After all, Mugabe was right: US behaviour shameful

President Mugabe, who said “shame, shame, shame on you” to the US at the UN General Assembly, has been vindicated as hardly a month later the  world learnt that the American government spied on closest allies, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel
President Mugabe, who said “shame, shame, shame on you” to the US at the UN General Assembly, has been vindicated as hardly a month later the world learnt that the American government spied on closest allies, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel

At the United Nations World Summit in September, outspoken Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe shamed the Americans three times and many who side with Uncle Sam, thought the veteran leader was out of sync. “Shame . . . shame . . . shame on you!” President Mugabe said, referring to the Americans, whom he unmasked as world hypocrites.

But, hardly a month later President Mugabe was vindicated after the world learned how the American government spied on closest allies including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, eavesdropping on her telephone conversation.
President Mugabe was right and spot on.

There is no reason for the world to try and smile under a storm. Everyone is under US surveillance and everyone is being spied on. This is very dangerous.
US president Barack Obama might be putting up a brave face, in line with the brazen spying of his allies but the truth of the matter is that he is very embarrassed by the leakage of this kind of information.

How on earth does one spy on his real friend? Does spying on his German counterpart not mean that Obama has other ideas about her? How shameful.
Shame!
Shame!
Shame!

In all honesty, diplomatic corridors shook and are still shaking after the discovery than US spied and listened to an ally President speaking over the phone Regrettably, Obama has abused his country’s complex spy network against even those who thought they were his allies who have backed US military adventures based on mere friendship and not facts.

A cartoon in The Herald , Zimbabwe’s largest newspaper aptly picked up enough imagery about the US German scenario and it was the best illustration of the case so far. It left nothing to imagination. Imagine a scenario where someone hides by the corner while you bath naked and oil your body, then you dress up and cover every inch of your body to go and meet the same person? Unbeknown to you, the person you are dressing up for knows every curve on your body. Suppose you get to know, that he was eavesdropping on you, how would you feel?

In the carton, I refer to, there they were Obama and Merkel, shaking hands with Merkel thinking all her essentials are covered, yet Obama had already spied and finished with her body. In Merkel’s mind she was clothed yet Obama knew the secrets of her body.

The disclosures made by Edward Snowden demonstrate that the US and its allies actively use modern information communication technologies for change or “updating” disliked regimes, and the same ICT was used effectively in the “Arab Spring.”
In the period of elections states are most vulnerable to application of these technologies and Zimbabwe is not an exception to the rules.
Misinformation and information influence on the population can cause mass riots and become the catalyst of regime change.

Where the US and its allies have failed regime change like in Zimbabwe, it is because the population there has benefited from massive empowerment and indigenisation programmes to the point of ignoring US, European Union and other Euro-centric regime change antics .

The organisation of independent information counteraction from destructive intervention is actually ineffective. The unique way of protection is fastening of the positions, forbidding similar subversive activities, in the international legislation.

According to Snowden’s information, US special services have for a long period, completely supervised databases of the largest Internet companies (Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Paltalk, AOL, Skype, Youtube, Apple). Thanks to modern ICT Washington exercises a total shadowing in all regions of the world, including the African continent.
Huge volumes of the information received by the US special services (electronic correspondence, vocal and video chats, photos, a file transfer, dialogue details in social networks) allow getting sensitive data, including one concerning chief executive officers of sovereign states, which later can be used for pressuring upon ruling elite or changing disliked characters under US regimes change.

The cause of US failure to transfer control over Internet network to the UN is obvious as such a step would seriously complicate a realisation of the American plans of developing cyber-strategy, as a means of manipulation public opinion in the countries with disliked regimes.

From the spying expose’ it means all issues about democracy, civil liberties, human rights, accountability and good governance are actually smokescreens behind which America uses to hide the real reason of attacking leaders deemed untoward to American foreign policy.
The real reason, which will never be made public, is information gathered through eavesdropping which cannot be divulged to the public.

The spying is precisely the reason why America has been able to lie to the world and start wars. Unbeknown to the world wars are started for other reasons only best known to the Americans yet, the Americans create issues around human right abuse etc. as cover up.
Like I said earlier on, the world should not pretend that things are fine and smile under a storm.

We are under siege from US and the more we understand that all over the years the US has lied to the world and done more harm than good, the more we see every past American president fit for the International Court of Justice in the Hague.
Shame on the US. Shame!

  • Dr McDonald Chirwa is a Malawian political scientist who writes for DayAfrica.com

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