[Marxism] Will Sudan be re-colonized?

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Will Sudan be Re-Colonized?

By Stephen Gowans

The United States is maneuvering to introduce a UN peacekeeping force 
into Darfur, as a first step to securing control of the region’s vast 
supply of oil. US control of Darfur’s petroleum resources would deliver 
highly profitable investment opportunities to US firms, and scuttle 
China’s investment in the region, thereby slowing the rise of a 
strategic competitor whose continued industrial growth depends on secure 
access to foreign oil. Washington is using highly exaggerated charges of 
genocide as a justification for a UN intervention it would dominate, 
while at the same time opposing a workable peacekeeping plan acceptable 
to the Sudanese government that would see the current African Union 
mission in Darfur expand.

Continued at 
http://gowans.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/will-sudan-be-re-colonized/

________________________________________________
YOU MUST clip all extraneous text before replying to a message.
Send list submissions to: Marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism