Big 3 Colonialists Force their Will SITLL thru UNSC

Sahel to the Caribbean Sea

Third World Speaks

HAITI

“Migration will continue as long as the planet has both wealthy areas whilst most of the world’s population lives in poverty—even extreme poverty—without any prospects of a better life” said Prime Minister of Haiti Ariel Henry September 25, 2021, addressing the United Nations General Assembly’s 76th session Debate. 

“[H]uman beings (fathers and mothers), who have children are always going to flee poverty and conflict.”

Prime Minister HENRY

Neurosurgeon Ariel Henry studied with the faculty of medicine at the University of Montpellier (France) and later international health at U.S. universities in Massachusetts and California. In the period 2015 through 2022 Henry held positions in Haiti’s administrative cabinet

(Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, Minister of Interior and Territorial Communities) and at various times Acting President or Acting Prime Minister (the last July 20, 2021) (General reference)

SAINT VINCENT and the GRENADINES

Our United Nations “reform agenda—including UN Security Council reform—demand renewed impetus. … [I]t is evident to all reasonable persons that the stranglehold of ‘the [UNSC] Permanent Five’ [People’s Republic of China, French Republic, Russian Federation, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and United States of America 1945-present] … ought to be appropriately loosened or broken in these times so different from in 1945….” said Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph E. Gonsalves, September 25, 2021, addressing the 76th UN General Assembly Debate.

“[O]ur forebears crafted this multilateral institution called the United Nations to provide hope and stability to all of humanity. This labor is incomplete. The pervasive inequalities that defined the pre-COVID political and socioeconomic order must not become tomorrow’s nightmarish reality.… [W]e must reorganize ourselves—locally, regionally, nationally and globally—in a quest to provide in novel ways and with fresh initiatives peace, security, and development to all countries and peoples.… We must rise collectively to address sensibly the requisite fresh imperatives in these our most challenging times.”

Prime Minister GONSALVES

Ralph E. Gonsalves studied economics and government through the doctoral level in Jamaica (University of the West Indies) and England (University of Manchester) and has held several government and regional positions before rising to the premiership in 2001: Member of Parliament, Chairman of the Caribbean Community, and Minister of Finance. (General Reference)

Republic of MALI

In March of 2012, there was a coup d’état in the country followed by the descent of UN “peacekeepers.” However “despite international support and the presence of a UN peace operation (MINUSMA) and other international forces…, the situation has hardly improved” said Republic of Mali Prime Minister (interim) Choguel Kokalla Maïga September 25, 2021, in addressing the 76th UN General Assembly Debate.

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) was established April 25, 2013, under UN Security Council resolution 2100 with the apparent purpose of occupation: the deployment of an in-country presence, in the words of the agency’s UN website to “support” Mali’s “political processes” and to conduct “a number of security-related tasks.”

Prime Minister Maïga emphasized that the situation had “continued to deteriorate steadily, to the point that entire sections of the national territory are beyond the control of the Government” and Malians were living “under the grip of terrorist and armed groups, and with their most basic rights denied.” Because of the “weakened presence of the State,” citizens’ “access to basic services remains problematical.”

States of the Sahel (Mali and the region) are being “severely affected by the piling up of crises.”

Prime Minister MAIGA

Choguel Kokalla Maiga (real name is Chouaïbou Issoufi Souleymane) Doctor of Telecommunications Engineering (Belarusian State University (in the former USSR) and the Moscow Institute of Telecommunications)

Work: Civil Service exam and soldier in Malian Army; various communications positions in and out of government before premiership: Société des Télécommunications du Mali (SOTELMA) including project manager; Directorate of Studies and Planning; National Coordinator of the National Program for the Implementation of the Telecommunications Master Plan and the Development of the 20-Year Radio and Television Broadcasting Master Plan of the Republic of Mali; Director of the National School of Posts and Telecommunications; Director General of the Malian Telecommunications/ICT and Posts Regulatory Authority (AMRTP). Ministerial positions: Minister of Industry and Trade 2002–2007; Minister of the Digital Economy, Information and Communication 2015–2016; Prime Minister 2021 -

The “Third World”?

Third World countries by and large “were at one time colonial possessions of European powers” whose administrators threw up borders (e.g., in Africa and West/Central Asia), forcefully assembling territorial entities, carelessly disregarding local populations or national aspirations. Thus, when the colonies (dependencies) “gained independence,” they were awash in varieties of ethnic and religious groups all competing for their individual interests—a situation made for perpetual conflict; and impossible movement forward social, essential economic, educational, institutional development.

