Machine Gun Preacher, Libya and Africom

Image - I am the West and only I can save Africans from other Africans.






In relation to the Hollywood and American foreign policy, it is no coincidence that movies released by Hollywood seek to support or reflect American foreign policy.

When the US were mired in Iraq film after film was released about Islamists in Iraq to bolster the publics support for the war.

During WW2 hundreds of films featuring the Nazis were released as pro-war propaganda.

Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan all have had their own war propaganda movies / documentaries released to bolster the support for US military foreign policy.

Now in the wake of the Libyan war comes Machine Gun Preacher.

The film is ostensibly about the story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been forced to become soldiers.

Thats the blurb.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1586752/

Here is the real meaning of the film.

The Libyan invasion by NATO was the first move of the US army into Africa to checkmate the rise of China's influence in the region.

At the same time the US managed to smash Gaddafis plan to set up an African oil bourse backed by Libyan gold Dinars which would have challenged the global economic supremacy of the US dollar, the US managed to seize the vast oil and water reserves of Libya and at the same time the US sent out a message to the world that anyone who dares defy the power of the US global fascist corporations that control the US government via political funding and via the US military industrial block, they will be removed from power, sodomised with a knife and shot dead like a dog in the streets.

This is not international politics, this is psychopathic gangsterism.

The NATO attack on Libya was nothing to do with humanitarianism, it was the start of a New Great Game of Empire in Africa.

The aim is the re-colonisation of the continent by the West.

This begun with the use of foreign aid to impoverish and drag into debt the governments of Africa.

Now the physical removal of governments hostile to the West has begun.

This is why Obama has just sent US special forces into Uganda.

This is also why UK special forces went into Somalia this week to kidnap a Somali militia leader.

Africom is now waging war against China in Africa.

This is via waging war against governments that support China in Africa.

This is why films like Machine Gun Preacher are being released.

Look at the poster of the film above.

See the heroic white man with a gun protecting the black child.

Yet the truth is that the poverty and weapons that have damaged Africa are products of the West.

Russian made weapons flood the continent and are used in wars.

Foreign debt drives poverty and causes wars.

African dictators are supported, put into power, funded and armed by the West.

African doctors, nurses, academics etc are then forced to leave their own nations and come to the West, therefore accelerating the collapse of civil society in their own countries.

This then causes the collapse of those nations.

The wars / tribal revolts that then start in Africa act as the pretext for UN or US intervention.

The aim is to allow the West to recolonise the West.

This is why Hollywood is now releasing films like Machine Gun Preacher.

The sub text of the film is that only the white man who represents the West can save Africa.

The Africans cannot save themselves, so the West must recolonise Africa economically and militarily via Africom to protect Africans from themselves.

The films are not meant for African audiences, they are primarily to indoctrinate Western audiences with the idea that only the West via its bombing missions and armed interventions can save Africans from other Africans.

The films are acting as an antidote to the Hollywood messages of the last few decades which were based on a 'white man is evil and robbed/ murdered/ oppressed Africans' which were peddled to the masses under the previous US government regimes who had an isolationist position on Africa as they were dealing with mainly the Russian / Soviet threat - hence the endless films like Red Dawn, Rambo 2, Red Scorpion etc etc in the 1980's.

The same thing happened in the Balkans when movies

The expansion of Africom into Africa began about the same time the Bruce Willis film Tears of the Sun was released ;


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tears_of_the_Sun


After the US military were driven out of Somalia the Hollywood movie Black Hawk Down depicted Somalians as brutish Islamist monsters so that the US public did not demand they return to that region.

Now the US need to checkmate China, hence the Hollywood movies are required to condition the masses into accpeting military interventions in Africa.

The fact that the West merely wants to suck Africa dry of its resources is never mentioned in these type of war propaganda films, for the West is always depicted as the heroic saviour of the people of whatever nation / continent it is robbing.

Expect more films like Machine Gun Preacher as Africom seeks to expand out into the continent and recolonise it for the US corporations that need new resources to save the US global economic imperium.

