Source: Boiling Frogs PostAndrew Gavin Marshall
What are the broader motivations and
implications behind the Kony 2012 video? Taking a look at the
geopolitics of the region, its recent history, and Western subsidies for
dictatorships (“dictatorship by franchise”) as well as profiting off of
genocide (such as in the Congo), the Kony 2012 video is designed as an
emotional appeal for military intervention in Uganda to purportedly stop
a conflict which had stopped several years ago. Taken with the context
of major oil reserves having been discovered in Uganda, along with the
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) program to militarize foreign policy for
the continent, the video is a propaganda ploy designed to expand U.S.
imperial hegemony in the region. This is no less evident from the fact
that the most interviewed person in the video, John Prendergast, was a
former State Department and National Security Council official during
the Clinton administration, responsible for overseeing U.S. imperial
policy in the region, and has since mobilized campaigns of celebrity
personalities to promote foreign intervention. Coincidence or
consistency?
