Thursday, March 31, 2011

USA Africa Dialogue Series - 10 things to emulate from Japan

I don't know how true this is especially today when people are celebrating April's fools day BUT I think there is a lesson or two for Tanzania/Africa:
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Can 'new baby to born 'The Republic of South Sudan' begin it's life from birth this way: we do have a chance! Can Africa emulate from Japan; indeed!!!! Can the World bow in respect for the Japanese people!! Great people indeed!

May God bless Africa, the World! May the Japanese emerge out of their worst crisis in recent history even more graceful! Being good and graceful does pay!
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10 THINGS TO EMULATE FROM JAPAN

10 THINGS TO EMULATE FROM JAPAN

1. THE CALM
Not a single visual of chest-beating or wild grief. Sorrow itself has been elevated.

2.THE DIGNITY
Disciplined queues for water and groceries. Not a rough word or a crude gesture.

3. THE ABILITY
The incredible architects, for instance. Buildings swayed but didn't fall.

4. THE GRACE
People bought only what they needed for the present, so everybody could get something.

5. THE ORDER
No looting in shops. No honking and no overtaking on the roads. Just understanding.

6. THE SACRIFICE
Fifty workers stayed back to pump sea water in the N-reactors. How will they ever be repaid?

7. THE TENDERNESS
Restaurants cut prices. An unguarded ATM is left alone. The strong cared for the weak.

8. THE TRAINING
The old and the children, everyone knew exactly what to do. And they did just that.

9. THE MEDIA
They showed magnificent restraint in the bulletins. No silly reporters. Only calm reportage.

10.THE CONSCIENCE
When the power went off in a store, people put things back on the shelves and left quietly

Barikiwe/Pam

 


USA Africa Dialogue Series - Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean

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Libyan War And Control Of The Mediterranean

Rick Rozoff 
March 30, 2011 19:25

A year after assuming the post of president of the French
Republic in 2007, and while his nation held the rotating
European Union presidency, Nicholas Sarkozy invited the
heads of state of the EU's twenty-seven members and those
of seventeen non-EU Mediterranean countries to attend a
conference in Paris to launch a Mediterranean Union.
In the words of Britain's Daily Telegraph regarding the
subsequent summit held for the purpose on July 13, 2008,
"Sarkozy's big idea is to use imperial Rome's centre of
the world as a unifying factor linking 44 countries that
are home to 800 million people."

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, however, announced that his
nation would boycott the gathering, denouncing the
initiative as one aimed at dividing both Africa and the
Arab world, and stating:
"We shall have another Roman empire and imperialist
design. There are imperialist maps and designs that we
have already rolled up. We should not have them again."
[1]
The unprecedented summit was held with the intention of
"shift[ing] Europe's strategic focus towards the Middle
East, North Africa and the Balkans." [2]

Less than three years later Sarkozy's Mirage and Rafale
warplanes were bombing Libyan government targets,
initiating an ongoing war being waged by France, the
United States, Britain and what the world news media refer
to as an international coalition - twelve members of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the emirate of
Qatar - to overthrow the Gaddafi government and implant a
more pliant replacement.

The Mediterranean Sea is the main battle front in the
world currently, superseding the Afghanistan- Pakistan war
theatre, and the empire of the new third millennium - that
of the US, the world's sole military superpower in the
words of President Barack Obama in his Nobel Peace Prize
acceptance speech, and its NATO partners - is completing
the transformation of the Mediterranean into its mare
nostrum.

The attack on Libya followed by slightly more than three
weeks a move in the parliament of the Eastern
Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus to drag that state
into NATO's Partnership for Peace program [3], which if
ultimately successful would leave only three of twenty
nations (excluding microstate Monaco) on or in the
Mediterranean Sea not full members of NATO or beholden to
it through partnership entanglements, including those of
the Mediterranean Dialogue (Algeria, Egypt, Israel,
Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia): Libya, Lebanon
and Syria.

NATO membership and partnerships obligate the affected
governments to open their countries to the US military.
For example, less than a year after becoming independent
Montenegro had already joined the Partnership for Peace
and was visited by then-commander of U.S. Naval Forces
Europe Admiral Harry Ulrich and the submarine tender Emory
S. Land in an effort "to provide training and assistance
for the Montenegrin Navy and to strengthen the
relationship between the two navies." [4]. The next month
four NATO warships, including the USS Roosevelt guided
missile destroyer, docked in Montenegro's Tivat harbour.

If the current Libyan model is duplicated in Syria as
increasingly seems to be the case, and with Lebanon
already blockaded by warships from NATO nations since 2006
in what is the prototype for what NATO will soon replicate
off the coast of Libya, the Mediterranean Sea will be
entirely under the control of NATO and its leading member,
the U.S.