Libya, Africom and the Oil

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23605




"Operation Libya" and the Battle for Oil: Redrawing the Map of Africa

by Prof Michel Chossudovsky


Global Research, March 9, 2011

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Part II


Click to consult Part I Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US NATO Attempted Coup d'Etat in Libya?



The geopolitical and economic implications of a US-NATO led military intervention directed against Libya are far-reaching.

Libya is among the World's largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the US.

"Operation Libya" is part of the broader military agenda in the Middle East and Central Asia which consists in gaining control and corporate ownership over more than sixty percent of the world's reserves of oil and natural gas, including oil and gas pipeline routes.

"Muslim countries including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Nigeria, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, possess between 66.2 and 75.9 percent of total oil reserves, depending on the source and methodology of the estimate." (See Michel Chossudovsky, The "Demonization" of Muslims and the Battle for Oil, Global Research, January 4, 2007) .

With 46.5 billion barrels of proven reserves, (10 times those of Egypt), Libya is the largest oil economy in the African continent followed by Nigeria and Algeria (Oil and Gas Journal). In contrast, US proven oil reserves are of the order of 20.6 billion barrels (December 2008) according to the Energy Information Administration. U.S. Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids Reserves)


The most recent estimates place Libya's oil reserves at 60 billion barrels. Its gas reserves at 1,500 billion m3. Its production has been between 1.3 and 1.7 million barrels a day, well below its productive capacity. Its longer term objective is three million b/d and a gas production of 2,600 million cubic feet a day, according to figures of the National Oil Corporation (NOC).

The (alternative) BP Statistical Energy Survey (2008) places Libya's proven oil reserves at 41.464 billion barrels at the end of 2007 which represents 3.34 % of the world's proven reserves. (Mbendi Oil and Gas in Libya - Overview).


Oil is the "Trophy" of US-NATO led Wars

An invasion of Libya under a humanitarian mandate would serve the same corporate interests as the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq. The underlying objective is to take possession of Libya's oil reserves, destabilize the National Oil Corporation (NOC) and eventually privatize the country's oil industry, namely transfer the control and ownership of Libya's oil wealth into foreign hands.

The National Oil Corporation (NOC) is ranked 25 among the world’s Top 100 Oil Companies. (The Energy Intelligence ranks NOC 25 among the world’s Top 100 companies. - Libyaonline.com)

The planned invasion of Libya, which is already underway is part of the broader "Battle for Oil". Close to 80 percent of Libya’s oil reserves are located in the Sirte Gulf basin of Eastern Libya. (See map below)

Libya is a Prize Economy. "War is good for business". Oil is the trophy of US-NATO led wars.

Wall Street, the Anglo-American oil giants, the US-EU weapons producers would be the unspoken beneficiaries of a US-NATO led military campaign directed against Libya.

Libyan oil is a bonanza for the Anglo-American oil giants. While the market value of crude oil is currently well in excess of 100 dollars a barrel, the cost of Libyan oil is extremely low, as low as $1.00 a barrel (according to one estimate). As one oil market expert commented somewhat cryptically:

"At $110 on the world market, the simple math gives Libya a $109 profit margin." (Libya Oil, Libya Oil One Country's $109 Profit on $110 Oil, EnergyandCapital.com March 12, 2008)

Foreign Oil Interests in Libya

Foreign oil companies operating prior to the insurrection in Libya include France's Total, Italy's ENI, The China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), British Petroleum, the Spanish Oil consortium REPSOL, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Occidental Petroleum, Hess, Conoco Phillips.

Of significance, China plays a central role in the Libyan oil industry. The China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) had a workforce of some 400 employees. The total Chinese workforce in Libya was of the order of 30,000.

Eleven percent (11%) of Libyan oil exports are channelled to China. While there are no figures on the size and importance of CNPC's production and exploration activities, there are indications that they are sizeable.

More generally, China's presence in North Africa is considered by Washington to constitute an intrusion. From a geopolitical standpoint, China is an encroachment. The military campaign directed against Libya is intent upon excluding China from North Africa.

