Africom

The war on Africa: U.S. imperialism and the world economic crisis

June 14, 2013

Source: Pambazuka Mineral resources and the quest for strategic advantage guide western foreign policy on the continent Capitalism has failed to provide adequate housing, jobs, medical, educational and other services to many people in the West. As well, China’s global influence is rising. These are some of the reasons behind the US quest for mineral [...]

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Why Tunisia Could Host the U.S. Military’s African Headquarters

June 12, 2013

Source: Tunisia Live The post-revolutionary Tunisian government may soon find itself inclined to host a major piece of the United States’ international military architecture. The debate over whether Tunisia should accommodate the United States Africa Command, also known as AFRICOM, started when the U.S. declared its intentions to create the command in 2006. At the time, the [...]

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EU mission seeks to rebuild Mali army after U.S. faltered

May 21, 2013

Source: Reuters A European Union training mission faces a considerable challenge as it seeks to succeed where years of U.S. instruction failed by turning Mali’s rag-tag army into a force capable of facing an Islamist threat stretching across the Sahara. Years of corruption and neglect led the army to a string of defeats against al [...]

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Marine rapid reaction unit moved to Italy amid escalating crisis in Libya

May 15, 2013

Source: Stars and Stripes Just weeks after arriving in Spain, a “small element” from a new 550-Marine-strong rapid reaction force has repositioned to southern Italy amid deteriorating security conditions in nearby Libya, where there have been a series of recent evacuations by western diplomats, defense officials said Wednesday. “The unit, which is temporarily deployed to [...]

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AFRICOM Special Operations Forces-trained Congolese Commando Battalion among units accused of rape

May 10, 2013

Source: Stars and Stripes For U.S. diplomats and military officials who were involved in training a Congolese army unit, a troubling question loomed: Would the 391st Commando Battalion serve as protectors of the population or would they revert to acts of sexual violence once on the battlefield? A United Nations report released this week indicates [...]

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Major U.S. military operations/actions to protect oil

May 8, 2013

Source: By Kevin Wang and David Kashi -Oil Change America’s role in protecting oil: The U.S. military has used force or the threat of force to protect its energy interests around the world, primarily in the Middle East, for more than five decades, safeguarding foreign oil sources and the sea lanes through which they pass. According to Roger Stern, [...]

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Pentagon now prepared to repel assaults on diplomatic outposts in Africa

May 8, 2013

Source: WT The Pentagon says it’s now equipped to launch the type of rescue mission that could have helped American personnel who came under deadly attack at the temporary diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, last year. U.S. Africa Command has positioned a 500-strong Marine task force in Moron, Spain and equipped with Osprey aircraft capable of vertical landing along with KC-130 [...]

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US-TRANSCOM seeking private contractors for African commando transportation

May 7, 2013

Source: Defense Web ZA The United States Army’s Transportation Command (US-TRANSCOM) is looking for private flight contractors to transport commandos from the Joint Special Taskforce Trans-Sahara as they conduct ‘high risk activities’ in 31 African countries. The pre-solicitation notice, issued by the US-TRANSCOM on 1 April, says the contractor will need to conduct air drops, [...]

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AFRICOM and USAID in Dakar

May 6, 2013

Source: LeBlog Finance Casually, the United States would they not be trying to get a little closer in Senegal? The country is close to the Mali and its raw materials, and is itself endowed with resources such as oil and uranium? Who knows … Do not forget that a few months ago, Washingtown planned to [...]

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How Many Wars Is the US Fighting Today?

May 3, 2013

Source: Degruyter The US has withdrawn from Iraq and is planning to do likewise from Afghanistan in 2014. This article argues that the US has been fighting at least 5 wars, most of which are unannounced and undeclared, and are fought with air power and robotics technology. Most people in the US and around the [...]

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U.S. Security Strategy in South Sudan – an Anti-China Strategy?

May 3, 2013

Source: All Africa The cornerstone of an academic debate which took shape over the last twelve years among Marxist scholars – since the publication of Empire (2000) – focuses on what can be considered the mother of all questions for scientists of international politics: what is the structure of the current geopolitical world order we [...]

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Marines Ready to Respond in Northern Africa

May 1, 2013

Source: Heritage Asked about the attack last fall on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, President Obama asserted, “our job with respect to Benghazi has been to find out exactly what happened, to make sure that U.S. embassies not just in the Middle East but around the world are safe and secure and to bring those [...]

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US & France Intervene in Mali To Protect Land & Resource Grabs, Not Because of Al Qaeda

April 29, 2013

Source: Black Agenda Report US & France Intervene in Mali To Protect Land & Resource Grabs, Not Because of Al Qaeda The US has boots on the ground and manned & unmanned aircraft in the skies of Mali, to answer supposed threats to US national security poised by Al Qeda. If you believe that, you [...]

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In New Mexico desert, drone pilots learn the new art of war

April 22, 2013

Source: Reuters The tide of war may be receding, as President Barack Obama is fond of saying, but U.S. military demand for unmanned drones and their remote pilots is growing. Here in the New Mexico desert, the U.S. Air Force has ramped up training of drone operators – even as the nation increasingly debates their [...]

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MALI: “WAR IS THE CONTINUATION OF POLICY BY OTHER MEANS”

April 20, 2013

Editor’s Note: The terrorism angle for military intervention into Mali is highly suspicious. The NATO military mission to destabilize Libya was a strategic catalyst for mass amounts of weapon caches to be smuggled/trafficked throughout North Africa to Syria. As I have stated before, the U.S. AFRICOM/NATO backed French military intervention into Mali/West Africa is to establish a containment defense policy. A strategic [...]

