Making Africa Safe for Plutocracy: AFRICOM Military Prospects
US “special forces” – a euphemism if ever there was one – have forty nine operations going in Africa, along with seven drone bases. The Empire is competing with China, Russia and Iran over how African resources are to be used. But why don’t Africans control their own natural resources? They are too busy trying to keep from starving, as this article describes.
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About The Author
Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his four books:
From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning
Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World
Co-Authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn
Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present and Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized
He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia WA.