" The real invasion of Africa is not newsworthy, but is a licence-to-lie for Hollywood.

These bleak comedians are straight out of Evelyn Waugh's 'Scoop',1938, and allow us to feel the bracing breeze of history and hypocrisy. The 'Islamic terrorism' that is their excuse for the enduring theft of Africa's riches was all but invented by them. There is no longer any excuse to swallow the BBC/CNN line and not know the truth.

Read Mark Curtis's 'Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam' (Serpent's Tail) or John Cooley's 'Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism' (Pluto Press) or 'The Grand Chessboard' by Zbigniew Brzezinski (HarperCollins) who was midwife to the birth of modern fundamentalist terror. In effect, the mujahedin of al-Qaida and the Taliban were created by the CIA, its Pakistani equivalent, the Inter-Services Intelligence, and Britain's MI6.

Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser, describes a secret presidential directive in 1979 that began what became the current 'war on terror'. For 17 years, the US deliberately cultivated, bank-rolled, armed and brainwashed jihadi extremists that 'steeped a generation in violence'. Code-named Operation Cyclone, this was the 'great game' to bring down the Soviet Union but brought down the Twin Towers. "


Evelyn Waugh, 'Scoop', 1938
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop_(novel)

It was well made but Kathryn Bigelow's Hurt Locker was a propaganda film so he is right to compare her to Leni Riefenstahl. Why it got Oscars is a mystery but Hollywood fell into line.

I've always though the invasion of Libya and any other African country will be for their riches.

meanwhile China and Russia sit on the sidelines and watch the US bankrupt itself.