Third World countries were manipulated during the Cold War, plundered, ravage and callously abused (their native inhabitants held in contempt by colonialists and neocolonialist) before and after the Cold War. These countries (now euphemistically labeled “the Global South”) and their inhabitants are the world’s poorest, most chaotic, and institutionally weakest.

Colonial Imprint

Republic of Haiti part of the Caribbean Sea Island of Hispaniola

• Colonized by the Spanish and the French
• Occupied by the United States of America
• Independence (despite historic interim resolutions) QUESTIONABLE
• Official language French
• Dominant religion Christianity

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Caribbean Island

• Colonized by the French and the British
• Independence from Britain 1979
• Official language English
• Dominant religion Christianity

Republic of Mali (main natural resource gold; reputed home “to the richest man who ever lived”)

• Colonized by the French
• Independence from France 1960
• National Language French
• Dominant religion Islam

Mali is situated in Africa’s Sahel (Sahara Desert-north to Sudanian savanna-south) comprising (west to east) parts of northern Senegal, southern Mauritania, central Mali, northern Burkina Faso, the extreme south of Algeria, Niger, the extreme north of Nigeria, Cameroon and Central African Republic, central Chad, central and southern Sudan, the extreme north of South Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia

World’s Least-Developed Countries 2019 (UN Data)

Niger

Central African Republic

Chad

Burundi (tie w/ South Sudan)

South Sudan (tie w/ Burundi)

Mali

Burkina Faso (tie w/ Sierra Leone)

Sierra Leone (tie w/ Burkina Faso)

Mozambique

Eritrea

Among Least-Developed Countries 2023

Afghanistan

Burkina Faso

Haiti

Mali

Somalia

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/least-developed-countries

This Month’s News out of Mali

Malian officials shout the end of their patience with Big 3 UNSC Colonialists’ Occupation and Disruption

This past week Mali’s Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop addressed the UN Security Council demanding that the MINUSMA (Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali) “stabilization mission” be withdrawn from their country.

The occupying entity “seems to have become a part of the problem in fueling inter-community tensions,” the Malian diplomat said. The UN forces are “begetting mistrust among the Malian population,” and creating a “crisis of confidence” within the government.

Last year and early this year Malian authorities were reportedly forced to expel MINUSMA’s spokesman Olivier Salgado for deploying military units from Mali’s neighbors; and MINUSMA’s human rights office director Guillaume Ngefa Atonodok Andali for in-country “destabilizing and subversive actions.”




Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Henry
UNGA https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1101252
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Gonsalves
UNGA https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1101262
https://primature.ml/team/dr-choguel-kokalla-maiga/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choguel_Kokalla_Ma%C3%AFga
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1101322
https://minusma.unmissions.org/en

RT news “Mali demands that UN troops leave: Bamako’s top diplomat said the international peacekeeping mission has become ‘part of the problem” June 17, 2023 https://www.rt.com/africa/578183-mali-un-peacekeepers-leave/

Related

June 18, 2023 “Mali votes on new constitution.” On Sunday Malians “cast ballots on a new draft constitution that the West African country’s military leadership says is a step towards elections for a return to civilian rule in 2024” RT news https://www.rt.com/news/578254-africa-mali-constitution-election/

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Through the Prism of Commanders in chief, Congress, the Mercenary class—LIFE IS CHEAP

Potomac River to the Gulf of Aden
Black Sea to the Caribbean 

 

News missing from USA Main Stream 

 

CASHING IN ‘…Cause enough is NEVER Enough

As hundreds of thousands of US citizens languish in homelessness (their numbers rising at least over the past forty years) and US foreign aggression forces millions of people from their homelands—the US mercenary class are transforming themselves into multimillionaires. CASE:

“Retired” US military “officers” are permitted to receive “six- or seven-figure salaries overseas while earning lucrative taxpayer-funded pensions back home.” One example is “a four-star general with over 40-years of service in the military… drawing down an annual retirement salary exceeding “$230,000” “plus health care benefits.”

