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The mounting hue and cry in the US press over the menace to civilization posed by Somali "pirates" is yet another Big Lie, to justify the latest chapter in America's imperial quest for African oil and other resources. US missiles and drones in the air, and perhaps US boots on the ground are all but inevitable, ordered to kill near-defenseless African civilians, by America's First Black President.
US Aircraft and Elite Navy SEALs Defeat Three Somalis in a Lifeboat
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford
“An estimated $300 million worth of Somali sea life is pirated by foreigners every year.”
What a weekend for American foreign policy! The United States Navy, backed up by warships from 20 other nations, knocked off three Somali guys crouching with rifles in a lifeboat tied by a rope to a U.S. destroyer. To hear the U.S. corporate media tell it, the Americans had won a huge victory over the forces of evil. The sole surviving Somali was in custody – a 16-year-old who essentially gave himself up, earlier, after being hurt in a scuffle with the American cargo ship captain who is now celebrated as a hero of the seven seas and defender of United States national honor.
There is something obscene about a superpower whose media and population find great satisfaction, and some sick form of national catharsis, every time they manage to overcome a weak and desperate opponent.
Some dreaded seagoing Somalis began taking up piracy in 1991, when the Somali government disintegrated and there was no one to patrol the country’s coasts. About the same time, and not coincidentally, commercial fishing fleets from around the world took advantage of the lack of a Somali coast guard, to steal every fish they could find in Somali waters. That’s “robbery on the high seas,” the definition of piracy. An estimated $300 million worth of Somali sea life is pirated by foreigners every year. Other kinds of pirates nowadays often leave something behind – the piratical poisonous waste dumpers. They seem to be mafia-connected outfits that dump the radioactive waste from European hospitals into Somali waters, along with heavy metals and dangerous chemicals of all kinds. A survey by the Somali news agency Wardheer News shows that 70 percent of Somalis “strongly supported piracy as a form of national defense of the country's territorial waters."
Having seen their coastal waters pirated by foreigners since 1991, Somalis were then forced to endure the land and air piracy of the Ethiopians and the United States, who collaborated in late 2006 to invade the country and oust the only relatively effective government Somalia had had in 15 years. Occupied by Ethiopia with the backing of the American superpower, Somalis were stripped of the last thing they had on land or sea – their national sovereignty. The foreign super-pirates had taken everything.
“70 percent of Somalis ‘strongly supported piracy as a form of national defense of the country's territorial waters.’"
But the Somalis kept fighting back, anyway, driving out the Ethiopians and making the Americans fume with rage. The Somalis refused to roll over and die, or beg. Black U.S. Congressman Donald Payne’s airplane was targeted by mortars when he visited Somalia’s ravaged capital, Mogadishu, over the weekend. Payne opposed the U.S.-Ethiopia invasion of Somalia, but some of the Islamist fighters battling for control of the country may not make distinctions among the foreigners who pass through or over their land – and who can blame them? Barack Obama’s Ambassador to the United Nations, a young Black woman named Susan Rice, is positively rabid when it comes to beating Somalia into submission. She was more gung-ho for the U.S.-Ethiopian invasion than George Bush. Susan Rice is no doubt searching for a military solution to Somali 20090415Piracygfpiracy – which would amount to more piracy by the same foreigners that have driven Somalis to such desperate measures. For Black Agenda Radio, I’m Glen Ford. On the web, go to www.BlackAgendaReport.com.
BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com.
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Is anyone realy surprised that the American and western powers corporate media has all but ignored the plight of Somalia? This is what happens when you stand up for yourself agianst these old and new imperialists. I remember hearing a US congressman call Somalia a "god forsaken country" when the United States invaded and were defeated there in the early nineties. This is revenge on a global scale. The African diaspora can not sit by and let thesneo-colonialist reestablish a foot hold in Africa in ordewr to position themselves to attack Iran and any other nation that opposes them or refuses to bow to their absurd demands. Even if we have a "Black man" in the white house.
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I'm waiting for Fauxbama to visit Africa again. If the Somali piracy situation turns into a mini-war courtesy of the US, along with this administration's continuation of an imperialist agenda via AFRICOM, will Africa's favorite son be greeted with cheers or with shoes thrown at him? If the people have any sense, they'll choose the latter greeting.
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I came by this site completely by accident, and I had to take the opportunity to tell you how idiotic you sound. African oil and resources? Do you even try to make sense or do you just babble on and hope no one notices you haven't even bothered to pass the standard for common sense. Don't you think if the US had any interest in "African oil and resources" that they would have done something about it long ago? You give black people a bad name with your delusional ranting. I can't believe you even think you speak for an enitre race. "African American political thought and action" Please. Try a lot more THOUGHT and a lot less ACTION.
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I wonder who is getting the ransom money ? The weapons they are using are worn and rusted. They look underfed and ragged. Apparently, their not getting it. The ships should be armed with trained security personal. It's a lot cheaper then paying out millions of dollars to these thieves, and would deter future pirates.
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The reason there are pirates because the Somalia goverment is weak and they have no enough power even to defence themselve against those pirates. Stop selling gun and military equipments, yes it includes USA, Russia, Ukraine and China. This will stop the pirate problem.
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