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Afghanistan Mineral Riches Story Is War Propaganda
"Liberal" New York Times sells globalist occupation
once more with fake news
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News that the U.S. has suddenly discovered $1 trillion-worth
of mineral deposits in Afghanistan, and descriptions of the
bounty as a "game changer" by the corporate media,
represent nothing more than crude war propaganda designed to
reinvigorate public support for a failing and ever more pointless
occupation.
The "liberal" New York Times, which previously brought
us fantastical stories of WMD in Iraq and yellowcake from Niger,
is at it once again, describing huge deposits of minerals in
Afghanistan as "previously unknown".
In a story
the Times ran on Sunday, the newspaper pointed
to an "internal Pentagon memo" as its source, noting
that U.S. officials now believe Afghanistan could become the
"Saudi Arabia of lithium".
The article claims that "a small team of Pentagon officials
and American geologists" has also recently discovered huge
veins of iron, copper, cobalt and gold, that could transform
Afghanistan into one of the most important mining centers in
the world.
The idea that this information is new, however, is manifestly
ludicrous.
In an interview
with Politico, a retired senior U.S. official notes
that anyone with a memory span longer than a goldfish will realise
the supposedly "new discovery" is anything but that:
"When I was living in Kabul in the early 1970’s
the [U.S. government], the Russians, the World Bank, the UN
and others were all highly focused on the wide range of Afghan
mineral deposits. Cheap ways of moving the ore to ocean ports
has always been the limiting factor," the official said.
Furthermore, in the mid 1980s, the chief engineer of the Afghan
Geological Survey Department published
a report pointing to vast reserves of mineral riches.
The Afghan government was readying to work with the Soviets
on extraction, before Russia pulled out of the country altogether
as it's empire began to crumble in 1989.
A man intrinsically tied to countering the Soviet operation
in Afghanistan, by radicalizing muslim resistance in the country,
was über elitist Zbigniew Brzezinski. In his 1997 book
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic
Imperatives, Brzezinski refers directly to
the strategic and economic prizes to be gained via control of
what he describes as the Eurasian Balkans:
"…the Eurasian Balkans are infinitely more important
as a potential economic prize: an enormous concentration of
natural gas and oil reserves is located in the region, in addition
to important minerals, including gold (page 124)," and
"America’s global primacy is directly dependent on
how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Euraisian
continent is sustained…A power that dominates Eurasia
would control two of the world’s three most advanced and
economically productive regions…most of the world’s
physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and
underneath its soil (page 30-31)."
In his now familiar warm hearted way, Brzezinski also outlines
that in order to control the region, a dominating global power
must "prevent collusion and maintain security dependence
among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected,
and to keep the barbarians from coming together (page 40)."
Brzezinski also noted that the American people would have to
be stoked and rallied into supporting what essentially amounts
to a modern day crusade:
"The attitude of the American public toward the external
projection of American power has been much more ambivalent.
The public supported America’s engagement in World War
II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor (page 24-25)."
Following 9/11, the world witnessed unfolding exactly what
Brzezinski had proposed.
If you still choose to believe that the U.S. government did
not previously have knowledge of vast mineral riches in Afghanistan,
despite the fact that former Senior U.S. officials, Afghans,
Soviets and Zbigniew Brzezinski all did, then take a gander
at this 2007
US Geological Survey.
The report reveals that the U.S. was aware of "significant
amounts of undiscovered non-fuel mineral resources" in
Afghanistan, noting that the country "has significant amounts
of undiscovered non fuel mineral resources," including
"large quantities of accessible iron and copper [and] abundant
deposits of colored stones and gemstones, including emerald,
ruby [and] sapphire."
Even foreign mainstream news sources like Reuters
have questioned the Times' article, outlining the need for "a
reality check".
So why is the "liberal" NY Times passing this story
off as a game changing "discovery" when it is one
of the primary reasons the U.S. is engaged in the occupation
of the region in the first place?
Simply because the American public are sick of seeing their
country spiral into a black hole of debt while continuing to
pay for a war that has now surpassed the Vietnam conflict as
the longest in U.S. military history.
Jeremy
White of the Huffington Post notes that "This
story is similar to ones that preceded the Iraq War when the
Bush administration claimed that Iraq's oil wealth would pay
for all the costs of reconstruction."
Newshoggers
blogger Steve Hynd describes the Times piece as
"a conveniently timed zombie story... resurrected yet again
for political purposes."
Remember that Obama made Afghanistan his war by
pouring thousands and thousands more troops into the country
and demanding record war budgets from Congress. If Obama's Afghanistan
adventure fails, his presidency fails. Both the brass at the
Times and the White House can't be having that.
The seemingly dwindling enthusiasm for U.S. involvement on
behalf of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and his
threats to "join the Taliban" in the face of a dysfunctional
U.S. mission, may also be a factor.
As Gareth
Porter of IPS reports, the Obama administration
is staring at "the spectre of a collapse of U.S. political
support for the war in Afghanistan in coming months comparable
to the one that occurred in the Iraq War in late 2006."
The mineral riches story may also be designed to shore up the
involvement of British forces in the face of mass public discontent,
a new government, elements of which have expressed opposition
to the ongoing conflict, and the tension brought about between
the U.S. and Britain over the BP oil spill.
The conclusion remains clear. The idea that Afghanistan's mineral
riches were not part of the invasion and occupation agenda,
drawn up before 9/11, and have suddenly been discovered, is
provably false. The New York Times is once again engaged in
the dissemination of propaganda in an attempt to sell the empire
building of the new world order.
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