international court of justice always contains in does this apply to for many votes? this to say that the a freed up with will, tightest rates of unemployment and equality and corruption. with back to mind, you would think that the election on between tonight might be a golden opportunity for the da. so that's because largest position policy. because for the 1st time since it came into fall was 1994. the amc is expected to move the national majority, but the da's so i'm going to post away so that because of that, it is a bit to alternative at the behest of some to buy. so from the distance to the left of it, some people even believe that's where it's a wind power. the d a what bring back a potted, rolling back benefits like social, bronze, and the polish incorrect to policies. what dimension it strong focus on cooperation with wisdom countries but the party sl hopeful. also, the africa will be governed by a new multi party trots a government with

a da for feeling its role as a strong and capacity based on our size and our track record of good governance. so i see on also the africans to gauge seriously with the urgent message conveyed by this particular advertisement repeats. that there's only one way to prevent an see if, if doomsday. and that is to vote for the da, the challenges faced by the da at the put that is quarrels with the ac, race and history. in fact, the policy has been supported from the anglo american establishment forgive for visits to london's famous to time house. things tend to be consistent on having a separate wisdom oriented foreign policy. but none of those supports them reaching out to the united states for special electoral or besides. we appealed to a government recognize the high stakes for south africa and the lead up to enough to mass of the 2024 national and provincial elections. it is in this context that

we now form the request to a politician, democracy to engage with consequences, to run up to the election. we have our regional organizations, we have as a d, c. we have the african union, and indeed we have the united nations as well. they always come to monitor our elections. in fact, we invite them. we say do come in monitor, but now for a non state entity like this is basically saying we are mortgaging our democracy to other powers. i must say that no certification had been for these hard for this democracy. will allow with situation it's not even daisy know so that it can now is situation would so freely to is handed over on this to the black to then this the economy feed on site is the 3rd largest political part to you. so that's because in terms of foreign policy, the part to prioritize is eastern partnerships with countries like russia and china regarding domestic issues. it stands for a radical economy plan,

nationalization of city to stick to lock the mining industry. it also backs expropriation of land to redistribute to freely among the population with a goal of transferring 50 percent of the land to black people. the parts you see to see such changes. once we carry out peace, would we need except the government of men and women, black and white? what we're going to work with, wipes the board by the way. they wouldn't wait with the f. b. not because the wind, because they've got the message that is key to make it this way. that would not be given precedence over our black people because went to lead testing, but it's on the past. but no one is going to be taken to this. no one is going to be a chilled eh, no one is going to lose the spot. i perplexity on the basis of kind of support to

see that even if knowledge that's investors my yeah, he's party's policies. this includes nationalizing mines land without compensation for ccs. they would value most of the time he's supposed to just for me, the economy, the trusted afterwards is that if, if truly fighting for the working clause, it seems loc before me and mixes may change so that because politics anymore to match the way the previous system costs for all t. a motor vehicle and get into hands. but i do stay with our 2 international f. next on the modus operandi. host middle of chat and looks at the chocolate controversy in west africa by the the hello. i'm manila tran. you're tuned into modus operandi,

while wester's have been concerned about a chocolate shortage or price of searching for their favorite suite, treat little spot is given to where that chocolate is coming from, or what's causing the disruption in the supply chain towards workers right. on this episode, we'll explore complaints of the exportation of african farmers by multinational western corporations. and how recent anti western sentiment and politics may turn the so called chocolate war into a hot one. all right, let's get into the m o. the s no secret that africa is a content rich and natural resources from precious gems like diamonds to cobalt the

powers, the lithium for your cell phones and eaves to the cocoa used to create your favorite dessert. it's all found in africa, but in recent years, africa is more northern parts known as the hell region. and much of west africa have kind of come under scrutiny by western powers. namely, the us and france between political instability such as kuda taz to the plight of cocoa farmers looking to earn more from multinational corporations such as nestle or cargo. the eyes of the west are looking toward africa. joining us to discuss that is not a freeman. he is an organizer with the pan african community action and coordinating committee member for the black alliance for peace. he's also a host at voices with vision at w p. s. w here in the dc metro, that's part of the pacifica network of stations. so net 5 1st. in recent weeks news

