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Soros-funded HRW Jumps on Kony2012 AFRICOM Crusade
Another video of "Africans" begging the US to invade & occupy Africa
Human Rights Watch (HRW) during the height of the Kony 2012 hysteria, dusted off one of its old propaganda videos titled, "Joseph Kony - LRA" uploaded on November of 2010, to try and capitalize on the attention Invisible Children raised earlier this month. However, the Kony 2012 campaign imploded just as fast, and perhaps even more spectacularly than it rose - with vast numbers of people pointing out the untenable narrative it attempted to peddle and the fact that it served as nothing more than a pretext for an expanded US AFRICOM presence in Africa.
Both Human Rights Watch and Invisible Children are funded by Wall Street speculator George Soros through his Open Society Institute and the myriad of corporate-funded foundations it funnels money through. At least one foundation behind Invisible Children (.pdf, page 22), "Enough," who is also involved in the George Clooney promotion of a US AFRICOM intervention in oil-rich Sudan, actually counts Human Rights Watch a partner.
Source and full piece with active links: Tony Cartalucci, Land Destroyer Report, 20 Mar 2012
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Re: Soros-funded HRW Jumps on Kony2012 AFRICOM Crusade
The post by Tony Cartalucci includes a ten-minute video titled “Colonialism in Ten Minutes: The Scramble for Africa.”
I have some complaints about this video. It postures as anti-imperialist, yet it supports imperialism in three ways.
[1] It vilifies Joseph Korny, while ignoring contemporaneous atrocities committed by Western imperialists and their puppet dictators.
[2] It refers to the “notorious Idi Amin.”
England and Israel installed Amin as ruler of Uganda in 1971, but then Amin kicked out the British and the Israelis, kicked out the IMF bankers, became friends with Qaddafi and the USSR, and became chairman of the Organization of African Unity, a pan-Africanist group to promote freedom and solidarity of the African states.
Because Amin would not bow to Jews nor Western imperialists, the video singles him out for special discussion and vilification.
[3] It singles out German colonials.
England, France, Holland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Belgium, and Germany had colonies in Africa. All colonial powers committed atrocities, but statistically the German colonists were the least harsh on the natives. Yet only German colonists are branded with the label “genocide,” as in the “Herero and Namaqua Genocide.”
This supports the narrative that Western imperialism is “good” because it won both world wars, and Germany lost.
For example, historians guess that the Herero and Namaqua uprising led to the deaths of from 24,000 to 100,000 Herero, plus 10,000 Nama. This was not a genocide, but an uprising against the colonials, which the natives lost.
Meanwhile in Congo, the Belgian colonists killed MILLIONS, and took millions more as slaves. No one denies this. Writers like Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, and Arthur Conan Doyle said that when it came to brutally exploiting the natives, nothing compared to Congo.
The video shows many Africans mutilated with their hands chopped off. All those photos are from Congo. Belgians did this. The Germans never did anything like this.
Yet only Germans get the label “genocide.”
So the bullshit continues, even amid “anti-imperialist” videos.
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Cartalucci himself does not like the word “invade” or “attack.” He prefers the corporate media euphemism “intervene.” So if I steal all your money at gunpoint, then I have not “robbed” you. I have merely intervened. I wish Cartalucci would not use media buzzwords.
However I fully agree with him that Human Rights Watch is a corporate-backed fraud.