(Part 1)
By: Salman Nagham
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 an expert on Spanish public radio, the average Spanish interprets the “humanitarian war” was a success and that the Libyan people got rid of their tyrant and has control of its natural resources.
Nothing is further from reality, because Libya, who enjoyed the Human Development Index highest in Africa and perhaps was one of the few countries in the developing world development had full control of their natural resources, especially oil, gas and Gold today is a failed state where Islamist militias roam terrorizing the population. Meanwhile, oil and gas wells have been literally surrounded by two lines of heavily armed mercenaries say predatory corporations working at full capacity.
But the death of Muammar, who so cynically held by Hillary Clinton was off camera at an interview , the worst was yet to come.
Part of the jihadists and insurgents mercenaries were sent to Turkey, where they would be trained to join the Free Syrian Army , while another large contingent of jihadists with sophisticated weaponry supplied by NATO and also looted the arsenals of Gaddafi, was sent south to Salafists join the AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) and Tuareg nationalists, to instruct them in the Holy War and initiate the destabilization of the entire region surrounding the Sahara Desert, so rich in natural resources.
Tuareg tribes who had been previously trained militarily by a U.S. command, and have integrated oddly shaped nationalism and Salafism to be led by international jihadist and AQIM guerrillas under the command of which have devastated the country’s north within days imposing Sharia in all the cities under their control, as happened in Somalia militia Al Chabab few years ago.
It’s just another phase of AFRICOM led by France and commanded and coordinated jointly by the U.S. intelligence services, English and French, in which the French nation has acted again as arsonist-fireman, as he did in Libya under Sarkozy’s right-wing mandate.
This time, however, paradoxically, has been the ‘socialist’ François Hollande in charge of fire and plunge the region into chaos and anarchy, using Islamist groups as a tactic before Western military intervention in support of the subsequent intensification the planned sacking of West and Central Africa. One more example of the double standards prevailing in international politics.
This new episode of ‘war on terror’ in favor of democracy and human rights to justify a new international interference hideth blatant profit that is usually satisfied in three phases whenever conflict is artificially created from the outside.A first selling weapons to both sides, a second settling and plundering the resources of the “liberated country”, and a third rebuilding infrastructure will most likely be destroyed again in a few years.
The new phase of AFRICOM has just begun, and the strategy has scored two great goals geoeconomic. The first is that the financial crisis plaguing Europe especially to be paid by the poorest of the global world. The second, and perhaps more important, is to counter the growing economic power, China’s financial and commercial on the African continent.
And to get it, not hesitate to create new conflicts in countries like Algeria, Niger, Chad, Nigeria and others.
While Salafi Islamists are considered terrorists and a great danger to the international community in Mali, the same in Syria are considered revolutionary for democracy. (****I mean you must be an idiot if you can understand what’s going on! On the one hand the west are financing the salafists to destroy Syria while on the other hand they are considered terrorists my ass!! really wake up people they are feeding you BS its time to get up and turn off your T.V and get out and start protesting against your government because what America/Israel they are pushing Europe to war and unless you, yes YOU, I AM TALKING TO YOU, WHO YOU ARE READING MY BLOG, WAKE UP AND DO SOMETHING before it’s too late stop thinking of islamophobia which they have implanted through the media and made you hate anything to do with muslims same here about christians its time to join forces and become one. We have nothing to divide God is one whether I call him Allah or God its the same, do not let some bigots and warmonger divide us just for them to make more money while you and I lose our children.)
The recolonization of Africa began with the death of Gaddafi (Part 2)
The exploitation of Africa began centuries ago by Arab-Muslim slave traders, and intensified a century after the arrival of Europeans in America, when slavery was the basis of holding colonies ‘new continent’ American.
In the eighteenth century, slavery went from coast to exploration and subsequent progressive conquest of Africa by the European powers, which would end up sharing the continent with the Treaty of Berlin, 1877.
Decolonization began after World War I and was consolidated after the second. But the colonial powers, especially Britain and France, continued to control the continent economically through puppet governments and corrupt.
In the late nineties China appears as unexpected new player in the African region and started a war based geo economic competition for African resources and markets.
Africa had hitherto been the major supplier of mineral products consumed by industry ‘first world’, especially hydrocarbons, but also gold, diamonds, platinum, uranium, iron, copper, coltan, sulphates and zinc.
Meanwhile, it has long been called ‘third world’ was the scene of bloody wars in which child soldiers were involved, as well as famine and mass displacement of populations that were always forgotten by the media. Their countries were often ruled by elites subservient and heavily protected that enslaved their people while they were living in opulence.
The Chinese presence has been ‘crescendo’ since early 2000, when the Iraq war and sanctions on Iran would deprive him of much-needed oil supplies for industry, as the ‘factory of the world’ needs natural resources and new markets to export their products and services ‘low cost’.
The ‘soft colonization’ of China is based on obtaining raw materials in exchange for loans at a low-interest rate for infrastructure construction under the direction of Chinese engineers.
In 2000 was held the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Beijing, which meant the formalization in the international sphere of Chinese claims in Africa. The result was the signing of contracts worth millions and investment for development in several African countries.
Since that date, loans granted by China have a larger capital to an interest rate lower than those granted by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. and the European Union. On the other hand, have already put the groundwork for the creation of an African Development Bank funded with Chinese capital.
Today, hundreds of Chinese companies managed by a diaspora of more than a million Chinese citizens are established in different African countries.
China, in parallel with the progressive commercial and financial implementation in Africa, has also been culturally implanted through its Confucius Institutes, as a way to spread knowledge of the Chinese language and culture in order to enhance mutual understanding of face a future exchange. In this sense, the great Asian giant adopts the same strategy of cultural diplomacy that are being implemented for several years Britain and France, with the institutions of the British Council and the Institut Français, respectively. Also Spain has exploited this strategy with its network of Cervantes Institutes spread all over the world.
China’s entry into an area of influence was exclusively Western geostrategic implications from the outset. The creation of AFRICOM was the natural reaction of the Pentagon and the European Union, aware that international economic hegemony of resources depends largely African.
The partition of Sudan and occupation of Libya , both for energy manifests, has been followed by the French-led operation in Mali , whose uranium feed many of the more than forty Gallic country’s nuclear plants.
Nagham Salman is head of European research and policy analyst specializing in Middle Eastern affairs.
source:actualidad.rt.com/expertos/nagham_salman
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