The Arab Spring
On the northern side of the Maritime Silk Road that connects to the Mediterranean, Caspian oil and gas from Azerbaijan flows through the BTC from Turkey and then to Israel which slides through a pipeline to the Red Sea to connect to the Maritime Silk Road. A rival route for this was going to come from Iran up to Syria which would connect to the Mediterranean and then through the Suez Canal into the Red Sea, connecting to the Maritime Silk Road. Unfortunately the Arab Spring happened, with American trained Abdel Fattah el-Sisitaking over; there was an attempted coup in Syria, as well as a foreign-backed mercenary proxy war Syria which went on to involve Turkey and Israel.
Lyrbia
Under Gaddafi, Libya had been one of the richest nations in Africa, with the second highest human development score on the continent, beaten only by the wealthy island nation of Seychelles. Libya actually scored above many European countries, and it scored way higher than Russia or China.
Gaddafi's most ambitious project was the Great Man-Made River, a huge network of pipes and aqueducts which carries fresh, clean water all across Libya. In a desert nation, water is everything. And And the Great Man-Made River provides 70% of all fresh water used in Libya. Gaddafi's government provided free housing and healthcare to its people. By 1978, Libya had twice as many doctors and hospitals as it had before the revolution. And over the course of Gaddafi's reign, the life expectancy rose from 54 to 70.
In 1986, a nightclub in Berlin was bombed by terrorists. The attack was blamed on Gaddafi. Even though there was no proof whatsoever besides unverified rumors, President Reagan ordered airstrikes on Benghazi and Tripoli. These airstrikes killed around a hundred Libyans. Gaddafi's home was destroyed, two of his sons were injured, and his adopted daughter was killed. Gaddafi retreated into the desert to meditate. In 1987, he reopened small businesses and allowed the market to get back to work. The same year, he freed hundreds of political prisoners, and published the Great Green Charter on Human Rights. American investors poured millions of dollars into Libya, causing an economic boom.
The downfall - In the Arab Spring, riots spread like wildfire across the Middle East with radical young protesters flooding the streets to overthrow their governments. The Western media portrayed these protesters as poor, oppressed freedom fighters trying to overthrow their oppressive governments. But the truth was far less pleasant. These rebels weren't motivated by freedom or democracy. Lots of them weren't even from Libya. They were Islamic extremists, members of ISIS and the Islamic Brotherhood. One of the rebels was a man named Salman Abedi, who later carried out the Manchester Arena bombing, which killed 23 people. These rebels were not freedom fighters, they were terrorists. One of the media's lies was that Gaddafi ordered his soldiers to rape the rebels. This story was repeated over and over, but according to Donatella Rovira, a senior crisis advisor for Amnesty International: "We could not find any evidence or a single victim of rape or a doctor who knew about somebody being raped." The Women's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch confirmed that "We have not been able to find any evidence."
In 2011, Islamic terrorists swarmed the streets Lybia, killing soldiers and civilians. The US under Obama led a NATO coalition to help the terrorists overthrow the government. It's been estimated that NATO airstrikes killed between 200 and and 400 innocent civilians.
In 2020 alone, over 3,000 were caught trying to sail into Europe. Just months before he was killed, Gaddafi had sent a message to the nations of Europe, warning them of exactly what happened: that their meddling in the Middle East would cause an immigration crisis and a rise in terrorism. ''People of NATO, you're bombing a wall which has stood in the way of African migration to Europe and in the way of Al-Qaeda terrorists. This wall was Libya. You're breaking it. You're idiots, and you will burn in hell for the thousands of migrants from Africa and for supporting Al-Qaeda. It will be so. I never lie, and I do not lie now.''
Gaddafi's son and three of his grandsons were killed. Gaddafi himself was captured by a mob of rebels who beat him bloody and sodomize him with a bayonet.
Today Libya is a haven for terrorism and human trafficking. Large swaths of the South are controlled by ISIS. In just one year, the UN verified 113 human rights violations, including the killing and maiming of children and at least 15 attacks on hospitals. The slave trade returned due to a lack of rule of law, allowing rival militias and trafficking networks to exploit sub-Saharan African migrants traveling through the region. Under Gaddafi, Christians were free to openly practice their faith. On religious festivals like Palm Sunday, they would even hold processions in the street. In 2024, Libya was ranked the third most dangerous country in the world to be a Christian; in 2015, ISIS kidnapped 21 Christians and beheaded them on a beach; later that year, they murdered 30 more Christians and nobody stopped them.
Zambia
Zambia has the largest copper reserves in Africa. The largest copper mining company in Zambia is Glencore, the largest commodities trader in the world with a yearly turnover of over $180B, eight times the GDP of Zambia.
Over a 10 year period, multinational corporations extracted over 29 billion dollars in US dollars from the copper mines in Zambia. The tax revenue for this doesn't go to Zambia, but pollution and other problems from the mines have; 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 the standards of the World Health Organization 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 - In Zambia, Glencore paid virtually no profit taxes for copper, because they shifted profits to their subsidiaries in switzerland at a rate so cheap they made a net positive of 0, which the country they're exporting from can't tax them.
Glencore was founded in 1974 by (((Mark Rich))), who also worked for the Israeli Mossad.
President Chiluba of Zambia is who privatized the copper mines. He was himself found guilty by the London High Court of squandering $46 million. He spent over $1.4 million on designer suits, ties, and shoes. No doubt a kickback, a clever way of paying an associate for abetting his crimes. Chaluba and the government were not alone in their corruption and destruction of the zombian economy. 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.
It's more or less just lending a corrupt government a lot of money which they wasted and then calling in the loans and saying, "Well, if you can't pay them, why don't you just sell off your natural resources to foreigners?"
Norway spearheaded an audit into Glencore. They were found guilty of many crimes, yet nothing happened. The US tried to prosecute Mark Rich, but he just purchased himself a pardon. This pardon, however, did not get any attention in the corporate media.
Ghana
In Ghana, the rivers have become landfills for e-waste for Western Europe, the US, Japan and South Korea. Children are getting lung illnesses from burning the trash to get access to metals that were in the computers, which they can sell. The irony is most of those metals come from Africa to begin with. but their governments have rolled over and allowed this.
South Africa
To despence with the racial connotations, when white farmers in South Africa are killed and have their land stolen by people who don't know how to farm, this results being a lack of farmers, knocking out agriculture, a very dangerous economic sector deminish.
Cameroon
The US commanded and coordinated the Rapid Intervention Battalion of Cameroon, or BIR, its French acronym. This unit was trained by the US 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 U.S. 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. Cameroon continues its reign of terror.
Burkina Faso
In Burkina Faso, U.S. 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 Campauri, 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 U.S. military exercises.
Rwanda
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.
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.
Sudan
Ethiopia attacked Eritrea in 2000, and then Somalia in 2006, backed by the US. During the worst drought and famine in 60 years in the Horn of Africa, with millions starving to death in Somalia and southern Ethiopia, the West financed not only a war, but paramilitary. 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, Mashar's rebels and the President Salva Kher's soldiers. The former CIA 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. The UN approved a budget of 10 cents a day for refugees seeking food, but they approved 1 billion dollars for the 'peacekeeping' forces. 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 who were themselves slaughtering people.
Egypt
In Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who overthrew Egypt's first democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi, underwent basic training at Fort Benning in 1981 and advanced training at the US Army War College in 2006. Egypt enjoys comfortable military support from the US to the tune of about $1.3 billion a year. Evidence suggests that state security forces have engaged in forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, which has also been documented on video.
By: GDF, Ryan Dawson, Arthur Greenwood...
Raped by: Otto Heckel
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