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George Leone's avatar

Every time Congo’s suffering is treated as a business opportunity for intelligence veterans and billionaire fixers, the pattern becomes clearer: the world’s most powerful networks don’t just exploit conflict—they help shape it. This is exactly the kind of reporting mainstream outlets look away from

Reldas's avatar

This is excellent journalism.

JANINE HANNEL's avatar

This confirms what the writer John Le Carre said years ago in an interview: that outside interests an countries use it for their own agendas, regardless of the enormous violence and suffering of the people. As for corruption, he attributed that also as mostly due to the malevolent interests of the same.

Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

Thank you so much for this in depth history and analysis of what is and has been done to Africa by Israel and the Imperialist powers.  The roots of these conflicts inflicted upon these resource rich victim Countries is hardly covered elsewhere. 

It is worth mentioning that blood diamonds and gems are estimated at being 18 - 25% of Israel's economy.  I had read before that there were IDF/Mossad linked units stationed at the mine sites, where children (slaves), 6 years and up are put to work in those deadly mines, but have known little more.  The pervasive breadth and depth of the trafficking, violence, plundering and suffering of these Countries that you describe is staggering.  

https://bdsmovement.net/news/israels-blood-diamonds

S Again's avatar

Private Viking Cop Erik Prince pops up here. He's glad to deliver his secret services to corrupt leaders with their heel on the necks of brothers. Fishing in Senegal, centuries old trade that fed the people has been destroyed by trawling vessels taking huge amounts of fish by European shipping. There is no possibility of replacing the indigenous fish once their environment is scoured.

Bardar Rabbit's avatar

Regarding the Afghan refugees who have been being "housed" in the UAE and for whom it is now proposed they go to the DNC -- given that many of those refugees were transported out of Afghanistan by NGOs like Black Feather, could that have been engineered on purpose in order to create the living bodies needed for the actual mining (e.g. human trafficking)?

Note that the founder of Black Feather is Joe Robert, III. His father, Joe Robert, Jr. was long-time best-buddies with Jim Kimsey - a former Army Ranger and a major financial backer of Triple Canopy.