Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Britain and America target DR Congo

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Britain and America target DR Congo

Click here to access article by Antoine Roger Lokongo from Pambazuka News (South Africa).

We in the US have very little information about what is occurring Africa. We get bits and pieces of information regarding the secret deployment of troops in Africa and confusing reports about "civil wars" and other mysterious conflicts going on mostly through alternative internet sources. (See this, this, and this.) Recently we have been reading about new attacks on civilian towns in eastern DR Congo. This African writer's take on the Congo wars has a decided ring of authenticity to it.

What is happening in eastern DR Congo is not a civil war, but continuation of a 16-year aggression by the country’s two neighbours, financed and directed by the United States and Britain.