1 May 2009
Three prominent American civil society advocacy groups have marked President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office by issuing an open letter calling on him to build a coalition with China, the Arab League, the African Union and Europe with the objective of developing a set of "carrots and sticks" to bring peace to Sudan.
"A global consensus exists for peace in Sudan, even if there is not agreement on the best path to achieve this goal," say the groups in their letter. "What has long been missing in Sudan is America's strategic leadership."
The letter was written by "Enough", a project of the Center for American Progress which campaigns against genocide and crimes against humanity, the Save Darfur campaign and the Genocide Intervention Network.
The groups urge Obama's special envoy for Sudan, Major General Scott Gration, to build "a multinational coalition of countries with significant leverage… [A] reliance on bilateral diplomacy will provide Khartoum the opportunity to play one party off against the other, as it has historically done with great success."
At the same time, the groups advocate developing "unilateral and multilateral carrots and sticks" to press for a settlement of what they describe as Sudan's "multiple, interlocking conflicts" – the war Darfur, the proxy war between Chad and the Sudan, the difficulties between North and South and the "dangerously-neglected" situation in the east.
On Darfur, the groups say the African Union/United Nations mediator, Djibril Bassolé, should take the lead in pursuing peace talks already in Doha, Qatar, backed by a small group of countries with influence.
"We believe that this inner circle should consist at a minimum of the United States, United Kingdom, France, China, and Egypt," the groups say. "An outer circle group of countries and multilateral organizations (UN, AU, Arab League) should also be engaged in a formal manner to discourage spoilers, and other key nations such as Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Africa would need to be thoroughly consulted."
Outlining its proposals for "sticks", the groups suggest that if President Omar al- Bashir and his ruling party block peace, they should face "a series of escalating costs," including diplomatic isolation, targeted sanctions, an expanded arms embargo, and, "if necessary to stop massive loss of civilian life, eventual targeted military action."
The largest "carrot" the U.S. could offer would be the normalization of relations. "Removal of certain unilateral sanctions and penalties could be undertaken in response to verifiable changes on the ground in Darfur and the South. Full normalization should only occur once the Sudanese government adheres to its obligations under various peace agreements. Any negotiating process must be guided by the reality that Khartoum has a long history of grabbing carrots, then failing to follow through on commitments."
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IT WILL BE A BIG RELIEVE TO AFRICA IF THE US CAN DROP THE IDEA OF RECOLONIZING SOUTH SUDAN AND ALLOW PEACE IN SUDAN.
In his piece entitled “ White Collar War Crimes, Black African Fall Guys,”
investigative journalist Keith Snow writes:
First note that the ICC can now be viewed as a tool of hegemonic U.S. foreign policy,
where the weapons deployed by the U.S. and its allies include the accusations of, and
indictments for, human rights violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
To understand this, we can ask WHY NO WHITE MAN HAS YET BEEN CHARGED
with these or other offenses at the ICC (International Criminal Court) which now holds
five black African warlords and seeks to incarcerate and bring to trial another black man,
also an Arab, Omar Bashir.
Why hasn’t George W. Bush been indicted ? Or what about Donald Rumsfeld ?
Dick Cheney? Henry Kissinger? Ehud Olmert? Tony Blair?
The sad fact is that the International Criminal Court has become terribly
politicized, as has the entire international justice apparatus.
The ICC has issued indictments, for the first time in history, against a sitting head of
state. Meanwhile, according to Snow, an Israeli weapons dealer, also a reputed Mossad
operative, is revealed to be shipping weapons into Sudan with Pentagon support.
And Belgium changed its law rather than prosecute Ariel Sharon for war crimes.
The double standard cries out to us.
One country in the West, however, increasingly stands out as a place where
justice can be found?and that is Spain. With its landmark indictment of
Pinochet and its current consideration of Israeli war crimes in Lebanon and
U.S. torture in Guantanamo, we increasingly look to the Spanish Courts with
hope. It was the Spanish courts that returned indictments against Rwandan
soldiers for genocide even as the world coddles U.S. proxy Rwanda and its
leader, Paul Kagame.
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[This inspiring poem was featuring in the movie “Coach Carter ”]
Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate, Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. It Is Our Light , Not Our Darkness That Most Frightens Us.
We Ask Ourselves, Who Am I To Be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, And Fabulous ?
Actually Who Are We Not To Be ? You Are A Child Of God.
Your Playing Small Doesn’t Serve The World.
There Is Nothing Enlightened About Shrinking So That Other People Won’t Feel Insecure Around You.
We Are All Meant To Shine, As Children Do.
We Were Born To Make Manifest The Glory Of God That Is Within Us.
It’s Not Just In Some Of Us; It’s In Everyone.
And When We Let Our Own Light Shine We Unconsciously Give Other People Permission To Do The Same.
