"...the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from its economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc. That hard currency would have allowed Africa to shake off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.”"
Hmm, sorry, money is the core of the problem. Changing the form of money, the particular currency, is NOT gonna shake off the problems which are rooted in the very system of commodity production. Karl Marx discussed this a bunch of times in Capital and its foundational notes, the Grundrisse. Ellen Brown has long pitched "good currency" as a solution to the problems of capitalism, promoting stuff such as Modern Money Theory and state-owned banks, putting forth the Bank of North Dakota as an example, never mind the massive eco-rape behind the wealth which has enabled this bank to prosper.
A critique of MMT, is included in this article written by "my underground twin brother" Jack Straw in 2012,
Gaddafi's son Mutassim Billah Gaddafi, national security adviser, visited the State Department in Washington DC in April 2009, Hilary raised a toast to him.
The Gaddafi regime worked well with the US government right up to February 2011. It conducted some extraordinary renditions for the CIA in the wake of 9/11, and adopted an "economic reform" program "suggested" by the IMF. The Economy Minister who was in charge of that became a leading government figure after Gaddafi's ouster.
At the time fighting broke out in the streets of Libyan cities in February 2011, another of Gaddafi's sons, Khamis, commander of the elite army unit named after him, the Khamis Brigade, was in the US, touring US military bases.
He was allowed to leave and go home to assume his command. The US government decided the Gaddafi regime was not gonna survive the upsurge, and thus turned on it. Amazing, all the revisionist historical accounts trying to make this naked power calculation into some sort of deep conspiracy.
Wow thank you so much for the shoutout. This is a wonderful framing for a newsletter.
Glad to have read your fascinating piece!
Thanks, Vincent.
"...the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from its economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc. That hard currency would have allowed Africa to shake off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.”"
Hmm, sorry, money is the core of the problem. Changing the form of money, the particular currency, is NOT gonna shake off the problems which are rooted in the very system of commodity production. Karl Marx discussed this a bunch of times in Capital and its foundational notes, the Grundrisse. Ellen Brown has long pitched "good currency" as a solution to the problems of capitalism, promoting stuff such as Modern Money Theory and state-owned banks, putting forth the Bank of North Dakota as an example, never mind the massive eco-rape behind the wealth which has enabled this bank to prosper.
A critique of MMT, is included in this article written by "my underground twin brother" Jack Straw in 2012,
https://dailybattle.pairsite.com/2012/occupy_target_destroy_ruling_money_fetish.shtml
Why did the US government turn on Gaddafi? Check out these two items.
Clinton-Gaddafi jpg 2009 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mutassim_Gadaffi_Hilary_Clinton.jpg
Gaddafi's son Mutassim Billah Gaddafi, national security adviser, visited the State Department in Washington DC in April 2009, Hilary raised a toast to him.
The Gaddafi regime worked well with the US government right up to February 2011. It conducted some extraordinary renditions for the CIA in the wake of 9/11, and adopted an "economic reform" program "suggested" by the IMF. The Economy Minister who was in charge of that became a leading government figure after Gaddafi's ouster.
At the time fighting broke out in the streets of Libyan cities in February 2011, another of Gaddafi's sons, Khamis, commander of the elite army unit named after him, the Khamis Brigade, was in the US, touring US military bases.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-officials-assisted-visit-by-gaddafi-son/2011/03/25/AFT017YB_story.html
He was allowed to leave and go home to assume his command. The US government decided the Gaddafi regime was not gonna survive the upsurge, and thus turned on it. Amazing, all the revisionist historical accounts trying to make this naked power calculation into some sort of deep conspiracy.