Ten Reasons Why "Save Darfur" is a PR Scam for War

[Mandy]

**spinoff from thread : http://couchtripper.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=6156&start=30
**Thanks Kate for suggestion to post here

Maybe Sudan is the next target after Iraq (if Iran is being seen as too big to take on).

Article :
Ten Reasons Why "Save Darfur" is a PR Scam to Justify the Next US Oil and Resource Wars in Africa
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=453&Itemid=1


The following BBC report seems to be part of the drum beat to demonisation & then invasion
Please note the propaganda / racial incitment in the way the BBC is reporting this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7121025.stm

Why run with title "Shoot UK teacher, say protesters" .. is that ALL they were saying ? Or you only publicise the most extreme thing heard.

"Thousands of people have marched in the Sudanese capital Khartoum to call for UK teacher Gillian Gibbons to be shot."

I bet ANYTHING that hardly anyone on the march thought Gillian should be shot. And if a loony few did, then we should look into their mental state/background, and if they are agent provocateurs.

This is like everyone on an anti-war or anti-Israel demonstration being slandered by the BBC by highlighting an extremist poster or "shouter".

Someone should analyse the BBC report for "bias" / "agenda". This BBC report is NOT designed to calm the situation, but to incite it.

There is no context to the demonstrations, no background that the demonstration might be more than just about Gillian, but the background that the Sudanese feel attacked by the west. They are also acutely aware of what happened in Somalia, with the US backing an ethiopian invasion, or that the West craves Sudan's mineral Wealth.

[luke]

this old thread may be of relevance to this discussion

http://couchtripper.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=4255

america imports more oil today from africa than it does saudi arabia

[Mandy]

Thanks Luke. There is also the new US African Command being set up

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/africa/7085775.stm

[Mandy]

This is next door to Sudan, which shows anxiety about Western interference :

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/90972F9B-58F3-4F95-96AF-5A0949C8A365.htm
"Chad fighters declare war on France"
Anti-government group says supporting Chadian president is an act of hostility.

[nico]

Thanks mandy & Luke.

On Nov 8th there was a program about this too on Democracynow.org.
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/11/8/actor_and_activist_danny_glover_transafrica

I guess Black water and other mercenary groups will never go out of business any soon.