[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Discussing Sudan #1
SOUThern MILITIA ARMED and TRAINED BY ISRAELl, FINANCED BY u.s. republican regime and supported politically by the congressional black caucus, trans-africa, and most black american reactionary racialists. Discussing Sudan #1 by Lil Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] In an article posted simultaneously on [EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aduku Addea intimated the necessity for scientific economic and political analysis of the wars in Sudan. Aduku's article is presented in the body of this Essay, and his -- along with Connie White's, Roy Walker's and Gail Daggs' data and analysis are embedded throughout the Essay. The hypocritical sentimentalism of British, American, and Israeli politicians and so-called NGOs is dismissed. It is interesting that the ideologists and politicians that denounce impoverished Black governments in neocolonial Africa for demanding foreign aid, and African-America in America as dependent on 'big government', and in each case chide them to do for self, are the very ones who are dismissing inferior Sudan and the African Union's effort to solve the Sudan crisis. The myth is that Africans are incapable of doing for self, thus these African and African-American ideologists and politicians in their function as Fifth Columnists function for imperialism by calling on the White man (Western imperialism) to invade and save Africans from Africans! Whining and begging, these ideologists and politicians are calling on the White man to solve the Sudanese crisis by imposing UN sanctions and/or British-American invasions-occupation. Thus, instead of allowing Africans to fess up to their history of internal tribal wars being played out in the present, these ideological agents of Anglo-American imperialism are blaming the Arabs for the present problems in Sudan. Mealy mouthing demagogic rhetoric about Arab colonialism in Sudan, the Africans and American African-Americans calling for British re-colonization conveniently forget that it was the British imperialists colonialism that created modern Sudan and its problems. Rejecting the ability of Sudanese, and or the African Union to do for self -- i.e. solve their own problem -- and instead calling for U.S./U.N. economic sanctions followed by Anglo-American invasion and occupation, these ideologists of re-colonization by Anglo-American imperialism even regurgitate the U.S-British rhetoric of calling European and American occupation forces peace keepers although it was/is U.S. and Israeli arming, training and funding the Christian militias and local tribal bands to initiate and continue in wars against the Sudanese government. These are the issues we will be discussing in this Essay. It is ironic at the outset, that though the African Sudanese are Muslims, they are Black descendents of Nubians and indigenous to the geography. The outsiders engendering the perpetual wars in Sudan, the European Israelis and the Americans the politicians and media has Americans including African Americans believing that the Sudanese of northern Sudan are Arabs -- invaders -- on one hand, and that the Christian militias in the south are indigenous Africans targets of 'genocide' on the other. In actuality, the proxy relationship of the Israeli government and military to the Christian militias in Sudan is the same as the Israeli government and military had with the Christian militia in Lebanon, the Phalange. The geopolitical function of the Phalange Christian militia as an agency of murder and destruction in Lebanon -- in alliance with if not quisling of Israel, and therefore U.S. imperialism: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees and other poor people were killed in the slaughter by the Phalange militia, which was aligned with Israel during its 1982 invasion of Lebanon. * The militiamen were let in by the surrounding Israeli forces, who did not intervene as the killing continued. The actual number slaughtered is unknown but amounted to at least several hundred. http://www.metimes.com/issue99-39/reg/lebanon_marks_1982.htm * The Phalange attracted Christian youths from the mountains northeast of Beirut as well Christian students in Beirut. The politics of the Phalange party was pro-Western, and they opposed any pan-Arabism. * 1982: The Phalangists cooperates with Israel, in planning an attack on Lebanon. June 6: Israel invades Lebanon from its southern border, and its forces start advancing north, reaching Beirut in short time. September: The Phalangists have become the strongest party in Lebanon, thanks to the aid of Israel. September 13: Bashir Gemayel is killed few days before he is to be sworn in as president of Lebanon. September 16: As a way of retaliating the killing of
Re:[Marxism-Thaxis] Fw: Discussing Sudan #1
It is always worthwhile to look beneath the surface and investigate the facts, but I don't trust Lil Joe's rhetoric. There's something sectarian and dishonest about this. Do you have any better sources that would help people unravel the situation? At 06:34 PM 8/1/2004 -0400, Jim Farmelant wrote: SOUThern MILITIA ARMED and TRAINED BY ISRAELl, FINANCED BY u.s. republican regime and supported politically by the congressional black caucus, trans-africa, and most black american reactionary racialists. Discussing Sudan #1 by Lil Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
