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Controversial Wayne Madsen, former NSA Intelligence Officer is a leading Washington DC investigative journalist, covering Intelligence Agencies. He has written widely on the CIA in Africa, including a widely respected book, and testified on numerous occasions before Congress. He appears weekly on TV, and Radio. Read:
Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 (African Studies, 50)
by Wayne Madsen (Editor) Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press; ISBN: 0773480021; (May 1999)
"In All fairness to "Africanists" (a cohort in which I include myself), it should be noted that, unlike Sovietologists or Sinologists, whose approach was often shaped by the reputed "enmity" of their chosen terrain, they genuinely liked Africa and wished--at times naively or unwisely--to make it "a better place." This meliorative (if partly Western-centric) missionary attitude partly explains why, throughout these five decades, "serious" literature on Africa has often been reluctant to tackle the seamy underside of "African politics"--i.e., the degree to which Africa has been (or has remained) penetrated by outside actors."
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"For the peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the stakes will remain entirely too high if unscrupulous miners, in coopertion with unregulated mercenaries are permitted to scavenge the lands of others. Moreover, the United States military must not be used as a praetorian guard for unscrupulous international mining and oil magnates. Politicians must not be lulled into the belief that the bank accounts of mulitnational corporations are, in any way, tied to the national security or economic well-being of the United States."
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Some of his other writings:
THE CALIGULAN AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM - U.N. INTERVENTION IS NECESSARY
By John Stanton and Wayne Madsen
"At this critical moment in U.S. history when the American justice system is needed to stem the tide of American totalitarianism, it finds itself incapable of doing so... High school students in America know that the right amount of money and influence can buy a favorable decision, a legislative loophole, timeshare at a low security Federal Prison Camp, and even the US presidency as the Election of 2000 demonstrated."
(http://english.pravda.ru/columnists/2002/03/04/26765.html)
Cheney at the Helm At Halliburton, oil and human rights did not mix
By Wayne Madsen
"Cheney's links to defense contractors and the intelligence community have made him suspect among human rights activists. Halliburton and Brown & Root have played a role in some of the world's most volatile trouble spots. These include Algeria, Angola, Bosnia, Burma, Croatia, Haiti, Kuwait, Nigeria, Russia, Rwanda, and Somalia...
"The U.S. Army Materiel Command has confirmed that Brown & Root was in Rwanda under contract with the Pentagon. One U.S. Navy de-mining expert told me that Brown & Root helped Rwanda's U.S.-backed government fight a guerrilla war. Brown & Root's official task was to help clear mines. However, my research showed it was more involved in providing covert military support to the Tutsi-led Rwanda Patriotic Army in putting down a Hutu insurgency and assisting its invasion of the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo (Cheney and Halliburton declined numerous opportunities to comment on this story.)"
http://www.progressive.org/wm0900.htm
Forbidden Truth: U.S.-Taliban Secret Oil Diplomacy, Saudi Arabia and
the Failed Search for bin Laden
by Jean-Charles Brisard, Guillaume Dasquie, Wayne Madsen
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press / Nation Books ; ISBN: 1560254149; (July 10, 2002)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560254149/002-2212553-9818403
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