ABC News Discovers War-for-Resources in Africa, Ignores US Complicity
ABC News alerts us to 'fear gripping Congo’s Uvira' as M23 rebels displace 200,000, presenting it as another tragic but isolated African conflict. What they omit, conveniently, is the persistent, well-documented foreign backing of groups like M23, often tied to Rwanda, and ultimately, to the West's insatiable demand for Congo's vast mineral wealth—think cobalt for your electric cars and coltan for
your smartphones. This isn't just 'rebellion'; it’s resource warfare, disguised as ethnic strife. While ABC focuses on the immediate displacement, they never dig into whose geopolitical interests are served by this perpetual instability, or how US military aid to Rwanda, under leaders like Paul Kagame, might indirectly fuel these proxy conflicts. It's almost as if acknowledging the chain of cause
and effect would complicate the neat 'local conflict' narrative. How convenient for corporate media to frame suffering without ever pointing to the puppet masters holding the strings.