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A Brief History of the CIA's Dirty War in South Sudan submission

Post by Zmeselo » 29 Jul 2019, 05:19

A Brief History of the CIA's Dirty War in South Sudan submission

By: Thomas Mountain

With the CIA’s Dirty War in South Sudan winding down, its time to take a brief but comprehensive look at the origins and history of this most secret of Pax Americana crimes in Africa.

It is in the national interests of the USA to deprive China of access to African energy resources, with the Sudanese oil fields being the only Chinese owned and operated in Africa. It was no coincidence, that one of the first targets of the “rebellion” in South Sudan was the Chinese oil fields. It has been US vs China in South Sudan, from the start.

To begin this history, we must go back to the origins of the South Sudan peace process that developed in 2004. This new breakthrough came about, following the East Sudan uprising and subsequent intervention in Sudan by the Eritrean military, in support of the Beja and Rashida peoples movement in 2003. Eritrean commandoes cut the Port Sudan-Khartoum highway, the lifeline for 25 million residents of Sudans capital. For two weeks the Sudanese army counterattacked, but ended up utterly defeated by the Eritrean special forces.

Facing critical food and fuel shortages the Sudanese officer core that was then the base of support for the recently deposed Omar Al Bashir capitulated and as part of the peace deal agreed to begin good faith negotiations with the various Sudanese resistance groups, both east, south and even, supposedly, in the west.

This resulted in John Garang, head of the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement and the President of Sudan Omar Al Bashir sitting down together to sign a comprehensive peace deal in Asmara, Eritrea late in 2004.

In December of 2004 we flew into Asmara, Eritrea and checked into the old Imperial Hotel, the Emboisoira, and found ourselves sharing breakfast with senior leaders of the SPLM. We had a satellite dish back in the US with Eri-TV, so we had seen our breakfast mates on the news covering the recently signed peace deal in Asmara. They were all in high spirits, still excited about the prospect for peace in Sudan.

Later, after returning home to the USA in 2015, we heard of a new peace deal, this time being signed in Navaisha in Kenya. And this time, the deal was brokered by the USA. The only real difference between the 2004 Asmara agreement and the 2005 Kenya deal, was the inclusion of a clause calling for a referendum on independence for South Sudan.

The USA forced Bashir and Garang to accept this independence referendum after forcing a new peace “negotiation” and eventual, deal, in Kenya, away from Eritrean mediation efforts. Carrot and the stick,
inducements and threats by the worlds superpower forced Garang and Bashir to accept the dismemberment of Sudan and created the conditions for one of the most brutal civil wars in African history. This was the doings of the USA, from the get go.

After signing the peace deal, John Garang, as head of the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM), held his first public rally in Khartoum and drew a million people or more, three times the largest crowd Bashir had ever had. There he made a fateful speech.

John Garang made it clear that he was strongly AGAINST independence for South Sudan, instead calling on his fellow Sudanese in the North to help elect him president; to build a new Sudan based on equal rights and justice for all Sudanese.

Garang stated his intent to be politically independent from the western powers, instead looking to China, already in the oil business in Sudan, to develop Sudans economy. Sudan, as a whole, is the largest and potentially richest country in Africa and for the USA to lose Sudan to China wasn’t acceptable to Pax Americana.

John Garang was dead two weeks later in a mysterious helicopter crash and with him died, a unified Sudan.

With in a few years a referendum was held for “independence” for South Sudan and voila, it was a done deal. The irony is that John Garang, who was vehemently against independence for South Sudan, is now proclaimed “The Father” of the South Sudanese independent state.

In 2009, my old friend Alexander Cockburn, contacted me asking for a story about what was going on vis a vis Sudan/South Sudan. I had been living next door in Eritrea for the past few years and I responded with: “Storm Clouds Over South Sudan”- which Alex and Jeffrey St. Claire published on their website “Counterpunch”- where I predicted the upcoming holocaust, in the worlds newest “independent” country.

I only wish my words, had not come true.

I was repeatedly forced to continue exposing the CIA’s dirty war in South Sudan over the next few years, with titles like “US vs China in South Sudan”, “The CIA’s Dirty War in South Sudan” amongst others; in an attempt to shine the light of day on this most dirty, and secret, CIA covert war.

I am not exagerating, when I call the civil war in South Sudan: the most secret major covert military operation by the CIA in the Agency’s history. The proof of this is the fact that not a single writer, other than myself, has made this charge. This might be explained, by the lengths prominent western journalists have attempted to point the blame away from the Agency and instead at the feet of the South Sudanese peoples themselves.

Its been horrific first hand stories by award winning progressive journalists like, Nick Turse, that painted this dirty war as black on black- African tribal violence at its worst.

