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On April 26 the Special Court for Sierra Leone found former President of Liberia Charles Taylor guilty of international war crimes committed on the territory of a neighboring state – Sierra Leone during the civil war of 1991-1997. He was the first former head of state to be convicted by an international court since the Nuremberg... The Taylor’s process has proved the Sierra Leone civil war was not an internal affair of the country. And Liberia was not the only state to be involved. It became known during trial deliberations that the USA and Nigeria (Olusegun Obasanjo) jointly conducted an operation to remove Taylor from political scene. He was promised asylum and immunity from prosecution in case he voluntarily resigned. He was arrested afterwards...
Alexander MEZYAEV | 28.04.2012 |
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A coup d'état took place in Guiney-Bissau on April 12... What makes Guiney-Bissau stand out in world politics? For almost twenty years the country was one of the most stable ones, what has made it a coup “champion”?.. So, six coups in thirteen years. An occasion? By no means. It’s all about special geographic position of Guiney-Bissau and its territory (not the state itself but the territory) used for unhindered drug trafficking. The time when the chain of frequent coups started to take place in the country “coincided” with the country’s becoming converted into a staging point for drug trafficking from South America to Europe, Asia and, of course, Africa itself...
Alexander MEZYAEV | 20.04.2012 |
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A coup erupted in Mali, a landlocked West African country, on March 22... The media uniformly stress that Mali is among the world's poorest countries, which is basically true considering that it ranks 127 th in the global GDP listing... The ratings, however, should not overshadow the strategic importance and the economic potential of the territory of Mali. It... sits on considerable natural reserves of gold, uranium, bauxites, iron, manganese, tin, and copper. According to fresh reports, the northern part of Mali is found to be rich in oil and, importantly, contains a usable underground water ecosystem... The Mali coup marks another step towards the global redistribution of territories and natural resources masterminded by trans-national and trans-territorial players. Africa, therefore, is entering a long and difficult epoch of collapsing statehoods.
Alexander MEZYAEV | 27.03.2012 |
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The United States and its Western allies have championed the secession of certain aspirant nations whose independence is in the national and economic security interests of globalization... Similarly, the West... led the charge for South Sudan’s secession from Sudan. South Sudan is now a virtual colony of Western non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are financed by the George Soros/U.S. Agency for International Development nexus, which are representing the interests of Western oil companies eager to exploit the new nation’s vast petroleum reserves. The NATO/Gulf Cooperation Council alliance that intervened to overthrow Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has permitted, without military intervention, the eastern region of Libya, Cyrenaica, declared the “Emirate of Barqa” by Salafist Wahhabi Muslims on the payroll of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, to declare its autonomy from the transitional government based in Tripoli... In Pakistan, the West has been covertly supporting Baluchi separatists who have carried out terrorist attacks on Iran...
Wayne MADSEN | 21.03.2012 |
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The state powers of North Africa and the Middle East overtly routed, the process of destabilization in Nigeria and some other Africa South of Sahara countries moved a little away from the radar screen. But the recent events taking place in the most populated country of Africa make themselves be viewed against the backdrop of the «Arab spring», or «Arab leprosy» to be more precise... Today Nigeria has entered the period of abruptly intensified efforts of outside forces to turn the country’s internal contradictions to their own advantage. The same thing threatens other countries, first of all Algiers, Niger and Mali...
Alexander MEZYAEV | 10.03.2012 |
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On January 12 a UN Security Council session was devoted to Africa’s role in crisis management on its soil. There was a specific feature important enough to be noticed – it was not South Africa’s permanent representative who chaired it (South Africa is performing the duties of the Council’s chairman in January) but president of the country Jacob Zuma, who came especially to attend the event. Formally the session was limited by the issue of strengthening Africa’s role in Somalia but WHAT was said and HOW leaves no place to doubt: the African Union decided to move to a qualitatively new stage of its activities...
Alexander MEZYAEV | 23.01.2012 |
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President Obama’s recent decision to re-focus U.S. military power away from Iraq and Afghanistan to the Asia-Pacific region and, to a lesser extent, Africa, means that China and certain rebel groups in Africa have replaced the old contrived bogeyman of Osama bin Laden’s “Al Qaeda” at the top of Uncle Sam’s “Most Wanted List”... The major U.S. strategic goal is to pre-empt the rise of new superpowers, especially China...
Wayne MADSEN | 14.01.2012 |
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At the moment, we find ourselves in the middle of a turbulent phase of the global evolutionary cycle which commenced in the 1980ies and is projected to end by the middle of the XXI century. In the process, the US is clearly loosing its hyperpower status... If the current geopolitical dynamics persists, the global leadership change can be expected by 2025, and the only way the US can derail the process being to ignite a major war... The implementation of the Greater Middle East project - along with appreciable damage to the standing of Russia and China - would be the key prizes the US hopes to win by fighting a major war...
Viktor BURBAKI | 04.01.2012 |
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In a recent decision, expected for final adoption in March 2012, on overseas countries and territories or OCTs - the term "colony" is no longer used in globalized «Newspeak» - the EU now insists that a collection of four EU member states' overseas dependencies «spread all over the world» must be less "dependent" on Europe but must be maintained as "strategically important outposts»... For the United States, EU maintenance of its «strategically important outposts» is important in the Pentagon’s grand design to be assured military access to the outposts in the event of regional and global wars...
Wayne MADSEN | 14.12.2011 |
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The Obama administration, in yet another display of the use of Orwellian language, has embarked on a military doctrine called "Mass Atrocity Prevention" (MAP), the Pentagon operational plan to implement the White House's "R2P" or "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine... And in yet another display of oxymoronic Orwellian “Newspeak,” the main Defense Department activity for developing “Mass Atrocity Response Operations” or “MARO” is the Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI)... Current targets for meddling by MARO and the Soros NGO network are Syria, Somalia, Philippines, Kenya, post-Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) Colombia, Guatemala, Pakistan, Uganda (targeting the Lord’s Resistance Army), and North and South Yemen...
Wayne MADSEN | 28.11.2011 |
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