IRC President and Director George Rupp is also a director of the secretive and euphemistically named Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, a right-wing Judeo-Christian front organization. Other PCHPA directors include Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Robert Dole and David Beckman from the equally fundamentalist Christian front group Bread for the World. The Museveni government has forced 1.3 million Acholi people onto death camps in northern Uganda and denied them humanitarian relief.
Starvation happens not because this is Africa, or the Congo, it is because we are witnessing the most devastating example of predatory capitalism and heartless, absolute greed, combined with a spiritual crises-in the "first" world-of unprecedented proportions. The long term control of Congo's resources is best served by eliminating as many black people as possible. The capacity to control Congo's resources is enhanced by spreading terror, uprooting people, destroying families, sowing distrust and hatred. It is called divide and conquer and it is the oldest trick in the book of European conquest. The word that best describes the portfolio of psychological, emotional, physical, social, cultural and political effects of such campaigns of destabilization and terror is DERACINATION.
And all the while the humanitarian "misery" industry is raking in billions of dollars on programs to "help" the Congolese people, and universities create new programs and departments to train the privileged "development" work force, all to create and institutionalize dependency. This is structural violence, and it is part of a cycle of perpetuated wealth and privilege. It is managed inequality.
This is the U.S. foreign policy in action.
The IRC merely institutionalizes the false framework of thinking that supports war and plunder and the entrenchment, rather than alleviation, of structural violence. Behind the psychological warfare the picture in Congo is very different, and the responsible forces are easily identified.
The Falsification of Consciousness
Here's how the system projects-and inculcates-the falsified consciousness about Africa that people in the West are blinded by.
One of the long term dictator Mobutu Sese Seko's right-hand men was Albert-Henri Buisine, a French mercenary-pirate who worked on the Kamanyola, the luxury yacht where Mobutu arrived by helicopter to receive foreign backers and "VIP" cronies. While Mobutu frequently visited the White House, Brussels, Paris, Tokyo, Geneva, London-and sometimes Tel Aviv-he regularly received his cronies and patrons on his yacht in Zaire.
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