Africa: The War On Africa - U.S. Imperialism and the World Economic Crisis

12 June 2013
opinion

Capitalism has failed to provide adequate housing, jobs, medical, educational and other services to many people in the West. As well, China's global influence is rising. These are some of the reasons behind the US quest for mineral resources and strategic dominance in Africa and Middle East

For more than two decades the United States and other Western European imperialist states have been escalating their military intervention in Africa and other geo-political regions of the world. This has been taking place during the so-called Post-Cold War era with the collapse of the Eastern European socialist states and the Soviet Union during the late 1980s through 1991.

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