Cyprus in the only European Union member and indeed the
only European nation (except for microstates) that is -
for the time being - not a NATO member or partner, and
Libya is the only African nation bordering the
Mediterranean not a member of NATO's Mediterranean
Dialogue partnership program.

Libya is also one of only five of Africa's 54 countries
that have not been integrated into, which is to say
subordinated to, the new U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM).

The others are:

Sudan, which is being balkanized as Libya may also soon
be.

Ivory Coast, now embroiled in what is for all intents a
civil war with the West backing the armed groups of
Alassane Ouattara against standing president Laurent
Gbagbo and under the threat of foreign military
intervention, likely by the AFRICOM- and NATO-supported
West African Standby Force and possibly with direct
Western involvement. [5]

Eritrea, which borders Djibouti where some 5,000 U.S. and
French troops are based and which was involved in an armed
border conflict with its neighbour three years ago in
which French military forces intervened on behalf of
Djibouti.

Zimbabwe, which is among likely candidates for the next
U.S.-NATO Operation Odyssey Dawn-type military
intervention.

The Mediterranean has been history's most strategically
important sea and is the only one whose waves lap the
shores of three continents.

Control of the sea has been fought over by the Persian,
Alexandrian, Carthaginian, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman,
Spanish, British and Napoleonic empires, in part or in
whole, and by Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany.
Since the end of World War Two the major military power in
the sea has been the U.S. In 1946 Washington established
Naval Forces Mediterranean, which in 1950 became the U.S.
Sixth Fleet and has its headquarters in the Mediterranean
port city of Naples.

In fact the genesis of the US Navy was the Naval Act of
1794, passed in response to the capture of American
merchant vessels off the coast of North Africa. The
Mediterranean Squadron (also Station) was created in
reaction to the first Barbary War of 1801-1805, also known
as the Tripolitan War after what is now northwestern
Libya. The US fought its first naval battle outside the
Western Hemisphere against Tripolitania in 1801.

US Naval Forces Europe-Africa, also based in Naples, is
assigned to the Sixth Fleet and provides forces for both
U.S. European Command and U.S. Africa Command. Its
commander is Admiral Samuel Locklear III, who is also
commander of NATO's Allied Joint Force Command Naples.
He has been coordinating US and NATO air and missile
strikes against Libya from USS Mount Whitney, the flagship
of the Sixth Fleet, as commander of Joint Task Force
Odyssey Dawn, the US Africa Command operation in charge of
US guided missile destroyers, submarines and stealth
bombers conducting attacks inside Libya.

Admiral Gary Roughead, Chief of Naval Operations (the
highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Navy), recently stated
that the permanent U.S. military presence in the
Mediterranean allowed the Pentagon, which "already was
positioned for operations over Libya," to launch Odyssey
Dawn on March 19. "The need, for example in the opening
rounds, for the Tomahawk strikes, the shooters were
already in place. They were already loaded, and that went
off as we expected it would."

"That's what you get when you have a global Navy that's
forward all the time....We're there, and when the guns go
off, we're ready to conduct combat operations.. .." [6]
On March 22 General Carter Ham, the new chief of U.S.
Africa Command, visited the U.S. air base in Ramstein,
Germany and met with British, French and Italian air force
leaders to evaluate the bombing campaign in Libya. He
praised cooperation with NATO partners before the war
began, stating, "You can't bring 14 different nations
together without ever having prepared for this before."
[7]

As the AFRICOM commander was in Germany, Defence Secretary
Robert Gates was in Egypt to meet with Field Marshal
Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, commander in chief of the
Egyptian armed forces and chairman of the Supreme Council
of the Armed Forces, to coordinate the campaign against
Libya.

The Pentagon's website reported on March 23 that forces
attached to AFRICOM's Task Force Odyssey Dawn had flown
336 air sorties, 108 of them launching strikes and 212
conducted by the U.S. The operations included 162 Tomahawk
cruise missile attacks.

Admiral Roughead stated that he envisioned "no problem in
keeping operations going," as the Tomahawks will be
replaced from the existing inventory of 3,200. Enough to
level Libya and still have plenty left over for the next
war. [8]

The defeat and conquest, directly or by proxy, of Libya
would secure a key outpost for the Pentagon and NATO on
the Mediterranean Sea. The consolidation of U.S. control
over North Africa would have more than just regional
repercussions, important as they are.

