The Congo
On December 1, 1960, Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the newly independent Congo, was captured by political rivals.
Declassified documents confirm the CIA not only planned to remove Patrice Lumumba from power, but actively pursued his elimination; director Allen Dulles authorized covert operations, including a poison plot. UN secretary general, Dag Hammarskjöld had asked Kennedy, as president elect, to intercede to get Lumumba released from prison. 48 hours before Kennedy's inauguration, Lumumba was executed.
Hammarskjöld would later die in a mysterious plane crash while working on a peace treaty between the Congo and the Belgian backed break away state of Katanga. When his body was recovered, he had an ace of spades stuffed in his collar. Declassified documents reveal Allen Dulles's involvement in the Sabotage of the plane, a plot known to the agency as Operation Celeste.
They installed Mobutu Sese Seko as dictator, who changed the name of the country to Zaire and allowed IMF officials to be put in its treasury. Zaire's external debt went from 5% of the countries GDP to 115%. By the 90s, the DRC privatized almost all of its profitable businesses.
Zambia
Zambia has the largest copper reserves in Africa. Due to predatory loans from the IMF and bad policies, Zambia was essentially forced into privatizing the mines. The IMF made it clear with their condition on their new loans that the older loans had to be repaid before they were given.
President Chiluba nationalized the copper mines and was later guilty by the London high court of squandering $46M, spending $1.4M of it on designer ties suits and shoes.
Over a 10 year period, multinational corporations extracted over $29B from the copper mines in Zambia. The tax revenue for this doesn't go to Zambia, but pollution and other problems from the mines do; in 2005 and 2008, residents of Mbupani had acidic drinking water because Glencore had been pumping sulfuric acid into the subsoil a thousand times below WHO standards on both air and water pollution. Glencore avoids accountability because, by law, it's only beholden to the standards of ZIMA, (Zambian Environmental Management Agency) an agency, created by the government for the purpose of setting low standards.
Thanks to the Great Recession, the price of copper tripled, so much so that Americans were robbing foreclosed houses to steal their copper pipes and wiring to sell them on the black market.
Glencore - The largest copper mining company in Zambia is Glencore, also the largest public commodities trader in the world, with a yearly turnover of over $180B, eight times the GDP of Zambia. Glencore paid virtually no profit taxes for Zambian copper, because they did something called transfer pricing, shifting profits to their subsidiaries in Switzerland at a rate so cheap they made a net positive of 0, which Zambia couldn't tax.
Glencore was founded in 1974 by (((Marc Rich))), who also worked for the Israeli Mossad. He was involved in the biggest case of tax fraud in US history, where him and his partner, (((Pincus Green))) (Epstein client) were buying foreign oil from one company and selling it at a loss to another, both owned by Marc Rich; they laundered nearly half-a-million dollars in months. Marc Rich was trading weapons for oil with Iran during the hostage-crisis embargo, leading many to believe he was Israel's Oliver North; he also made $2B selling oil to South Africa. Rich bailed out Russian Oligarchs like Boris Berezovskiĭ after the Sibneft scandal; he got caught but it didn't matter because as a reward for his donations to Hillary Clinton, through his wife, Denise Rich, Bill gave him a presidential pardon.
Nigeria
Shell - Shell started off as a rival to the Rockerfellers' Standard Oil. The (((Rothschilds))) financed major Russian oil fields in Baku; in 1912, Royal Dutch Shell bought out those Russian oil assets in a major stock deal.
In 1973, Shell started a relationship with the corrupt government of Nigeria; between 1976 and 1991, more than 2 million barrels of crude oil polluted the Ogoniland across nearly 3,000 separate spills, causing cancer and destroying fishing communities. In the 90s, the Ogoni started protesting the damage, so Shell got the Nigerian regime to arrest activists, sentencing 80 of them to death, while around 600 homes were burnt to the ground. Later, Nigerians started protesting the building of a new pipeline, so with the help of a check as well as boats helicopters and buses courtesy of Shell, the government killed 12 activists. Shell provided logistical and financial support to the Nigeria's security forces in collaboration with state intelligence. Internal company documents later suggested that senior Shell executives in London and The Hague encouraged the Nigerian Government to deal with the protesters, knowing the risks of what would happen to them.
Ken Saro-Wiwa, who led the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, (MOSOP) was accused of inciting the deaths of 4 tribal leaders, even though he wasn't in the area, so him and 8 others were hanged. In 2017, the men's widows launched a court case against Shell in the Netherlands which revealed that witnesses had been paid by Shell to give fake testimonies, leading to the execution of the Ogoni Nine. Shell paid $15.5M to some of the activists' families.
Chevron - Local fisher-women in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria protested and occupied facilities belonging to Texico (now Chevron) after discovering that an old underwater crude oil pipe, laid decades prior, was leaking, destroying local fishing livelihoods. Chevron has denied this, even though they have historically had various leaks, spills and militant attacks happen in the area in the past.
