{"id":875,"date":"2010-03-03T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/0d8ae976f189787abbd2f90cfb50bbb3#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-03-03T17:42:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T22:42:33","slug":"africom-ghana-in-the-crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/africom-ghana-in-the-crosshairs\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRICOM: Ghana in the crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crossed Crocodiles blog, long focused on the expansion of AFRICOM, contrasts a host of quotes which illustrate what US Military African Command leaders say to the Ghanaian press VS. what they elsewhere proclaim are their intentions.  Unsurprisingly, the US military and State Department are quite clear that they wish to set up a permanent offshore presence along the oilfields and trade routes of West Africa, especially Ghana. The US calls this &quot;Seabasing&quot;. &quot;Seabasing will allow the use of the world\u2019s oceans as large or small scale Joint, Multinational and Interagency bases for operations without dependence on ports or airfields ashore. We must be present to be a part of the solution and protect our interests.&quot; At the same time they are telling Ghanaians who ask if they wish to establish bases: &quot;We have done absolutely nothing that would substantiate that impression, and we\u2019re not going to do anything. There is no intention of setting up bases in Africa.&quot;  The scramble is in full swing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crossed Crocodiles blog, long focused on the expansion of AFRICOM, contrasts a host of quotes which illustrate what US Military African Command leaders say to the Ghanaian press VS. what they elsewhere proclaim are their intentions.  Unsurprisingly, the US military and State Department are quite clear that they wish to set up a permanent offshore presence along the oilfields and trade routes of West Africa, especially Ghana. The US calls this &quot;Seabasing&quot;. &quot;Seabasing will allow the use of the world\u2019s oceans as large or small scale Joint, Multinational and Interagency bases for operations without dependence on ports or airfields ashore. We must be present to be a part of the solution and protect our interests.&quot; At the same time they are telling Ghanaians who ask if they wish to establish bases: &quot;We have done absolutely nothing that would substantiate that impression, and we\u2019re not going to do anything. There is no intention of setting up bases in Africa.&quot;  The scramble is in full swing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/africom-ghana-in-the-crosshairs\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107],"tags":[320,249,58,117],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":938,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/africom-using-state-national-guard-units-to-partner-with-individual-african-countries\/","url_meta":{"origin":875,"position":0},"title":"AFRICOM Using State National Guard Units to Partner with Individual African Countries","date":"March 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"(Via GUINEA OYE!) 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But his increasingly unhinged supposition that their hidden hands are behind all that is bad in the west-central Saharan region is simply\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Afrique&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mYFK-e7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}