When I pointed out to Nick Turse that the rebels were being paid $300 a month salaries, Mr. Turse denied the accuracy of my claim. In an exchange on Twitter, he said that the rebels were making maybe $300 a year if that; so no need to explain the $6 million a month it would take, to pay 20,000 rebel combatants salaries?

The problem with Mr. Turse assertion is that former South Sudanese rebel fighters have confirmed being paid $300 a month, when they were under arms. In South Sudan, young men join the army because it's the only way to get enough money to feed your family & not out of patriotic zeal. When the money periodically dried up, usually stolen by the rebel generals, the soldiers start to leave, as my sources had experienced.

Do the math, 20,000 rebels paid $300 a month times 6 years plus food, fuel and ammo and you come out with over $500 million and counting? Honestly now, who has a history of coming up with that amount of cash, entirely secret for that long but the CIA? Must we be reminded, of the CIA’s dirty wars in Angola and Mozambique in support of South African Apartheid back in the 1970’s and 80’s?

Show me the money, right? How come no one in the international media, has ever asked this question? The rebels have no visible means of support, where could they be getting their funds from?

This story remains the best kept secret “dirty war”, the CIA has ever operated. Until the Chinese brought in a couple thousand armed “peacekeepers” to protect their oil fields, this CIA operation was successful, shutting down, temporarily Chinese oil production in South Sudan. But more importantly, it pretty much shut down, Chinese
expansion in South Sudan. That is what this dirty war was all about, preventing China from gaining a major foothold in Africa’s oil fields.

Show me the money? Show me the ONLY party, that benefits from this war? Thats right, the ONLY party to benefit from this brutal, foreign funded African holocaust has been Pax Americana, the U.S. of A, by shutting down Chinese oil production and expansion in South Sudan.

Today peace has broken out in South Sudan, shaky as it may be. The CIA had been using the former regime in power in Ethiopia, the TPLF, to funnel their filthy lucre to the rebel armies in South Sudan but with the “Peaceful Revolution” breaking out in Ethiopia, this avenue to the
rebels was cut off. The rebel leadership had no choice but to cut a deal with South Sudan President Salva Kiir for cash, so they could pay their troops salaries. "No money, no honey", you get what you pay for and without hard CIA cash to pay their troops it became: “Give peace a chance”. Of course corruption remains rife and stolen salaries for various ethnically based military departments, have continued to cause revolts and instability.

Yet so far, the peace deal signed, sealed and delivered in Asmara in 2018 has been holding. The CIA are now almost completely out of the picture in South Sudan, though one should never underestimate the Agency’s capacity for evil. Its in the US national interest to deny China access to African oil, so it will always continue to be US vs China in South Sudan- as part of Pax Americana’s designs for Africa as a whole.

Thomas C. Mountain is a historian and an educator living and reporting from Eritrea, since 2006.

You can contact him at: [email protected]
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Re: A Brief History of the CIA's Dirty War in South Sudan submission

Post by Somaliman » 29 Jul 2019, 08:06

Where's Donkey Arawit to tell us that this is all about a negro mentality taking a fancy to blame white man's intelligence service for the headache in Africa!
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Re: A Brief History of the CIA's Dirty War in South Sudan submission

Post by Zmeselo » 29 Jul 2019, 08:54

Somaliman, right!

And the man who wrote this article is as white as snow, too. :lol:

Here he is:


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Re: A Brief History of the CIA's Dirty War in South Sudan submission

Post by Zmeselo » 29 Jul 2019, 09:01

Jokes aside though, some white people are just amazing. Very woke, & their empathy level is off the roof.

A few recent examples:



"If I Was Black"

Tom MacDonald

If I was black, prolly wouldn't fûck with anyone who's white
'Cause that slavery shít would honestly always be on my mind
If I was black, prolly wouldn't ever wanna drive
'Cause if police pull me over, I might fûck around and die

If I was black, I won't lie, I'd be scared to walk at night
The whole neighborhood is trippin' like I'm out committin' crimes
I'd be pissed at all these cracker rappers singin' 'bout my life
Stole my music, stole my style, give it back, that shít is mine

If I was black, just look at the facts, we don't stand a chance
One in three is locked away, over half don't know they dad

See, white privilege ain't a money thing, but it's white people who are runnin' things
Y'all benefit from your colorin', my pigment produce sufferin'

It's all white pride, white power, white lies, white houses, white guys, white washin'
My brothers, my sisters, my culture, while I'm watchin'

If I was black I'd probably hate myself from shít they say
Racism made me racist and I am not the one to blame

[Pre-Chrous]
Ayy, y'all won't say it to my face, in the circles you feel safe
Y'all been usin' words they made for us when we were slaves
Ayy, hey, wait, woah, I know that was long ago
If I was black I'd want my reparation money paid in full

[Chorus]
If I was black I'd say fûck the police
I'd say fûck the whole Klan, I'd put holes in they sheets
If I was black I'd put gold on my teeth
So if you think I'm broke you would know when I speak
If I was black, it's my face on a tee
R.I.P. underneath or my name next to free
If I was black I would die in these streets
Just for speakin' my mind because I had a dream
If I was black

[Verse 2]
If I was black, prolly wouldn't ever do my taxes
Why support a government that persecute my blackness?
Or pay the wage of law enforcement puttin' us in caskets?
Or help to build the prisons that we trapped in?

