Flashmag! Issue 123 November 2021 - Flashmag! Numéro 123 (4) | Page 15

Political prostitution in Africa is an avatar of the neocolonial spoliation system , which primarily benefits Western multinationals , which themselves , organized in the form of a cartel , have become , through their influence on Western political circles , real king ’ s makers . . For the past 30 years no Western leader has dared to attack the interests of the Western bourgeoisie and has survived politically . As political parties in Western democracies increasingly depend on donors who are drawn mainly from the bourgeois classes , it makes sense that elected politicians will in return make favors to those who contributed to their electoral victory by initiating policies that protect their interests . And more and more there is no longer any di erence , between the bourgeoisie and the political class in the West ; because politicians and well-heeled businessmen operate in the same circles . And worse it even happens that , as in the case of Donald Trump , the bourgeoisie itself comes to exercise political power , and thereby allows itself to directly influence the social economic landscape for its pecuniary interests . Many still remember the ban on Chad by the United States , and its placement in the list of countries whose nationals were banned from entering the United States under the Trump administration , not for terrorism or corruption , but as direct consequence of the financial imbroglio which opposed the Chadian State to the American oil giant Exxon Mobil , which Rex Tillerson , American businessman and politician , was the CEO from 2006 to 2016 , and Secretary of State ( Minister of Foreign A airs ) of the United States from 2017 to 2018 during Donald Trump ' s presidency . The late President Idriss Deby ' s claims of the percentage his country was owed in the exploitation of its oil had earned him admonitions from the Trump administration . Chad , which until then had been a reliable ally in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel , had overnight become a terrorist country to be put on the blacklist .
This example illustrates very well the mafia connection that exist between the Western states and the Western bourgeoisie , when it comes to the defense of the mercantile interests which are in line with the implementation of the neocolonial policy , which always sacrifices the well-being of populations in the tropics who are unfortunate enough to have under their feet , mineral wealth coveted by Western multinationals .
It would be a joke to think that these methods of another age are the sole prerogative of the right and the American hawks , because even the left and the oligarchy of new technologies which finances it handsomely , is not exempt from all reproaches , as attested by the shady deals of Microsoft , Apple and others in the exploitation of coltan in Congo ’ s war zones , where the mafia of the warlords plunder the country for the profit of the American multinationals . Where the state is bankrupt one exploits without paying the slightest tax , so logically leftist governments cannot question the order of the macabre disorder that enriches its financiers .
In the classic cases of tax dodging of Western multinationals in the tropics , where batches of money are delivered at night to executives of administrations in the tropics , to turn a blind eye to the tax royalties which are supposed to be collected to serve the public interest , the members of the Chadian government would have agreed to be greased the paw personally by Exxon mobile to forget the billions of dollars owed by Exxon Mobil to the State that there would not have been problems . When in speeches Africa is lectured by Western democracies for the corruption which is very high there , very few have the honesty to say that there are no corrupt without corrupters . And the biggest corrupters are unearthed not in the impoverished populations in the tropics but indeed among the members of the cartel of Western and Asian multinationals .
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