BlackMan Time

Usually you have to look behind and beyond reported mainstream news to get at the real news. What is presented is not often what is happening. The situation currently enfolding in Zimbabwe is one that requires such an open eye, mind and independent scrutiny because what is being presented is far from the truth.

For instance, just who is Western media trying to fool with their generally negative reports about Zimbabwe and their spectacularly caustic slant on Robert Mugabe’s presidency?

Why are they all so united in painting a bad picture of Mugabe when they all know that the real situation is not the one they are reporting? Or, could they all be right and is Mugabe Satan incarnate enjoying the fat of the land while his people suffer?

To examine this you have to consider that the media is nothing more than just a public relations vehicle through which the interests of various power groups are promoted in one way or another. After all dispensing information as news has long been a major propaganda exercise ostensibly used to inform the public, but invariably it is also used to misinform.

Misinformation?

But who is to gain from such alleged misinformation? And why should they be interested in demonising Mugabe, a man who rose to power from an African freedom fighter to the longstanding leader of an impoverished African nation?

You don’t have to look very far for that answer: Britain, America and their western allies including Russia, France and The Netherlands.

The reality is they don’t want an independent African nation in any shape or form and when Mugabe, a former member of their exclusive world power club, demonstrated he wasn’t going to play puppet to their regime, that’s when the demonising began.

Privately they have been tempting and pressuring Mugabe to “give up power and we will give Zimbabwe all the economic help it needs” while sitting back watching for the de facto sanctions they have applied to cripple the country, sending inflation and price hikes through the roof.

Two-Faced Westerners

Meanwhile two-faced Western governments headed by Gordon Brown of Britain and George W. Bush of America are white mailing Mugabe, privately pleading with him to give up power in exchange for economic aide. This is being done at the same time as labelling Mugabe a ‘criminal cabal’, to quote Gordon Brown’s description.

In another prong attack they’ve unlisted the Western media’s help in their dirty spin attack, trying to galvanise international support against Mugabe who by no means is a saint but is steadfast in his desire not to give up Zimbabwe for it to be shared up among colonialist powers as the spoils of a dirty media war.

By Western media I’m talking about organisations such as ABC, BBC, CNN, Fox, MSNBC and others. They all take great pride in telling their audience how things are really bad in Zimbabwe with very high inflation, hardships and misery cause by Mugabe’s leadership. But, what they fail to mention is that this hardship is being caused by the international community’s sanctions against Zimbabwe.

God Puppet

With a limited ability to do international trade any country would struggle and Zimbabwe is no different. And still Mugabe remains saying: “Only God alone can remove me from power.”

Then you have their puppet-in-waiting Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the main opposition party who has taken refuge in the Dutch Embassy, singing from the same hymn sheet by proclaiming that the situation in Zimbabwe is so violent that he is not contesting the re-run election anymore because his life is in danger.

Now the UN and others are pushing for international peacekeepers (armed soldiers) to be sent into Zimbabwe. Yet, there is no war being fought in the country, just the effects of the sanctions taking effect. They fervently hope this will force Mugabe to step down from power so that they can enjoy the land and its resources.

I couldn’t have made this up, even if I had tried…