Shortly after the inauguration of U.S. Africa Command, Lin
Zhiyuan, deputy director of the Chinese People's
Liberation Army Academy of Military Sciences, wrote the
following:

"By building a dozen forward bases or establishments in
Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and other African nations, the
U.S. will gradually establish a network of military bases
to cover the entire continent and make essential
preparations for docking an aircraft carrier fleet in the
region.
"The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with the
U.S. at the head had [in 2006] carried out a large-scale
military exercise in Cape Verde, a western African island
nation, with the sole purpose of controlling the sea and
air corridors of crude oil extracting zones and monitoring
how the situation is with oil pipelines operating there.
"[A]frica Command represents a vital, crucial link for the
US adjustment of its global military deployment. At
present, it is moving the gravity of its forces in Europe
eastward and opening new bases in Eastern Europe.
"The present US global military redeployment centers
mainly on an 'arc of instability' from the Caucasus,
Central and Southern Asia down to the Korean Peninsula,
and so the African continent is taken as a strong point to
prop up the US global strategy.
"Therefore, AFRICOM facilitates the United States
advancing on the African continent, taking control of the
Eurasian continent and proceeding to take the helm of the
entire globe." [9]

Far more is at stake in the war with Libya than control of
Africa's largest proven oil reserves and subjugating the
last North African nation not yet under the thumb of the
US and NATO. Even more than domination of the
Mediterranean Sea region.

1) Daily Telegraph, July 10, 2008
2) Daily Telegraph, July 14, 2008
3) 'Cyprus: U.S. To Dominate All Europe, Mediterranean
Through NATO', Stop NATO, March 3, 2011
4) United States European Command, May 24, 2007
5)' Ivory Coast: Testing Ground For U.S.-Backed African
Standby Force', Stop NATO, January 23, 2011 
6) U.S. Department of Defense, March 23, 2011
7) U.S. Air Forces in Europe, March 23, 2011
8) U.S. Department of Defense, March 23, 2011
9) People's Daily, February 26, 2007,

Rock Rozoff is editor of Stop NATO, where this article
first appeared. The photo is by BRQ Network.


USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Huffington Post: DAVID BROMWICH: The CIA, the Libyan Rebellion, and the President


Recommended reading. Revealing. Disturbing. 

Folu
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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Libya: Western countries selective . A Must Read!

Libya: Western countries selective

Sam Makinda

Sam Makinda 

By Sam Makinda  (email the author)


Posted  Friday, April 1 2011 at 00:00

Since Western countries launched air strikes against Libya two weeks ago with a view to protecting civilians, a number of questions have been raised regarding the likely duration of the air attacks, the exit strategy for the participating countries, the meaning of success for such a mission, the nature of the Libyan opposition and whether the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is one of the objectives.

All these questions are legitimate and answers to them are likely to determine the level of support, which the countries participating in the implementation of the UN Security Council resolution 1973 on the no-fly zone will continue to receive.

The international conference convened in London on Tuesday this week, which was attended by more than 30 countries, as well as the African Union and the Arab League, was expected to provide credible answers to some of these questions, but it failed to do so.

Earlier in the week, US President Barack Obama spoke on the Libyan conflict at the National Defence University in Washington, DC, but his address was primarily designed to answer his American critics and fell short of providing answers to these fundamental questions.

President Obama argued that had the US and other coalition partners not acted at the time they did, many Libyans in Benghazi and adjacent towns would have been attacked and brutalised by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces.

While the United Nations and the Western European countries involved in enforcing the no-fly zone have defended their actions on the basis of the 2005 World Summit resolution on the responsibility to protect, Obama argued that he was driven by American values and the national interest.

More than 10 years ago, this would not have been surprising because many humanitarian interventions were underpinned by self-regarding, rather than other-regarding, factors.

Indeed, most countries committed resources and acted faster when there was a coincidence between their realpolitik concerns and humanitarian problems.

However, following the unanimous adoption of the resolution on the responsibility to protect in 2005, it would be expected that a leading power like the US would be guided by international norms rather than national interests.

Would this explain why there has been no appetite for intervention in Côte d'Ivoire, where Laurent Gbagbo has refused to step down four months after the Independent Electoral Commission declared on 2nd December 2010 that the opposition leader, Alassane Ouattara, had won the second round of the presidential elections?

The essence of President Obama's address this week is that unless humanitarian problems are framed in terms of American values and national interest, the US is unlikely to intervene.

A former UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar said in 1991 that "the principle of protection of human rights cannot be invoked in a particular situation and disregarded in a similar one. To apply it selectively is to debase it".

This was emphasised by another former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, in 1999 when he said: "If the new commitment to intervention in the face of extreme suffering is to retain the support of the world's people, it must be fairly and consistently applied, irrespective of region or nation".

