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- 0:35None. Jeremy, before we go any
- 0:40further, I just want to give a hat tip to a mutual friend who
- 0:44died a year ago. You were kind enough to put me
- 0:49in touch with Keith Harmon Snow, who came onto my show, I don't
- 0:54know, about a year and a half ago to chat to me about his
- 0:57experience with the Rwandan quote UN quote genocide.
- 1:00And thank you for putting me in touch with him.
- 1:03And I hope that wherever he is now, he is out of that pain of
- 1:09the cancer that eventually took him.
- 1:13Yeah, Keith was a wonderful man and we really miss him.
- 1:17And he was an amazing journalist who really got the truth.
- 1:20You know, he travelled in many different African and Asian
- 1:24countries and he got the true story.
- 1:27You know, he he did the legwork, the groundwork, interviewed many
- 1:31people and he punctured a lot of the myths that are promoted in
- 1:36US and Western media. And he exposed the the Iranian
- 1:40genocide fraud, basically the story that the Tutsi were the
- 1:47only victims and that Paul Kagame with this, you know,
- 1:50heroic figure who, you know, saved the country from the evil
- 1:55Hutu genocidest. I mean, he told the the full
- 1:58story really, was how the Tutsi had invaded, illegally invaded
- 2:03Rwanda. I mean, there weren't, you know,
- 2:05problems stemming from the colonial era have accentuated
- 2:09the vision between the Hutu and Tutsi.
- 2:12And the Tutsi aristocracy, I think, had been in power in the
- 2:15colonial era by the Belgians and mistreated the Hutu and treated
- 2:19them like slaves. And then when the country
- 2:22achieved independence, yeah, the Hutu power revolution, then a
- 2:27lot of the Tutsi were, were put into exile.
- 2:30They, you know, then they, they, I mean, they had certain
- 2:32legitimate grievances, but they invaded the country illegally.
- 2:36And then Kagame was the one what, what Harmon Snow showed
- 2:40was that, and there are others whose work he drew upon for this
- 2:44with that was Kagame. You know, there was a peace
- 2:45sharing agreement that was being worked out in the Russia in the
- 2:4990s to end the civil war that had been triggered by illegal
- 2:54RPF Ron and Patriotic Front of the Tutsi invasion that was
- 2:58backed by the United States. Because what what, what, what
- 3:01Snow showed also with that, the US and, you know, RPF began to
- 3:05function as a USUK proxy and that the French had supported
- 3:09the Hutu regime of juvenile Habra mana.
- 3:12So it was really the great game playing out between France and
- 3:15Great Britain and USUK had sponsored this illegal invasion.
- 3:21And then Kagame, you know, Snow showed that it was Kagame who
- 3:26shot down the aircraft of juvenile Habi Armana to
- 3:30basically hijack these peace talks, which would have set up
- 3:33some kind of power sharing agreement which could resolve
- 3:37this conflict and led to an era of peace.
- 3:39But the Tutsi wanted full control over the RPF, wanted
- 3:42full control over the country. And that was the design of the
- 3:45USUK and a lot of the killing, you know, the the Tutsi and RPF
- 3:51forces committed a lot of the atrocities.
- 3:53I mean, yes, the Hutu Inter Hamway committed atrocities
- 3:57against Tutsi, but it was not just one side of the media
- 4:00presented. There was atrocities on both
- 4:03sides. And actually Kagame RPF may have
- 4:07allowed lot of the atrocities to take place to exploit them for
- 4:12propaganda purposes and that the goal was to take over the
- 4:16country. And then they invaded the Congo.
- 4:19You know, the USUK were intent on using RPF as a as a tool to
- 4:25plunder the Congo and then open it up for Western corporations.
- 4:28And so the Clinton administration and UK major and
- 4:32Blair administration supported the RPF and Kagame invasion of
- 4:38Congo, which caused millions of deaths and some of the worst
- 4:42atrocities imaginable. So that's what, you know, Snow,
- 4:47you know, that was the kind of overall narrative he presented.
- 4:50And he had, you know, first hand interviews and he just kind of
- 4:54challenged the mythology about the Tutsi, the good guy, the
- 4:58Hutu, the bad guy, and showed the underlying geopolitical
- 5:01intrigues. And he exposed the bankruptcy of
- 5:04the Western intellectuals who just promoted pro RPF propaganda
- 5:09and the story of the nature of the conflict.
- 5:12OK, now as it happens, Jeremy, and I'm sure you'll agree with
- 5:16me that the average Western doesn't care about Rwanda.
- 5:22They don't even know where Rwanda is.
- 5:23So for the sake of clarity, would you mind just quickly
- 5:26giving me the official story so that we can compare?
- 5:31OK, well, the official story was that.
- 5:34Yeah, the RPF were presented in very noble light.
- 5:39This is the Rwanda and Patriotic Front because the RPF had been
- 5:44set up, you know, when the Hutu power revolution took root in
- 5:49the late. 50s early 60s when Rwanda gained its independence.
- 5:53The Tutsi had been elevated by the Belgians and treated the
- 5:56Hutu very badly. So then when they gained their
- 5:59independence, it was a Hutu power movement that took power
- 6:03and expelled the Tutsi. Then they organized the Rwandan
- 6:07Patriotic Front in exile in Uganda and Tanzania.
- 6:11And I mean it should be acknowledged that the Tutsi were
- 6:14often mistreated in those countries.
- 6:16They were treated more like second class citizens and they
- 6:19were, you know, they lived pretty marginally and
- 6:24impoverished. I mean, I, I knew some Tutsi
- 6:26refugees myself and they, they had a harsh upbringing.
- 6:31So I, I can understand perhaps the desire to get back to Rwanda
- 6:37and re establish, you know, their lives there.
- 6:39But you know, they did carry on the legal invasion from Uganda
- 6:45to invade, which was supported by the US government, which
- 6:50poured in a huge amount of military support into Uganda,
- 6:55whose government under Yoweri Museveni was supporting the RPF
- 6:59and that's what triggered the civil war.
- 7:02But that story, I think he has not well understood.
- 7:05I think that the dominant narrative is just this kind of
- 7:08simple narrative that the Tutsi of the good guys and these evil
- 7:12Hutu forces, you know, spread anti Tutsi hate and massacred,
- 7:18you know, up to 1,000,000 and Tootsie and perpetrated this
- 7:21horrific genocide. And that Kagame led the RPF
- 7:25forces to save the country and save his people from genocide
- 7:31and establish democracy. I mean, Bill Clinton called them
- 7:36great, one of the great men of democracy, yet he's been in
- 7:40power for the last 30 years or something and has killed off
- 7:45many of his opponents. You know, they have death squads
- 7:47that operate even in European countries and murder people.