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On Sun, 01 Aug 2004 18:51:44 -0400 Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is always worthwhile to look beneath the surface and investigate the facts, but I don't trust Lil Joe's rhetoric. There's something sectarian and dishonest about this. Do you have any better sources that would help people unravel the situation? Well Lil Joe had originally sent that piece directly to this list but for various reasons it bounced to me as moderator so I then forwarded it to the list. (BTW I found this political biography of Lil Joe at http://www.nathanielturner.com/liljoebio.htm. Well over at Uncle Lou's Marxmail list, there has been some discussion of Sudan, starting with the following piece that was posted by Uncle Lou, himself. NY Press, July 28-Aug 3, 2004 ONE HELLHOLE UNDER GOD Why the Republican Party suddenly cares about Sudanor at least pretends to. By Christopher Lord Of all the unlikely places for America to be getting involved in another war, western Sudan has particularly little going for it. Unless you count a few million potential candidates for the Christian missionary business, there's little to interest outside entrepreneurs. What the country has in extraordinary abundance is problems. And thanks to a surprising chain of events, it looks as though some of these problems now belong to the United States, too. America's reasons for getting involved are complicated, and there are so many highly charged factorsslavery, religious persecution, fundamentalism (both Christian and Muslim), dictatorship, murder, ethnic strife, rape and faminethat it's difficult to see through the tangle of complications. This has led to a drastically simplified view of what is actually happening. The first oversimplification, dating back to Bill Clinton's presidency, is that Sudan means slavery. Though not the only serious human rights offender in the world, Sudannot Brazil, not Egyptcaught the attention of human-trafficking activists. They, in turn, passed the fever on to congregations in African-American churches. From the churches, the issue spread into wider black political circles. My ancestors were slaves. African-Americans can relate to slavery more intimately, politically, socially and spiritually, than they can anything else, said talk-radio host Joe Madison in 2001. It is this connection that first made Sudan an American political issue. During the Clinton years, the political path led to the Democratic Congressional Black Caucus, Rev. Al Sharpton and what you could loosely call a liberal idea. But the antislavery idea was not quite enough to reach mainstream white churchgoers, key members of the Bush II voter base. Hence, oversimplification number two: The war in Sudan was essentially about the persecution of Christians by Muslims. This de-blacked message made white evangelicals and Republican politicians comfortable, so on March 22, 2001, Republican Dick Armey, at that time House Majority Leader and ally of the evangelicals, said of Sudan: It is the only place in the world in which religious genocide is taking place. People are being tortured, mutilated and killed solely because of their Christian faith. The religion-driven interest in Africa led directly to the bizarre spectacle in Kampala last year, when mystified Ugandans listened to George W. tell them that God sent him there. In fact, he wasn't talking to them at all, but to Christian voters back home. Church groups, in this case white church groups, had also begun organizing around the issue of an abstinence-based AIDS policy in Africa. Without this link to his fundamentalist base, Bush would be unlikely to ever mention the continent. But like slavery, the persecution of Christians is a side issue in Sudan, where some estimates put Christians as outnumbered two- or three-to-one by those with traditional beliefs in spirits and magic, and people now counted as Christians are recent converts, the targets of European and American missionary campaigns (and in many cases still believers in traditional spirituality). Even by evangelical standards, there are some weird versions of Christianity on offer. The notoriously brutal Lord's Resistance Army, for instance, a Ugandan group also operating in southern Sudan, claims to want a society based on the Ten Commandmentsand abducts children to be soldiers. The Muslim/anti-Muslim explanation falls apart further when you consider that there are Christians in the south, and Muslims in the north. Many American activists are attracted to the fact that the Sudan People's Liberation Movement are Christians. While this group is the main opponent of the government in the south of the country, in Darfur the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) is avowedly Muslim, and the other main opposition group, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) has a message of equality of religions under the law. Fact is, the issue of self-determination for
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Said web site is very depressing. Aside from the personal biography, the site seems to be a mixture of Afrocentrism and extreme left sectarianism. Some of it is literate, and some of it is stupid. The article by tow other folks labeling Michael Moore as a white nationalist is enough to condemn the whole web site. If I want to be subjected to this stupid shit, I might as well sit back and listen to Pacifica radio. At 09:01 PM 8/1/2004 -0400, Jim Farmelant wrote: Well Lil Joe had originally sent that piece directly to this list but for various reasons it bounced to me as moderator so I then forwarded it to the list. (BTW I found this political biography of Lil Joe at http://www.nathanielturner.com/liljoebio.htm. Well over at Uncle Lou's Marxmail list, there has been some discussion of Sudan, starting with the following piece that was posted by Uncle Lou, himself. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
