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In reply to the discussion: The story behind the JFK facepalm picture [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)14. I cannot recommend this OP enough. The assassination of Lumumba by the CIA
was a turning point in the history of Africa. It can be said that this or that party killed Lumumba, but ultimately, the CIA was behind the entire scheme.
Corporations desperately wanted Africa's resources, and Patrice Lumumba was a democratic champion of the people, a hero figure, to the people of the Congo, and the native peoples of Africa.
The assassination was a filthy piece of corporate sponsored CIA work, just as was the assassination of JFK.
I highly recommend a fiction novel, called "The Poisonwood Bible", by Barbara Kingsolver, which portrays these events fairly accurately in accordance with real historical events.
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He was a force for a brief and intense period of time...lots of kids were named after him.
MADem
Mar 2015
#1
This is very revealing. We think we live in a democracy, then we find out, no we do not.
Enthusiast
Mar 2015
#3
No! According to the neoliberal DU Right Wing, President Maduro of Venezuela must go,
Zorra
Mar 2015
#15
layer after layer of otherwise unknown (to most Americans)actions/effects of U.S. policies
2banon
Mar 2015
#16
Jim DiEugenio has done an amazing amount of serious research and writing on JFK. (as has others)
2banon
Mar 2015
#32
Midnight in the Congo: The Assassination of Lumumba and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöld
MinM
Mar 2015
#13
My father had a high position in the African Affairs section of JFK's State Dept...
First Speaker
Mar 2015
#23
G. Mennen Williams former Michigan Governor, New Deal Democrat, helped build the Mackinac Bridge...
Octafish
Mar 2015
#25