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AmeriKKKa
Covets African Oil
By Junious Ricardo Stanton
Interest in African oil has been heightened
by preparations for a possible U.S.-led war against Iraq, by a
strike by Venezuelan oil workers and by political instability in
Saudi Arabia, all of which underscore America's vulnerability as
its appetite for oil grows. West Africa already supplies about
12% of U.S. crude oil imports, and the National Intelligence
Council predicts its share will rise to 25% by 2015.
Oil development in West Africa offers many
attractions, experts say. Reserves are bountiful, the quality is
high, and shipping routes to the U.S. are generally shorter than
from other oil-producing regions. "West Africa has certain
advantages," said Daniel Yergin, an oil expert and chairman
of Cambridge Energy Research Associates. "The big
disadvantage is the unstable political situation -- ethnic and
regional conflict, civil wars and the issues of corruption and
poverty."
Indeed, if West African leaders continue to
use oil revenue to line their pockets, finance military
adventures and repress their citizens, resentment of U.S.
foreign policy is likely to grow in the Gulf of Guinea, just as
it has in the Persian Gulf, experts say (Warren Vieth, "Common
Dreams," Jan.14, 2003). "Crude oil stocks in America
have run dangerously low, raising fears that the government will
be forced to tap its strategic reserves even before any
full-blown conflict with Iraq" (The Guardian Unlimited,
Jan. 16, 2003).
The Bush administration in its quest to
bogard world oil has cast its eyes on the motherland.
Unsatisfied to wage war just in the so called "Middle
East" over what many refer to as "black gold," (remember
in g-o-d: gold, oil, and drugs -- they trust), Bush and
Co. have put Africa and South America in their cross hairs.
Africa is the second largest continent on the planet and one of
the richest if not the absolute richest in holistic terms.
It holds about 10% of the world's oil
reserves. In addition to minerals such as gold, uranium,
platinum, copper, manganese, cobalt, bauxite, iron, tin, gypsum
and gem diamonds the West uses to power their hi tech culture
and lifestyle, the West especially AmeriKKKa covets the oil
reserves within the vast continent.
Bush and Co. are greedily ogling Africa,
particularly the Western and Southern regions. AmeriKKKa's
lust for crude and their fear that global demand will eclipse
supply within the next few decades fuels the Bush foreign and
energy policies. Most folks know about North African oil,
specifically Libya, Algeria, Egypt with their total proven
reserves of 41.6 billion barrels and some are familiar with
Nigeria, in West Africa, with its proven reserves of 22 billion
barrels. But few have paid attention to countries like Cote
d'Ivoire with proven reserves of 100 million barrels,
Congo-Brazzaville with 1.5 billion or Angola with proven
reserves of 5.4 billion barrels. You'd be surprised at the
amount of oil in Africa.
Most don't know about countries like
Cameroon with 400 million, Democratic Republic of Congo 187
million barrels and Equatorial Guinea with 508 million barrels
of proven crude or countries like Somalia or Sudan that have oil
reserves but the geologists don't know how much. This in
addition to the other human, mineral and ecological wealth the
continent possesses makes it a ready target for the predatory,
exploitative and imperialistic cultures of the West.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell made a
swing through West Africa last year and plans to return to
Africa again in 2003. You can bet your last money he wasn't
there to talk about Disney World. The Bush family and their
global crime partners have demonstrated an unbridled willingness
over the years to engage in all types of intrigue and shed other
people's sons and daughters blood in their quest of god (gold,
oil, and drugs), hence the scenario we see developing in the
so-called Middle East now.
George "A-W-O-L" Bush has sent
over 120,000 soldiers/ Marines into the Persian Gulf to
intimidate Saddam Hussein, or as a not so subtle threat to
prompt the Iraqi military to depose him internally so the US and
Britain can bogard Iraq, take its oil, establish an occupational
force and presence in the region in case they decide to move on
Saudi Arabia next.
Make no mistake about it, Africa is on
their radar screen and in their gun sight's cross hairs.
Once they bogart Iraq, and terrify the rest
of the countries in the region, they will turn their attention
militarily to the Andes in South America, locking on to Columbia
and Venezuela. Once these two countries are returned to the
neo-colonial fold (they are moving by stealth in Venezuela and
will probably move militarily on Columbia later in the year),
they will turn on Africa.
Africa, mainly West and Southern Africa, is
ripe for AmeriKKKan political intrigue, "diplomatic"
and economic take over, because of the ongoing social and
economic instability and internecine warfare, warfare
instigated, fueled and armed by the US and her European cohorts.
Last year I predicted AmeriKKKa would
revisit Venezuela and attempt to topple President Hugo Chaves
Frias using class division, the IMF and World Bank. They will
eye Africa next, places like Zimbabwe, Sudan (which also
has oil reserves) and Angola. This is what Bush and Company mean
by perpetual war, only they use fighting terrorism as their
rationale. But just as in Iraq, the people realize its really
about god (gold oil and drugs).
POSITIVELY BLACK
posted 18 January 2003
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