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Radio War Nerd EP #138 — "Atrocity" Interventionist Propaganda in Zaire (Patreon)

Published:
2018-06-29 18:00:39
Edited:
2018-06-29 18:04:25
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2026-06
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Recorded June 25, 2018

After a brief discussion of New York subway poetry & Charles Simic, the War Nerd and Ames look back at how atrocity interventionist-propaganda works, taking two examples: Fake atrocity stories after the Syrian government retook East Aleppo in December 2016; and fake atrocity stories planted in the US media in 1978 to justify a Belgian-French-American intervention in the mineral-rich Shaba (Katanga) province of Zaire (Congo) . . . But before Ames gets to 1978, he retells some incredible and dark stories about post-colonial Congo/Zaire, from the assassination plots against Patrice Lumumba, to the "Cuban Civil War On Lake Tanganyika", between the CIA's anti-Castro forces and Che Guevera's Cuban-Simba forces . . . and up to the Shaba I and Shaba II rebellions in 1977-8, culminating in the staged fake atrocities of whites planted in the major US media, to justify western intervention on behalf of mining interests . . .

At 1:38:21 the War Nerd and Ames look at current war news: How media choice of which atrocities to show also decide which wars they're helping recruit for . . . Erdogan-ultranationalist election victory in Turkey, which is undergoing the worst mass state purge of any country in decades . . . Media story claiming Algeria force-marching migrants back to Niger . . . US denies visa to former NATO chief Javier Solano . . . The Parsley Massacre of Hispaniola . . . 

Maps:

* Simba rebellion 1964

* Cuban "Civil War" on Lake Taganyika

* Shaba/Katanga province, Kolwezi city

Buy RWN sound engineer Brendon Anderegg's new album "June" here 

Total time: 2:13:39

Direct link to this episode's mp3 here 

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Eamon

As usual, fantastic episode. Lumumba always struck me as fascinating and tragic leader.

radiowarnerd

Yes, very difficult to get good info on him too. Kapuscinski has some very vivid descriptions of Lumumba working a crowd, but I hear they've been called fiction.

radiowarnerd

Yeah, as a bitter ex-poet I'd say you're probably right. I'm not exactly an objective witness here.

Patrick Burke

I (regrettably) jumped on the Radio War Nerd train late, and so six years later I’m picking my way through the last bits of the archives I haven’t heard yet. Even listened to out of order and years later, these episodes are still all great, especially the historical contextual episodes. This topic is so relevant today in geopolitics that I keep forgetting that this isn’t current.

Chris Kohler

The more I look into the Leopold atrocities in Congo, the more grey this formerly very black and white seeming story looks. The "10 Million" number is not substantiated at all and is the estimation of a single, back in the day prominent anti-colonialist and the Belgian government wanted to disposes the king of his private colony and was running a campaign against him. Even so, what an international committee that was tasked with investigating the claims about atrocities accused Leopold and his employees of was not that they were committing atrocities themselves, but that they didn't do enough to keep their native employees from doing such things. Chopping off hands apparently was a common practice in the area before European colonists arrived and according to the official report, the white people running the colony didn't do enough to prevent that. Quite eye opening is also the fact that there weren't more than 250 Belgians in the colony under Leopold's rule. They would have been pretty busy chopping off tens of thousands of hands and killing 10 Million civilians.