Jasmine Owens. The link between colonialism, exploitation, and nuclear weapons is seen most clearly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "Eighty percent of the uranium used in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs originated from the Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the Congo was the number one supplier of uranium to the U.S., and the people of the DRC paid a heavy price."
Ann Garrison interviews Bénédicte Kumbi Ndjoko: Congo is indeed in a critical situation. We know how much its people have suffered since the genocides in Rwanda and all the displacement they caused, then by the wars that Rwanda and Uganda waged against Congo from 1996 to 1997 and then from 1998 to 2003, with the support of the US, UK, and their allies. Today some observers speak of Congo as a post-conflict country, but it’s still in a low-intensity conflict, off and on, hot and cold. A conflict that drags on like this can become even deadlier than declared war, as it has in the North and South Kivu Provinces bordering Rwanda, Uganda, and Burundi. More than a million of the 4.49 million internally displaced people are in North Kivu Province.
Bevisene som gjorde at FN gjenopptok undersøkelsene ble lagt fram i boka «Who killed Hammarskjöld» av Susan Williams i 2014. Hennes undersøkelser viser med stor tydelighet at vestmaktene og viktige finansinteresser må ha stått bak nedskytinga av Hammarskiölds fly for å bevare sin kontroll over Kongo og landets enorme rikdommer. Tidligere undersøkelser bærer preg av å dekke over fakta framfor å grave dem fram.
CNN Dec 20, 2010: "One of the nightmare scenarios of the 21st century is a "rogue state" or terror group getting its hands on nuclear material that could be sufficiently enriched to make a weapon. And diplomatic cables obtained by WikiLeaks show that from central Africa to central Asia, it's a constant preoccupation of U.S. officials. Two cables from 2007 detailed the discovery of uranium in "multiple containers" in the Democratic Republic of Congo."
Patrice Lumumba. Etienne Davignon. Bilderberg. Umicore "brags that it shares 50% of the global market in materials for lithium-ion batteries". David Cronin’s book Corporate Europe: How Big Business Sets Policies on Food, Climate and War will be published in August. It is available for pre-ordering from Pluto Press (www.plutobooks.com).
The congas are derived from the single-headed hand drums of the Congo (Bantú), above all the tambores makuta. n the comparsa, as well as in Rumba and early Son Montuno of the conjuntos, only a single tumbadora is played by one drummer. Congeros like Cand