IMHO the Republican criminals are on the move again.Africa needs better future than good speeches
from George Bush.Our resourses are for the People and let them stop the exploitation us.


Fye.




  Counterpunch (July 4, 2003)
  A Sad Independence Day:  Little to Celebrate in a Country Gone Mad
  By WAYNE MADSEN

  Already dealing with a demoralized military, Bush, on the eve of his trip to Africa, mulls sending U.S. troops to Liberia. He also tells Liberian dictator Charles Taylor to step down. Never mind that Bush's friends in the international diamond industry, especially the head of the Corporate Council on Africa, Maurice Tempelsman, were largely responsible for the upheavals in West Africa, including Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, and Guinea. The diamond merchants have found it lucrative to keep West African governments unstable. They found unfettered access to the diamonds controlled by local warlords to be far more profitable than having to deal with centralized governments. However, when Charles Taylor began threatening neighboring countries's blood diamond supply lines and stood ready to upset the status quo enjoyed by the diamond cartels of Tel Aviv, Antwerp, and Amsterdam, Taylor's days were numbered. Bush's priority is to maintain leaders in power throughout Africa who will not stand in the way of Western exploitation. That includes the leaders of those countries he plans to visit, especially Uganda, Botswana, and Nigeria.

  That is the way Bush's Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Walter Kansteiner III, wants it. A neo-fascist Republican veteran of the International Republican Institute and the Corporate Council on Africa, Kansteiner, a one-time supporter of racism and apartheid in South Africa and on the record as favoring the Balkanization of nation states in Africa, wants his friends in natural resources corporations and the Pentagon (where he headed the Strategic Minerals Task Force under then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney) to have free access to Africa's mineral and oil reserves. To make sure Africa's natural resource rapists understand his commitment to their cause, Bush spoke to the Corporate Council on Africa prior to his departure for the beleaguered continent, a continent the moron-in-chief once referred to as a "country."

  The neo-cons now see West Africa as America's next target for control. One of their chicken hawk columnists, National Review's Rich Lowry, recently suggested that West Africa is of such strategic interest to America, the U.S. should set up military bases in the region with a U.S. military headquarters on Sao Tome, in the Gulf of Guinea, a potental future "American lake." More U.S. colonies. After years of exploitative European colonization, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, and other African countries may soon become virtual American colonies as part of a Greater West Africa National Economic Sphere. It is a page right out of the Japanese fascist playbook from World War II. So for our mentally challenged president, his neo con advisers tell him, "West Africa = diamonds + oil." That's all he has to hear. He authorizes sending in U.S. troops, building U.S. bases, and makes a trip there to Africa to cement the deals.

  A Washington insider familiar with Liberia revealed that a major reason for Bush to go into Liberia is oil. Liberia's flag flies on most of the world's supertankers. "Look, the United States is about ready to start moving massive supplies of Iraqi oil on supertankers. With Liberia, the major flag of convenience for those tankers in a state of upheaval, Bush has to go in with troops. Forget human rights, that's not the issue, the Liberian Internatonal Ship and Corporate Registry must have a stable government to nurture it," the insider said.

  What is in store for Africa is spelled out in the most recent journal of the neo con propaganda mill, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). Its important to closely read neo-con literature in order to anticipate their future plans. Special attention must be paid to new catch phrases and code words, for example, "new American century," West Bank "outposts" (instead of settlements), and "Iraqi secular state." In one article in the JINSA journal, the term "Franco/Afro" dictatorships is used. This is a signal that the neo cons will make France pay dearly for its failure to support their worldwide agenda. So-called Franco-African governments in Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Mauritania, Congo-Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa, Chad, Niger, Togo, Benin, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Madagascar, and Mauritius are clearly on the target list. For the United States and its neo con friends around the world to take over control of Africa--complete with ready-made human guinea pigs for AIDS vaccines and genetically-modified "Frankenfood"--the "Franco/Afro dictatorships" have to go. Bush showed his compassion for the AIDS pandemic in Africa by naming the former head of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly, Randall Tobias, as his global AIDS "czar." Bush has shown us all not to be surprised at his "compassion," his visit to Africa will rival that of an arsonist visiting a hospital burn ward.

   Marsha Stewart




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