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El imperio y los robots - Fidel Castro

A short while ago I dealt with the United States’ plans to impose the absolute superiority of its air force as an instrument of domination on the rest of the world. I mentioned the project that by 2020 they would have more than a thousand latest generation bombers and F-22 and F-35 fighter planes in their fleet of 2500 military aircraft. In twenty more years, every single one of their war planes will be robot-operated. (more…)

One is hard pressed to find media accounts of what the Congolese people want or how they believe that the United States could best play a constructive role in ending the suffering in the Congo. Considering that the United States has played a significant historical role in the stifling of the democratic aspirations of the Congolese people, and the backing of the 1996 and 1998 invasions of the Congo by its allies, Rwanda and Uganda, which unleashed what the United Nations say is the deadliest conflict in the World since World War Two, it is important to hear directly from the Congolese people regarding US engagement in the Congo.

Below is a letter from elected officials in the South Kivu province (one of the two most affected provinces by the wars of aggression against the Congolese people) that captures the essence of what many Congolese have argued since the first invasion in 1996. The world community cannot say that there are no answers or that the problem is too complex to comprehensively address. The Congolese people have the answers and they have articulated them to the global community and world leaders. The question is, will Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama, and the world community listen and respond accordingly? Early indications are that they are not inclined to listen to the people as the US is deploying more military advisers to the Congo through its continent-wide discredited AFRICOM program as they did in February of this year. (more…)

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The film Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death tells the story of thousands of prisoners who surrendered to the U.S. military’s Afghan allies after the siege of Kunduz. According to eyewitnesses, some three thousand of the prisoners were forced into sealed containers and loaded onto trucks for transport to Sheberghan prison. Eyewitnesses say when the prisoners began shouting for air, U.S.-allied Afghan soldiers fired directly into the truck, killing many of them. Witnesses say US Special Forces re-directed the containers carrying the living and dead into the desert and stood by as survivors of the ordeal were shot and buried. up to three thousand bodies were buried in a mass grave.

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