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Maurice Carney: The US Has Always Been the Wrong Side of History in Africa
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
23 Jan 2018
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With AFRICOM and its "soldier-to-soldier" relationships having taken the place of US African diplomacy in the last decade the US is positioned to exercise hegemonic power over Africans in their own countries and across the planet, explains Maurice Carney of Friends of the Congo.

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