In this article below, the author suggests that American imperialism seek a gate into Africa.
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After some hesitation over how to respond to the Arab revolutions, the Obama administration has opted for the strong-arm solution to rescue those vassals which can still be salvaged. As in the past, the task of leading the counter-revolution devolved upon Saudi Arabia. Riyad imposed its Libyan pawns on the international community to the detriment of the insurgents and later trampled over Bahrain, drowning the popular uprising in blood.

On 10 March 2011, following a meeting at the Elysée palace with three rebellion leaders, President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that France had suspended its recognition of Colonel Gaddafi’s regime as the legitimate representative of Libya in favour of the Libyan Transitional National Council (LTNC).

The move is contrary to the diplomatic tradition observed by France until recently, inasmuch as it never recognized governments but states. The decision matches the one taken by France on 4 December 2010, recognizing Alassane Ouattara as president of the Ivory Coast instead of the incumbent, Laurent Gbagbo.

Having received widespread approval from the international community in the case of the Ivory Coast, Paris was hoping for a repeat performance in Libya. It should be obvious to everyone, however, that in neither case Nicolas Sarkozy’s decisions were made to promote the interests of France - whose companies were expelled from the Ivory Coast and it won’t be long before they will be kicked out of Libya too - but in response to the explicit request on the part of the Obama and Netanyahu administrations.

Two operations have been set into motion simultaneously: the transfer of the U.S. military apparatus based in the Middle East to Africa, and the rescue of puppet Arab regimes.

Slipping imperial troops into Africa

As I have not ceased to maintain for the past four and a half years, the triumph of the Lebanese Resistance over Israel, in the summer of 2006, put a damper on the U.S. strategy for remodeling the "Greater Middle East" [1]. Despite several attempts, including the "open hand" extended by Barack Obama to the Muslim world in his Cairo speech [2], Washington has failed to come up with a replacement strategy. On the surface it’s business as usual, but in reality the Unites States are slowly retreating from in that region. With stagnating Middle East oil reserves and a massive and costly military investment over the long haul, Washington has shifted its gaze toward other directions.

After contemplating the Caribbean region, the Empire set its sights on Africa. But it must hurry since, by 2013, one quarter of the oil and raw materials consumed by the United States will come from the Black continent. Irrevocably convinced by the conclusions of the Israeli Institute for Advanced Strategic & Political Studies (IASPS), Washington decided to step up plans for the creation of AfriCom. Thus, the real power that has piloted the United States since 11 September 2001 hoisted Barack Obama to the White House and General William E. Ward to AfriCom.

It may be recalled that Senator Barack Obama, of Kenyan origin, worked indefatigably for the creation of that structure and went on a special tour of Africa, in August 2006, that ended in a debriefing at AfriCom headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. His main focus were the interests of pharmaceutical companies on the Black continent and setting the stage for the partition of Sudan [3]. As for General Ward, not only is he an African American, but he also previously served as US Security Coordinator for the Palestinian Authority, in other words the security coordinator between Mahmoud Abbas and Ariel Sharon. He was in charge of implementing the "Road map for peace" and the unilateral withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, prior to the erection of the Separation Wall, the division of the Palestinian territories into two sectors (Gaza and the West Bank) and their fragmentation into different "bantustans".

The conflict in the Ivory Coast, pitting Laurent Gbagbo (elected by the majoritity of Ivorians) to Alessane Ouattara (supported by a minority of Ivorians and by the Burkina Faso immigrant community), put the plan for the "remodeling of Africa" on track. But it was still necessary to find an entry gate for imperial forces, considering that all African states categorically refused to host AfriCom on their soil. This is where the Libyan rebellion comes in.

The wave of anti-imperialist revolts rocking the Arab world since 2010 has toppled the Saad Hariri government in Lebanon, precipitated Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s flight from Tunisia, generated the fall of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the uprisings in Yemen, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, as well as the clashes in Libya. Here, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s main pillars of support are the Gaddafa and Makarha tribes from central and western Libya respectively. He is up against a vast coalition that, in addition to the eastern tribe of the Warfalla, comprises a mixed bag of pro-western royalists, Wahhabi fundamentalists, as well as both communist and Khomeinist revolutionaries.
Washington transformed the insurrection into a civil war: African mercenaries paid by the Israeli company CST Global were sent to Gaddafi’s rescue [4], whereas Afghan mercenaries under the aegis of Saudi secret services were deployed to provide backing for the royalists and the Islamist groups labeled "Al-Qaeda".
Consequently, an international humanitarian crisis breaks out: in two weeks, 230 000 immigrants fled the country (118 000 went to Tunisia, 107 000 to Egypt, 2 000 to Niger and 4 300 headed for Algeria).
This tragic situation provides the justification for a new "humanitarian war", according to the threadbare cliché of western communication.

Saving the Gulf monarchies

Saudi Arabia is the mainstay of the imperial device in the Gulf region. The State was founded at the beginning of the 20th century by the Saud family with British support, after years of extremely murderous wars of conquest. With the largest oil reserves in the world, Saudi Arabia gravitated into the orbit of the US at the end of the Second World War. By virtue of the Quincy agreement, concluded between King Ibn Saud and President Roosevelt, Saudi Arabia is under the obligation to supply the United States with oil, while the latter is bound to provide protection to the royal family (and not the country).

Saudi Arabia is not strictly speaking a country and has no name; it is simply the part of Arabia that belongs to the Saud family, which it administers first and foremost with its personal interests (and those of the United States) in mind. The royal family leads a life of debauchery, far removed from the wahhabite austerity it claims to identify with. With King Ibn Saud’s 32 spouses and 53 children, as a measure to prevent family conflicts it was decided that the crown would not be transmitted from father to son, but from brother to brother. After the King’s eldest son died of illness, the successor was his youngest son, who was 51 at the time. In 1964, his third, 60-year-old, son acceded to the throne, and so on. The current 87 year-old king recently underwent major surgery and probably does have much longer to live. His brother, Sultan, is next in line but is suffering from Alzheimer.

This makes for a very unpopular and fragile regime, which already nearly came down in 1979. Understandably, both Riyad and Washington are watching nervously the Arab revolts unfolding in neighboring Yemen and Bahrain.

The Saudi army is already inside Yemen. With the help of the CIA, it will give President Ali Abdullah Saleh a hand to crush the insurrection. That leaves Bahrain.

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