It is imperative that the countries participating in the Libyan conflict take global norms seriously.

Prof Makinda teaches at Murdoch

USA Africa Dialogue Series - April polls, Insecurity and our perceptive problem

April polls, Insecurity and our perceptive problem

 

By KAYODE KETEFE

 

The inability of our law enforcement institutions to cope with the problems of insecurity in Nigeria has become an enduring reality- being a fact we all seem to have grudgingly accepted as a part of our destiny. This grim resignation is illustrated by the fact that majority have put their security in the hands of God, while the more affluent citizens have, in addition to divine supplications, resorted to floating their private security apparatus for protection of dear properties and dearer lives. Insecurity has always abounded, but what we have been witnessing in recent times, specifically from the past two years, is gradually a dawning reality that the matter has gone out of hands. At no other times has the collapse of security in Nigeria been this total. From the incessant harassment of Boko Haram warriors in Bornu State and environs to the intractable onslaught of Niger Delta militants in the South-South, the octopus of insecurity spreads its dreadful tentacles of criminality and violence across the land.  From the South- West to South-East, ritual killers and kidnappers are on rampage, prowling with rapacious indifference, confident in the knowledge of impunity. Explosives and other arms and ammunition are being wantonly deployed by God-knows-whom.  With the fury of a thunderstorm, the bombs are exploding across the land, leaving waste and tragedy in its trail. This uncharacteristic incendiary aspect to the insecurity challenge, which was ushered in on the Independence Day last October, has since become a recurrent decimal, hovering menacingly on the political firmament, and spreading alarm and trepidation at every gathering. Added to all the foregoing was the recent politically-motivated violence, culminating in wanton killings and maiming all over the polity, constituting evil prognostications for the forthcoming polls. 

Severe crises have rocked states like Oyo, Ekiti ,Ondo, Akwa Ibom, Borno, Bayelsa, Plateau, Niger, while skirmishes and pockets of violence have blighted the peace  in Ondo, Ekiti, Ebonyi and Lagos states. 

But how did the matter come to this sorry pass? Under Section 4 of the Police Act, the Nigerian Police is charged with the responsibility of prevention and detection of crime, protection of lives and property, apprehension of offenders and enforcement of all laws and regulations. Despite this wide latitude of powers, the police have proven unequal to the challenges. Each time there is a major violence or assassination, the police authorities would promise heaven and earth. Their usual rhetoric is "the perpetrators of this dastardly act would be brought to book"; or "no stone will be left unturned to unmask the criminals". Yet nothing would happen and before you know it, another series of violence would occur and the police would keep repeating those annoying clichés of turning stones and bringing unknown people to book! No breakthrough!

To add salt to injury, those in government are often fond of saying because Nigeria is a large nation complex, these problems are to be expected. "You can't compare Nigeria with Ghana, we are far bigger, so there are bound to be more problems here" are the kind of illogical postulations that they often peddle.

 I see this kind of argument as being predicated on wrong evaluation and warped perception. If we have a population of 152 million and a land mass of 923,768 km2, it follows also that we have enormous resources at our disposal to tackle our problems well beyond the capacity of a smaller nation. We need to change the orientation which fatalistically recognises the inevitability of problems; we must embrace a paradigm shift from negative mentality that only dwells on assumed weaknesses to the one affirming our strength.

Imagine the biblical episode of David and Goliath. (1 Samuel ch.17) The philistine giant was a terror to the Israelite army by virtue of his larger-than-life size which made them regarded him "too big to fight with". (An example of defeatist perception) But David, with correct attitude, saw the beefy oversized body of the giant as a target too big to miss for his sling! We all know the rest of the story. It needs to be pointed out that the Goliath himself suffered from perception problem. He simply could not fathom any engagement with David on the battle field, David was too tiny to be considered a worthy foe. To him, he would simply gathered up David with one gigantic swing of his huge hand, crumple him and fling his mangled corpse into the valley of Ellah. He paid dearly with his life for that misconception because a foe is a foe no matter how tiny.  So with correct attitude, we can all say that Nigeria is too big and too talented with human and other resources to succumb to the onslaught of problems facing her. We must overcome our problems and difficulties.

This allusion to "too big to fight" and "too big to miss" dichotomy of mentality is an apt satire which mocks the shallowness of the arguments seeking to reconcile us with the inevitability of our problems.

So with the "slingshot" of political will cum strategic planning  and the "stones"  of adequate funding, we can crack open the skull of the giant calling itself our problems-by this I mean not only the problem of insecurity but also other challenges of our nation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: 100 Thousand Poets for Change Anthology - Send work and Join The Event!



