Mali New Prey to West Imperialist Quest

by Finian Cunningham / January 1st, 2013

The UN Security Council approval this week of a French-led resolution for military intervention in Africa’s vast Sahel region signaled the Western imperialist powers’ laying down a new incendiary marker.

While the intervention force being assembled is officially African-led and manned, the Western powers are driving the initiative, something about which there is little doubt. Under the guise of restoring Mali’s national security – following a separatist revolt earlier this year – the real agenda is extending Western imperialist interests in the resource-rich West Africa region.

However, this new frontier for neo-imperialist intrigue in a volatile region threatens to become another explosive quandary for the Western powers – one that may set off a conflagration involving several Africannations.

Not content, it seems, with wreaking havoc in Libya in North Africa, fuelling a covert war in Syria that is destabilizing Lebanon and Iraq, cranking up the Israeli killing machine with $500 million of new weapons, announced this week in Washington, and the ratcheting up of more aggression against Iran with tougher sanctions, also unveiled this week, the NATO governments now want to embark on yet another military adventure – in Mali.

Bearing in mind that the NATO powers are still embroiled in a bloody quagmire in Afghanistan and are regularly carrying out clandestine killing operations in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, one can safely describe the world as being under fire from Western militarism.

This week, the Western imperialists added yet more fuel to the global bonfire by bringing their