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Jihadists are heading to Syria from Tunisia

April 2, 2013

Source: UPI Tunisian jihadists are flocking to Syria to fight alongside Islamist forces to topple the Damascus regime, just as they did in Iraq after the 2003 U.S. invasion. There’s a growing fear in the North African country where the pro-democracy uprisings of the so-called Arab Spring were triggered in January 2011 that the militants [...]

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Drone base in Niger gives U.S. a strategic foothold in West Africa

March 21, 2013

Source: WP The newest outpost in the U.S. government’s empire of drone bases sits behind a razor-wire-topped wall outside this West African capital, blasted by 110-degree heat and the occasional sandstorm blowing from the Sahara. The U.S. Air Force began flying a handful of unarmed Predator drones from here last month. The gray, mosquito-shaped aircraft emerge [...]

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Nigeria: Mali and the New Cold War

March 21, 2013

Source: All Africa Just after World War II when American State Department planners were assigning each part of the world its “function” within the overall system of US domination, Africa was considered unimportant. George Kennan, head of the State Department’s policy planning staff, advised that Africa should be handed over to Europe to “exploit” for [...]

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Marine Corps rapid-response team ordered to Africa to thwart another Benghazi attack

March 8, 2013

Source: Washington Times U.S. Africa Command will get a new Marine Corps rapid response force as part of a plan to beef up its crisis response capabilities. More Leathernecks will be at the ready after the military was unable to get timely aid to Benghazi, Libya last year, during a terror attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and members of his [...]

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Tensions mount between France and Qatar about the war in Mali and Tunisia

March 4, 2013

Source: Cameroon Voice Translation Worsen tensions between France and Qatar with accusations that the monarchy petro is currently financing and arming separatists and Islamic militants linked to al-Qaeda in Mali and, more generally, to spread fundamentalism Islamic Africa. France has worked closely with Qatar to oust Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. France is also currently cooperating with [...]

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Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Ryan Henry, AFRICOM and Resource Wars: Somalia tops ‘resource nationalism risk’ list

February 27, 2013

Editor’s Note: The 3 myths of AFRICOM presented by Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Ryan Henry have come to fruition. AFRICOM/Pentagon/NATO entities are conducting a global war on terror propaganda program to set in motion a steady destabilization of African nations, as well as in the Middle East-Syria. AFRICOM is establishing key strategic [...]

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War on terror is the West’s new religion

February 24, 2013

Source: Independent Mohamed al-Zawahiri, younger brother of Osama bin Laden’s successor, Ayman, made a particularly intriguing statement in Cairo last month. Talking to that wonderful French institution Le Journal du Dimanche about Mali, he asked the paper to warn France “and to call on reasonable French people and wise men not to fall into the [...]

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Global War on Terror, Military Interventions and Destabilizing Nations

February 22, 2013

Editors Notes: The war on terror is a myth to create conformity, manipulate public opinion and adjust the individual to government ideals. The war on terror is not the expression of experts, individuals or a small group of advocates. War on terror propaganda comes from actors, journalists and commentators that are directed by capital interests. The war on terror is a [...]

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AFRICOM: The Stealthy Militarisation of Africa

February 21, 2013

Source: SACSIS The US Africa Command (AFRICOM), assembled under the leadership of President George W. Bush’s hawk Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2007, now flexes it muscle across the continent in earnest. US military interests in Africa are not new. However, the concept of a unified African military command and associated presence to advance US [...]

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France’s stake in Sahel: India wants to hear from Hollande

February 13, 2013

Source: Two Circles When Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sits with President Fracois Hollande here Thursday for a review of the strategic partnership, he would perhaps do well to seek a little more clarity on the situation in the Sahel which holds significant interest for India. A 1,000km-wide region between the Sahara desert in the North and [...]

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Pentagon providing intelligence support to Nigeria

February 5, 2013

Editors Notes: Do not have to rely on regional media reports to determine if DoD intelligence operatives are conducting missions in Nigeria. AFRICOM/Pentagon have been leaking information and details of military operations and cooperation in Nigeria over the last 2 years.Related Articles: U.S. expands its secret war in Africa, America’s ‘shadow wars’ in Africa, Pentagon [...]

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The recolonization of Africa began with the death of Gaddafi

February 1, 2013

Source: RT Spain A few days ago Spain’s National Radio interviewed a renowned expert on Middle Eastern politics and North Africa which stated that “Libya is in a process of democratic transition with some problems” and that “the most important thing is that it has one hundred percent recovered crude supply. “ Hearing these manifestations of [...]

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Mali and AFRICOM’s Africa Agenda: Target China – F. William Engdahl

January 31, 2013

Editors Notes: An additional piece worth reading straight from AFRICOM covering future military affairs/influence/operations and strategy for Africa-Role and Mission of AFRICOM: Africa’s Oil, Vital Resources, Countering China, Strategic Chokepoints, Maritime Security, Narcotics Source: Voltaire Part I: Africa’s New Thirty Years’ War? Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, [...]

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Geopolitical rivalry of the great powers

January 29, 2013

Editors Notes: France/Britian/Canada/AFRICOM are waging war against proxy franchised al qaeda in the Sahel region. What the hell for ? Resource wars, economics and global trade coming in and out of Africa. NATO nations are attempting to secure a strategic advantage over one another for Africa’s mineral deposits and raw materials while Russian, Indian and Chinese [...]

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