by Oui
Wed Jan 29th, 2025 at 10:35:31 AM EST
Disgusting ... fascism triumphs in the European Union. Likely Meloni will be applauded by the German-South African leadership in Washington DC.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is under investigation by Italian prosecutors over the release of a Libyan police chief Osama Elmasry under ICC arrest warrant
Un centro di detenzione in Libia (Foto di Amnesty International)
Italy's Meloni comes under fire over release of Libyan general accused of war crimes | The New Arab |
A sort of reverse CIA rendition flight: Italian Intelligence Dassault Falcon-900EX is flying from Rome Ciampino to Tripoli Mitiga to help Almasri flee ICC Justice on alleged war crimes.
American Justice Is Blinded and Cloaked ☹
Meloni, Piantedosi, Nordio e Mantovano denunciati per l'espulsione con volo di Stato del generale Almasri | - 24 Jan.2025 |
autore Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo [machine translation]
As reported by ANSA, "the lawyer Luigi Li Gotti, undersecretary of Justice in the Prodi government from 2006 to 2008, has filed a complaint for aiding and abetting and embezzlement with the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office against the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, the Ministers of the Interior and Justice, Matteo Piantedosi and Carlo Nordio, and the undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council, Alfredo Mantovano, holder of the delegation to the secret services, regarding the release of Osama Almasri, after his arrest in Turin, asking that "specific investigations be carried out" into the matter. According to the complaint, "the crime of aiding and abetting is committed by anyone who helps someone to evade investigations by the authorities, including those carried out by bodies of the International Criminal Court, or to avoid searches carried out by the same individuals. The law was updated in 2022 specifically with regard to investigations by the International Criminal Court." According to lawyer Li Gotti, "in the Almasri affair, the crime of embezzlement was also committed for the use of an Italian state plane to bring the Libyan commander back to his country".
Beyond the criminal aspects that will be examined by the competent judges, serious critical issues also emerge with regard to the "ministerial" expulsion that was supposedly ordered by Interior Minister Piantedosi, while his colleague Nordio, Minister of Justice, on the afternoon of Tuesday 22 January at 4 pm issued a statement in which he declared that he was "evaluating the formal transmission of the ICC request to the Attorney General of Rome, pursuant to Article 4 of Law 237 of 2012". An "evaluation" that was first delayed, and then very quickly, which concluded with a decision not to request precautionary measures to limit personal freedom from the Court of Appeal of Rome. So much so that General Almasri, around 7 pm on the same day, was put on a Falcon plane of the secret services that took him back to Tripoli, where he was welcomed by a cheering crowd and by the head of "his" militia RADA.
Libya: `No one will look for you': Forcibly returned from sea to abusive detention in Libya | Amnesty International - 15 July 2021 |
Libya has long been unsafe for refugees and migrants. Both state and non-state actors subject them to a catalogue of human rights violations and abuses including unlawful killings, torture and other ill-treatment, rape and other sexual violence, indefinite arbitrary detention in cruel and inhuman conditions, and forced labour, among others. Despite well-documented patterns of horrific abuse committed with impunity for over a decade, European states and institutions continue to provide material support and pursue migration policies enabling Libyan coastguards to intercept men, women and children attempting to flee to safety by crossing the Mediterranean Sea and forcibly return them to Libya.
Xenophobic head of states Meloni and Rutte lead Europe on measures to stop flow of migrants from the "jungle."
Italy PM Meloni visits Tunisia for migration talks
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with officials in Tunis to discuss what she called a "new approach" to irregular migration and economic cooperation with Tunisia.
The hard-right leader's visit, the fourth in less than a year to the north African country, came as her government pledged to curb irregular migrant arrivals in Italy.
Meloni met with President Kais Saied, who said after the meeting Tunisia must not become "a country of transit or settlement" for migrants from other African countries, according to a statement from his office.
In a video address released after her discussions with Saied, Meloni also said "Tunisia cannot be a country of arrival for migrants" from the rest of Africa.
She vowed to "involve international organizations to work on repatriations" of migrants while insisting on more European investment in African nations.
Ursula von der Leyen delivers major speech on migrant smuggling | Sky news - 28 Nov 2023|
Von der Leyen and Meloni landed in Egypt to sign strategic partnership along the Tunisia model | 17 May 2024 |
Bribery of authoritarian leaders instead of a policy to alleviate the suffering of Africans as a whole.
A policy of colonial empires that have failed in the long run for centuries.
Embassies of colonial powers ransacked by a mob in DRC capital Kinshasa
Violence has erupted on the streets of Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo.
Multiple embassies have come under attack from protesters angry at the advance of M23 rebels in the east of the country. The embassies of France, Rwanda, Belgium, Uganda and the US were all targeted. A fire also broke out at the French embassy.
Video: Dutch embassy one of several diplomatic missions attacked in Congo
Protesters attack foreign embassies in Kinshasa over M23 rebel advance | Al Jazeera |
United States Foreign Policy was a simple a-b-c ... give military support to the strong man in charge of the country and accept bribes in return to seal friendship for as long as it takes.
Katanga's "Lost Cause": The United States, Congo, and White Internationalism in Africa, 1960-63
On July 11, 1960, the province of Katanga formally seceded from Congo, a country which had itself gained independence from Belgian rule just two weeks prior. Katangese secession was perpetrated largely by local white settlers, the Belgian government, and African collaborators in reaction to radical independence efforts which threatened economic and geopolitical interests. However, among those who mobilized most vociferously on Katanga's behalf were those in the United States. Here, local actors--encompassing initially the US State Department and CIA, and later a wide coalition of domestic activists which included politicians, conservative intellectuals, right-wing organizations, business interests, former presidents, segregationists, white supremacists, and Cold Warriors--defended Katanga's separatist ventures and vehemently countered Congolese and United Nations efforts to integrate the region. This thesis explores the reasons for extensive American involvement in, support for, and defense of secession. Ultimately, I argue that US-Katangese relations were the product of "white internationalism," or a transnational racial solidarity. Co-opting the more common "Black internationalist" framework, which often emphasizes transcontinental alliances between Black Americans and Africans around their identities as oppressed people and joint struggles against empire, white internationalism is a framework I devise in which counterrevolutionary forces unite to maintain white supremacy, hierarchy, colonialism, and exploitation amidst radical Black agitations for freedom. Both Americans and Katangese elites were fearful observers of radical Black independence movements (exemplified in Congo in Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba) and equally sceptical of the ability of Africans to practice self-government in a favorable manner. By contrast, many in the US admired Katanga's project to craft a distinct regime which embodied white European values--capitalist, pro-West, anti-communist, dependent on European capital, and friendly to white colonists and governments alike. Supplementing existing scholarship which emphasizes exclusively traditional Cold War political and economic considerations as an explanation for US policy in Congo-Katanga, this thesis argues that deeply racialized conceptions of and relations to Black Africa motivated American support for "white" Katanga at all stages, thereby helping to sustain its separatism for two-and-a-half years, with crippling results for the broader Congo.