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Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust, the ageless autochthons say the cleverest of all birds builds its nest from other birds’ feathers.But in the bird kingdom, that bird does not kill and pluck off feathers from other birds but picks dropped ones.

In world politics, the United States of America has not only proved that it builds its economic nest using other countries’ resources but does everything in its power to gain those resources, including unorthodox means such as suffocating or killing the owner of the resources.

On Tuesday, just this Tuesday, a Chicago man, Gregory Turner, was jailed 15 months for what Uncle Tom dubbed “illegal lobbying on behalf of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and others to try and lift economic sanctions against the African nation.”

The US alleges that Turner committed serious offence against the supreme law of that country by meeting Zimbabwean Government officials under US sanctions. This is how angry Uncle Tom is against the Zimbabwean Government for its stance that has made it difficult for the US to manipulate resources from the tiny country. Among the resources that have made Uncle Tom blow over the top are land, gold, platinum, chrome, diamonds and wildlife, which are evidently now fully controlled by Zimbabweans who are having an alternative market in Eastern Europe and Asia under the Look East Policy.

Zimbabwe under President Mugabe has been a stumbling block to US foreign policy which seeks, through its African Command — a superior military outfit — to enable the US to gain access to natural resources from the continent. Zimbabwe has declared its sovereignty the world over in the management of its natural resources and that has left Uncle Tom red-faced and red-eyed. President Mugabe’s stance has bruised Uncle Tom’s extra-large ego.  The real facts on the ground are that the US economy vitally depends on the stability of imports from Africa.

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya is a sad example of that. Africom is considered by the US as a main tool for achieving the above-mentioned purpose. That was proved by the White House and Pentagon adviser Peter Farm, who said in one of his interviews that Africom had been designed to provide uninterrupted US access to African natural resources by ousting China, Japan, Russia and India from the continent.

The US seizes Africa quietly but actively. So Washington Post journalists have described in their revealing article that Africom, under the excuse of providing security assistance to the African countries, was successfully engaged in creation of the ramified intelligence network there. For the gathering of information Africom actively uses drones, bases for which have been allocated in Niger, Djibouti, Eritrea and Ethiopia. But by creating such bases on their territory African states favour the distribution of the US colonial protectorate on the continent. At first the US soldiers come to Africa for service of this equipment and training local military men, then Africans go on training to the US. Thus the pro-American lobby is formed in the region.

According to military analysts, the US attempts to put Africa, with the help of Africom, under the military control not to reduce tension on the continent, but to worsen divisions.

Which brings in the Robert Mugabe factor! In a few days President Mugabe will take over the reigns at the African Union and that thought has already rattled the corridors of power in the West. He takes over at a time when nobody is better placed than AU to create a Standby military force, to resolve African problems and keep out the US, which always comes in disguised as a peacemaker but in essence being a jackal in a sheep skin. The US advocating for democracy, supremacy of law and human rights in some countries, operates in an opposite way on the international scene. The US ignores the UN Charter and principle of states’ sovereignty and tries to solve everything for everybody. The US foreign policy has got so lost in foreign conflicts so much so that it imported principles of war against terror to its own internal protection system, unfairly supplied policemen with too powerful weapons against its own black civilians.  In short, the US must be stopped from playing the world big brother and pretending to care about the countries that are working to control their natural resources.