And As We Are Liberated From Our Own Fear, Our Presence Automatically Liberates Others
- Marianne Williamson -
[NOTE – BEING AFRAID AND REFUSING TO GET INVOLVED WON’T STOP US FROM DYING. BUT BEING AFRAID CAN PREVENT US FROM LIVING]
(Nkosi Sikeleli Africa )
God bless Africa May her glory be lifted high Hear our petitions .
God bless us, Your children God we ask You to protect our nation Intervene and end all conflicts Protect us, protect our nation, our nation.
From the blue of our heaven, From the depths of our sea, Over our eternal mountain ranges, Where the cliffs give answer.
Sounds the call to come together, And united we shall stand, Let us live and strive for freedom, In South Africa our land.
[Enoch Mankayi Sontonga]
WAKE UP !!! STAY UP !!!
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OBAMA DECEPTIONS
#1
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrpRocaEfQE]
#2 Here is evidence of Point 2 of the Georgia Guidestones on Reproduction .
Don't be deceived :
[http://www.infowars.com/?p=7259]
Here are search result links to what the Georgia Guidestones are
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones ]
#3
BY PEACE SHALL Many Be deceived (Daniel 8:25) .
DOES THE TERM PEACEKEEPERS ring a Bell ?
Ask the people in Rwanda (who survived that Peace-keeping) about the
United Nations PEACEKEEPERS .
President Obama’s UNITED NATIONS AMBASSADOR SUSAN RICE cut her teeth on
the RWANDA MASSACRE…. OOOPs!!! She said.
(Here’s a Search Link To Many Witnesses To THE NEW U.N. RICE MONSTER)
[http://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl?query=Susan+Rice+Rwanda&cat=web&pl=ff& language=english]
OUR DEEPEST FEAR By Marianne Williamson
Our Deepest Fear Is Not That We Are Inadequate, Our Deepest Fear Is That We Are Powerful Beyond Measure. It Is Our Light , Not Our Darkness That Most Frightens Us.
We Ask Ourselves, Who Am I To Be Brilliant, Gorgeous, Talented, And Fabulous ?
Actually Who Are We Not To Be ? You Are A Child Of God.
Your Playing Small Doesn’t Serve The World.
There Is Nothing Enlightened About Shrinking So That Other People Won’t Feel Insecure Around You.
We Are All Meant To Shine, As Children Do.
We Were Born To Make Manifest The Glory Of God That Is Within Us.
It’s Not Just In Some Of Us; It’s In Everyone.
And When We Let Our Own Light Shine We Unconsciously Give Other People Permission To Do The Same.
And As We Are Liberated From Our Own Fear, Our Presence Automatically Liberates Others
[NOTE – BEING AFRAID AND REFUSING TO GET INVOLVED WON’T STOP US FROM DYING. BUT BEING AFRAID CAN PREVENT US FROM LIVING]
(Nkosi Sikeleli Africa )
God bless Africa May her glory be lifted high Hear our petitions .
God bless us, Your children God we ask You to protect our nation Intervene and end all conflicts Protect us, protect our nation, our nation.
From the blue of our heaven, From the depths of our sea, Over our eternal mountain ranges, Where the cliffs give answer.
Sounds the call to come together, And united we shall stand, Let us live and strive for freedom, In South Africa our land.
[Enoch Mankayi Sontonga]
WAKE UP ! STAY UP MY BROTHERS & SISTERS ! BE SELF-SUFFICIENT IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
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- Life Is a Game. Have Fun. [ Luke 18:17 / Isaiah 11:6 ]
It affords me a great pleasure to write this comment via AllAfrica.com which is in the groove to reach the entire Africa.I'm to comment about Obama's visit to Ghana.To me I don't see anything cranky about his visit to Ghana.If Obama prefers to visit Chad ahead of Nigeria,South Africa and Libya.All Africa should be proud to welcome him.His reasons to visit Ghana ahead of his father's country Kenya is best known to him.The AU chairman should also use that avenue to to speak with him on the importance of the All Africa Uniting together.With all this discriminations from various countries of Africa shows that Africa has not come of age to Unite as one Nation or Union.While the Au chairman Muhammed Gadaffi is trying his level best to Unite Africa, his people are back home as well planning on how to make life worst for fellow Africans Come June 2009.Titled "All Africa must Go"They asked all the non-citizens in thier Country to Leave before June or face Evacuation.This is no more rumour, we have heard the all the details.What is the future of Africa continenet?Many Africans risked their Lifes to Europe and they were given papers. why not Africa to Africa?For some somebody to risk his life in the desert and fellow Africa man instead to rescue you prefers to shoot you.This is Libya for you!Is that how we are going to unite? So many factors has to be considered before agreeing to such agenda.Chuks L.O,Tripoli,Libya.
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