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Media Roots Radio

Congo's Resource Curse & US Backed Atrocities

Media Roots Radio

Abby & Robbie Martin

News

4.6827 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2015

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Media Roots Radio is joined by Kambale Musavuli, Spokesperson for Friends of the Congo, to talk about how Congo's resource curse feeds the military industrial complex and why anti-drone activists need to organize with the Congolese to disrupt cobalt extraction. Donate to Media Roots by going to the Mediaroots.org homepage and clicking the donate link on the top right. Please put 'podcast' or 'media roots radio' in the comment section/body of the donation if you would like to allocate the donation specifically to that. Follow Abby @abbymartin & @kambale. http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/

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and Earlier this year, a U.S. drone strike killed two innocent hostages,

0:42.9

one American and one Italian citizen near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

0:47.4

The incident spurred outrage across the media,

0:50.2

resulting in Obama having to apologize for the grave error.

0:52.9

If only we could expect the same apology

0:55.0

for the thousands of drone victims across the Muslim world

0:58.0

since the advent of the war on terror,

1:01.0

most of which whose names were never so much as uttered

1:04.0

by those who sealed their deaths.

1:06.0

It's important to remember that in today's globalized world,

1:10.0

almost everything is interconnected,

1:11.6

and when it comes to war, conflicts are interlocked in disturbing ways.

1:15.6

While people rightly demand that Black Lives Matter in America,

1:20.6

Black lives have been forgotten in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC,

1:25.6

where nearly 6 million people have died just in the last 15 years.

1:30.5

And every death by way of drone wouldn't be possible without turning a blind eye to the ongoing

1:35.2

genocide there.

1:37.2

Joining Media Roots Radio to talk about Congo's resource curse and how it relates to the

1:42.8

perpetuation of the military industrial complex is

1:46.3

Kambali Musavuli spokesperson for friends of Congo.

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