[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: [Green Party Black Caucus] What's really behind the war in the Congo?

[alexcathy at aol.com]

Dear Green Friends, 

This one is especially for?my "Silicon Valley"/California high tech colleagues.? 

A rare mineral used in all cell phones comes directy from that region of the Congo where *4 million human beings* have been slaughtered in a mindless civil war.? Another demonstration of the fundamental Green insight that in our time *everything* is connected to everything else.? 

Special thanks to longtime Pennsylvania Green activist, Diane White for posting this link to a powerful British documentary video that you can view?online.? 

A FOOTNOTE ON CYNTHIA McKINNEY

By the way, for those of you who do not know this, one of the main reasons why then Democratic Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney got on the Establishment "Enemies?List" was that?years before her controversial and courageous dissent from the Bush War Machine, McKinney was a key member of both the House Armed Services Comitte and the International Relations Committee, serving as Ranking Member on its International Operations and Human Rights Subcommittee.? In the 1990s President Clinton requested that McKinney attend high-level talks to open diplomatic ties with the new Democratic Republic of Congo. At the same time, she assisted a number of Georgia-based companies in establishing and strengthening trade relations with African nations.? From this unique position, McKinney was one of the first members of congress to look into dubious goings-on in African by?the usual rogues gallery of U.S. arms dealers, mercenaries, and transnational corporations.? It tells us something about US politics to?contrast McKinney's treatment with?that of, say, ?William "Cold Cash" Jefferson?of New Orleans, who?money intended to bribe Nigerian officials was?found in his?freezer.? ???
???

Alex Walker
Los Angeles ?


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