If I was black I'd be mad, people glorify the trap
While we dyin' everyday fightin' for everything we have
It ain't diamond chains and racks, this the systematic plan
They put us the in the ghetto, gave us HIV and crack

If I was black I'd hate America, appropriate my character
And sell it to Caucasians who wish they were from my area
If I was black I wouldn't give a fûck about the greater good
My grandma can't afford her rent, y'all gentrified our neighborhood

All Lives Matter, so stupid, y'all hijackin' our movement
Black Lives Matter 'cause we losin' innocent youth to police shootin's

If I was black, the only role models I'm shown
Is the rich black rappers, pushin' guns and drugs and hoes
(Yeah)

[Pre-Chrous]
Ayy, y'all won't say it to my face, in the circles you feel safe
Y'all been usin' words they made for us when we were slaves
Ayy, hey, wait, woah, I know that was long ago
If I was black I'd want my reparation money paid in full

[Chorus]
If I was black I'd say fûck the police
I'd say fûck the whole Klan, I'd put holes in they sheets
If I was black I'd put gold on my teeth
So if you think I'm broke you would know when I speak
If I was black, it's my face on a tee
R.I.P underneath or my name next to free
If I was black I would die in these streets
Just for speakin' my mind because I had a dream
If I was black

[Bridge]
You'd attack when I say it, I'm proud
'Cause you mad because you ain't allowed
(If I was black)
Y'all ever try to take me down
One fist in the air I would stand my ground

[Chorus]
If I was black I'd say fûck the police
I'd say fûck the whole Klan, I'd put holes in they sheets
If I was black I'd put gold on my teeth
So if you think I'm broke you would know when I speak
If I was black, it's my face on a tee
R.I.P underneath or my name next to free
If I was black I would die in these streets
Just for speakin' my mind because I had a dream
If I was black
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Re: A Brief History of the CIA's Dirty War in South Sudan submission

Post by Zmeselo » 29 Jul 2019, 09:06



Shíthole

Marlon Craft

Tell me what a shithole look like
Is it a place built on the backs of enslaved people was taken from they people
By hate and deranged evil and greed and the need
To feel that we all not the same people where no one is made equal?/
Tell me what a shithole look like, where we move heaven and earth/
For a couple of men’s net worth while we let our poor live in dirt/
Where lies are national, fashionable trumps factual/
Where we don’t know what just is, justice is laughable?/
Tell me what a shithole look like
Where you get famous for being famous we worship the mediocre
Where bankers is playing poker with people’s futures with futures and leave them homeless
And our leaders save them and leave us broken/
Is that what a shithole look like? where we send folks to die for courage and valor
In their mind but for real it be for the purses of power
And we proclaim that we kill to defend the people’s rights
But install dictators just for resources at cheaper price/
What a shithole look like? is it what the hood like?
Where you could die any minute because of what you look like?
Where children starving all cause of discrimination
In ghettos created by homeowners loan corporation/
Was an agent of the government so, tell me what a shithole look like
Is it a place where we exist cause the unforgivable
And walk around like if you not us we don’t want sit with you
Where opinions with truth in them dismissed as hypercritical?/
Tell me is a place a shithole
Where we lock and abuse people and cage the soul out 'em based on a color skin tone
Allow folks to make millions off their pain while they sit home
Smiling, while babies crying cause they fathers ain't never get home?/
I’m tryna imagine a shithole aesthetic..
Is it where anyone with an amplified voice is prophetic?
Where people who gave their lives for freedom go unknown
But we deify people who make phones?/
Tell me, when our president called black countries a shithole
Was i mad because that’s racist to say?
And i know its wrong but deep down i be thinking the same?
And i would’ve said it to a neighbor over a brew and a j?/
Like do i know why wrong things are wrong?
Do i accept my many privileges, and the role that i play when i play along?/
Do i want a pat on the back for basic humanity?/
Would i still be righteous in the face of calamity?/
Tell me what makes a shithole? i think i live in one/
Am i ready for it to change ‘fore i get my livin’ done?/
This ain't a riddle son these are the simplest questions/
If i knew i’s making a shithole would i switch professions?/
How we make a shithole on land that was never ours/
Then puff our chest out with no shame bout how we get the power?/
Create a monster the surest way to get devoured/
Homie look around you, A mu'fuckin shithole

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