What would a #Hillary_Clinton win mean for Africa?
▻http://africasacountry.com/hillary-clinton-africa
When it comes to matters of international justice, Hillary Clinton, Obama’s Secretary of State during his first term and 2016 presidential candidate, has gathered inspiration and insights from a diverse.....
So as much as Hillary may talk about “relationship of partnership not patronage”, and of “sustainability, [rather than] quick fixes” and rhetorically commit herself to “a strong foundation to attract new investment”, the creation of “new businesses” and “more paychecks” “within the context of a positive ethic of corporate responsibility”, as she allegedly did in 2011, at the end of the day it’s about feeding the ‘Wall Street, Treasury, IMF complex’.
What Africa can expect from Hillary as President, then, is ever more extraction and exploitation, nicely packaged in the optimistic promise of sustainability, ‘good business climates’, partnership, democracy and ‘change’.
Prince #Blackwater of China
▻http://africasacountry.com/prince-blackwater-of-china
The paroxysmal ethics of private military ventures are in the news again after The Wall Street Journal’s recent “Saturday Interview” with #Erik_Prince. He is now “chairman of Frontier Services Group, an Africa-focused security and logistics company with intimate ties to China’s largest state-owned conglomerate, Citic Group.” If you read the interview, then you know Prince is a savvy businessman, because he is a savvy like that. Why? Chinese trade surpassed American trade in Africa back in 2009. And, as WSJ’s David Feith is quick to point out, China-Africa trade could reach $385 billion by 2015.
#JOURNALISM #MEDIA #Charlie_Rose #Eeben_Barlow #mercenaries #US_foreign_policy
Top 10 #Wikileaks Palestine Nuggets
►http://blog.thejerusalemfund.org/2010/11/top-10-wikileaks-palestine-nuggets.html
“There is very little here that should come as a surprise to those closely following the international relations of the Middle East and the politics around Palestine. These documents do, however, provide interesting context and color to these relations that were previously unavailable.”
#Egypt, #Fateh, #Hamas, #Palestine, #US_Foreign_Policy
