The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

In The Dark Sahara ( Pluto Press, 2009), Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the U.S. and Algeria in fabricating false flag terrorism to justify the launch of a new Saharan front in Washington's War on Terror. In this new book, he reveals how the Pentagon's designation of the region as a Terror Zone has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of innocent people. Beginning in 2004, with what local people called the U.S. invasion of the Sahel, The Dying Sahara shows how repressive, authoritarian regimes, cashing in on US terrorism rents, provoked Tuareg rebellions in both Niger and Mali. Multinationals expropriated Tuareg lands for uranium and puppeteers in Washington and Algiers pulled the strings of a new, narco-trafficking Al Qaeda. Keenan's chillingly detailed research shows that the U.S. and its new combatant African command (AFRICOM), far from bringing security, peace, and development, have created a self-fulfilling prophecy of terror and instability in a region the size of western Europe.

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The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

In The Dark Sahara ( Pluto Press, 2009), Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the U.S. and Algeria in fabricating false flag terrorism to justify the launch of a new Saharan front in Washington's War on Terror. In this new book, he reveals how the Pentagon's designation of the region as a Terror Zone has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of innocent people. Beginning in 2004, with what local people called the U.S. invasion of the Sahel, The Dying Sahara shows how repressive, authoritarian regimes, cashing in on US terrorism rents, provoked Tuareg rebellions in both Niger and Mali. Multinationals expropriated Tuareg lands for uranium and puppeteers in Washington and Algiers pulled the strings of a new, narco-trafficking Al Qaeda. Keenan's chillingly detailed research shows that the U.S. and its new combatant African command (AFRICOM), far from bringing security, peace, and development, have created a self-fulfilling prophecy of terror and instability in a region the size of western Europe.

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The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

by Jeremy Keenan
The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

The Dying Sahara: US Imperialism and Terror in Africa

by Jeremy Keenan

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In The Dark Sahara ( Pluto Press, 2009), Jeremy Keenan exposed the collusion between the U.S. and Algeria in fabricating false flag terrorism to justify the launch of a new Saharan front in Washington's War on Terror. In this new book, he reveals how the Pentagon's designation of the region as a Terror Zone has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of thousands of innocent people. Beginning in 2004, with what local people called the U.S. invasion of the Sahel, The Dying Sahara shows how repressive, authoritarian regimes, cashing in on US terrorism rents, provoked Tuareg rebellions in both Niger and Mali. Multinationals expropriated Tuareg lands for uranium and puppeteers in Washington and Algiers pulled the strings of a new, narco-trafficking Al Qaeda. Keenan's chillingly detailed research shows that the U.S. and its new combatant African command (AFRICOM), far from bringing security, peace, and development, have created a self-fulfilling prophecy of terror and instability in a region the size of western Europe.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780745329611
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 03/26/2013
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Franz J. Broswimmer is a Research Specialist at the Globalization Research Center, University of Hawai'i -Manoa. His academic fields of expertise include environmental sociology, social theory, and globalization. He has published several articles in academic social science journals.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction. From Conspiracy to Blowback Chapter 2 The US invasion of the Sahara-Sahel 
Chapter 3 Repressing opposition and extracting Terrorism rents 
Chapter 4 A Self-fulfilling prophecy 
Chapter 5 The Chickens come home to roost. Rebellion and War Crimes Chapter 6 Why the Tuareg took up arms  
Chapter 7 Telling Stories. How the media and academe supported Bush's 'information war'
Chapter 8 Footing the Bill. How the World Bank funded terrorism. 
Chapter 9 Taking the War on Terror into the rest of Africa Chapter 10 America's new Africa Command (AFRICOM): the rhetoric and the reality   

Chapter 11 Who's backing al Qaeda in the Sahara/Sahel?  
Chapter 12 US Imperial overreach  

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