- 7:52You know, he's murdered thousands of people, including a
- 7:55lot of the dissidents. So yeah, the official story is
- 7:59just kind of fairy tale. And yeah, I mean, you had this
- 8:02movie Hotel Rwanda, which I think advanced a simplistic
- 8:06narrative. And it does then look at the
- 8:08larger history or the geopolitical intrigues and how
- 8:13the USUK were using the the RPF for their own agenda to gain a
- 8:17foothold in mineral rich Central Africa.
- 8:21Yeah, and I mean, the idea is also that the Tutsis were the
- 8:25minority and you know, the the Hutus would come after them
- 8:29because they were the minority. But it doesn't quite work like
- 8:31that because the Tutsis had a lot of waste and backing.
- 8:36Yeah, that's true. And actually for my research,
- 8:40what I found was that initially the US government actually
- 8:44supported that and the CIA was supporting Javier Man because
- 8:48the Tutsi were viewed as being backed by Communist China and
- 8:52were seen as. Leftists in the 60s after they
- 8:56they had been expelled in exile. And they were organizing into
- 9:02guerrilla units and there may have been some support from the
- 9:06Chinese and their leaders in that era were more left-leaning
- 9:10and I think they had been supportive of a pro Lumumbus
- 9:13rebellion in the Congo. So the CIA actually was support
- 9:17and I have evidence from my book Modernizing Repression, which
- 9:20was a study of Cold War era police training programs and
- 9:24clandestine operation by the CIA based on.
- 9:28A lot of the research in the National.
- 9:29Archives I found documents on Rwanda where the CIA was
- 9:36actually training directly Javier Mana, who became the
- 9:40leader who led Rwanda from the Hutu leader from 1973 I believe
- 9:45until his plane was shot down in 1994.
- 9:49He had been the chief of police under the previous regime of
- 9:55Gregoire Kayabinda, who was a Hutu leader and the CIA who was
- 10:00training police forces in African countries.
- 10:04They actually directly work with Habir man than when he was the
- 10:07chief of police and then he became head of state in 1973.
- 10:12But then a shift occurred because I studied government
- 10:16documents in depth and went to different presidential
- 10:19libraries. And what I found in the Reagan
- 10:22library, there were documents where they were starting to
- 10:24complain. The State Department was
- 10:26starting to complain about Javier Mana that he was too, you
- 10:32know, he was more, he was leaning more of the left and the
- 10:36socialist camp by the 80s. And they said his government is
- 10:40too much bureaucracy and it was just more of a state owned
- 10:44economy with more, more. It wasn't purely socialist, but
- 10:47it was leaning in that direction with a lot of government owned
- 10:50industry. And the US was intent on, you
- 10:53know, privatizing the economies of and and opening them up to
- 10:56foreign investment. So they lost.
- 11:00Affinity for heavier man who they had supported in the past
- 11:04and I think they decided in the 80s and 90s to support the
- 11:09Rwandan Patriotic Front in exile and to develop this scene to
- 11:14take back the country and to use.
- 11:17Rwanda as a platform for gaining influence because the big prize
- 11:21of the Congo with all its mineral wealth and, you know,
- 11:24diamond, the cobalt, the Colton, that's there's not that much in
- 11:28Rwanda, very little. It's all in the Congo.
- 11:32But, you know, in the Cold War, the US government had supported
- 11:35Joseph Mobutu, who was a dictator who ruled in the
- 11:39interest of Western, you know, mining corporations like this
- 11:43guy named Maurice Templesman, who just died this year.
- 11:46He was a big donor to the Democratic Party and was on the
- 11:50board of the National Endowment for Democracy, which is.
- 11:53ACIA cut out that spreads political.
- 11:56Propaganda, he was on its board. He was a billionaire in the
- 12:01diamond industry and he he owned Temples and Sons Diamond Company
- 12:06and he worked with the De Beers Diamond Corporation and he had a
- 12:11huge foothold in the diamond industry and and other mining
- 12:15ventures in in the Congo. And he was very close with the
- 12:20CIA and involved in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba
- 12:25and was close with Joseph Mobutu and was liaison between the CIA
- 12:30and Mobutu. It's the CIA fortified for
- 12:33years, but then in the 90s, you know, Mobutu was got cancer and
- 12:37was dying. So they had to think of the
- 12:39future. Who's going to replace Mobutu
- 12:42and give Templesman and his friends access to that diamond?
- 12:45Well, so that's why I think they saw the importance of the RPF
- 12:50having a proxy in. Rwanda that could, you know,
- 12:55basically manipulate the politics because Rwanda invaded
- 13:00Congo twice in the 90s, you know, after Mobutu fell.
- 13:05And also they basically impose A quisling leader, Joseph Kabila,
- 13:09who ruled Congo. I forget the exact years, but up
- 13:14until pretty recently he was a long standing ruler in the early
- 13:172000s through the 20 teens. His real name was Hippoly
- 13:22Kanambe. He was adopted by Laurent
- 13:26Kabila, who was the Congolese leader, but he was actually a
- 13:30Rwandan and he was viewed as a Rwandan quisling that was
- 13:35imposed by these Rwandan invasions funded by the US and
- 13:39UK, and he opened the economy he favored.
- 13:45Western corporation as well as, you know, Rwanda and Uganda were
- 13:49able to plunder Congo's mineral wealth for themselves.
- 13:53And if you go to Rwanda, the capital is glistening.
- 13:55You know, I mean, there's a lot of poverty in the country, but
- 13:59there is an elite in Rwanda that has made out very, very well
- 14:04from plundering the resources of Congo.
- 14:07And that they basically. Had their Rwandan quisling
- 14:09running the country for many years.
- 14:12This guy Hippoly Kanambe and he was the new Mobutu and a lot of
- 14:17the Clintons friends. Some of Clintons donors got
- 14:20choice, you know, concessions and company like.
- 14:23Barrick Gold that there were Clinton nights on the board and
- 14:26George HW Bush was on the board of that huge mining corporation
- 14:31and they got major concessions. So that that would be agenda.
- 14:37But this is kind of lost, you know, the median air that never
- 14:40goes into that aspect of politics and, you know, frame
- 14:44this kind of simple narrative. Of evil Hutu and good Tutsi.
- 14:51And really, again, the the atrocities, you know, the Tutsi
- 14:55forces committed horrendous atrocities.
- 14:57From the start, from the time of their illegal invasion from
- 15:01Uganda in 1990, which triggered the civil war, up through their
- 15:05invasions of Congo. And, you know, they haunted the
- 15:08Hutu down in the forest claiming, you know, they were
- 15:10all genocidest. You know, they use that to
- 15:16justify massacring 10s of thousands of Hutu in the Fort
- 15:20that they chased them out of the Rwanda and then massacred them
- 15:23in the forests, horrific atrocities and forced them into
- 15:27refugee camps and then starve them.