across the us, it was highlighting the chocolate shortage. bloomberg reported that rock cocoa was surging towards $10000.00 a ton. that's an unprecedented number for this commodity. however, the source of this shortage was actually man made african co go far, but being farmers were actually demanding higher prices for their product from, you know, companies such as nestle or hershey, cargill general mills and so forth. so that's a chocolate is a $130000000000.00 industry annually. get the farmers in places like coats of law or gonna aren't about a dollar a day. the farmers were asking for pennies more, but the corporations decided they wouldn't pay it. thing the farmers were acting like a cartel, trying to be like opec, so they just stop buying the beans. now the farmers are in a right and the end consumers like you and me,

are paying the price your thoughts on this as well. this is a result of the near liberalism of the international global economy. the relationship between the coke farmers and the corporations, like nestle, hershey, and car gurus and general mills. and these are a direct legacy of european colonization of africa. and then what we're seeing is the contention between you know, the farmers and, and regular peep. ready and their intent to, to charge a passive self determination to start their interest. and so under new colonialism, africa still doesn't control the exports of the defense goods for even the cat. and this is the cast classical co and where the money is, is when it comes out of the country as manufacturing. and we find that the finished goods like the chopped, the bars and things that we have. and in particularly in ivory coast and gonna is

this 4 major corporate producing countries and that's a camera room nigeria go to our ivory coast and i have to say, i've been gone it gone and i've read close in the farmers. they're like you said, it's only like $1.00 a day or something like that. and we're not even talking about the disparities and big plantation. coca pharmacy, 1st at the small family farms. the big plantations are what's financed and encouraged by the structure adjustment programs and, or the low lending of i'm s, world bank. but the coke of farmers regards whether it's punts asians, or small funds, are now beginning to realize their interest in what's happened to this is what's driving the price up isn't particularly ivory coast encana. they changed to gather to put up a fixed price. this also higher for them to be able to the, to sell the price of their coke up and also included what's known, what they're calling, living income, differentiate. and that live in income,

different gene show, which is part of the higher prices to go directly to the farmers. now, new liberalism, new liberalism doesn't broach anything about, it's not, it doesn't, it's not for the interest of regular people, regular people's values only as good as what their profit, what, how much profit they can yield to corporations, that international finance capital. so it doesn't really think about those things now. hershey and nestle and all these other corporations. and this is what we saw initially when the, the, or the coca farmer is organized and initiated this price fixing these countries the, they had to go on a public relations acknowledging the fairness of this and that they would comply with this a higher price. but then reneged almost, it was just really just the do something in the public, but then also started go reverting back to only paying the lower price. and that as a result of this, the farmers also started withholding, trying to sort of a battle

a contention. withholding their coca, but at the same time the, you know, the companies in the international market, what's the co farmers don't control can this than that and also just like they do corporations, they just raise the prices in order to deal with a shortage of, of what is cocoa, so that's what we're, we're seeing here. we're seeing the, the farmers realizing their interest in trying to fight back. and so, yeah. to yes, so hershey, mars and mando as are 3 of the top 5 chocolate manufacturers in the world. all american companies, any surprise to you, that the reason for the shortage, the plate of the farmers is not being discussed by mainstream media outlets here states. i know this is not any surprise at all. one of the inconvenience of the, the moment is that we're living in the time we're actually experiencing the time of

the year. the chocolate is, you know, being advertised, some of the companies and news like this, what we're not getting sympathy for these big companies, like hershey and nestle, and all of that with some countries really, especially they, they can't really afford to cover africa regularly and especially not in any honest way, and without the racial, under tons of the racial spin racist, been that it has, you know, the advocates backwards and whatnot. news like what's happening here regarding africa has potential of a weakening, the, a more like pan african consciousness among the african or the black communities and in a pen african and working class by now, concerts among these communities within the africa, within the western countries. so africa has to be depicted. the only way for people does not have simplifies and, and have a more pen african as or, or international list. regard or, or, or per view is the aspect path repair depicted as backward and felt with terrorism

in violence and was, these are the needs of west to a system. there's not people centered movements for workers like the farmers in africa and whatnot. and then the people know, with the farming in the top of the industry, this all this, you know, child labor exploitation, the big plantations exploit tired of labor and whatnot. these things have to be made in the blind spots of, of the western populations. otherwise, it will gain zip sympathy, the corporations cannot afford. and so now here's the twist i would say in this, on savory story. several of these cocoa being producing states are equal wass member states, the ivory coast and gonna alone represent 70 percent of the world's production. now we're learning that us after com intends to build a brand new drone basis in, in those states and been in as well. your group, the black alliance for peace issued a statement condemning this move. so 1st,

