GHOST MONEY BRIBES – WHAT THE BRITISH GOVT HAS IN STORE FOR SOMALIA
APR 29 2013
The below article, posted today on The Guardian website, reveals that so-called British democracy and diplomacy boil down to little more than money stuffed in to suitcases and handed over to local actors to serve British interests.
Clearly British foreign policy takes the shape of an imperialist divide and rule strategy that takes no regard for a country’s self-determination.
In The Guardian article, “Ghost money” refers to the MI6 (and CIA) regular large cash payments to Hamid Karzai’s office with the aim of maintaining access to the Afghan leader and his top allies and officials.
The British payments have also been designed to bolster UK influence in Kabul, in what a source described as “an auction with each country trying to outbid the other” in the course of an often fraught relationship with the Karzai government.
This is what Britain has in store for its intervention in Somalia – bribes and backhanders which stoke existing sectarian tensions to deliver to the door of imperialism. Britain will exploit and cause further chaos in order to get access to Somalia’s resources for its own financial capitalist markets.
This is what we must work to expose. The British government clearly can play no progressive role in the development, democracy and liberation of Somalia
more : DFID | Hands Off Somalia
APR 29 2013
The below article, posted today on The Guardian website, reveals that so-called British democracy and diplomacy boil down to little more than money stuffed in to suitcases and handed over to local actors to serve British interests.
Clearly British foreign policy takes the shape of an imperialist divide and rule strategy that takes no regard for a country’s self-determination.
In The Guardian article, “Ghost money” refers to the MI6 (and CIA) regular large cash payments to Hamid Karzai’s office with the aim of maintaining access to the Afghan leader and his top allies and officials.
The British payments have also been designed to bolster UK influence in Kabul, in what a source described as “an auction with each country trying to outbid the other” in the course of an often fraught relationship with the Karzai government.
This is what Britain has in store for its intervention in Somalia – bribes and backhanders which stoke existing sectarian tensions to deliver to the door of imperialism. Britain will exploit and cause further chaos in order to get access to Somalia’s resources for its own financial capitalist markets.
This is what we must work to expose. The British government clearly can play no progressive role in the development, democracy and liberation of Somalia
more : DFID | Hands Off Somalia
