Putting the snakes out of our house
From the Diaspora
Lester Lewis
CONSIDERING Africa and the Project for the New American Century, it
was noted that in the run-up to the American invasion of Iraq, the general
secretary of the African National Congress of South Africa thought that
South Africa would be the next country to be invaded under this PNAC. This
is the plan under which America seeks to dominate the world in this the
21st century.
To some people, this may seem an aberration. A small right-wing clique
of Zionists and fellow travellers, all closely associated with the Zionist
state of Israel seem to be determining American foreign policy. George
Bush, described by Nelson Mandela as a president who does not think, has
said that he would not allow any other power to rival American power. But
history has shown that powers rise up and decline over time. Rome was the
superpower of its day but it fell. The Holy Roman Empire that ruled over
Europe is no more. At one time, Portugal was said to be the strongest
power on earth but where is Portugal today? Then the British boasted that
�the sun never sets on the British Empire.� This quickly fell apart under
the hammer blows dealt to it by the Pan-African movement. Considering the
rise of American power, although the USA is at the height of its power, it
is a declining power. It is still at the top but it has gone over the top
and the motor is heading downhill. It was in order to halt this downhill
slide that America invaded Iraq to steal Iraq�s oil. Illegal under the
United Nations Charter, the United Nations Security Council legitimised an
illegal act after the event. The alleged purpose for the illegal war
against Iraq was to disarm Saddam Hussein of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
But WMDs, Saddam did not have. It has now become clear that Britain and
America, Bush and Blair had long been aware that Iraq did not possess
WMDs. The Zionist Paul Wolfowitz is deputy to US defence secretary Donald
Rumsfield. He told the American magazine Vanity Fair that �for reasons
that have a lot to do with the US government bureaucracy, we settled on
the issue that everyone could agree on: weapons of mass destruction�. So
disarming Iraq of WMDs was just a convenient excuse for the invasion and
colonisation of Iraq. Not having found any WMDs, the Americans and British
are not leaving Iraq but are busy setting up deals to rebuild Iraq that
will enrich American companies with which the cabal close to Bush has
ties. In Britain, former International Development Secretary Claire Short
has exposed Prime Minister Tony Blair as a liar. She said that Blair had
come to a secret agreement with the US to attack Iraq. Blair had been
accused of doctoring secret service reports to justify the invasion. What
has come to light is that in March 2002, British intelligence wrote a
report to Prime Minister Blair stating that Saddam Hussein posed no threat
to anyone and there was no credible light linking Saddam to Osama bin
Laden or al Qaeda. The Caribbean writer Angela Cole tried desperately to
prevent the war against Iraq. She alerted various sections of the British
media that even if Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, it did not
have the capacity or the delivery systems to launch them. Both Britain and
America were aware of that fact. But the British media were not
interested, intent as they were in pursuing their racist new age of empire
project. Saddam Hussein had employed Canadian Dr Gerald Bull to build his
super gun in Iraq. Bull�s company, Space Research Corporation, had
developed a gun that could launch satellites into outer space. The
prototype, the longest gun in the world, was built on the Caribbean Island
of Barbados. Bull was way ahead of the US in the delivery systems for
launching satellites into space and his system was easier to make and much
cheaper. So weapons manufacturers in the US were against him. The Israelis
murdered Bull in 1990 before he could complete the delivery system for
Saddam Hussein. Israel determined that no so-called Third World country
should acquire the technology to deliver long-range projectiles. After
former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger supplied Israel with stolen
uranium to manufacture its nuclear weapons, it gave the technology to the
apartheid rulers of South Africa so that they could develop nuclear
weapons as well. It was the ANC guerilla fighter Zola Zemba who brought
the news to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Bull�s gun in South
Africa. Bush is now trying to justify the invasion and colonisation of
Iraq as being part of the war against international terrorism. But Angela
Cole also reminds us that the United States� Central Intelligence Agency
carried out the first act of international terrorism.
