Comments on: Cynthia McKinney: U.S. war machine pervades Africa

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:44:47 +0000

Repatriated African started the process of assimilating Africans to Westerners. Some native born African with African, even full African, names are descendents of repatriated Africans. Others simply come from a long line of assimilated full indigenous families.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:43:18 +0000

Have you even bothered researching the topic? It's all documented. Research the names of any of the resulting ethnio-cultural groups. The information is out there already; it's not mad eup.

By: Kitosan

Kitosan — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:32:42 +0000

Anon – Most interesting. Are you capable of documenting these statements or are they allegations/theories?

By: Nell

Nell — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:19:12 +0000

That should have been 'point out' in the first sentence of my comment.

By: Nell

Nell — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:13:23 +0000

Jim, I think she mentioned the sexual assaults in the US military to point our the hypocrisy of war machine politicians and media. (I don't think she was suggesting that the military itself was hypocritical. Panetta is certainly reported here as being more transparent than Gaddafi was.)

As for the oil, the 'cheap' part is the price oil companies are paying Libya. That does not trickle down to consumers. Gaddafi was threatening to nationalize oil fields in Libya prior to the NATO attack.

By: Nell

Nell — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:02:18 +0000

Opinions are usually one-sided, Julia. Ms. McKinney has a right to voice her opinion as an American. Being a military-industrial complex insider would make her opinion no more valid and simply prone to career bias.
Also, Ms. McKinney would be seriously hobbled if she changed her career to journalism as you suggest. The US just lost 27 points in worldwide freedom of the press rankings. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post…

We are also not doing as well as we should in Transparency International's Corruption Ranking. So I hope Ms. McKinney keeps doing what she is doing wherever she wants to do it. (Even if you don't like Seattle.) I suggest you join her in pushing for progressive reforms.

By: Selina

Selina — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:52:31 +0000

To add as well as Continental Africans; (Past) Pres., Mobuto Sese Soko, Samual K. Doe, (Present) Paul Kagame & Prime Mini., Morgan Tsvangirai just to name a few

By: Selina

Selina — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:31:52 +0000

"Repatriated African-American slaves" are the upholders of White Supremacy

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:51:52 +0000

Repatriated African-American slaves haven't been the only ones part of 'the plan', but 'colonial era rape' evolved mulatto communities/populations have played a part in this, too.

And while all of the 'new breed' populations were also disenfranchised/oppressed by the whites, they were still rewarded from their middle-men/buffer dispositions as being the 'masks' through which white colonialists could use to conquer Indigenous Africa. As long as the 'puppet societies' were getting compensated, retained their elite status via the European social hierarchy, over the rest of the population, they gladly oblige.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:27:24 +0000

Strategy: posture and yield.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:19:54 +0000

The U.S. Infiltration of Africa began with the establishment of repatriated African-America slave colonies of the 1700 and 1800s that were blind to their actually part in colonialists' plans by accepting education and positions of authority and social elitism over indigenous Africans. They initially were discouraged from intermixing with the indigenous people, and some repatriated owned indigenous slaves. It was when they were able to influence, through their authority and elitism, the indigenous people to adopt western religion, ideology and education is when they began intermarrying with indigenous Africans. They helped colonialist establish the commercial influence and dependency between Africa and the west that has evolved into what you see today.

The descendants of these repatriated people rose to power and took over political leadership in several countries, in stealth mode. . So while they may have assimilated and adopted indigenous culture, names and bloodlines they still carried those same western ideologies and blindness their ways were in detriment to the indigenous people and culture. This bloodline and influence, today, exists across the continent. Many notable AFRICANS coming out of the sub-Saharan region of modern today, or recent, Africa are of this bloodline. They are among the most influential, elite, families on the continent and have direct familial ties with black/African descended elite families in the Americas and in Europe. The world knows them as Africans, but their bloodline and ideological heritage is purely Western, and American! They continue to assist in the imperial initiatives of the United States and the European empire. They are indifferent as long as they retain their social and political influence and their wealth.

This has made it all the easier for what is taking place today. This, current day, War Machine is a continuum of more than a 100 years work of penetration that could not have bee done without the puppet 'black face' society formed by Africa-American slaves repatriated to Africa.

By: bcdemon

bcdemon — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:06:22 +0000

I believe the attack on Libya was due to Gaddaffis growing support to bring back the African Dinar (gold coin) as the trading standard. Just like Saddam wanted to trade oil in Euros.
Either way, the world is under US rule of thumb unti someone says enough is enough.

By: Jim Whitelock

Jim Whitelock — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:25:25 +0000

What do the alleged number of sexual assaults, while reprehensible, have to do with our overall military responsibility? And as for securing Libyan oil for a "Very cheap price," where is the "cheap" oil that the war with Iraq was supposed to have produced? Maybe it is really about more than oil. If it were all oleo-centric, gas/petrol would be 1/4 what we are paying now.

By: Lauchlan Giddy

Lauchlan Giddy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:20:55 +0000

Go look at Veterans Today for deeper insight into the Obama Assassination attempt.
The troops mentioned would hardly be australian or german, what with obviously African soldiers. Cant be so hard to work out who they are. First guess would be US?? No idea of where they are.

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:35:23 +0000

The origin of this story is Press TV, an Iranian chanel, the Photo ilustrating the "hunderstds of US troops, incluing two on bicycles, are either Australian or German.

BUT….Please don't let this get in the way a good story, perhaps there are 25,000 or 50,000 US soldiers there already?

Just Google Press TV and you can see for yourself

Call me old-fashioned but checking the veracity of your sources used to be a cardinal rule of journalism

By: Selina

Selina — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:22:14 +0000

The article was written not to persuade but expose what is going on in another part of the world.

Just Google Africom and you can see for yourself

By: Julia Hugo Rachel

Julia Hugo Rachel — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:52:23 +0000

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If you are interested in conflict, I suggest you become a journalist that focusses on this subject. You might be amazed and you would get to leave dreary Seattle.
For what it is worth, I do like your style and think you would be good at writing the truth.
Best Regards,
Julia Hugo Rachel

By: Julia Hugo Rachel

Julia Hugo Rachel — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:51:06 +0000

Dear Cynthia:
Thank you for this article. There was a time in which I would have agreed with you and believed what you wrote. Your reporting is accurate, Based soley on what you have researched and "read", then opined. Yet your knowledge of war, war strategy and what is actually happening is "off ".
Have you any loved ones or friends that have served in the Armed Forces during these conflicts you speak of? Certain events occur during conflict that are guarded by National Security. Have you been to Libya, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan? Have you sat in on negotiations with these countries?
I like your writing and you are entitled to your opinion. However, when it comes to smallwars and National Security, I suggest you write about something else. You could not be further from the truth on many points you make in your article. Further more, your opinion is misleading and one sided. Is this objective writing when you present just one side of a story? Is this good Journalism?
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By: sharon

sharon — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:53:43 +0000

I don't believe that there are US troops in Libya.. Marsa Brega, Sirte and Ras Lanouf have been operational for nearly two months and all foreign oil companies including Hess, Marathon, Occidental, Dutch Shell, and Conoco Phillips are back at work