Also of importance is the role of Italy. ENI, the Italian oil consortium puts out 244,000 barrels of gas and oil, which represents almost 25 percent of Libya's total exports. ( Sky News: Foreign oil firms halt Libyan operations, February 23, 2011).

Among US companies in Libya, Chevron and Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) decided barely 6 months ago (October 2010) not to renew their oil and gas exploration licenses in Libya. (Why are Chevron and Oxy leaving Libya?: Voice of Russia, October 6, 2010). In contrast, in November 2010, Germany's oil company, R.W. DIA E signed a far-reaching agreement with Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) involving exploration and production sharing. AfricaNews - Libya: German oil firm signs prospecting deal - The AfricaNews,

The financial stakes as well as "the spoils of war" are extremely high. The military operation is intent upon dismantling Libya's financial institutions as well as confiscating billions of dollars of Libyan financial assets deposited in Western banks.

It should be emphasised that Libya's military capabilities, including its air defense system are weak.




Libya Oil Concessions


Redrawing the Map of Africa

Libya has the largest oil reserves in Africa. The objective of US-NATO interference is strategic: it consists in outright theft, in stealing the nation's oil wealth under the disguise of a humanitarian intervention.

This military operation is intent upon establishing US hegemony in North Africa, a region historically dominated by France and to lesser extent by Italy and Spain.

With regard to Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, Washington's design is to weaken the political links of these countries to France and push for the installation of new political regimes which have a close rapport with the US. This weakening of France is part of a US imperial design. It is a historical process which goes back to the wars in Indochina.

US-NATO intervention leading to the eventual formation of a US puppet regime is also intent upon excluding China from the region and edging out China's National Petroleum Corp (CNPC). The Anglo-American oil giants including British Petroleum which signed an exploration contract in 2007 with the Ghadaffi government are among the potential "beneficiaries" of the proposed US-NATO military operation.

More generally, what is at stake is the redrawing of the map of Africa, a process of neo-colonial redivision, the scrapping of the demarcations of the 1884 Berlin Conference, the conquest of Africa by the United States in alliance with Britain, in a US-NATO led operation.

The colonial redivision of Africa. 1913

Libya: Strategic Saharan Gateway to Central Africa

Libya has borders with several countries which are within France's sphere of influence, including Algeria, Tunisia, Niger and Chad.

Chad is potentially an oil rich economy. ExxonMobil and Chevron have interests in Southern Chad including a pipeline project. Southern Chad is a gateway into the Darfur region of Sudan, which is also strategic in view of its oil wealth.

China has oil interests in both Chad and Sudan. The China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) signed a farreaching agreement with the Chad government in 2007.

Niger is strategic to the United States in view of its extensive reserves of uranium. At present, France dominates the uranium industry in Niger through the French nuclear conglomerate Areva, formerly known as Cogema. China also has a stake in Niger's uranium industry.

More generally, the Southern border of Libya is strategic for the United States in its quest to extend its sphere of influence in Francophone Africa, a vast territory extending from North Africa to Central and Western Africa. Historically this region was part of France and Belgium's colonial empires, the borders of which were established at the Berlin Conference of 1884.



Source www.hobotraveler.com

The US played a passive role at the 1884 Berlin Conference. This new 21st Century redivision of the African continent, predicated on the control over oil, natural gas and strategic minerals (cobalt, uranium, chromium, manganese, platinum and uranium) largely supports dominant Anglo-American corporate interests.

US interference in North Africa redefines the geopolitics of an entire region. It undermines China and overshadows the influence of the European Union.

This new redivision of Africa not only weakens the role of the former colonial powers (including France and Italy) in North Africa. it is also part of a broader process of displacing and weakening France (and Belgium) over a large part of the African continent.

US puppet regimes have been installed in several African countries which historically were in the sphere of influence of France (and Belgium), including The Republic of the Congo and Rwanda. Several countries in West Africa (including Côte d'Ivoire) are slated to become US proxy states.