explain 1st why you think the drawing bases are a bad idea and i don't know, is it a coincidence? the situation with the cocoa being farmers in coast of juan gonna so that the drone bases urbana ideas, not just the drone bases that are a bad idea. it is the whole and for comments known as the u. what's known as an for com is the us africa command, which is, you know, political read it all across the continent. it is united states military occupation of the african continent under the so called auspices of trying to fight terrorism in assist the advocate and everything else. but michael langley, the commander band for, comes as a couple weeks ago, put it plainly when he was asked about the why u. s. military is in africa and what, what people should know about that or the reason for it. and one of the most the most telling aspect of what he said along with all the other fluff is that they were there, quote, for influence and access. this is why on for commas is there. and we know that the

presence of africa has been nothing but exponentially put an increase the terrorism terrace activities there, there's a lot of atrocities based on the drones of drone bases, particularly in some malia in libya. and so when they talking about new drawing bases in beginning, gone and are because they're really just talking about extending the type of atrocities that not just drone bases. but all of our com is responsible for on the continent of africa. so it's, it's not a good idea. i don't think it's a coincidence that these 3 countries are considered for, in relationship to the coca and the coca production in particular. but it's not just the coke of production. it's just a come really about all kinds of industry and acts as an advocate, whether be timber or oil or the root uranium. but what the west fears is

a potential of consciousness of self determination and africa. a radical, even if lead by workers movement is a dangerous to their interest and we can see self determination. and those types of things express themselves and particularly in the form of friends comedies with these countries have kicked out france. and we also know that the united that means year this part of the, of the, what they're referring to now is the lines of the health states, the last country to take over from really the comp are to class as now calling for the remove of african from his territory the, the shore answer and i don't wanna be labour that but directly to your point is that the, the expect any expansion of africa, whether be drawing bases or anything is dangerous. traffic has worked and been met and nothing but of destruction and death. and they have a motive for doing so, which is about control and access and coming up next to

usually, an economic block doesn't threaten military action, but that's exactly what equal was did. following a string of cruise in west africa, we'll discuss it when we return with net 5. freeman. so type m o will be right back the the, what is part of the, the employee would post good. isn't the defense you of us and that in the word part, is it something deeper, more complex might be present? good. let's stop without cases. let's go out of

the car. how much they have to spend. i'm going to plan with you whatever you do. do not watch my new show. seriously. why watch something that's so different. several opinions that he won't get anywhere else. welcome to please or do you have the state department c, i a weapons, bankers, multi 1000000000 dollar corporations. choose your facts for you. go ahead. change and whatever you do, don't want my shell stay main street because i'm probably going to make you, i'm comfortable. my show is called direction. but again, you probably don't wanna watch it because it might just change the way you the welcome back to the m. o. i'm a no chance net 5 freeman was kind enough to hang out a little bit more. thanks for sticking around that. so, equal was no, isn't an acronym for economic community of west african states. why haven't they

spoken up against these multi national corporations who live in points of the group? economic? i mean, it's in the name. shouldn't agriculture be more important to the group then? foreign militarism interests? so this is, i'm glad you asked this question and it's a very important question echo watch. the economic community, west african states, has its origins in the seventy's and did have. and it's came right after we solve this, the sweeping of independence and become ization movements in africa, or independence con countries gaining their independence from formal colonialism in, in, in africa, from europe. but then the configuration of, of echo was, is that is, is comprised of leaders of the various representatives of various governments in west africa, of the country. the 14 or 15 countries that comprise africa's. and being the new colonialism which is the control of the politics and economics of the countries.

but with all the outward trappings of independence, that means that is fostered. well, we referred to as a comfortable class, people who seem to be working in the interest of their population, but really are beholden to interest outside of foreign interest. that's what a comfort door is and be with, with these being the leaders that are heading most is countries over heading all of these countries. um, even though that it had good intentions, the beginning now at gloss service pretty much sort of the interest of the western countries. this is why they threaten the military intervention into here because of what happened there. the taking over, despite the poppy popularity of the take over, and the polls in the expelling of the french, they were going to, they threaten military intervention. and the only reason they didn't is because their, their populations were the population of the various countries heading eckel was we're not for the intervention and we're already demonstrating against them. we had

demonstrations or celebrations of this, of the, those countries that are expelling france. and then demonstrations against the leadership and these compet doors in the countries that are comprising across and that's and we're threatening for military and intervention. so there's a lot of political instability in west africa right now. i mean, cruise in molly burkina faso guinea, new share was the last bastion of american military influence out there in this the hell. but now under the hunter government, they just abruptly cancelled this 12 year old security packed with african, the spokesman for the hunter, colonel major. i'm a do under rom on said this quote. the government of need air taken into account the aspirations and interest of its people revokes with immediate effect. the agreement concerning the status of us military personnel and civilian defense department employees. in plain language, he basically said new share was expelling the united states. how do you see this