- 15:31So we're talking about, you know, just horrific atrocity
- 15:35than human rights abuses. But the human rights industry
- 15:38was was so corrupt it only, you know, largely focused on the
- 15:43Hutu crime and ignore these crimes that were sponsored by
- 15:46the US and UK governments. The genocide claim is a myth.
- 15:53There was no deliberate attempt for one tribe like the Hutus or
- 15:59the Tutsis to wipe out the other.
- 16:00What actually transpired was civil war that ended up with
- 16:04just chaos across the board. Correct.
- 16:06They tried to claim that there was a genocide.
- 16:09Facts, you see, and we see patterns from other conflicts
- 16:12where you. Have this disinformation and
- 16:16fabricated evidence so in this case, you know we had the the
- 16:21weapon false weapons of mass destruction false chemical gas
- 16:25attacks by Assad Gaddafi false story that he's you know giving
- 16:30Viagra to his troops so they would commit rapes.
- 16:34So here the falsehood is this genocide facts they allegedly
- 16:38found like 2 years later. And you know, there was no
- 16:42evidence at the time of of applying genocide, you know,
- 16:45because that's the narrative we get that this is, you know, I
- 16:48mean the Nazis, there's the Wansee conference, you know,
- 16:51that's the evidence that the Nazis had a plan for the final
- 16:55solution, that they were going to take the Jews from the
- 16:57ghettos and send them to the concentration camps and have the
- 17:01gaze ovens. And you can point to this Wansee
- 17:04conference where there was planning for this.
- 17:06And you know, Eichmann was a key planner and that's why he was
- 17:10put on trial in this. So in this case, they want to
- 17:13claim that there was a genocide fax by some of these Hutu
- 17:18leaders that shows this intent and plan to exterminate them.
- 17:22But that was proven to have been a manipulated document of
- 17:26fabrication. And I have an article where I I
- 17:31discussed this and I, I can't remember all the details
- 17:35specifically, but they they off the top of my head.
- 17:37It's in that article I wrote. Because it's been a number of
- 17:40years since I wrote it, but they they attributed to like it was
- 17:44very shady like they attributed to this guy who is like a
- 17:48defector or something. And then, you know, he ended up
- 17:52getting killed or something. So it's just like the whole
- 17:58story just was really fishy and was not.
- 18:01And basically it was proven to have been a fabrication.
- 18:04Make a Long story short that they fabricated this document
- 18:08and there's no actual evidence ever besides this document that
- 18:12was a fabrication and linked to this like Defector.
- 18:17There's no evidence of any plant coordinated plan.
- 18:20And then there's a fudging of the data because there's a group
- 18:24of researchers, I think is at the University of Michigan who
- 18:28did like, just analyze the census data.
- 18:31And they start to scratch their head because the official store
- 18:34was something like 800,000 tootsies killed.
- 18:37But then they looked at the census data and there weren't
- 18:40that many tootsies even living in the country because they had,
- 18:43you know, dated from outside. And there were francophones,
- 18:47Tutsi living in, in, in Rwanda by the Anglo Tutsis that had
- 18:52dated from, from, from Uganda. But anyway, there, there weren't
- 18:58that many Tutsis. So their data, they came to the
- 19:04conclusion, you know as. Far as the numbers killed that
- 19:07there were, you know, a fair number of Tutsi killed, but that
- 19:11a lot of the people killed were actually Hutu.
- 19:14So that challenged the idea of this Hutu.
- 19:18If it was a coordinated plot of the Hutu to kill all the Tutsi,
- 19:22why did more Hutu die? Than Tutsi.
- 19:26If you just think about it for 10 seconds, it doesn't really
- 19:29make sense. You suddenly in 1994 have this
- 19:33unbelievable massacre that lasted two or three months and
- 19:37then suddenly a new president comes in and then there's peace
- 19:41and well, and Keith Harmon Snow pointed.
- 19:45I mean, the Tutsi on their end that they have has certain,
- 19:48according to his analysis, which I think well grounded.
- 19:51And, you know, he's done a lot of research, as I pointed out,
- 19:55that they had aspiration of kind of establishing a regional Tutsi
- 20:00empire and hegemony. So they had their own ambition,
- 20:05but then the US, UK had their own agenda which was to use them
- 20:09to support that in some way. You can look at like Israel
- 20:12because the Israelis have their own ambition to establish a kind
- 20:16of greater Israel and the US has their own objective to use
- 20:20Israel to expand their power and influence, a kind of proxy in
- 20:24the Middle East. So the US has supported that
- 20:27project of Greater Israel. And basically the US and UK were
- 20:31supporting the project of a greater Tutsi empire.
- 20:35And Kagame envisioned himself as this, you know, reincarnation of
- 20:39the the ancient Tutsi king. Then he would preside over this
- 20:43vast Kingdom, excuse me, extending into the Congo.
- 20:48And the US, UK supported this idea because he's functioning
- 20:52the kind of proxy for them. And he's allowing, you know,
- 20:55he'll open up the Congo for Western corporations, which is
- 21:00the real agenda. And you know, there was a study
- 21:05that was done that showed that the IT looked at US foreign aid
- 21:08to Uganda to prove how the US was supporting the RPF in the
- 21:12late 80s, nineteen 90 at the time they invaded Rwanda.
- 21:19The studies show that there was a huge spike in US foreign aid
- 21:23to Uganda in that period, like a 200% increase in foreign aid in
- 21:27the year in the late 80s into the early 90s because Yoweri
- 21:33Museveni. And and that was I think part of
- 21:36the USUK design because Uganda had been ruled by a socialist
- 21:40leader, Milton Abbote in the in the 60s.
- 21:44And then you had the interlude with Idi Amin.
- 21:47And then Abbate came back in and, you know, he was more
- 21:50leaning to the Soviet Union, China, socialist economy and he
- 21:55wasn't an ally of the West. So the the USUK supported Yoweri
- 22:00Museveni who fought the guerrilla war gains Abbate and
- 22:04took control in Uganda in the mid 80s.
- 22:07And then he was friendly to the RPF and and Kagame.
- 22:12So he provide and Kagame served in Museveni's military
- 22:17intelligence and he was known for torture, you know, in that
- 22:21war against sabote forces. He was known for his sadism.
- 22:27And there's a a book that shows that there was another leader,
- 22:31the RPF named Fred. Wigiema, who was more.
- 22:35Moderate and, you know, well respected, but Kagame had him
- 22:42murdered according to this book to take control over the RPF and
- 22:46was just an evil man and, you know, Machiavellian and, you
- 22:52know, some consider him the worst mass murder.
