Racist UK-US democratic tyranny, "free market", "drug patent rights" & African HIV/AIDS catastrophe

Of course, unlike the situation in the 19th century, the democratic West is now politically correct (PC) and eschews explicit racism. Kurtz’s assertion of "exterminate all the brutes" in Joseph Conrad’s African novel "Heart of Darkness" was acceptable back in circa 1900 when it was first published in an explicitly racist Britain. Western intellectuals armed with Darwin’s "Origin of Species" justified racist colonial impositions in terms of "survival of the fittest" (i.e. those with guns). Even ostensibly "liberal" H.G. Wells in his "Outline of History" commented sadly on the "inevitability" of the (asserted) extermination of the Tasmanian aborigines.

Sven Lindqvist’s outstanding book "Exterminate All the Brutes" (Granta Books, London, 2002) analyzes the 19th - 20th century racist Western European "social Darwinist" attitudes that were used to "justify" genocidal colonial excesses and ultimately led to the Jewish Holocaust and the horrendous German invasion of Poland and Russia for "lebensraum" (living space) - the Nazis simply did to Jews (6 million victims) and Slavs (20 million Russian war dead, 6 million Polish dead) what the Western European colonialists had already done in North America, South America and Australia.

Racist Western European colonists seeking lands suitable for Western European agriculture seized huge swathes of the TEMPERATE world from indigenous owners in the 19th century but this involved extermination of the non-European inhabitants. American Indians were ordered out of their residual lands East of the Mississippi and the West was "won" by a genocidal US Army; the indigenous Australian aborigines were substantially exterminated by introduced disease, deprivation and violent genocide (the population dropping from about 1 million to 0.1 million in a century); and millions of indigenous Indians were exterminated by horrendous genocide in Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina.

Now HIV/AIDS and First World greed are doing to Southern Africa what horrendous colonial violence and genocide failed to do in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Southern and Eastern Africa ultimately represented a "failure" for genocidal Western European colonialism. For a variety of reasons Western colonists failed to exterminate the indigenous inhabitants of the temperate, Western agriculture-compatible lands of Southern Africa and the highlands of Kenya - however this was not for want of TRYING. In the 1904-1907 the Germans practised horrendous genocide on the Hereros and Namas of South West Africa (Namibia), the Herero population dropping from about 80,000 to 15,000. In the 19th and 20th century, other indigenous peoples were violently driven from their lands in Southern Africa on a huge scale.

In the post-1950 era the Portuguese, White Rhodesians and the British put down indigenous resistance with horrenous violence as revealed by the following figures for the following countries: Angola (1956-1974, armed resistance; 1975-2002, US- and South Africa-backed UNITA insurgency; 1955-2005 excess mortality 8.5 million); Kenya (1952-1960 emergency: 0.3 million Kikuyu held in concentration camps, 1 million held in enclosed villages, 0.1 million killed or died in custody, overall excess mortality 1.1 million); Mozambique (1964-1975, Frelimo-Portugal war, excess mortality 2.1 million; 1981-1992, war against South African-, White Rhodesian- and (secretly) Anglo-American-backed Renamo terrorism, excess mortality 2.5 million); Zimbabwe (1965-1980, war against South Africa- and (secretly) British-backed White Minority regime; 1 million homeless; 1965-1980, 25,000 killed, excess mortality 0.7 million).

Nevertheless Southern Africans and East Africans were ultimately NOT exterminated, the colonialists and their Anglo-American backers were defeated and left, and Anglo-American-backed minority regimes collapsed (albeit with replacement by greivously incompetent and corrupt indigenous regimes). However the instatiable desire of the First World - notably the US - for RESOURCES means that the pressure is STILL ON indigenous African inhabitants and Southern and East Africa are CURRENTLY undergoing a form of GENOCIDE from HIV/AIDS - while the World looks on.

In the post-1950 era racist Britain largely withdrew from its colonies. In the 1970s Afro-Americans finally got to eat in formerly "Whites-only" restaurants. Post-colonial and post-"civil rights campaigning" "politically correct racism" (PC racism) meant that the UK and the US can no longer say "exterminate all the brutes" and have to give lip-service to non-racism both domestically and internationally. PC racism involves simultaneously DENYING racism while being COMPLICIT in racist human rights abuses (e.g. most seriously, the deadly invasion and occupation of remote, non-threatening countries). However "on the ground" the racism, violence and avoidable mass mortality is REAL and is best assessed by estimating AVOIDABLE MORTALITY (technically, EXCESS MORTALITY) which is the difference between the ACTUAL deaths in a country and the deaths EXPECTED for a decently-run, peaceful country with the same demorgaphics) (see: http://members.optusnet.com.au/~gpo... and http://globalavoidablemortality.blo...).

Racist UK-US democratic imperialism (democratic tyranny, democratic Nazism, UK-US state terrorism) is the "politically-correct’ (PC) successor to the "old-style" racist, jingoistic imperialism. Thus in the current Bush Wars (the War on Terror but actually in reality a War on Women and Children), the post-invasion avoidable deaths due to the Coalition now total 2.7 million, comprising 0.5 million (Occupied Iraq), 1.8 million (Occupied Afghanistan) and 0.4 million (post-2001 opioid drug-related deaths due to Coalition restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry) and the cost to the US is estimated at US$1-2 TRILLION (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/5489/42/.

According to “Layperson’s guide to counting Iraq deaths” (see MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/5872/26/ ), (a) “under-5 infant mortality” in “bad outcome” Third World countries is numerically about 0.7 of the “avoidable mortality” and (b) under-5 infant mortality data for Occupied Iraq and Afghanistan and other Third World countries is regularly up-dated and reported by UNICEF (see: http://esa.un.org/unpp/) - the TRUTH about Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa and indeed the whole First World-dominated World is ONLY A CLICK AWAY.

The consequence of UK, US and First World "politically correct racism" (PC racism) is that the First World gets richer, First Worlders sleep well at night while there is horrendous mortality in Africa due to deprivation and particularly due to HIV/AIDS as outlined below.

The HIV/AIDS epidemic is particularly acute in Southern Africa, Central Africa and East Africa. Thus the percentage the population that is HIV positive (2003) (listed in descending order for the worst non-Arab African countries) is: 20.6% (Swaziland), 19.9% (Botswana), 17.9% (Lesotho), 14.1% (Zimbabwe), 11.9% (South Africa), 10.7% (Namibia), 8.6% (Zambia), 7.0% (Mozambique), 7.5% (Malawi), 6.8% (Central African Republic), 4.4% (Tanzania), 3.8% (Kenya), 3.7% (Burundi), 3.6% (Gabon), 3.5% (Côte d’Ivoire), 3.1% (Rwanda), 3.1% (Liberia), 2.9% (Nigeria), 2.4% (Congo, Brazzaville), 2.4% (Ethiopia), 2.4% (Chad), 2.3% (Togo), 2.1% (Congo, Zaire) and 2.1% (Uganda). French West African countries in general have fared much better than the rest.

"Politically correct racist" (PC racist) Anglo-American democratic imperialism (democratic tyranny, democratic Nazism, UK-US state terrorism) is killing millions of Africans through its ostensibly "reasonable" commitments to "the free market", "globalization" and "international patent rights" on anti-retroviral and other drugs.