impacting the, the growing threat of, say, terrorism from the likes of all, kinda this is a pretty complex kind of question and, and, and so i think it's, it's the 1st should be understood that after come was not the despite what they were saying was not having any success, nor the french foreign legion or whatever the. and then i also as friends in the us have the have because military footprints with the us, having the largest military footprint on the corner of africa puts us ostensibly for the purpose of a fighting terrorism. and they were not having any, if anything, terrorism at once with terrorism group is expand, it increased since their presence. so to do so, it would be mistake to think that without them that they would, the some reason that the, that the terrorism would necessarily grow. because they were gone. now i also think

it's important for us to consider what stabilization and how we think of it stabilisation and stabilization for who. so this has been instability for the western economic order and domination of western countries and their ability to have access to mental resources into super exploit africans. but africa, the like we talked about the font farmers and whatnot, who have had been under colonialism for, you know, hundreds of years or so centuries. there was no stability for them. this doesn't represent instability for them. what's happening. and in fact, we should be careful to understand that any, any course, 4 of the quantization for africa, of being able to the polls, the domination of western countries that should include the united states. now is the top new cohen eyes on the african continent required the going through

a phase of, of expelling the military's and also expelling the influence of sanctions and, and the international financial institutions like the i m, f and world bank. it would have to go through that in order to gain any sense of real people centered stability, then other words, governments and, and states that are operating in the best interest of the mass of the people or the mass of being able to assume control. and so in this sense, what's happening is a precursor, a necessary 1st step further, it'd be real independent, self determined, and even hopefully united africa. and so black lines are peace stand for against all forms of military intervention in all forms of intervention. and so i think this is the we want the, i think is be a, it's a good 1st step the niger is taken. and then we, we call for all the countries in africa to take the same step. and yeah,

take the same step in and look for a sub determine united africa, this work in the best interest of the masses. yes, stability for who is a great way to look at it. as you mentioned earlier, a new year is uranium rich. france is one of the largest purchasers of uranium from the share. but the military junta announced previously that they were going to halt all sales to the french. there were concerns that emanuel my crone might take military action into new share, you know, under the guise of overturning this cool, which apparently seem to be a very popular movement that hasn't happened though. on the part of france. we saw a lot of russian flags being waived there, but when you combine this with the eviction of the us military, how do you see things playing out in the chair? yeah it's, it's hard to say, i don't think it would be to put it lightly,

a good look for there to be a military intervention on the part of the direct military and the pension on the part of the west. to intervene in easier, especially since these, these movements seem to be quite popular. and we've also seen molly, particularly molly and these year and became a facile form what they're calling an alliance of the health states security alliance. the 1st of forms of security saying that an attack on one is impact on all of them. and all of them have had taken anti france or anti western disposition wanting to have their own currency, whatnot. and now now it's looking like it's also spilling over to the us with us was trying to avoid that and be neutral and this, but everyone knows that they're all, it's all connected. what's also going to be interesting is, is in, we didn't get a chance and we won't be able to talk about it is the developments in senegal, where there is a newly elected president, the youngest president and you know, and,

and a prime minister of these 2 young people represent a growing young movement. it's also talking about and to france and the self determination of a sent a goal. and then also in a guinea besought where the revolutionary party of the p i d. c, the party of a meal car. cobra all has taken been able to form a coalition and, and taking power in a boat in power. so these are popular governments that they can't accuse of being taken over by 2 military interventions. but all of them, the ones that are in the military lines and the ones, and these have the same, basically same as central agenda. and i think the only thing that can result if, if the west persist with its aggressiveness and its insistence that dominate it, they're going to bring all of these forces together. we're going to see emerging, a new movement of the conversation with the neil colonization in west africa, which is long overdue. that's a free man,

member of papa and black alliance for peace, also co host and voices with vision on pacific. a thank you so much for your perspective today. thank you for having me. and that is going to do it for today's episode of modus operandi the show that takes deep into foreign policy and current affairs. i'm your host mentor, which and thanks for tuning in. we'll see again next time to figure out the m o the the probably her, my little sister store because the model girl to i got you. no problem seeing it. i'm out of in the same documents. yeah. side of the drive i showed my brother

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