- 22:54You know, if you tabulate the number of deaths.
- 22:56I mean, he's killed a lot of his own, you know, dissidents and,
- 23:02you know, sent death squads to kill them in other countries.
- 23:05And I mean, he's invaded Congo. You know, he's killed numerous
- 23:08heads of state. He may be one of the most
- 23:11murderous leaders the world has ever seen since Adolf Hitler.
- 23:15So we should acknowledge that. And he's taken out numerous
- 23:19heads of state, invaded Congo numerous times, preside over,
- 23:23you know, they, they had to set up open air crematorium because
- 23:27they were killing so many Hutu, you know, So that's the level
- 23:31we're dealing with here. And yeah, the Museveni was
- 23:36backing his invasion because, you know, they're kind of very,
- 23:41it's still Rwanda and Uganda. I mean, they, they both been in
- 23:43power for decades now, Mussa Vanian and Kagame, and they've
- 23:47been very close. And they collaborated on
- 23:50invading and plundering the Congo, which has brought a lot
- 23:52of wealth to both those countries.
- 23:54So Mussa Vani had his own plan and he was using the funneling
- 23:58the US foreign aid to to the RPF to strengthen them and prepare
- 24:04them to take over the country. So that was a long plan of the
- 24:08US empire and British and then Kagame and Museveni had their
- 24:13own agendas. You mentioned Israel earlier and
- 24:16you mentioned Congo. Israeli forces were spotted in
- 24:21Congo and we know that. What's his name?
- 24:25Roger Winter was working alongside A Mossad agent.
- 24:29Kimcha, is that right? Yeah, that's right.
- 24:31David Gimcha. Well, what I found in my
- 24:35research into the history of the CIA was that the CIA developed a
- 24:40program called Operation KK Mountain with the Israeli
- 24:44Mossad, which Mossad was basically set up by James J
- 24:50Angleton, a famous CIA agent. And was basically an offshoot of
- 24:55the CIA because Israel has function as a proxy of the US
- 24:59empire in the Middle East. Yeah, I don't believe some
- 25:03believe Israel manipulates U.S. government.
- 25:06Personally, I don't believe that.
- 25:07I think Israel was used. For its own purpose of the US
- 25:11empire, there are actually elements in the US government
- 25:15who had been against the US supporting Israel because they
- 25:19felt it would anger other. Arab.
- 25:21Countries and jeopardize US relation with Arab countries and
- 25:26US ability to access and exploit Middle East oil such as James
- 25:32forrestal and Kermit Roosevelt, but they lost out an internal.
- 25:38Bureaucratic struggle and Israel was used as US proxy and they in
- 25:43the Middle East and they developed the operation KK
- 25:47Mountain, whereas the Israeli Mossad did a lot of dirty
- 25:51operations for the. CIA so that the the US could
- 25:55take a, a kind of basically, what's the term distancing the
- 26:00public, you know, the public doesn't want to think they're
- 26:02taxpayers are being used to support these vowel
- 26:05dictatorships in Africa. So they they use the CIA, you
- 26:09know, to keep it hidden. But on a deeper level, they
- 26:12distance it even further by using the Israelis and setting
- 26:16up this Operation KK Mountain. So Israeli Mossad does a lot of
- 26:21the groundwork. The under KK Mountain, the
- 26:24Mossad sent operatives to train Mobutu and his forces and they
- 26:30even directly trained Mobutu in parachuting.
- 26:34He had direct lessons from Mossad operatives and Mossad
- 26:38operatives were helping to build his security apparatus under
- 26:42this Operation KK Mountain. And they went into other African
- 26:45states, like in Cameroon for instance.
- 26:48They supported the vile regime of Paul BIA, who's now the
- 26:52eldest. He's 92 years.
- 26:54Old and he just got re elected. He'd been running Cameroon in
- 27:00the interests of France and other foreign interests since
- 27:03the early 80s. And the Israeli Mossad also
- 27:07trained his security apparatus and it was some of the same
- 27:10people who had been in Congo training Mobutu.
- 27:13So this was a logical extension of the Operation KK Mountain,
- 27:19that Mossad operatives were training and working with Kagame
- 27:23and Museveni to fortify those governments which were proxies
- 27:28of the US and UK. And you can argue, I think
- 27:32within the Zionist movement, because I'm, I'm Jewish, I know
- 27:37a lot about the Zionist history. Some would regard how Israel
- 27:42evolved as a complete betrayal of the the Zionist movement and
- 27:47the idea that Jews who had been persecuted in Europe should have
- 27:50their own homeland. But they allowed themselves, the
- 27:53Israeli leaders allowed themselves to be used as a proxy
- 27:57by and outside power of the United States and became
- 28:01involved in all these dirty operations and kind of tainted
- 28:05the whole Zionist project in many ways.
- 28:09And then we see that imploding today with a huge percentage of
- 28:13the world and many Jews just shunning Israel because of the
- 28:18The Dirty things it's been doing.
- 28:20And this has been going on for a long time.
- 28:22A root of it is that it allowed itself to be basically hijacked
- 28:26by a foreign power and, and to do The Dirty work for that
- 28:29foreign power, the United States.
- 28:32And that's seen in the Operation KK Mountain, which is is
- 28:35documented. And, and if you, there are a lot
- 28:38of documents at the National Archives which discuss the
- 28:42Israelis in Africa and how they're coordinating with with
- 28:47the CIA. And there are books like Leslie
- 28:51Cockburn or the good book on the relationship between the CIA and
- 28:56Mossad called Dangerous Liaison, which is a very good book that
- 29:00was written in the 90s that documents what I'm discussing
- 29:04this operation KK Mountain. But so I think what you're
- 29:08saying with the Kagame and the Israeli role is an extension of
- 29:12that Cold War operation in the movie Hotel Rwanda.
- 29:15The hotel manager, the the real person, I always butcher his
- 29:21name. But I think it's something along
- 29:23the lines of Paul Recessa Bagina.
- 29:27He was arrested by the Kagame government recently and jailed
- 29:34for 25 years because he was critical of Kagame.
- 29:39Absolutely. Yeah.
- 29:41And it showed how the official narrative was a kind of myth and
- 29:45that the Kagame was a very vicious government that turned
- 29:48on a lot of its own. And you see that in other
- 29:51totalitarian governments. So sometimes in revolutionary
- 29:54governments, as they evolve more totalitarian instructors, they
- 29:58start turning on their own people, you know, who supported
- 30:01the revolution at the beginning, and then they have them killed
- 30:04or throw them in jail. So, yeah, this exemplified the
- 30:09totalitarian character, the Kadiyami regime.
- 30:12And he had Rusev Bagina, who was a national hero.
