{"id":11499,"date":"2016-04-18T06:10:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T10:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=11499"},"modified":"2016-04-15T20:50:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T00:50:43","slug":"empires-feed-on-congos-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/?p=11499","title":{"rendered":"Empires Feed on Congo&#8217;s Treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every drone flown by the U.S. military has inside a piece of the Democratic Republic of the Congo&#8211;a valuable mineral, of which the DRC has trillions of dollars worth buried underground.<\/p>\n<p>For five centuries, the continent of Africa has been ravaged by the world&#8217;s Empires for its vast untapped treasure. Today, the U.S. Empire is increasing it&#8217;s military role through their massive command network, AFRICOM, carrying out several missions a day.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the Congo being arguably the biggest prize for imperialist powers, Abby Martin is joined by Kambale Musavuli, spokesperson for Friends of the Congo, to look at Empire&#8217;s role in their history and current catastrophe.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-sessionlink \" href=\"http:\/\/multimedia.telesurtv.net\/v\/the-empire-files-531600\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-sessionlink=\"ei=zHsRV8PEE9Sj-AW4govQCQ\" data-url=\"http:\/\/multimedia.telesurtv.net\/v\/the-empire-files-531600\/\">http:\/\/multimedia.telesurtv.net\/v\/the&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8oi09jv57-4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every drone flown by the U.S. military has inside a piece of the Democratic Republic of the Congo&#8211;a valuable mineral, of which the DRC has trillions of dollars worth buried underground. For five centuries, the continent of Africa has been ravaged by the world&#8217;s Empires for its vast untapped treasure. Today, the U.S. Empire is increasing it&#8217;s military role through their massive command network, AFRICOM, carrying out several missions a day.\u00a0 With the Congo being arguably the biggest prize for imperialist powers, Abby Martin is joined by Kambale Musavuli, spokesperson for Friends of the Congo, to look at Empire&#8217;s role in their history and current catastrophe.\u00a0http:\/\/multimedia.telesurtv.net\/v\/the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,688,683],"tags":[933,790,815],"class_list":["post-11499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-activism-africa","category-activism-usa","tag-congo","tag-empire-files","tag-telesur"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11500,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11499\/revisions\/11500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavechronicle.com\/wave\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}