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African govts victims of global chess game
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African govts victims of global chess game

By Junious Ricardo Stanton

WHAT the West always forgets to mention in their propaganda about corruption in Africa, is that African leaders are like the queen of England.

They have absolutely no power and are simply figureheads.

The West has put into place a whole set of rules and regulations to ensure that African economies remain in the primary sector and they have created a host of international organisations to implement their strategies.

They never tell us that since independence African leaders have been forced to accept Western advisors and consultants and that these are really the people who actually rule Africa.

They have been prevalent in key decision making positions which concern the strategic interests of African people since independence.

These advisors and consultants were intentionally placed there so that African leaders would not make any decisions that would change the racial composition of the economic system.

One magazine says that consultants and advisers are known for "deliberately holding back or producing part of a solution to a problem" in the hope of getting called in by the client again.

Is it surprising therefore that western advisors work against Africa’s best interests?

Why should we be surprised that the wrong decisions have been made on Africa’s behalf since independence? Would you make the right decisions if you knew that you would be out of a job tomorrow?

In his book "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", John Perkins describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the US cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then taking over their economies.

Let him explain how they did: "So, let’s say we give this third-world country a loan of US$1 billion. One of the conditions of that loan is that the majority of it, roughly 90 (percent), comes back to the United States to one of our big corporations, the ones we’ve all heard of recently, the Bechtels, the Halliburtons.

"And those corporations build in this third-world country large power plants, highways, ports, or industrial parks — big infrastructure projects that basically serve the very rich in those countries.

"The poor people in those countries and the middle class suffer; they don’t benefit from these loans, they don’t benefit from the projects. In fact, often their social services have to be severely curtailed in the process of paying off the debt…

"This third-world country then is saddled with a huge debt that it can’t possibly repay. For example, today, Ecuador… So, now we go back to those countries and say, look, you borrowed all this money from us, and you owe us this money, you can’t repay your debts, so give our oil companies your oil at very cheap costs… it began shortly after the end of World War II.

"It has been building up over time until today where it’s really reached mammoth proportions where we control most of the resources of the world."

Now that you understand the rationale behind Africa’s huge debt and structural adjustment programmes, are you still surprised that the IMF and the World Bank are unable to find any viable solutions for Africa?

According to John Perkins, when leaders in developing countries won an election, they received a visit from him and he gave them two choices.

They were shown a bullet (the stick) or a wad of money (the carrot.)

Many African leaders found themselves caught in the trap.

They had to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea and having signed a pact, they could no longer turn back.

Those who changed their minds ended up like Manuel Noriega and Saddam Hussein and this is what Perkins says happened to those who refused to comply with the demands of the West.

"Jaime Roldós, President of Ecuador, and Omar Torrijos, President of Panama died in fiery crashes. Their deaths were not accidental.

"They were assassinated because they opposed that fraternity of corporate, government, and banking heads whose goal is global empire.

"We Economic Hit Men failed to bring Roldós and Torrijos around, and the other type of hit men, the CIA-sanctioned jackals who were always right behind us, stepped in."

What he means here is that these are the two groups who do the dirty work. The strategy of Western governments was to use private companies so that if they were caught, it would be blamed on corporate greed, rather than government policy.

The economic hit men (John Perkins was one of these) tried to convince our leaders and presidents to accept the proposals the West offered (the carrot) and if they refused the jackals assassinated them (the stick.)

Now we know which choices (Patrice) Lumumba, (Thomas) Sankara and all those other valiant African leaders who were assassinated made.

A recent article entitled "EU is using ‘bully tactics’ to push through EPA’s" written after the EU-Africa Summit in Lisbon (in December 2007), shows that today the West continues to use its carrot and stick approach with Africans.

This is a quote from a Namibian diplomat describing why his country succumbed to the West’s demands, although Africans overwhelmingly refused the West’s proposal in Lisbon.

"When negotiating with a stronger partner, you end up only being on the receiving end. Bully tactics are used with the threat ‘you either sign or you don’t have the market’," he said.

This is the classical carrot and stick approach which uses threats to force people to do what they do not want to do.

This statement also demonstrates the tremendous ignorance of African people at all levels even those who negotiate on our behalf, since they too are not the least bit aware of the racial segmentation of the economic system.

As a result, they negotiate from an angle which makes it impossible for them to obtain win-win contracts from the West for their people.

This then, is what African leaders have had to face since independence.

No one has ever bothered to inform the African community of that.

They are simply told that if they remove corrupt African leaders from power, Africa’s problems will be solved.

In our ignorance, we have accepted the explanation without question.

The West knows that African people are hungry for recognition, for status, for all the "trappings of success" and hungry for a change in society.

As a result, many of them jump at the chance when they are promoted to top positions because they sincerely believe that they can finally achieve their goals.

Moral values and human rights are only laudable as long as they do not encroach on profit making in Western society.

Many of our leaders do not understand that they have to pay a price for their "success."

They find themselves trapped in a system where they often have to support policies and make decisions that go against their own values and beliefs.

A new breed of leaders like (Hugo) Chavez, (Robert) Mugabe, Laurent Gbabgo has emerged who refuse to obey the rules, but the West does not know exactly how to deal with them, because more and more people are slowly beginning to understand Western tactics.

There is a fear that if they are eliminated, it may cause the West to lose their entire stronghold on their resources, so they try to discredit and slander them in the worst possible manner, in the hope that their people will hate them and thus make it easier for the West to eliminate them.

This was the standard procedure used in the past, however, today it has the opposite effect.

Excerpted from "The Racial Division of Labour in the Economic System" by Junious Ricardo Stanton.

October 14, 2008 | 4:12 AM Comments  0 comments

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