- 30:15I mean, I think there's some elements of the official story
- 30:18that are true. I mean, there were, you know,
- 30:21Tutsi who were haunted down, you know, in the context of the
- 30:24Civil War. And I knew because I was when I
- 30:27was a student in in Boston, I was a student, a graduate
- 30:31student in Brandeis. And I had a lot of friends from
- 30:34Rwanda. And my roommate was student at
- 30:37Harvard who was a Tutsi, and he grew up in exile.
- 30:43And yes, I met people who were victims.
- 30:46I mean, their stories were legit.
- 30:48You know, they were legitimately victim.
- 30:49These were Tutsi who were victims.
- 30:54So, you know, some facets of that story is true.
- 30:57And there were heroic figures who tried, like Rusabagina, who
- 31:00tried to save people on both sides because as we discussed, I
- 31:04mean, there was a lot of killing and there were Tutsi victims,
- 31:08but there were also a lot of Hutu victim.
- 31:09And it wasn't just black and white.
- 31:11One is bad, the other is good. They were killing on both sides
- 31:16in a civil, an ugly civil war. And there were heroes who tried
- 31:20to save innocent civilian like Rusubagina.
- 31:23And then, yeah, he's ends up, you know, because Kagama, you
- 31:28know, stayed in power so many years and was doing so many
- 31:32terrible things. And I think he started voicing
- 31:35some criticism. And so he was kidnapped and
- 31:38imprisoned. And by that point, he wasn't a
- 31:41young man anymore. And he had some health issues.
- 31:43And he's an older gentleman, and they're imprisoning him while he
- 31:47had these health problems. And he's a national hero.
- 31:50And it took a major effort, I think, to, I believe he got
- 31:52released, but he was in prison for a number of years.
- 31:57And that kind of that did get, you know, broader awareness that
- 32:01all was not right in Rwanda and that this simple narrative just
- 32:05didn't make sense. And I mean, I think now Kagama
- 32:08gets a lot more negative press coverage, and there's more
- 32:11awareness that this guy has dictatorial tendencies and has
- 32:14done a lot of terrible things. But for years he was presented
- 32:19in the media in the most fawning way, you know, up until
- 32:24recently. And I mean, he's been the
- 32:28president since 1994. Exactly what kind of.
- 32:33And you know, Bill Clinton, pray, you know, gave this speech
- 32:37and he said there are three leaders who represent the new
- 32:39face of democracy in Africa. And and two of those leaders are
- 32:43still in power now. You know, he gave this speech 30
- 32:46years ago or or more. And two of the leaders are still
- 32:50in power, Museveni and Kagame. And the third was Nelson Taway
- 32:56of Ethiopia. Also, he was accused of genocide
- 32:59against an ethnic minority group.
- 33:02And he also was in power for many years and, you know, was
- 33:05accused of major human rights crimes.
- 33:07And if you look at Kagama and Museveni just have a absolutely
- 33:12abhorrent record. I mean, Museveni has been
- 33:14compared to EDA mean or worse, you know, a lot.
- 33:17There's a book I have by Helen Epstein, who's a very good, I
- 33:20think a British journalist who did some good reporting on
- 33:23Uganda about all these, you know, you know, people who got
- 33:27killed, who were, you know, standing up to Museveni in some
- 33:30way. And then they died in a car
- 33:32accident and the scene was, you know, covered up.
- 33:36And they were all kind of suspicious deaths of Museveni's
- 33:40opponents. And then, you know, Museveni was
- 33:43involved in these invasions of Congo that caused thousands and
- 33:47thousands of deaths and immiseration of the population
- 33:50of eastern Congo and mass rapes of women.
- 33:53And he was also, he attacked. In fact, the northern Akoli
- 33:57people had supported northern Uganda, had supported Abbate,
- 34:01his opponent. So he took reprisals against the
- 34:04Akoli people and Ugandan military had been accused of
- 34:08genocide in the northern Uganda. And it's documented.
- 34:13Adam Branch is a British academic who lived in Uganda and
- 34:16wrote an excellent book about the Akoli war, documenting the
- 34:20horrific crime that that Musaveni's government.
- 34:23And then Kagama. Yeah, there's a book by Judy
- 34:26Revere was a Canadian journalist who interviewed all these people
- 34:29and she documented the in a lot of detail how these RPF death
- 34:34squads were operating in foreign countries to assassinate
- 34:38opponents of Kagame as government.
- 34:40And they've been, you know, I think a lot of the opposition
- 34:43leaders have been jailed. Like there's this lady Victoire
- 34:46Ingebere, and she's tried to run against Kagame in various
- 34:50elections and she's been jailed for over a decade, I believe.
- 34:55So, you know, great democracy. Bill Clinton, you have the
- 35:00Rwandan Patriotic Front that were the actual primary
- 35:04aggressors. It's an inversion of the Hotel
- 35:07Rwanda story. The Kagami militants, militia,
- 35:10whatever, were backed by CI AM I6 Mossad.
- 35:16Why? Very simply, they used them as a
- 35:20proxy to gain more of a foothold in the Congo, which had been
- 35:24ruled by a western US proxy, Joseph Abutu, up until the early
- 35:3090s. And that's when he got cancer.
- 35:32And he passed away in 1994. So the US is kind of worried how
- 35:40are we going to retain influence in the Congo and control the
- 35:43diamond Well, so they carry, they concoct the Sheen of
- 35:46supporting the RPF. And as you point out, Roger
- 35:49Winter was a key CIA agent who worked under the cover of
- 35:52refugee relief program. And he had worked with with the
- 35:56and he was honored by Kagame, you know, on the 20th or 25th
- 36:01anniversary of the genocide. You know, they had this big
- 36:05ceremony in the National Stadium in Kigali.
- 36:08And Kagame gave a medal to Roger Winter.
- 36:11And he was a CIA operative and he had mobilized the Kinyawanda.
- 36:16He had actually funded, you know, the CIA funded Kinyawanda
- 36:19journals to agitate for, you know, more aggressive RPF and
- 36:27you know, the Tutsi program, I guess to try and unite the Tutsi
- 36:31diaspora and to get them to Marshall funding for the RPF.
- 36:35But to get them to, you know, the some of the journal the CIA
- 36:39was sponsoring, Winter was involved with organizing
- 36:42conferences and getting CIA funding for the journal was I
- 36:46guess teach youth about the kin Rwanda history and culture so
- 36:52that they would be supportive of the RPF.
- 36:57And it's dream because I think they viewed Rwanda somewhat like
- 37:01the Jews viewed, you know, Israel kind of Holy Land that
- 37:04they had been expelled and thrust into exile by the Hutu.
