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support. we choose to look so common ground, the the hello, i'm manila chan. you're tuned into modus operandi. why westerners have been concerned about a chocolate shortage or prices 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 worker's rights. on this episode, we'll explore complaints of the exportation of african farmers by multinational western corporation. 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

. it's no secret that africa is a consummate, rich and natural resources from precious gems like diamonds to cobalt the powers. the lithium for your cellphones 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 to the top as 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 is not a far 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 tonne, that's an unprecedented number for this commodity. however, the source of this shortage was actually man made african cocoa 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 court of law or gonna earn about a dollar a day. the farmers were asking for pennies more, but the corporations decided they wouldn't pay it,

saying 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 across the 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 top, the bars and things that we have. and in particularly in ivory coast and gone, it is this 4 major coke are producing countries and that's a camera room nigeria of go through 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 make only like $1.00 a day or something like that. and we're not even talking about the disparities and big plantation of 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 landings of i met with bank, but the coke of farmers regards whether it's punt, asians, or small funds, are now beginning to realize their interest in what's happened to this is what's driving the price up as in particularly ivory coast encana, they came together to put up a fixed price this also higher for them to be able to,

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 genes show, which is part of the higher prices to go directly to the farmers. now, new level is 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. and 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. um the they had to go on a public relations acknowledging the fairness of this and that they would comply with this higher price. but then we need it 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 and the international market, what's the co farmers don't control can withstand 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 this shortage the plight of the farmers is not being discussed

by mainstream media outlets here states. i know this is not any surprise at all. i'm 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, most 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, 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, race, suspend 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 pen african consciousness among the african or the black communities and in a pen african and working class by now most conferences among these communities within the african, within the western countries. so africa has to be depicted. the only way for people

does not have simple size and, and have more pen african as will 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 and 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 for us 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 and for commas is there. and we know that the presence of africa has done nothing but exponentially put a increase the terrorism terrace activities there. there's a lot of atrocities based on the drones. and the drone bases, particularly in somalia 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 drawn basis. 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 in 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 comfort to class. as now, calling for the removal 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. 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 a hello and welcome to the cost of full warranties. here we discuss the wheel in the

1935 facets, easily led by dictator benito mussolini decided to expand its colonial empire in africa and take over the opium. by that time, e z o b a was the only fully independent states on the continent. back in 1896, its inhabitants were able to defeat the italian colonies and defend their independence since then. rome craved for revenge for the humiliating defeat. in the morning of october 3, 1935. without any announcement, the foxes attacked ethiopia and bombarded it most severely. ethiopian armed forces bod, courageously. but the roots allergy of the italians knew no bounds. they use not

only massive bombing attacks on civilians, but also the chemical weapons toxic gases. this change the course of the war. as a result of the occupation of ethiopia, by the fastest 760000 people were killed. the capture of the african state was committed with europe's tacit approval. britain and france recognize the annexation, giving the green light to a further fastest expansion in the world and baby and the way for the outbreak of world war 2. the. the welcome back to the m. o. i'm a miller chan network. friedman was kind enough to hang out a little bit more. thanks for sticking around that, but so equal was, you know, isn't an acronym for economic community of west african states. why haven't they spoken up against these multinational corporations?

who are the points of the group? economic? i mean it's, and the name shouldn't agriculture be more important to the group then? foreign militarism interest? so this is, i'm glad you asked this question and then it's a very important question. echo was the economic community with 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 independent countries gaining their independence from formal colonialism in, in, in africa, from europe. but then the configuration of, of echo weiss 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, the comprise applicant, 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, it 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 it gloss service impurity must serve as the interest of the western countries. this is why they threaten the mil, terry intervention intern easier 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 threatened military intervention. and the only reason they didn't is because their, their populations were the population of the various countries heading echo 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 demonstrations against the leadership . and these compet doors in the countries that are comprising across and that's and were 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 uh, the spokesman for the hunter, colonel major, i'm gonna do. i'm to run line 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 u. s. 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 complicated question and, and so i think it's, it's the 1st should be understood that and for. com 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 biggest military footprints with the us, having the largest military front print on the con, the back of the puts us ostensibly for the purpose of, of fighting terrorism. and they were not having any, if anything, terrorism at once with terrorism group has expanded increased since their presence . so to do so, it would be mistake to think that without them that they would the, for some reason that the, 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. we stabilisation and stabilization for who. so this has been instability for the western economic order, the domination of western countries and their ability to have access to mental resources and to super exploit africans. but africa the like we talking 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 being able to the polls, the domination of western countries that should include united states. now as a top new colonize on african content, required, the going through

a phase of, of expelling the military's and also ex, building influence of sanctions and, and the international financial institutions like the i met from world bank. it would have to go through that in order to gain any sense of real people centered stability. then there was governments and, and states that are operating in the best interest of the mass of the people or the mass is 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 and 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, and again,

take the same step in and look for a sub determine the 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 hold 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 to which apparently seems 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 share or? 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 intervention on the part of the west to intervene in these year, especially since these, these movements seem to be quite popular. and we've also seen molly particularly molly these year and became a facile form what they're calling an alliance of the health states, a 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 that everyone knows that they're all, it's all connected. what's also going to be interesting is, is, and we didn't get a chance. and we won't be able to talk about it is the developments in seminole where there is a newly elected president. and he's the youngest president and,

you know, and, and a prime minister. these 2 young people represent a growing young movement. it's also talking to and to france and the self determination of a sent a goal and then also in a guinea, besought with the revolutionary party of the p a i g. c. with the party of a meal car club brawl has taken been able to form a coalition and, and taking power and i voted in the 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 it dominate it, they're going to bring all of these forces together. and we're going to see emerging new movements of the quantization or d. neil colonization in west africa, which is long overdue. that's law freeman,

member of papa and black alliance for peace, also co host and voices with vision on pacifica. thank you so much for your perspective today. thank you for having me. and that is going to do it for today's episode at modus operandi the show that digs 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

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