Retired Marine General James L. Jones, former Obama administration national security adviser reportedly signed on with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (working with MbS) in 2017. In service to the KSA, Jones reportedly “enlisted the help of ‘about a dozen ​​former senior Pentagon officials including former Clinton administration defense secretary, William S. Cohen.’….” Fifteen former US military “generals and admirals have worked directly for Saudi Crown Prince and Saudi Defense Minister Mohamed Bin Salman.”

October 18, 2022, in Responsible Statecraft, an online magazine of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Connor Echols reported on recent investigations showing that “Retired US military brass are cashing in with work for Gulf autocrats: … Some officials even arranging plans to advise foreign governments WHILE ON ACTIVE DUTY ….” https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/18/retired-us-military-brass-are-cashing-in-with-work-for-gulf-autocrats-reports/

TRAFFICKING IN DEATH

Part of the larger push to exploit the (US-aided crisis) in Ukraine and “jack up Pentagon spending for things that have nothing to do with defending Ukraine, or any likely future scenario”— United States “lawmakers and defense contractors” are exploiting Ukraine to fill “their weapons wish list.”

Militarist Mercenary Buddies in locked step and linked arms with revolving door lobbyists, financiers of political campaigns, and seated government officials will ensure sales, indiscriminately, sales of any kind of death-dealing implement or technology to any entity. 

 

The US Army expresses a desire “to double the production of HIMARS and triple production of certain types of artillery ‘in response to the war in Ukraine’ …” Lockheed Martin then announces “plans to expand production (by more than 50 percent) of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System: HIMARS.”

Connor Echols writing October 18, 2022, at Responsible Statecraft: “Defense contractors eye long-term profits from Ukraine war: A new proposal would slash protections against price gouging and ratchet up weapons production well past Kyiv’s needs.” https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/19/defense-contractors-eye-long-term-profits-from-ukraine-war/

COURTING DESPOTS 

Despite the unspeakable KSA savagery in Yemen resulting in relentless humanitarian crises and “nearly 400,000” deaths “through direct and indirect means”—including thousands of civilian deaths caused by “Saudi airstrikes carried out with U.S.-supplied equipment and logistical support,” the administration in Washington (after over a brief tiff over oil) has returned to the United States’ usual business of selling war weaponry to the despotic kingdoms of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates. 

 

In addition to the US Saudi sales of death are US war-weaponry sales to “repressive regimes in Egypt, Nigeria, and the Philippines,” all with reckless disregard for the interminable consequences in human suffering. 

October 20, 2022, William Hartung writes “Bombs & guns: Biden’s ‘business as usual’ approach to US arms sales: A new report shows the White House is still ‘checking its values at the door’ when it comes to arms transfers abroad.” https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/20/bombs-guns-drones-bidens-business-as-usual-approach-to-us-weapons-sales/

RAZING HAITI

Over a long period (in recent times to the Cold War era also part of a centuries’ old pattern of U.S. tyranny), US officials and other foreign meddlers and aggressors have interfered in the affairs of Haiti, and always made matters worse.

The current crisis in Haiti “is itself the product” of US government interference, which backed a businessman turned politician (assassinated in 2021), President Jovenel Moïse; and now is attempting to keep in power an acting prime minister, Ariel Henry, who lacks “democratic legitimacy” and is being strenuously opposed by a “broad coalition of Haitians.”

Contemptuous of the Haitian citizenry, the United Nations—supported by the Biden administration—is being pushed to deploy a “peacekeeping” force (an element of aggression) in Haiti. It is a well-documented fact that UN peacekeeping personnel stationed in Haiti have committed “extensive human rights abuses” not the least of which being the “sexual assault of young women and girls, and the spread of cholera.” Abusers of human rights cannot be trusted to protect or preserve human rights. 

October 21, 2022, Daniel Larison writes “The last thing Haiti needs is a foreign military intervention: As conditions spiral out of control there, the UN wants to send ‘peacekeepers.’ But as we’ve seen in the past, this could be a disaster.” https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/21/haitians-dont-want-us-troops-to-solve-their-problems/

Responsible Statecraft is the online magazine of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft that publishes outside contributors and reporters as well as staff analysis, opinion, and news “to promote a positive, non-partisan vision of U.S. foreign policy and critique the ideologies and interests that have mired the United States in counterproductive and endless wars and made the world less secure.” Its website https://responsiblestatecraft.org/about/

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Beyond Beltway Chatter: Caribbean to the Adriatic