- 37:08And they had, you know, traditionally dominated, been
- 37:11the kind of dominant force going back generation more of an
- 37:15aristocracy. So they were used to holding the
- 37:18upper hand over the Hutu and they couldn't accept, you know,
- 37:22being subordinate to them. But yeah, the CIA role was to
- 37:26fund these journals and then to funnel weapons and support
- 37:31through Uganda. And yeah, the the agenda was to
- 37:35use them as a proxy to gain control over the Congo after
- 37:39Mobutu passed away. And France, you know, France,
- 37:43the Hutu government had been drawn close to France.
- 37:46So it's, it's part of the old great game rivalry.
- 37:49They wanted to muscle out France, assert their control and
- 37:53gain access to the mineral wealth of the Congo.
- 37:57Is it still in the West's interest for Kagami to be in
- 38:02power? Yes, it is.
- 38:06That's why he's he's still in power even though he has been
- 38:10exposed as a fraud. And now there are articles you
- 38:14can find that would document that he has committed a lot of
- 38:17human rights abuses and that clearly he's not a model
- 38:20Democrat. You know, nobody's going to say
- 38:22that anymore. But I mean, if you if you look
- 38:26up, you know, the State Department has a website that
- 38:30that catalogued the amount of economic and military aid that
- 38:35the US provides to any government in the world.
- 38:38So look up Rwanda and you'll find that the US is still giving
- 38:41a lot of support to Rwanda despite of this.
- 38:44And they're still giving a huge amount of support to Uganda
- 38:48where under Musa Vani, who's still in power, this is Idi Amin
- 38:53type leader. And I know the US has direct
- 38:56military bases in Uganda to carry out operations and they
- 39:01may have military facilities in Rwanda as well.
- 39:04And that's actually one of the myths of the genocide is that
- 39:07the US was a bystander to the genocide because in fact, the US
- 39:11was supporting RPF throughout from funding, financing.
- 39:16Them. When they were in Uganda to the
- 39:19US actually sent in troops into Rwanda just in the month that
- 39:25the genocide was occurring. And the troops real purpose was
- 39:29to ensure that the RPF gained control over the country.
- 39:34You know, it was claimed that it was some kind of humanitarian
- 39:37mission, but there there were U.S. troops there at that time.
- 39:42And then military aid to Rwanda was and that's something I
- 39:47detail in my book on on Bill Clinton Warmonger and the
- 39:50chapter on Central Africa. The Clinton administration
- 39:54provided a lot of military and intelligence support to the
- 39:59Kagame government. Right after the genocide and
- 40:04after he consolidated power in the country and that equipment
- 40:09was used and the US was actually there were special U.S. special
- 40:12forces there and they were assisting their one an invasion
- 40:18of Congo on the pretext that the RPF had to hunt down the Hutu.
- 40:24You know, who were all because they labeled the entire
- 40:26population. The way they frame this genocide
- 40:31enabled them to label all Hutu as responsible for the genocide
- 40:35of the Tutsi. And that justified basically
- 40:38mass extermination of the Hutu. And that was also used as a
- 40:43justification for invading Congo and installing leaders that were
- 40:49pro Rwanda and pro US and UK. And the first leader they
- 40:54installed, Laurent Kabila, was too independent.
- 40:57That's why they ultimately installed this guy Joseph
- 41:00Kabila, who was adopted by Laurent Kabila but was actually
- 41:05a Rwandan named Hippoly Kanambe. And he ruled basically as a
- 41:12Rwandan quisling from the late 90s through the late 20 teens.
- 41:17Kagami is getting old. I mean, what happens next?
- 41:23That's a good question. I, I'm not sure.
- 41:26I'm sure they're planning, you know, they always plan well in
- 41:29advance. So and what you find in a lot of
- 41:32like in in Uganda, for instance, I did an article on that and
- 41:36there was, you know, the US is still heavily supporting the
- 41:39Museveni government. But they're also like Ned has
- 41:42programmed National Endowment for Democracy, but they're also
- 41:46supporting the Ugandan opposition by this guy named
- 41:50Bobby Wine because they want to Co opt the opposition.
- 41:53And you know, Bobby Wine is not really very progressive in many
- 41:57of his positions. Now in Uganda case, yeah, I mean
- 42:01he has faced persecution and some of his supporters, but he
- 42:07has a very vapid political program.
- 42:10He basically would, you know, continue same kind of neoliberal
- 42:14formula and allow, you know, he doesn't have a Pan African or
- 42:18socialist, you know, vision. That's what the, the the CIA and
- 42:24US and UK governments are gains. They they want to make sure the
- 42:28opposition does not become led by socialists or pen and Pan
- 42:33Africanists. The reason?
- 42:34Because the socialists would nationalize industry and
- 42:38establish national control. Over the resort.
- 42:41Either a socialist or more left-leaning with a left-leaning
- 42:44economic program of, of reestablishing economic
- 42:47sovereignty and trying to develop in the in the industry
- 42:52on their own terms. And the Pan African vision of,
- 42:56you know, that was the vision of Kwame Nakuma and Julius Nyerere
- 43:00and other leaders of the 60s and 70s who wanted to eat.
- 43:04What's that? Gaddafi.
- 43:05Yeah. Gaddafi.
- 43:06That's why they took out Gaddafi.
- 43:08Yeah. Because they wanted to unify the
- 43:11African states so they could strengthen their economy and,
- 43:17you know, together, work together, as you know, and build
- 43:22their economy and establish control over their own economy
- 43:26and establish strong military so they can combat any Western
- 43:31interference. And that's what the West does
- 43:34not want. So they'll Co-op the opposition.
- 43:38They'll they'll support the Bobby wine type who not a a
- 43:41leftist or a pan Africanist who's just the kind of, you
- 43:46know, he doesn't really have much of A vision.
- 43:48He's just against the dictatorship.
- 43:51And he has a following among youth.
- 43:53He's a hip hop artist. And I mean, he's a cool guy and
- 43:57you know, people like him personally.
- 43:59And so he has a big following and, and social media and stuff.
- 44:03So that's the guy there because he doesn't have this, this
- 44:06larger vision. So they, they went when
- 44:08Museveni's time is up and there may be a, you know, Museveni, I
- 44:12think is trying to groom his son Hosey, but he's got a really
- 44:16tainted record. You know, he was spearheading a
- 44:19lot of the atrocities of Congo in northern Uganda and is known
- 44:23as a brutal guy. So I don't know, you know, so I
- 44:26mean, the, the, the CAA and US, they're smart.
- 44:29They they realize the stakes here.
- 44:31So they're, they're covertly supporting the opposition and
- 44:35they could build them up as time goes on.
- 44:38So I imagine the same thing is going on in Rwanda.
- 44:41I mean, I don't know. We don't get any news about
- 44:43that. It's it's, it's really a
- 44:45totalitarian society there. I mean, that is, yeah, one of
- 44:49the most oppressive governments. You know, there's no dissent at
- 44:52all. So it's hard.
