.
?During the cold war years (1950-1989), the U.S. sent $1.5 billion in
arms and military training to Africa thus setting the stage for the
current round of conflicts. From 1991-1995 the U.S. increased the
amount of weapons and other military assistance to fifty of the total
fifty-three African countries.
In June of 2002, leaders from the eight most powerful countries in the
world (the G8) met to form a New Partnership for Africa?s Development
(NEPAD) as an "anti-poverty" campaign. One glaring omission, however,
is the consultation and representation of the African nations. Not one
of the eight leaders was from Africa.
The article further cites that the danger of the NEPAD proposal is
that it fails to protect Africa from exploitation of its natural
resources, and that this development plan reads like a mad dash to grab
up as much of Africa?s remaining resources as ?quickly?, as possible?
(Source: ?The Repackaging of Colonialism in Africa?
http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2004/10.html
As a culture, people of African descent have bought into and have
likewise been transformed by innumerable social and cultural
falsehoods, and can no longer afford to take anything else at face
value. We must begin to check and recheck everything fed into our minds
whether it?s through the media, the educational system, religion and
most definitely Washington D.C.
It is likewise essential for Africans worldwide to develop a
comprehensive knowledge on the art of misdirection and the mechanics of
misinformation, which has been employed against the African world
community for so many years. We can no longer accept half-truths and
misleading information as our foundation without sifting through every
particle, and thus arriving at our own conclusions.
M. QUINN is a San Francisco Bay Area Author of the book "Removing the
Veil", and a freelance writer and columnist for Afromerica.com, the
Noyse.com and the UC Berkeley newspaper "The Onyx" specializing in
social, historical and political analysis, and commentary.
REMOVING THE VEIL BY M. QUINN: www.lulu.com/content/286753
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