In 1976, the CIA planted a bomb on a Cuban plane ferrying Cuban troops
to Angola. Barbados was the last stop before flying from the Caribbean to
Angola. Soon after take off, the bomb exploded destroying the aircraft and
killing all 67 people on board. So this American crusade against
international terrorism is merely a deception to bend foreign governments
to do America�s bidding. Those African governments that are co-operating
and collaborating with the US should be aware of America�s intentions in
Africa. Writing in the British newspaper The Sunday Times of March 23
1998, Sam Kiley described these intentions when he wrote: �The US
government sees a rich future for American industry in the 700 million
potential customers in Africa, which coincidentally has the world�s
largest unexploited mineral reserves.� At that time, Ghanaian President
Flight-Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and
the Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame were said to �offer hope of profits for
America�. One of the vehicles for the plunder of Africa�s wealth is the
American Africa Growth Opportunities Act. The former CIA operative Leon
Sullivan launched this in Ghana in 1999. Africans must be clear. AGOA is
an instrument of control for giving Americans control of African
economies. The objectives of AGOA include privatisation of state
industries that are efficient in creating employment in a continent where
unemployment is rampant, access to African markets for American
manufactured products that Africans can manufacture themselves, protection
for American finance capital which means investment without risk and most
important of all, greater access to Africa vast mineral resources. When
President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo blocked their
access to the Congo�s vast mineral wealth, these killers of Patrice
Lumumba launched their proxy war to take over the DRC. US proxy warrior
Yoweri Museveni of Uganda set out to build a Tutsi Hema Empire in the
Great Lakes region. With his fellow proxy Tutsi warriors in Burundi and
Rwanda, they attempted to capture the DRC on behalf of United States
imperialism. It was the timely intervention of Zimbabwe�s defence forces,
together with the armies of Angola and Namibia, that defeated the US proxy
warriors in the DRC. So one should not be surprised that the architects of
the Project for the New American Century hate Zimbabwe�s President Robert
Mugabe with a burning passion. Thus, Bush�s call for a regime change in
Zimbabwe. Museveni has turned out to be the biggest mass killer of
Africans since King Leopold of Belgium. To date, almost five million
Congolese have been killed as a result of the Ugandan and Rwandan invasion
of the DRC. Museveni has been involved in the deaths of four African
Presidents: Melchouir Ndadaye of Burundi, Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda,
Cyprien Ntaryamira also of Burundi and Laurent Kabila of the DRC. It was
Museveni�s forces that started the conflict between the Hema and the Lendu
in the north-east of the DRC. Prior to Museveni�s intervention, these two
groups of Africans had been living peacefully with each other for
centuries. Now, the European Union, using the United Nations as a cover,
has sent troops into the DRC supposedly to impose peace on the Hema and
the Lendu. Surprisingly Britain, which gave arms and finance to Uganda and
Rwanda to prosecute their invasion of the DRC, has decided to send troops
to the DRC as well. While African governments have silently acquiesced to
this, Black activists in Britain have vehemently objected to British
troops going into the DRC. Responding to the decision to send British
troops, the Congolese people have posed the question: �How can the snake
that once bit us, now claim to be coming to protect us? It is a shame that
African governments should meekly and tamely allow this snake back into
the DRC.� Were they living in the Caribbean, we would have made a calypso
on them going something like this: �Shame African Presidents Shame, Shame
African Presidents Shame, You let the snake in to bite us once Now you let
the snake in to bite us again, What as Shame, What a Shame, What a Shame,
Shame African Presidents Shame Shame African Presidents Shame.� As Ndeh
Ntumazah, a former president of the Union of the Peoples of the Cameroon,
said: �There was a snake in our house. We threw it out through the front
door. But we left the window open so the snake came back into our house
through the window.� It was the Monrovia Group in opposition to the
Casablanca Group at the time of the formation of the Organisation of
African Unity in 1963 that left the window open for the snake to come into
our house again. Kwame Nkrumah, the first President of Ghana and
Pan-Africanist strategist, said: �If we do not formulate plans for unity
and take active steps to a form political union, we will soon be fighting
and warring among ourselves with imperialists and colonialists standing
behind the screen and pulling vicious wires, to make us cut each other�s
throats for the sake of their diabolical purposes in Africa.� The Monrovia
Group opposed Kwame Nkrumah�s call for the setting up of a continental
government. President Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt and King Mohammed of
Morocco were in agreement but not those in the Monrovia group. Once again,
African leaders have rejected the call for the setting up of a continental
government. President Muammar al Ghadafi of Libya�s amendment to the
charter setting up the African Union for a Continental Union Government
was unceremoniously rejected by the Council of Foreign Ministers despite
the African peoples� desire for the policies of Kwame Nkrumah to be
implemented on the continent. In the meantime, the European colonial
powers that campaigned against Nkrumah�s Union Government proposal are
busy consolidating the European with a European President and talk of
electing a President for the European Union! �If Africa is to be
emancipated, neo-liberalism will have to be confronted. Women should
commit themselves to their own definition of the renaissance. Let us call
on all Africa�s children in all parts of the world where they are
dispersed. This call should be: Return and make your contribution to the
re-awakening of Nkwame Nkrumah�s African giant.� - Winnie Nomzamo Mandela,
former wife of Nelson Mandela. This quote is from Winnie�s speech during
the 40th anniversary of the Pan-African Women�s Organisation (PAWO) in
1992 in Windhoek, Namibia. Her speech was continuously interrupted by
ovations. The ANC government is busy bringing poverty to the masses in
South Africa and life expectancy is falling. Moeletsi Mbeki, brother of
President Thabo Mbeki, told a seminar at Pretoria University that: �The
South African state has now internalised the model created by big
conglomerates. Kwame Nkrumah warned about accepting foreign tutelage. The
ANC has not heeded this warning.� So the snake is still in our house.
Nepad, poverty causing structural adjustment programmes, selling off state
assets to foreigners, these are all policies that the snakes have imposed
on Africa. The question that Africans must answer is, how to get the
snakes out of our house, especially in the light of the Pnac. Seeking
world domination is one thing. The more that peoples and countries
world-wide take their trade and their savings out of US dollars, the
weaker the dollar becomes, the more problems created for the American
economy. It is to Africa that they have turned to halt their coming
economic decline. AGOA and Bush�s proposed trip to Senegal, Nigeria and
South Africa in July is part of the process of softening up African
leaders so that American policies can hold sway in Africa. The experience
of Iraq should teach Africans that this snake can not be trusted. Their
trump card is the neo-colonial Black Americans who are used to sell
America�s policies on the continent. Like CIA spy Leon Sullivan�s
African-African summit in Ghana in 1999. Another is planned for Nigeria in
July. Bush is due to speak at this event on July 14. Patriotic Africans in
Nigeria must take note.