- 44:54You know, there really is no opposition to Kagami.
- 44:56The main opposition are in jail, like Victoire Ingabiri is in
- 45:01jail. So I don't know who.
- 45:03And there was a hip hop, I did an article, there was a hip hop
- 45:07artist who's getting a lot of following in Rwanda.
- 45:11He was a very talented singer and he, you know, had some
- 45:14lyrics critical Kagame and he was murdered.
- 45:17So I mean, they're murdering any I mean, that's going, I think
- 45:20beyond Uganda is also totalitarian.
- 45:24But there is some, you know, underground descent and it's
- 45:28it's it's repressed to some extent, but you know, it's
- 45:31there. But Rwanda, we don't hear much
- 45:34because they're, they're being jailed, they're being killed.
- 45:38So I, I don't know, you know, Kagame is probably trying to
- 45:40groom his son. You know, his son went to
- 45:43Harvard. From what I understood, his son,
- 45:46you know, they're not that intelligent.
- 45:48Like Kagame didn't have a college degree and his son
- 45:52failed at Harvard. You know, he was not the best
- 45:55student at all. So these aren't the brightest,
- 45:58but they're just the most ruthless.
- 46:01And, you know, he may be trying to bring in his son.
- 46:05And I don't know what, you know, if there's no strong opposition,
- 46:08I don't know what the US government will do.
- 46:10They may go go along with his son if, you know, he's still
- 46:13serving certain US interests. And then there's, you know,
- 46:16China. The equation is that Congo, you
- 46:19know, is is drawn somewhat close to the China.
- 46:23And, you know, China has huge, you know, interests and
- 46:25investments as far as in Africa, in the mining industry.
- 46:29And China has become much more popular than the West because
- 46:33they actually, you know, develop a lot of infrastructure in
- 46:36Africa. They build many, many things,
- 46:40stadiums, roads, ports, railways.
- 46:45Yeah. So I mean, more and more African
- 46:48governments are are turning to China.
- 46:50And so the US and UK are losing the great game.
- 46:54So they're more and more desperate to cling on to some of
- 46:59these kind of leaders who have served their agenda for years.
- 47:02So whoever Kagame tries to groom as a successor, the US may go
- 47:08along with. And I don't know if there would
- 47:10be a revolution because they've thoroughly crushed any
- 47:12opposition and driven a lot of the hoodoo out of the country.
- 47:16And exterminate. I mean, that is genocide that
- 47:18they've exterminated a lot of the Hutu.
- 47:21So how could they take that power back when they've been
- 47:23exterminated, driven out of the country and completely weakened?
- 47:30That's another interesting side fact.
- 47:33I mean, China is remarkably sovereign.
- 47:37Most African countries are not. Well, that's true, yeah.
- 47:43And I mean, there is AI spent a bit of time in Africa,
- 47:47particularly in Zambia. And yeah, there's a much
- 47:51different attitude toward China compared to Western, you know,
- 47:55colonial power, the white power like the United States, because
- 47:59of China's history of the and and yeah, I think you were
- 48:02making a point in our discussion earlier that China's is
- 48:05completely misunderstood in Western countries.
- 48:08And I mean the Maoist revolution, whatever its flaw,
- 48:12it was viewed as an authentic nationalist anti colonial
- 48:16revolution in a lot of the world because China had been neo
- 48:20colony of Great Britain. And that was what and and you
- 48:23know, China was humiliated. It was the century of weakness,
- 48:26you know, in the 19th century when they China became a neo
- 48:29colony of Great Britain. And that was the underlying
- 48:32purpose of the Maoist revolution was to overcome that century of
- 48:37humiliation and establish their sovereignty as a country and and
- 48:41stand up to outside powers. And you know, the the
- 48:44nationalists that the communists fought were supported very
- 48:47heavily by the United States, Chiang Kai Shek.
- 48:49So Mao was an authentic revolutionary hero in a lot of
- 48:53the so-called third world and countries subjected to
- 48:56colonization. And then China from the Maoist
- 49:00period invested a lot of money in supporting development
- 49:04projects in Africa. So like in Zambia, the Chinese
- 49:09helped build the Tanzanian Zambia Railway.
- 49:12So the attitude toward the Chinese are much more positive,
- 49:16although it was some negative from my experience staying there
- 49:20in the mining sector, the Chinese enforced didn't uphold
- 49:25very high Labor Standards. They they brought some of their
- 49:29own laborers and when it came to the local laborers, there was
- 49:32some very bad workplace conditions and there were some
- 49:35incidents of, of minor and African being killed that
- 49:40aroused some anti China sentiment.
- 49:43However, overall, there still is a certain respect for China.
- 49:48And then what China's doing now is that they are putting a lot
- 49:52back in, although they take out a lot of the mineral wealth.
- 49:54And you know, ideally Africans themselves would have control,
- 49:59you know, complete ownership and control over the mining sector.
- 50:03However, if you compare other, you know, different foreigners,
- 50:08the Chinese reinvest a lot of the money.
- 50:11And so like in Zambia, they build a beautiful athletic
- 50:14facility. They upgraded the railway,
- 50:17they're building roads. And I know it's, they're doing
- 50:21that everywhere throughout Africa.
- 50:24So it's it's, you know, there's not bringing a lot of goodwill
- 50:28and tour, you know, there's much more positive attitudes.
- 50:32And so that's what I say they're they're the US is losing the
- 50:35great game because the US doesn't do the same thing.
- 50:39You know, they they don't advance those kind of projects
- 50:43which bring real improvements to the society.
- 50:48I mean, the US is known for building all these drone bases.
- 50:52And that that is just an for African, that symbolizes like an
- 50:55ugly return to a past colonial age.
- 50:59We have this foreign white country putting these horrific
- 51:03drone bases in their country and it show that they they've
- 51:07compromised their sovereignty and it's fueling instability and
- 51:12and violent cycles. You know, the US War on Terror
- 51:17has just fueled the growth of Islamic terrorism and
- 51:21destabilized a lot of countries like especially in the northern,
- 51:26you know, Horn region like Somalia, Kenya.
- 51:29And some of these countries are experiencing problem with
- 51:32Islamic fundamentalism that they never had had before, including
- 51:36in in West Africa. And that's, you know, studies
- 51:39have shown that terrorism has spiked massively because of the
- 51:43US War on Terror and the drone attacks.
- 51:48So the attitude toward the US is very, very negative.
