The coincidences are overwhelming . . .
Every time I wonder to myself whether the Empire could possibly be more evil I wince and concede to myself ‘yes, clearly they can’.
The use of GM agriculture to lay siege to non-compliant nations, and the near-ubiquitous ‘electoral regularities’ to deligitimise enemies are so nakedly apparent now.
Whitney Webb’s article is a perfect case study.
Great article @Kieran_Telo - ties a load of threads together. I’ve been watching some of the funeral footage in TZ - hundreds of thousands of regular people coming to pay their final respects. I think that there is no doubt that Magufuli was popular.
I watched the start of his presidency with a great deal of hope. He seemed to be channeling a lot of the people-first philosophy of TZ’s first president, Nyerere, who also had the guts to throw out the IMF and World Bank from the country.
In the end I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Magufuli was killed. A cursory glance at the history of the region will sure show this is a tried and tested tool of Western “diplomacy” there. The covid diagnosis remains only a rumour - no official confirmation has been forthcoming.
The scramble for resources in TZ is set to get ugly by the look of it. I was in Ghana for a couple of years, coincidentally as they started developing the offshore oil production (met the one and only Haliburton employee I’ve ever met out there… One was enough). I wouldn’t wish that mess on any country…
It’ll be interesting to see what Samia Hassan does now…
I’ll have to read that article again a few times. Thanks for posting it
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Wow, this is superb. I think this new disease- coincidence, is a political killer. Did it start with Chavez?
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It will definitely benefit from rereading as @PontiusPrimate says: lots to unpack.
I wouldn’t want to expose my ignorance but there is long long form in recent history e.g. Thomas Sankara, Sukarno, Trujillo (sp? ), Allende. I couldn’t quote how many Roman Emperors were bumped off by competition but I’m fairly confident that relatively few joined the choir invisible in their dotage.