-100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE: An Anthology

 

100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE: An Anthology 

 

(Ed. Anny Ballardini & Obododimma Oha, in collaboration with MICHAEL ROTHENBERG)

 

 "We will turn to the idea of the messianic in Chapter Ten of this book, but for the moment it suffices to stress that both Benjamin and Agamben employ the term in singular fashion. For them, a messianic idea of history is not one in which we wait for the Messiah to come, end history, and redeem humanity, but instead is a paradigm for historical time in which we act as though the Messiah is already here, or even has already come and gone. What is so difficult about Agamben's use of the term messianic is how radically it is to be distinguished from the apocalyptic. Agamben says that to understand "messianic time" as it is presented in Paul's letters "one must first distinguish messianic time from apocalyptic time, the time of the now from a time directed towards the future" (LAM, 51). To this he adds, "If l had to try to reduce the distinction to a formula, I would say that the messianic is not, as it is always understood, the end of time, but the time of the end" (LAM, 51). The model of time corresponding to this idea is one that no longer looks for its decisive moment in a more or less remote future, but instead finds it in every minute of every day, in this world and in this life; and it is through such expressions as "dialectics at a standstill" and "means without end" that the two thinkers aim to return our gaze from the distant future to the pressing present."

                                        ( from GIORGIO AGAMBEN: A Critical Introduction, Leland de la Durantaye, 2009, p. 120)

 

Set in the context of this split between "the end of time" and "the time of the end" is Michael Rothenberg's recent invitation for the global writing public to participate in "a demonstration/celebration of poetry to promote serious social and political change" titled 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE on 24 September, 2011. As protests for political reforms sweep across North Africa, the Middle East, in some parts of Europe, in the United States, with the recent disasters in The Gulf of Mexico and in Japan, one cannot help thinking about the "Rothenberg Project" as a highly significant creative response to change as something more than an adjustment to the way social relations are constructed.

 

Obododimma Oha and Anny Ballardini, in collaboration with Michael Rothenberg's event, will edit and feature outstanding poetic compositions for the 100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE on Fieralingue's  Poets' Corner Visual artwork, poems, poetic fiction, poetic nonfiction, and photographs to be submitted for consideration should go beyond the simple and gratuitous statement that 'a change is needed.' Our present, our Messianic time requires a STILLSTELLUNG (Benjamin's word) translated by Dennis Redmond in On the Concept of History (1940) with "an objective interruption of a mechanical process" into which we have been engulfed. Dennis Redmond continues in his explanation of STILLSTELLUNG: "rather like the dramatic pause at the end of an action-adventure movie, when the audience is waiting to find out if the time-bomb/missile/terrorist device was defused or not." We feel that we are living in a similar situation, and we are in need of a Stillstellung followed by ideas to offer our politicians, to make students/friends/our communities more aware of how we can change, revise history, start over again. 

 

Visual works and photographs for submission are to be saved in JPEG format, while texts, which should not have rigid formatting, are to be in Word. All submissions should be emailed to the editors anny.ballardini@gmail.com and obodooha@gmail.com by September 1, 2011 with "100 THOUSAND POETS FOR CHANGE" in the Subject line.

 

Best wishes,

Obododimma Oha

Anny Ballardini

 

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Ps. If you are interested in signing up to participate as a reader, organizer or attendee, in the 100 Thousand Poets for Change event on September 24, 2011, (in your town) please go to Facebook for more details and indicate that you would like to attend the event. Link:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106999432715571 . At Facebook you will be able to read more about event organization ideas and our thoughts about "what kind of change." Over a thousand people have already signed up and over twenty cities have begun to organize events for their communities.  JOIN US!!




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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: [NIgerianWorldForum] Gaddafi will stay in Libya "until the end": spokesman

there were popular uprisings in the streets, and the people got shot. now what do you recommend they do to express their will?? these comments are incredibly disingenuous.
ken

On 3/31/11 10:46 AM, MsJoe21St@aol.com wrote:
Where is the popular uprising in the streets, as we saw in Egypt after the air bombers protected the rebels and the masses were free to come out? The rebels need to be carried on the backs of Western nations and it has resorted to covert mission, the CIA on the ground in Libya, and military super powers to topple one leader in an African nation? Oil and  imperialistic madness.

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Gaddafi will stay in Libya "until the end": spokesman

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will stay in the country "until the end" to lead it to victory against its enemies, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

Speaking after former Foreign Secretary Moussa Koussa defected and flew to Britain on Wednesday, the spokesman said Western air strikes against Libya had only united its top leadership against "a clear enemy."

"If this aggression did anything, it only rallied people around the leader and the unity of the nation," Mussa Ibrahim said in Tripoli. "Especially now. They see a clear enemy."

