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A War against Africa

AFRICOM, NATO, and Racism

From: Slouching Towards Sirte

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In Chapter Four, Forte examines the role of the United States military in Africa through the role of the Africa Command (AFRICOM), the African Growth and Opportunities Act (AGOA), the work of the USAID, and the International Criminal Court (ICC) with its nearly exclusive focus on Africa. Forte argues that none of this is by accident and instead was put in place to maintain the United States’ influence on Africa’s future, these efforts starting under George H.W. Bush’s administration and continuing and speeding up under Barack Obama after 2008. Forte discusses issues such as media ‘double-talk’, self-determination, AFRICOM’s and NATO’s role in militarizing US relations towards African states, the role of media in disseminating and inciting racial fear, and ethnic cleansing following the fall of Tripoli by the US backed Insurgents.

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Maximilian C. Forte

Maximilian C. Forte is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University in Montréal, Québec. He teaches courses in the field of political anthropology dealing with “the new imperialism,” Indigenous resistance movements and philosophies, theories and histories of colonialism, and critiques of the mass media. Max is a founding member of Anthropologists for Justice and Peace. He writes regularly for the Zero Anthropology Project, CounterPunch, and was formerly a columnist for Al Jazeera Arabic.