Listening to a SOTT podcast from October, Laura said that bombs may not be dropping on your front lawn, but they are on other people's, and it's only a matter of time before it happens to you, a loved one, or someone you know. It's certainly happening to people in Africa.
We don't talk about it all that often, but all of central Africa seems to be merging into one big war zone. The Darfur mess has spilled over into Chad, Central Africans are fleeing into Chad and Sudan from the battle between the gov't and rebels, with the French military striking down civilians from the air in northern towns (in support of the gov't), continuing its 125-year history of meddling in the area. The CAR, of course, borders the DR Congo, which, like its neighbor to the north, has vast natural-resource wealth, but a miserable history of civil war, corruption, and continuing instability. They say that the tension in the air is still palpable in Rwanda, to DR Congo's east. Same story in DR Congo's southwestern neighbor, Angola, currently still gasping for breath in a break from its latest civil war, though no one can move as the country is covered in landmines and everyone has a gun. Zambia to its east is among the most AIDS-ridden countries in the world and hosts tens of thousands of refugees from fighting in the DR Congo. Can Nigeria and Somalia on the western and eastern fringes keep much longer from falling apart?
Though the colonial era officially ended 45-50 years ago, it has essentially continued to this day, as Western powers have been looting African nations of resources with the blessings of paid-off puppet rulers ever since. That's where your "foreign aid" goes, folks. This continent borders the Middle East and seems ready-made to add to the conflagration should it really get going there.
Millions of Africans have been butchered in wars in just the last 40 years, without a lot of notice in the US media, at least, unless western powers get directly, overtly, involved.
I noticed that the Central African Republic's state-owned newspaper, Centrafrique-Presse, is offline, looking for a financial sponsor!
http://www.centrafrique-presse.com/:
We don't talk about it all that often, but all of central Africa seems to be merging into one big war zone. The Darfur mess has spilled over into Chad, Central Africans are fleeing into Chad and Sudan from the battle between the gov't and rebels, with the French military striking down civilians from the air in northern towns (in support of the gov't), continuing its 125-year history of meddling in the area. The CAR, of course, borders the DR Congo, which, like its neighbor to the north, has vast natural-resource wealth, but a miserable history of civil war, corruption, and continuing instability. They say that the tension in the air is still palpable in Rwanda, to DR Congo's east. Same story in DR Congo's southwestern neighbor, Angola, currently still gasping for breath in a break from its latest civil war, though no one can move as the country is covered in landmines and everyone has a gun. Zambia to its east is among the most AIDS-ridden countries in the world and hosts tens of thousands of refugees from fighting in the DR Congo. Can Nigeria and Somalia on the western and eastern fringes keep much longer from falling apart?
Though the colonial era officially ended 45-50 years ago, it has essentially continued to this day, as Western powers have been looting African nations of resources with the blessings of paid-off puppet rulers ever since. That's where your "foreign aid" goes, folks. This continent borders the Middle East and seems ready-made to add to the conflagration should it really get going there.
Millions of Africans have been butchered in wars in just the last 40 years, without a lot of notice in the US media, at least, unless western powers get directly, overtly, involved.
I noticed that the Central African Republic's state-owned newspaper, Centrafrique-Presse, is offline, looking for a financial sponsor!
http://www.centrafrique-presse.com/:
Le site Centrafrique Presse est off line pour une duree indeterminee et recherche un sponsor financier. Merci de nous contacter a l'adresse email sponsor@centrafrique-presse.com si vous etes interesse. Cordialement