Asked if Gaddafi and his sons were still in the country, he said: "Rest assured, we are all here. We will remain here until the end. This is our country. We are strong on every front."

He added: "We are not relying on individuals to lead the struggle. This is a struggle of the whole nation. It's not dependent on individuals or officials."

Ibrahim refused to comment on Koussa's defection, saying there would be a formal government statement later in the day.

"We have millions of people leading this struggle. If anyone feels tired, feels sick or exhausted, if they want to take a rest, it just happens. I am not confirming anything," he said.

Ibrahim dismissed suggestions that coalition air strikes had tipped the balance in favor of rebel forces fighting against Gaddafi troops, or encouraged ordinary people to seek change after Gaddafi's four-decade rule.

"With the air strikes bombarding every Libyan city, you don't see people coming out en masse demanding any change," he said. "Where is a popular revolution? Where are the tribes coming out and saying to the leader: 'Leave the country'? You need to read the signs."

(Reporting by Maria Golovnina; Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton)

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - African Solution: No Imperial Airstrikes - Ivory Coast Will Do It

 
 
Now, people, a  popular uprising manifests. We do not need imperial strikers shooting from African skies and AFRICOM should have no place in Africa.

Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 10 blunders and miscalculations of Laurent Gbagbo of ivory Coast

concerning gloria's points on why the action on libya occurred, i find
there is a large distinction that should be made and isn't. gloria calls
her points "reasons," as though they explained why the decision had been
made. they are considerations, points that any policy maker might
debate. no doubt anyone could draw up another list of 10 considerations
for not intervening. a "reason" is the factor that determined the
decision, not a consideration that might have been debated and rejected.
for instance, the "reasons" she cites are all cynical realpolitik, as
though those were the only reasons why any political decision is made:
what if stopping a slaughter were a reason. what if unseating a
tyrannical and dangerous regime and potentially having it replaced by a
progressive democratic regime were a reason.
have you read samantha power's book on America in an Age of Genocide.
Read it and tell me that the above considerations couldn't have been
factors.
lastly, no one has responded to my argument that taking control of
libyan oil is not a rational issue. if gaddafi chose to punish a country
by not selling them his oil, that would just open up a space for another
seller. the oil pool is part of an international market, and no one can
control the overall flow to individual countries. to make this clearer:
if libyan oil were not to go to country x, but were shifted to country
y, then then oil that would have gone to country y would just go to
country x.
the only politics that can be worked around oil is to impede the overall
flow; and when it is reduced by one oil producing country sufficiently,
it is increased by all the others.
ken

On 3/31/11 12:56 AM, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) wrote:
> 1. Building his political platform around a narrow, xenophobic,
>
> ethnic- based constituency incapable of meaningful coalition building;
>
>
>
> 2. Underestimating the wide support of Alassane Ouattara - and the impact of
> his electoral campaign on various regions of Cote d'Ivoire across ethnic and
> religious boundaries;
>
> 3. Underestimating the shrewdness, commitment and military capability and
>
> determination of Soros Guillaume and the New Forces;
>
> 4. Biting the hand that saved him from defeat in 2002- France;
>
> 5. Undermining his support from women by his assassination of
> unarmed female protesters;
>
> 6. Transforming university students into paid thugs and indisciplined gangsters-
> and giving encouragement to his wife's band of assassins and
>
> Duvalier style 'tonton macoute';
>
> 7. Undermining regional support by xenophobic and genocidal
>
> campaigns against West Africans from at least six countries;
>
>
>
> 8. Recklessly destroying the political capital accumulated in his
>
> early days - when he seemed to be an anti-colonial pan Africanist;
>
>
>
> 9. Associating himself with fanatic rabble rousers such as the
>
> so-called young patriots - who started to believe their own
>
> genocidal and irrational, xenophobic rhetoric;
>
>
>
> 10. Utilizing the services of indisciplined mercenaries committed to
>
> CharlesTaylor -style mayhem, rape and murder.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
> www.africahistory.net
> www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali
> ________________________________________
> From: Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
> Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 11:21 PM
> To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com; nigerianid@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Why Libya?
>
> Ten reasons why.....
>
> 1. To divert attention from the unrest in Bahrain, Yemen and potentially Saudi Arabia - and complicate
> the possibilities for military assistance to the pro-democracy forces there.Omogui's article is fantastic on this issue.
>
> 2. To facilitate access to oil in the post Gadhafi era- from the oil wells of grateful Benghazi -
> given the rising demand from China and Japan and Germany, poised to abandon nuclear power.
>
> 3. To divert attention from the high unemployment, inflation and massive economic crisis in the West compounded by the
> temporary demise of Japan, the major supplier of electronics parts etc for the auto and computer related industries.
>
> 4. To replenish and fuel the military industrial complex with its voracious appetite for new wars.
>
> 5. To advertise the new generation of fighter jets, tomahawk cruise missiles etc for sale. Note the clear sales pitch in
> CNN and other media reporting..
>
> 6. Gadhafi's consistent hostility towards the State of Israel, the major ally of the West.
>
> 7. War -making helps to beef up the portfolio of American presidential aspirants and incumbents.
> (Not necessarily the case in Sarkhozy's France?)
>
> 8. Hillary Clinton is thinking about her illusionary Bosnia war escapade and wants a real war.
>
> 9. The total idiocy, lack of foresight and inflexible stubbornness of Muammar Gadhafi and his heir apparent-
> determined to stay in power at all costs.
>
> 10. The Iraq war started on March 19, 2003. Today is March 19.
>
>
> Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
> www.africahistory.net
> www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali
>
>
>
>