World News and Context

MONDAY Morning Headlines

• “Nobody takes Joseph Robinette Biden Jr seriously”
• “Austria won’t train Ukrainian troops”
• “India to begin producing upgraded version of iconic Russian weapon – official”
• US-led NATO foolishly conducts “nuclear exercises”
• “German health minister warns of hospital closures”
• British Members of Parliament demand resignation of “Liz Truss”

USA Aggression and Southern European Slavs SUNDAY News and Background:

Serbian interior minister says EU is blackmailing Serbia. Brussels is opposing Serbia’s strengthening relations with Russia

Brief History

Yugoslavia after World War I (under the name the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) became the first union of the South Slavic people as a sovereign state.

In 1922 the country gained international recognition at the Conference of Ambassadors in Paris; and seven years later changed its official name to Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

INVASION: In 1941, Major Axis powers German Reich, Kingdom of Italy, Empire of Japan invaded Yugoslavia

1945 Yugoslavia was renamed the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia; and in 1963, the country took another official name: the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).

INVASION 1990s: the William Jefferson Blithe III (Bill Clinton) era commanded - NATO bombing of the capital and environs of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (“Yugoslav Wars” / “Kosovo War of 1998 and 1999”). Kosovo shares borders with Serbia (north and east), North Macedonia (southeast), Albania (southwest), and Montenegro (west).

The USA-NATO “bombing campaign marked the first time that the US-led alliance used military force without the approval of the UN Security Council. The action “is still regarded by much of the world as illegitimate.” After the 1990s carnage, NATO troops moved into Kosovo, where they remain to this day.

Today’s REVELATIONS emerging in a televised address October 15, 2022:

“Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reveals … that American and British leaders including President Bill Clinton, in 1999, urged Hungary to invade Serbia by land.

Vucic said that the US and UK wanted Hungarian forces to push south into Serbia in order to split the Yugoslav military between the front in Kosovo and a new front with Hungary. [However], “with the help of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, (Hungary) pushed back against the ‘pressure from the White House.’ (Emphasis added)

History continues. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, Serbia formed a union with Montenegro; and changes occurred among neighbor in the years following.

• 2006: Serbia and Montenegro dissolved their union and Serbia resumed its independence (as in 1918) as a sovereign state [Serbia formally adheres to the policy of military neutrality; and domestically, “provides universal health care and free primary and secondary education for its citizens].

• 2008: representatives of the Assembly of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence; however, Serbia continues to claim Kosovo as part of its own sovereign territory.

Since 2014: Serbia has been negotiating acceptance by the European Union and entry into the bloc by 2025

Western Collective’s relentless Aggression, Pressure, Manipulation - News update

Over the weekend Serbia’s Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin told the press that the European Union is pressuring Serbia to join their eastward aggression in exchange for entry into the European bloc.

“The question is not whether we want to join the EU,” Minister Vulin said, “but, rather, whether the EU wants Serbia.”

“Judging by the insane blackmail they are exposing us to …, they don’t want us;” and “the sooner we accept that they don’t want us and we don’t belong there, the better off we will be.”

“Belgrade should instead turn its attention to “free countries that accept us without blackmail.”

Serbia is a traditional ally of Russia that has come under intense pressure the join the Collective West’s relentless aggression (sanctions) against Moscow.

News sources
World News October 16, 2022 “EU blackmailing Serbia – interior minister
Aleksandar Vulin said that Serbs should accept that Brussels doesn’t want them, and strengthen relations with Russia instead”
World News October 8, 2022 “US asked Hungary to invade Serbia – Vucic: Viktor Orban refused Bill Clinton’s 1999 request to wage war on his neighbor”
Reference source Wikipedia, et.al

News and Background from the Home of Nuremberg

German politician serving as Minister-President of Bavaria Markus Thomas Theodor Söder is reported saying that the “Energy crisis will breed extremism” “Germany’s political parties must show a united front, or risk the ‘destabilization of democracy.’”

Apropos the Moment: Bavaria (Free State of Bavaria in Germany’s southeast) is home to the city of Nuremberg, site of the 1945-1946 Nuremberg trials, an international tribunal sitting in judgment of “German officials involved in war crimes and crimes against humanity.”

October 1946: many prominent German Nazi politicians and military leaders were executed in Nuremberg. The same courtroom in Nuremberg was the venue of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals, organized by the United States as occupying power in the area. Others trials were planned but canceled by the onset of the Cold War.

