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By WashingtonsBlog

The situation in Mali is simply a convenient, after-the-fact rationale for a long-planned expansion of the U.S. military footprint in Africa.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33601.htm



The Bombing of Mali Highlights all the Lessons of Western Intervention

By Glenn Greenwald

The west African nation becomes the eighth country in the last four years alone where Muslims are killed by the west.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33611.htm



Mali and the Scramble for Africa: A New Wave of Barbarism

By Ben Schreiner

The notion that the West s renewed interest in Africa is derived from an altruistic desire to help African states combat terrorism and establish democracy is rather absurd.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33622.htm



The War on Libya, Blowback in Mali

By Owen Jones

France used tactics of divide-and-rule in Mali, leading to entrenched bitterness between the nomadic Tuareg people, the base of the current revolt, and other communities in Mali.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33619.htm



Preplanned Mali invasion reveals France s neo-colonialistic agenda

By Finian Cunningham

The precise nature of this ''Islamist threat'' from Mali is never spelled out or evidenced...We are expected to accept the word of Paris, London and Washington, the rogue states that have and are conducting illegal wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33633.htm



By Design: French Mali Invasion Spills into Algeria

By Tony Cartalucci

These very same terrorist forces continue to receive funding, arms, covert military support, and diplomatic recognition in Syria, by NATO, and specifically the US and France.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33636.htm



2013 and the new Scramble for Africa

By Chris Marsden

The governments and corporations based in Washington, Paris, London and Beijing rely upon the myriad corrupt local regimes and movements to man their predatory wars and to police the brutal exploitation of the workers and poor peasants.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33637.htm



Stay Out of Mali

By Dan Simpson

French aircraft bombing Malian towns and French troops defending the capital of an African country carries with it the strong, pungent odor of neocolonialism, whatever ''terrorist'' label the French may try to put on the Malian rebels.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33648.htm



Burn, Burn: Africa s Afghanistan

By Pepe Escobar

Forget about spotting any Americans; these are, what else, contractors who do not wear military uniforms.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33656.htm



Algeria and Mali: An Obscene Remake of Earlier Western Interventions

By Robert Fisk

We are outraged not by the massacre of the innocents, but because the hostages killed were largely white, blue-eyed chaps rather than darker, brown-eyed chaps.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33650.htm



Algerian government says terrorists came from Libya

The Algerian government has said that the Islamist guerrillas responsible for capturing and killing a number of hostages came from Libya. Citing European and American security sources, France s Le Figaro newspaper has reported that the attack had been planned well before the French military intervention in Mali.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201301180403.html



France sends troops to secure Niger uranium mines

By Bill Van Auken

Barely two weeks after invading Mali with over 2,000 troops of the Foreign Legion, France has dispatched special forces troops to neighboring Niger to secure uranium mines run by the French state-owned nuclear power company Areva.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33717.htm


From Information Clearing House

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No Military Solution Can Solve Crisis in Mali, says Emira Woods
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/01/16

Mali: Fragile Democracy and Clumsy US Policy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/18-10

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Welcome Americans to West Africa s Mysteries
http://lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis323.html

In Mali, The Interventionist Establishment Already Is Lying About 'Unintended Consequences'
http://lewrockwell.com/scheuer/scheuer19.1.html



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