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: [NIgerianWorldForum] Gaddafi will stay in Libya "until the end": spokesman

Where is the popular uprising in the streets, as we saw in Egypt after the air bombers protected the rebels and the masses were free to come out? The rebels need to be carried on the backs of Western nations and it has resorted to covert mission, the CIA on the ground in Libya, and military super powers to topple one leader in an African nation? Oil and  imperialistic madness.

From: nowa_o@yahoo.com
Reply-to: NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com
To: defsec@egroups.com
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Subj: [NIgerianWorldForum] Gaddafi will stay in Libya "until the end": spokesman
 

Gaddafi will stay in Libya "until the end": spokesman

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi will stay in the country "until the end" to lead it to victory against its enemies, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

Speaking after former Foreign Secretary Moussa Koussa defected and flew to Britain on Wednesday, the spokesman said Western air strikes against Libya had only united its top leadership against "a clear enemy."

"If this aggression did anything, it only rallied people around the leader and the unity of the nation," Mussa Ibrahim said in Tripoli. "Especially now. They see a clear enemy."

Asked if Gaddafi and his sons were still in the country, he said: "Rest assured, we are all here. We will remain here until the end. This is our country. We are strong on every front."

He added: "We are not relying on individuals to lead the struggle. This is a struggle of the whole nation. It's not dependent on individuals or officials."

Ibrahim refused to comment on Koussa's defection, saying there would be a formal government statement later in the day.

"We have millions of people leading this struggle. If anyone feels tired, feels sick or exhausted, if they want to take a rest, it just happens. I am not confirming anything," he said.

Ibrahim dismissed suggestions that coalition air strikes had tipped the balance in favor of rebel forces fighting against Gaddafi troops, or encouraged ordinary people to seek change after Gaddafi's four-decade rule.

"With the air strikes bombarding every Libyan city, you don't see people coming out en masse demanding any change," he said. "Where is a popular revolution? Where are the tribes coming out and saying to the leader: 'Leave the country'? You need to read the signs."

(Reporting by Maria Golovnina; Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton)

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - FW: 10 blunders and miscalculations of Laurent Gbagbo of Ivory Coast

1. Building his political platform around a narrow, xenophobic,

ethnic- based constituency incapable of meaningful coalition building;

2. Underestimating the wide support of Alassane Ouattara - and the impact of
his electoral campaign on various regions of Cote d'Ivoire across ethnic and
religious boundaries;

3. Underestimating the shrewdness, commitment and military capability and

determination of Soros Guillaume and the New Forces;

4. Biting the hand that saved him from defeat in 2002- France;

5. Undermining his support from women by his assassination of
unarmed female protesters;

6. Transforming university students into paid thugs and indisciplined gangsters-
and giving encouragement to his wife's band of assassins and

Duvalier style 'tonton macoute';

7. Undermining regional support by xenophobic and genocidal

campaigns against West Africans from at least six countries;

8. Recklessly destroying the political capital accumulated in his

early days - when he seemed to be an anti-colonial pan Africanist;

9. Associating himself with fanatic rabble rousers such as the

so-called young patriots - who started to believe their own

genocidal and irrational, xenophobic rhetoric;

10. Utilizing the services of indisciplined mercenaries committed to

CharlesTaylor -style mayhem, rape and murder.


Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
www.africahistory.net
www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali
________________________________________
From: Emeagwali, Gloria (History)
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 11:21 PM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com; nigerianid@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Why Libya?

Ten reasons why.....

1. To divert attention from the unrest in Bahrain, Yemen and potentially Saudi Arabia - and complicate
the possibilities for military assistance to the pro-democracy forces there.Omogui's article is fantastic on this issue.

