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Search Results for: AFRICOM
Video: AFRICOM Expands Mission In Africa
In this Paul Jay interview from The Real News Network, Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo casts some light on the announcement that a U.S. combat brigade is headed to Africa as the first deployment under the Pentagon’s newest … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Corpocracy, Deep Politics, Governance, GWOT, Military, Resources, Video, Warfare
Chuck Wald, Berkeley, Africom, Iran & agrofuels
UPDATE: At the end. Back in the late 19th Century, when Britain was the world’s reigning imperial power, the war wizards of London waged a long strategic struggle with Russia for the control of Central Asia. The British called it … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Agriculture, Asia, Corpocracy, Deep Politics, Development, Geopolitics, Global Corporate U., GWOT, History, Mideast, Military, Resources, Warfare
Africom and the 21st Century colonial war regime
In the old days, the militaries of Europe and the United States [remember Cuba and the Philippines?] were dispatched to foreign lands to overthrow regimes and popular movements intent of maintaining real national sovereignty. Invariably, corporations followed. Perhaps the bloodiest … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Corpocracy, Deep Politics, Governance, Military, MSM, Warfare
Pilger on Obama’s War, Africom, and patterns
From an essay posted at Global Research: President Barack Obama’s historical distinction is now guaranteed. He is America’s first black president to invade Africa. His assault on Libya is run by the US Africa Command, which was set up in … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Deep Politics, Europe, Military, Warfare
WikiCable II: Gaddafi gives thumbs up to Africom
Africom is the Pentagon’s newest military command, designed to create a permanent presence on the African continent, with troops and supplies within striking distance of all parts of the continent and it’s rich resources of land, oil, and minerals. In … Continue reading
WikiCable: Selling AFRICOM to the Spaniards
Today’s cable is a 20 June 2008 CONFIDENTIAL missive from then-Ambassador to Spain Eduardo Aguirre, reporting on a visit to the Spanish capital by General William E. “Kip” Ward, Commander U.S. Africa Command [AFRICOM]. As we’ve noted before, AFRICOM is … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Deep Politics, Geopolitics, GWOT, Military, Secrecy, WikiLeaks diplomatic cables
Democratic Republic of Congo, a story of tragedy
For five centuries, Western nations and empires viewed the Congo as the source of vital raw materials: First slaves, then rubber, and now minerals, including those needed to keep the American war machine running. Before the mass murders of European … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Corpocracy, Crime, Culture, Deep Politics, Development, Economy, Education, Europe, Geopolitics, Governance, History, Law, Military, Politics, Resources, Video, Wealth
InSecurityWatch: Idiocy, hacks, war, hypocrisy
From the Odessa American, terrorism idiocy in the Texas classroom: Parent: Fourth-grader suspended after using magic from ‘The Hobbit’ A Kermit parent said his fourth-grade student was suspended Friday for allegedly making a terroristic threat. His father, Jason Steward, said … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Asia, Children, Corpocracy, Crime, Europe, Geopolitics, Governance, GWOT, History, Hypocrisy, Intolerance, Latin America, Law, Media, Mideast, Military, Organized crime, Politics, Privacy, Secrecy, Spooks, Warfare
Map of the day: How Africa looks to the Pentagon
From Africom, the Pentagon’s military command for the continent, which sees Africa as a land of unlimited military possibilities:
EbolaWatch: Marburg, U.S., European fear, Africa
Much ground to cover in the increasingly dramatic unfolding of the Ebola crisis, but we begin with that other hemorrhagic fever outbreak that is causing great concern,. From the Daily Monitor in Kampala, Uganda: Number of Marburg suspects raise to … Continue reading
EbolaWatch: Numbers, aid, desperate measures
We begin with a number from Bloomberg: 70: The Magic Number That Could End the Ebola Epidemic There are a lot of scary numbers floating around about Ebola. Take 1.4 million: the CDC’s worst-case scenario for Ebola cases in Western … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Community, Culture, Environment, Europe, Governance, Health, Human behavior, Media, MSM, Politics, Resources, Video, Wealth
EbolaWatch: Arts, shortages, suffering, more
We begin today’s coverage with two videos from CCTV Africa focusing on the Ebola crisis and the performing arts. Our first offering focuses on Ugandan playwright Phillip Luswata’s Get Away from Me, a dramatization of the Ebola crisis and its … Continue reading
‘How Your Tax Dollars Are Actually Spent’
Via Orwellwasright, a dramatic Al Jazeera visualization of the real budget battle’s driving engine, that military/industrial/academic complex Ike warned us about 52 years ago. We suspect the real number’s larger. Nor were real impacts on, for example, academia made clear. … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Agriculture, Class, Corpocracy, Deep Politics, Economy, Finance, Geopolitics, Global Corporate U., Governance, GWOT, Mideast, Military, Politics, Resources, Science, Video, Warfare, Wealth
Quote of the day: The U.S. invades Africa
From veteran Australian journalist John Pilger: A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way. The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Corpocracy, Deep Politics, Environment, Governance, History, Politics, Resources, Wealth
Juxtapositionalism: First a fact, then a question
Sometimes two items just seem to go together, especially for a blog that’s devoted some attention to AFRICOM and its links to Pentagon plans to exercise military suzerainty over resources in times to crisis. First, consider the latest move to … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Agriculture, Corpocracy, Deep Politics, Development, Environment, Food, Governance, GWOT, Military, Resources, Spooks, Warfare, Wealth
Quote of the day: Inventing our own enemies
From Alán Camilo Cienfuegos, writing in Irish Left Review: The United States military’s Africa Command (AFRICOM) has never been based on the African continent, headquartered instead in Germany. The chief leader of the opposition to US imperialism in Africa, the … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Deep Politics, Geopolitics, History, Resources, Wealth
Congress torpedoes Navy, Pentagon agrofuel plans
Both houses have approved legislation that blocks the Navy from buying agrofuels — petroleum substitutes derived from plants, typically grown on industrial Third World plantations — unless they cost no more than conventional fuels. Their action also bars the Pentagon … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Agriculture, Amyris, Inc., Corpocracy, Environment, Governance, Military, Politics, Resources
Obama pushes for more black military operations
Expect to see a lot more drone strikes and secret snatch operations if Bvarack Obama wins reelection. A disturbing report in today’s Los Angeles Times reveals a push from inside the Pentagon to expand the military’s clandestine operations, a direct … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Deep Politics, Military, Secrecy, Warfare
Agrofuels: A tool of corporateers and generals
A very revealing report form EurActiv on a draft study by the European Union on agrofuels [biofuels in press parlance] reveals the dirty truth behind the “green” dreams: Conventional biofuels like biodiesel increase carbon dioxide emissions and are too expensive … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Agriculture, Corpocracy, Development, Environment, Europe, Governance, Hypocrisy, Military, Politics, Science, Warfare, Wealth
LBNL, Dysprosium, and the new course of empire
What is dysprosium and why are the scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory devoting so much attention to it? And what does it have to do with President Barack Obama’s decision to shift the focus of America’s military might to … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Deep Politics, Geopolitics, History, Military, Resources, Video, Wealth
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