The European Union is heavily dependent on the flow of Libyan oil. 85 percent of its oil is sold to European countries. In the case of a war with Libya, the supply of petroleum to Western Europe could be further disrupted, largely affecting Italy, France and Germany. Thirty percent of Italy's oil and 10 percent of its gas are imported from Libya. Libyan gas is fed through the Greenstream pipeline in the Mediterranean (See map below).

The implications of these potential disruptions are far-reaching. They also have a direct bearing on the relationship between the US and the European Union.


Greenstream pipeline linking Libya to Italy


Concluding Remarks

The mainstream media through massive disinformation is complicit in justifying a military agenda which, if carried out, would have devastating consequences not only for the Libyan people: the social and economic impacts would be felt Worldwide.

There are at present three distinct war theaters in the broader Middle East Central Asian region: Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq. In the case of an attack on Libya, a fourth war theater would be opened up in North Africa, with the risk of military escalation.

Public opinion must take cognizance of the hidden agenda behind this alleged humanitarian undertaking, heralded by the heads of state and heads of government of NATO countries as a "Just War". The Just War theory in both its classical and contemporary versions upholds war as a "humanitarian operation". It calls for military intervention on ethical and moral grounds against "rogue states" and "Islamic terrorists". The Just war theory demonizes the Gaddafi regime while providing a humanitarian mandate to US-NATO military intervention.

The heads of state and heads of government of NATO countries are the architects of war and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. In an utterly twisted logic, they are heralded as the voices of reason, as the representatives of the "international community".

Realities are turned upside down. A humanitarian intervention is launched by war criminals in high office, who are the unchallenged guardians of the Just War theory.

Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo,... Civilian casualties in Pakistan resulting from US drone attacks on towns and villages ordered by president Obama, are not front page news, nor are the 2 million civilian deaths in Iraq.

There is no such thing as a "Just War". The history of US imperialism should be understood. The 2000 Report of the Project of the New American Century entitled "Rebuilding Americas' Defenses" calls for the implementation of a long war, a war of conquest. One of the main components of this military agenda is: to "Fight and decisively win in multiple, simultaneous theater wars".

"Operation Libya" is part of that process. It is another theater in the Pentagon's logic of "simultaneous theater wars".

The PNAC document faithfully reflects the evolution of US military doctrine since 2001. The US plans to be involved simultaneously in several war theaters in different regions of the World.

While heralding the need to protect America (i.e. "National Security"), the PNAC report does spell out why these multiple theater wars are required. What purpose do they serve. Are they an instrument of peace? The usual humanitarian justification is not even mentioned.

What is the purpose of America's military roadmap?

Libya is targeted because it is one among several remaining countries outside America's sphere of influence, which fail to conform to US demands. Libya is a country which has been selected as part of a military "road map" which consists of "multiple simultaneous theater wars". In the words of former NATO Commander Chief General Wesley Clark:

"in the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iran, Somalia and Sudan.... (Wesley Clark, Winning Modern Wars, p. 130).

Libya, China and WW3

You think things are bad, they just got worse ;


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE1BA85atic


The war in Libya is an attempt by Africom to expand its reach into Africa to check Chinese expansion on the continent, and it was Libya and Gaddafi who over recent years who has blocked the expansion of Africom ;


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Africa_Command


The attack on Libya is an attempt to topple the primary obstacle to the spread of US power across Africa.


Now China is sending its navy off the coast of Libya to protect its Lebensraum and investments in Africa and its precious oil exports from Africa.


Whilst everyone is watching a few Al Qaeda idiots being protected by the US and UK oil companies, WW3 could be about to begin.


Now we know why Obama will not relinquish power to NATO, why there are no declared public war aims, nor any exit strategy. They are all secret so as to ensure the real motive behind this war is obscured.

This is Africoms war - an attempt to bring down Gaddafi and allow Africom to begin its plan to check Chinese expansion into Africa and for the US to reassert control over African resources.

This is now a war between two Empires, China and the US.