- 51:52Whereas China, there's some mixed feelings, but there's a
- 51:56lot of positive feelings because of the history and because of
- 52:00the tangible development projects that the Chinese
- 52:03support. It's still we're still living in
- 52:07the remnants of the colonial era and a lot of the African economy
- 52:11are still dominating and the major wealth is being siffened
- 52:14out of Africa. Into these, you know, huge Anglo
- 52:18American corporations and yeah, that's I think at the root of
- 52:25their one in conflict is to try and maintain that control.
- 52:28And you know, central, yeah, South Africa and the Congo are
- 52:31the 2 richest countries in Africa as far as their mineral
- 52:35wealth. I don't know if you know about
- 52:37the huge airport that the Chinese helped built in
- 52:42Ethiopia, probably one of the biggest airports on the
- 52:44continent, and it's acting kind of as an African version of
- 52:48Dubai. Well, absolutely.
- 52:50And this is bringing tremendous progress and development to
- 52:53Africa and it's creating a huge number of jobs.
- 52:57And I think that's why we're seeing this hysterical US
- 53:00reaction to China because China's winning, you know, the
- 53:04the great China's winning the great game throughout the world.
- 53:07And the US is losing. I mean, the US US has waged all
- 53:10these wars in recent years that have been rooted in lies that
- 53:15have caused huge amount of death and destruction. the US society
- 53:20itself is coming undone. It's been plagued by mass
- 53:24shootings, home record home, you know, homeless rates,
- 53:27approaching depression levels. You know, there's a level of
- 53:31social breakdown. Within the United States and
- 53:34people around the world can see this and they can see also how
- 53:38China, as you were saying at the beginning, is is blossoming.
- 53:42You know that they have very efficient public transportation.
- 53:46The quality of life of Chinese is improving dramatically every
- 53:50year. And you know, the Chinese
- 53:52government has helped lift millions out of poverty.
- 53:56So the US is losing the great game.
- 53:59So how did they respond? Through a huge military buildup
- 54:03and advancement of the xenophobic rhetoric and
- 54:08threatening China with the World War and building up military
- 54:12base in Pacific islands to provide the infrastructure for
- 54:15potential war on China. But it's going to fail.
- 54:18I mean, war is politic by other means.
- 54:20If the US is losing the the political game, they're not
- 54:24going to win the military game. And China is very advanced
- 54:27military technology superseding the United States.
- 54:30So the United States would be. Wise to look at China, some of
- 54:35the. Good thing that is done and try
- 54:38and emulate it and to to live in the reality and to adapt because
- 54:43the United States still has a very strong economy.
- 54:47It has well trained workforce and and good universities and it
- 54:51has abundant natural resources. So it's best to harness China's
- 54:55economic growth to its own growth to try and work with
- 54:59China for. And that's what Xi Jinping
- 55:01proposed about 8 or 10 years ago.
- 55:04He called for a win win strategy of cooperation with the United
- 55:07States, and that would be the best approach for the US to
- 55:11follow. Unfortunately, since the Obama
- 55:15administration initiated the pivot to Asia that the US is
- 55:19going in the opposite direction of encircling China militarily
- 55:23and threatening it with the war. But and related to Africa, more
- 55:28and more African countries were turning away from the Western
- 55:31orbit. You know, we see that in Burkina
- 55:33Faso and in Western Africa where there were a number of coups
- 55:38against pro Western puppet type governments.
- 55:44And they're trying to reassert their autonomy and reassert the
- 55:47old Pan Africa's tradition and the kruma and the Arere Thomas
- 55:51Sankara. Those are authentic African
- 55:55revolutionary leaders. Who are all overthrown by the
- 55:58West, but they are viewed very positively in Africa.
- 56:03And I think they'll be a new generation and this generation I
- 56:06think will be more, you know, will be able to withstand
- 56:09Western pressure better because the West is is in decline.
- 56:13And so again, my advice in the West is that we should adapt to
- 56:18the new world order to try and sustain more prosperous economy
- 56:22and society and and the path of imperialism in the warfare state
- 56:26have not served the interest of the American public.
- 56:30That's perhaps another discussion, but has not served
- 56:32the interests well of the American public as well as these
- 56:36countries that have been plundered like we've been
- 56:37discussing like Congo or these war that have been provoked by
- 56:41these kind of imperialist policies.
- 56:43Because there was a possibility in Rwanda there was a peace
- 56:46sharing agreement. The urusha hordes that have your
- 56:50mana was willing to abide by that could have.
- 56:52Averted all this bloodshed. Some kind of power sharing
- 56:56between Hutu and Tutsi and it was avoided the bloodshed and
- 57:00that extended into Congo. So the moral of the story,
- 57:05Jeremy, is when you watch how Torawanda understand that it's
- 57:10typically Hollywood fiction infused with a little bit of
- 57:13truth. So when it starts off by saying
- 57:15based on a true story. Yeah, well, and I think one of
- 57:19the. Moral is that the unfortunate
- 57:21thing is it feeds this kind of innate racism in the West.
- 57:25Oh, look at these African savages killing each other like
- 57:28that. And you know, and you know if
- 57:31you don't understand the prodigy of politics, if you don't
- 57:34understand the you know, the way that the US and UK were involved
- 57:38in manipulating this conflict and the way that it would
- 57:41distort it, then you can easily revert to these kind of
- 57:45stereotypes. And so that's why you know,
- 57:49education is important beyond just watching a movie on this
- 57:53topic and hopefully the education system.
- 57:56I think that's one of the failings in the US as well, is
- 58:02not just the media and Hollywood, but the education
- 58:06system should better educate youth about African political
- 58:11reality and about the role that the West has played in
- 58:14destabilizing a lot of the African countries.
- 58:17But that is very rarely covered adequately.
- 58:22Even in universities, I think you wouldn't get any.
- 58:26Very few high schools cover it at all or with any adequacy, and
- 58:31unfortunately very few universities.
- 58:34And that's the subject maybe for another show, but I've done some
- 58:37shows and articles on how the CIA and U.S. government agency
- 58:43has taken over a lot of higher education in the teaching of
- 58:48political science and history is often distorted.
- 58:52And there are only a small number of, you know, good.
- 58:55A lot of the professors are denied tenure or fired if they
- 58:59teach the truth, true story and the true history.
- 59:02So that's, I think, part of the tragedy.
- 59:05And then the Western public just reverts to certain racial
- 59:08stereotypes over and over again. How can my audience follow your
- 59:14work? You can follow my work at Covert
- 59:18Action Magazine, www.covertactionmagazine.com or
- 59:24my sub stack, Jeremy Kuzmarov at Sub Stack Too hot for the
- 59:28mainstream media. And I also have a podcast and
- 59:32show on radio that has its own sub stack called Uncontrolled
- 59:37Opposition. And you can go to my website,
- 59:41jeremykuzmarov.com, and that has my books.
- 59:46Jeremy Kuzmerov, thank you for joining me in the trenches.