In the present, Bavaria’s Markus Söder is reportedly demanding a “protective shield” over Germany. Instead of giving them to Ukraine, “Berlin should use IRIS-T systems”—‘InfraRed Imaging System Tail/Thrust Vector-Controlled’ medium range infrared homing missile available in air-to-air and ground defense surface-to-air variants—“to protect Germany.”

 

BRAND USA: Yugoslavia to the Caribbean 1990s-2022

Republic of Haiti: third largest country in the Caribbean by area, estimated population 11.4 million; dominant language French, dominant religion Christianity, capital city Port-au-Prince

The current US president while a member of the US Senate “was among the most aggressive proponents of U.S. militarism in the former Yugoslavia, while arguing that intervening to reverse a right-wing coup in Haiti was not in the interest of the United States of America,” investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill wrote in 2021.

“From 1993 to 1994, Scahill reports, “Joe Biden’s foreign policy agenda was almost solely focused on agitating for more U.S. military involvement in Bosnia. Meanwhile, the Caribbean island-nation of Haiti was experiencing a brutal campaign of mass killings at the hands of a murderous military regime that had overthrown the democratically elected government of leftist Catholic priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide.”

Scahill noted one of the Honorable Senator’s infamous quips:

“If Haiti, a God-awful thing to say, if Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn’t matter a whole lot in terms of our interest.”

“A Half-Century of Joe Biden’s Stances on War, Militarism, and the CIA” Empire Politician (1994 U.S. Invasion of Haiti): A project by Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept, April 27, 2021, https://theintercept.com/empire-politician/biden-haiti-mass-killings-coup/ 

The 2010 Clintons-Bush-Obama Haiti Affair

At the request of President Barack Obama, the "Clinton Bush Haiti Fund," a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was established on January 16, 2010, for former US presidents George W. Bush and William Jefferson Clinton to lead aid efforts for victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The fund closed shop (formal operations) on December 31, 2012. Subsequent to that, Rastafari TV published an article titled “The Clintons' Blood Money Criminal Enterprise and Rape of Haiti, stealing billions of dollars” https://rastafari.tv/clintons-blood-money-criminal-enterprise-rape-haiti-stealing-billions-dollars/ The authors reported that

“On January 12, 2010, a massive 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, devastating the island and killing over 300,000 people. … The devastation created new opportunities for predators to take full advantage of the situation and use the tragedy to prey upon the victims for personal gain and profit. The country was declared open for business; and while the Haitian people suffered, the Clintons cashed in."

“On January 2015, a group of Haitians surrounded the New York offices of the Clinton Foundation … chanting slogans, accusing Bill and Hillary Clinton of having robbed them of ‘billions of dollars.’"

The Haitian demonstrators kept up the actions in the following months “accusing the Clintons of duplicity, malfeasance, and theft;” and asking 

• “‘Clinton, where’s the money?’”
  

• “‘In whose pockets?’”

“We are telling the world of the crimes for which Bill and Hillary Clinton are responsible in Haiti.’”
 

Twenty-eight years from Biden's 1994 denunciation of the people of Haiti: October 4-17, 2022

“Police fire tear gas at protesters in Haiti amid fuel crisis: Haitian police have fired tear gas at demonstrators, who have taken to the streets in the capital, Port-au-Prince to protest against the government’s handling of crippling fuel shortages and soaring prices.” Press TV news October 4, 2022, https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/10/04/690355/Police-fire-tear-gas-at-protesters-in-Haiti-amid-fuel-crisis

“Haiti asks for foreign troops to end unrest… The Caribbean nation has seen severe fuel and water shortages amid chaotic protests and a new cholera outbreak. The island’s electric grid is notoriously unreliable, leaving many to rely on diesel generators for power.” RT news October 8, 2022, https://www.rt.com/news/564271-haiti-foreign-troops-unrest/

“The United States has drafted a United Nations Security Council resolution that will encourage the “immediate deployment of a multinational rapid action force” to Haiti to address the nation’s worst security and health crisis in decades, according to a copy of the resolution obtained by McClatchy and the Miami Herald.” Miami Herald “Exclusive: U.S. will support sending ‘multinational rapid action force’ to Haiti,” by Michael Wilner, Jacqueline Charles October 14-17, 2022 https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article267336107.html

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