What's up with Sudan?
Never a Dull Day on This Planet
A must read: Is There A Save Darfur Industrial Complex?
"That intervention is going to happen"
[ie, whoever wins the 2004 election, Bush or
Kerry, will eventually lead a coalition of the
willing into Sudan] - architects of phony
war-on-Iraq, otherwise known as the neo-cons who
run our foreign policy. See PNAC statement
"... due to the threat to the national
security and foreign policy of the United States
posed by the pervasive role played by the
Government of Sudan in the petroleum and
petrochemical industries in Sudan" ... I
hereby order ... ~ Dubya, in Executive Order:
Blocking Property of and
Prohibiting Transactions with the Government of
Sudan
Sudan is a country with a per capita GDP of
less that $2500 per year whose people have
already been hurt by US sanctions and boycotts.
The US has starved Sudan with sanctions,
instigated the civil wars in Sudan, armed the
rebels, and then blamed the Sudanese government
for all the deaths (whether by violence or famine
or disease) and called it genocide.
The Anti-Sudan propaganda campaign that is
primarily organized and funded by zionist groups
(especially the JCRC / CJP) is incredibly
offensive. They are demonizing the government and
people of the largest country in Africa. The US
has starved Sudan with sanctions, instigated the
civil wars in Sudan, armed the rebels, and then
blamed the Sudanese government for all the deaths
(whether by violence or famine or disease)
and called it genocide. Meanwhile the US
has sponsored a war in Congo in which millions of
people have died, and no one is talking
about that - there are no Muslims to demonize and
falsely blame in Congo. The US has definitely
committed genocide in Iraq, and is supporting a
genocidal colonial settler regime in Palestine.
The Sudanese government opposes the US war
against Iraq and the US/Israeli oppression of the
Palestinians. A Sudan divestment campaign
is aimed primarily at the Chinese oil company
trying to stop China from obtaining oil from
Sudan. The US already cut China off from Iraqi
oil by invading Iraq.
 Watch or
read the transcript
Mahmood Mamdani on Darfur:
"The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil
War, Insurgency"
Monday, June 4th, 2007
"As President Bush orders news sanctions
to be placed on the Sudanese government, Columbia
Professor Mahmood Mamdani discusses how the media
and the Save Darfur Coalition has been
misrepresenting the situation in Darfur..."
[includes rush transcript]
 Mamood
Mamdani interview in the Boston Globe, March 22, 2009:
"Politics and Humanitarianism" (photo at right)
Review:
Mamdani spach at Harvard, April 2, 2009 ~Joachim, at eaazi.blogspot.com
April 2, 2009, Cambridge, MA -- Columbia Professor Mahmood Mamdani, whose new book
Saviors and Survivors has been just released, discussed his understanding of Darfur's local, national Sudanese, American, and international politics.
Mamdani began to look at the issue of Darfur in 2003 and was struck by the rapid globalization and the fact-indifference of the SaveDarfur movement, which consistently misrepresented the facts in a media blitz. For example, according to WHO the death toll was 50-70,000 while SaveDarfur claimed 400,000. SaveDarfur ignored drought and desertification, which were probably responsible for 70% of the mortality. A legitimate debate would ask how many could have been saved by timely assistance to the Darfuri population.
...
The Darfur Cause is a dangerous form of feel-good politics, which must be challenged because of the damage in does in both the USA and also the Sudan, which respectively require rational foreign policy and political reform more than either country needs a morality drama.
Sudan and Darfur Blog Entry List:
Suggested reading
EXPOSING U.S. AGENTS OF LOW-INTENSITY WARFARE IN AFRICA
The "Policy Wonks" Behind Covert Warfare & Humanitarian Fascism
~ Keith Harmon Snow
Imperialist/zionist
intervention in Sudan; a brief synopsis - by David Rolde
[material for a flyer, protesting a talk on May 19, 2010 at
Harvard, by Gloria White-Hammond & Liz Walker]
Darfur aid dollars funding West Bank settlements
- by Thomas C. Mountain,
Online Journal Contributing Writer, Mar 19, 2010
Women in
Darfur: "We Saw No Evidence of Genocide" - by Afshin
Rattansi,
June 1, 2009
The Importance of
Darfur to the Jewish Community - by Joachim
Martillo
The US role in Darfur, Sudan
- by Sara Flounders
Why Sudan rejects UN troops -
by Sara Flounders
United States Terrorism in the
Sudan - by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Has very good background info about US
intervention in Sudan in the 90s
Hear forum audio at Traprock
Peace: Darfur: an open discussion on
intervention, regime change & the politics of
genocide; this was a good forum on Sudan at
Smith College, July 2006. See this article summarizing the
forum.
Sudan: Save Dafur? - by Keith
Harmon Snow
Assessments of Allegations -
at ESPAC (the European Sudanese Public Affairs
Council)
What Concerned Citizens Should
Know about the Crisis in Darfur - by El-Hajj
Mauri’ Saalakhan of The Peace and Justice
Foundation, A Muslim American anti-war
organization
Target Sudan: What's Really
Behind the Crisis in Dafur? and lots more at
this site
Green-Rainbow Party Statement on
U.S. Imperialism and Sudan, November 2004
Darfur, imperialist intervention
and anti-Arab hysteria - by Eugene Puryear
(for more at this site, search for Sudan
or Darfur)
US imperialists increase efforts
to recolonize Sudan - by Natividad Carrera
(quotes George Bush as saying The pervasive
role played by the government of Sudan in Sudan's
petroleum and petrochemical industries
threatens U.S. national security and foreign
policy interests)
The Politics of Naming: Genocide,
Civil War, Insurgency - by Mahmood
Mamdani
Video: Darfur, Sudan: Seeking The
Truth - with Louis Farrakhan
Myths About the Arab Slave Trade
- by Owen ‘Alik Shahadah
Darfur Truth Report - at
Africanholocaust.net
"Who is behind the campaign and what actions
are they calling for?
Even a cursory look at the supporters of the
campaign shows the prominent role of right-wing
evangelical Christians and major Zionist groups
to “Save Darfur.”
The Executive Committee of SAVE DARFUR:
scroll down the page to see list
UN Peacekeeping Paramilitarism
- by Steve Lendman
An Interview with Sudanese
Compatriot Ismail Kamal - at IndyMedia, May,
2006
Stop the US and
Zionist War Against Sudan - by David Rolde
While World Capitalists Spend
Trillions of Dollars on their Wanton Wars,
Hunger Kills 18,000 Children Each Day" - by
Hassan El-Najjar
From Yugoslavia to Iraq to Sudan
- at Workers World
Darfur Diplomacy: Enter the
Contractors - by Pratap Chatterjee
SUDAN: U.S. Contractors to
Support African Forces - by Nick Simeone
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