More than jihadism or Iran, China’s role in Africa is Obama’s obsession | John Pilger | Comment is free | The Guardian

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More than jihadism or Iran, China’s role in Africa is Obama’s obsession | John Pilger | Comment is free | The Guardian – Today Somalia is a theme park of brutal, artificial divisions, long impoverished by World Bank and IMF «structural adjustment» programmes, and saturated with modern weapons – notably President Obama’s personal favourite, the drone. The one stable Somali government, the Islamic Courts, was «well received by the people in the areas it controlled», reported the US Congressional Research Service, «[but] received negative press coverage, especially in the west». Obama crushed it; and last January Hillary Clinton, then secretary of state, presented her man to the world. «Somalia will remain grateful to the unwavering support from the United States government,» effused President Hassan Mohamud. «Thank you, America.» The shopping mall atrocity was a response to this – just as the Twin Towers attack and the London bombings…

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