Rwanda
Did you know there were two Rwandan genocides?
People know what a Hutu and a Tutsi is because of a film, Hotel Rwanda, (2004) monitored and supported by the CIA, which portrayed the US as peacekeepers and let Nick Nolte use a hard-r.
In 2000, the former head of Ugandan intelligence, Paul Kagame, became president of Rwanda and slaughtered millions in the DRC; yet 40% of Rwanda's budget came from the US and UK, and Kagame's Rawanda was calibrated as a success story by the mainstream media and Western leaders.
While the UN was condemning Rwanda, aiding the M23 rebels in the Congo, they were simultaneously giving the Rwandan military tens of millions of dollars for thousands of Rwandan 'peacekeepers'.
Daily Mail article by Ian Burrell: "Women and children desperately sick and weak after months on the run were finally caught by the Rwandan army commander, Papi Kamanzi.'' He told them he would give them food and then send them home, but he now admits that he was lying: ''We took them instead into the forest and killed them with a small hatchet... We could kill more than a hundred a day... We used ropes. It was the fastest way, and we didn't spill blood. Two of us would place the guy on the ground, wrap a rope around his neck once, then pull hard." They were killing a hundred a day. Papi Kamanzi said he was ordered to do this.
Sudan
Ethiopia attacked Eritrea in 2000, then Somalia in 2006, backed by the US. It was in US interest to create a North and South Sudan, because the conflict shut down Chinese contracts on oil fields. According to WikiLeaks, the CIA funded both sides of the conflict, Machar's rebels and the President Salva Kiir's soldiers.
During the worst drought and famine in 60 years in the Horn of Africa, millions starved to death in Somalia and Southern Ethiopia. The UN approved a budget of 10 cents a day for refugees seeking food, but they approved $1B for the 'peacekeeping' forces.
Former CIA director nominee and former National Security Advisor, Tony Lake, who stood by as Somalis starved to death in droves, is now the Executive Director of UNICEF, the organization to help children; Lake went as far as admitting that he was on the payroll of the Ethiopian government. Eritrea-based journalist Thomas C. Mountain reports of three different sources from employees in the World Food Program who witnessed that organization distributing food to the paramilitary groups slaughtering people.
Ghana
In Ghana, the rivers have become landfills for e-waste for Western Europe, the US, Japan and South Korea.
Children get lung illnesses from burning the trash to get access to metals that were in the computers, which they can sell. The irony is that most of those metals come from Africa to begin with.
Rhodesia
Rhodesia was the bread-basket of Africa until the West sanctioned it out of existence for being too white. It was immediately led into economic disparity when Robert Mugabe took over. Now it's another impoverished debt enslaved African country called Zimbabwe.
South Africa
The land was uninhabited when the Boers settled it; the only reason black people are in South Africa is because the Anglo aristocracy invited them there for cheap labor. Be that as it may, when white farmers are killed and have their land stolen by people who don't know how to farm, this knocks out agriculture, a very dangerous economic sector to diminish.
Cameroon
The US commanded and coordinated the Rapid Intervention Battalion of Cameroon, (BIR) as part of a special forces partnership. They became world famous when they filmed themselves burning down a village and spraying bullets into a pile of women and children.
Lucky for them, the Defense Department claims that 127 ECHO programs are exempt from oversight, and that the Leahy Law, which prohibits assisting forces who commit human rights abuses, doesn't apply to them.
The 127 Echo program with Cameroon ended in 2019, but they still receive support from the US. In fact, they're one of America's closest allies in the region. Obama would send 300 special forces troops there in 2014, and they'd set up multiple drone bases, including SELOC, which would be used by the BIR to imprison members of the Kanuri ethnic minority, including women and children, where they'd torture them, using stress positions, suspension by ropes, water torture, sleep deprivation, extraction of fingernails, burning and electric shocks. As recently as 2020, Cameroonian security forces had conducted a massacre in Garbu, killing at least 22 civilians in cold blood.
Burkina Faso
In Burkina Faso, US Special Operations units have long trained the Burkinabe security forces, who have been implicated in mass extrajudicial killings. In 2020, 114 bodies were discovered buried in 14 mass graves in Jibo, in the north of the country; other bodies were simply left exposed to the elements, a total of close to 200 people. Simon Compaoré, who served as Internal Security Minister, would have this to say when asked about these killings: "We have to do everything to make sure we keep the morale up. We're doing this, but we're not shouting it from the rooftops." Burkina Faso has turned from one of the most stable countries in Africa to a failing state.
In January of 2022, a US-trained Lieutenant Colonel of the Burkinabe military would overthrow the government. He had participated in at least six US military exercises.
By: GDF, Ryan Dawson, Arthur Greenwood...
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