2. To facilitate access to oil in the post Gadhafi era- from the oil wells of grateful Benghazi -
given the rising demand from China and Japan and Germany, poised to abandon nuclear power.

3. To divert attention from the high unemployment, inflation and massive economic crisis in the West compounded by the
temporary demise of Japan, the major supplier of electronics parts etc for the auto and computer related industries.

4. To replenish and fuel the military industrial complex with its voracious appetite for new wars.

5. To advertise the new generation of fighter jets, tomahawk cruise missiles etc for sale. Note the clear sales pitch in
CNN and other media reporting..

6. Gadhafi's consistent hostility towards the State of Israel, the major ally of the West.

7. War -making helps to beef up the portfolio of American presidential aspirants and incumbents.
(Not necessarily the case in Sarkhozy's France?)

8. Hillary Clinton is thinking about her illusionary Bosnia war escapade and wants a real war.

9. The total idiocy, lack of foresight and inflexible stubbornness of Muammar Gadhafi and his heir apparent-
determined to stay in power at all costs.

10. The Iraq war started on March 19, 2003. Today is March 19.


Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
www.africahistory.net
www.esnips.com/web/GloriaEmeagwali


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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Pope sends envoy to Ivory Coast. "“No effort should be spared” to stop the bloodshed," ( Pope)

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#q=Ivory+coast&hl=en&site=&prmd=ivnsu&source=lnms&tbs=nws:1&ei=pWmUTa2WIs2hOu73xcUH&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=4&sqi=2&ved=0CBsQ_AUoAw&fp=60189e503935b0b9


March 30, 2011

Pope Benedict XVI has sent Cardinal Peter Turkson to Ivory Coast to
"express my solidarity and that of the universal Church" to the
victims of a continuing struggle for power in the African country.
Cardinal Turkson, the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice
and Peace, has been charged by the Pope to seek an end to the fighting
between the supporters of two rival leaders: Alasanne Ouattara, who
was certified by UN officials as the winner of presidential elections
last November; and Laurent Gbagbo, the incumbent president, who has
refused to surrender his power.
Pope Benedict told his March 30 public audience that he has been
preoccupied with the battle in Ivory Coast, a country "traumatized by
painful internal strife and serious social and political tensions." He
pleaded for an end to the violence—which the November elections had
been designed to resolve. "No effort should be spared" to stop the
bloodshed, the Pope said.

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - STAR INFORMATION: Some Social Media Efforts and the 2011 Elections in Nigeria


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Election Incidence Report System

ReclaimNaija is a broad based national platform for popular, grassroots engagement in promoting electoral transparency and democratic government. The platform brings together a vast network of grassroots organisations across the country comprising mostly informal sector workers and trade-based-groups such as associations of mechanics, carpenters, vulcanisers, welders, okada riders and owners, market women and men, electricians, tailors, hairdressers, community development associations, activists, patriotic professionals, civil society and faith-based organisations.


Project 2011 Swift Count is a joint initiative of the Federation of Muslim Women's Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN); Justice, Development and Peace/Caritas Nigeria (JDPC), Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), and Transition Monitoring Group (TMG). Reflecting the diversity of Nigeria, the project brings together civic organizations and religious groups (Christian and Muslim) to promote free, fair, peaceful, credible and legitimate elections through non-partisan, independent citizen observation.


Nigeria 2011 Election Centre
Aakika asks you to video your vote so there can be transparency to the process. Pass it on - and upload!

       David Brancaccio Asks You to Video Your Vote

       Video Your Vote: An Illustrated Introduction 


Vote or Quench


Transition Monitoring Group


Police Service Commission
The dedicated numbers which are given both on zonal and states level  to enable members of the public report the  conduct of policemen on election duties.  TRY THEM OUT  and report to Commissioner Dr. Otive Igbuzor <otiveigbuzor@gmail.com>!

North-East - 08166857616  (Bauchi, Gombe, Yobe, Taraba, Adamawa, Borno); 
North-West - 08166857484 (Kebbi, Sokoto, Zamfara, Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa)
North-Central - 08060090850;  (Niger, Kwara, Kogi, Plateau, Benue, Nassarawa, Abuja)
South-South - 08166857568;  (Edo, Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers, Cross-River, Akwa-Ibom)
South-West - 08166857516;  (Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo)
South-East - 08166857489, (Imo, Anambara, Ebonyi, Abia, Enugu)
amongst others.

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If you know of other credible efforts, please pass them on....

2011 Elections in Nigeria  - another "watershed event" .......(our history is full of "watersheds")


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