adminneo-colonial military project.
AFRICOM, the United States Military Command in Africa, has become the headquarters of re-colonisation, augmented by the militaries of NATO and legitimised by the African Union, itself, and the global credentials of the United Nations.
It is vital to note this great feat of imperialism and international white supremacy reached its zenith during the first term of the Obama administration, which roughly coincides with the birth of AFRICOM, in 2008.
Imperialism with a Black face has been fantastically successful, in Africa.
In fact, Africa is US imperialism’s only generalized success story of the 21st century, to date.
Bizarrely costumed in the garb of “human rights” interveners, the greatest genociders and enslavers in human history — Europe and its superpower offspring, the United States — have nearly completed their reconquest of the African continent.
Only a few patches of land are free of their military entanglements and treaties — notably, Zimbabwe and tiny Eritrea, among the few nations on the African continent that have not yet been absorbed into the AFRICOM matrix.
The United Nations and the African Union have become mere annexes of the AFRICOM military complex, under the fictitious banner of human rights.
“Only a few patches of land are free of their military entanglements and treaties.”
The African Union definitively sold itself to the devil in Somalia, where an AU-accredited force of almost 20 000 troops fights a US and European Union — armed and — financed war to subjugate the Somali nation. The greatest crime of the late 20th and early 21st centuries is now in the process of being sanitised, globalised, and Pan-Africanised in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Since 1996, under Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama, the United States has armed and financed the de facto annexation and bloody depopulation of the mineral rich eastern Congo. US client states Uganda and Rwanda turned the eastern provinces of Congo into a vast killing field that has, so far, claimed the lives of 6 million people — the greatest holocaust since World War Two.
All the while, successive US administrations shielded their Ugandan and Rwandan hirelings from international censure — even as nearly 20 000 United Nations troops were stationed in the killing fields.
But eventually, Rwanda and Uganda’s role in the carnage could no longer be hidden. Now the United States — the superpower overlord of the Congolese genocide — drapes itself in the clothing of humanitarian saviour of the Congo.
It has pushed through the United Nations Security Council the creation of a new, 3000-man force to aggressively intervene in Congo. Like the United Nations-African Union force in Somalia, the UN Congo “intervention brigade” will not move an inch without US arms, training, and supervision.
The US, which has choreographed the Congolese genocide for the past 17 years, will now pose as the great peacemaker and life-giver, through the offices of the United Nations and participating African countries.
And the bought and paid for governments of the continent will bow, and applaud, and then bow again.
Glen Ford is BAR executive editor. This article is reproduced from: http://blackagendareport.com
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