Historic Video: America’s Hidden Agenda to Steal Somalia’s Oil – Column One, Los Angeles Times
July 7, 2025
“THE U.S. DIDN’T COME FOR PEACE — THEY CAME FOR OIL.”
Political scientist Michael Parenti pulled the mask off America’s so-called “humanitarian mission” in Somalia — exposing what it really was: a war for oil and control at the mouth of the Red Sea.
While starving Somali children filled our screens, American oil giants had already carved up Somalia’s land in secret deals, and the U.S. military followed close behind — not to save lives, but to secure pipelines.
This is not new. In Libya, they bombed for “freedom” — and left behind slave markets. In Congo, they propped up dictators to plunder minerals. In Somalia, they sold the world a lie — and dropped bombs on a truth too Black, too African, too inconvenient.
Today, the drone strikes continue. The oil thirst deepens. And Africa bleeds — unseen, unheard.
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English Script:
Michael Parenti: On Somalia, the real goal was, of course, to make Somalia safe for the oil corporations. I should have mentioned that in the talk here. The mainstream media have totally ignored the story about oil in Somalia. There was one remarkable article, January 18, 1993, in the LA Times, which said that three fourths of Somalia had been conceded by the former ruler to four major American oil companies Conoco, Amoco, Phillips and Chevron, where they are strongly believe that there are major oil deposits in Somalia. George Bush, when he was vice president in 86, went around in Yemen and other places saying that that whole region, the whole Cape, the Horn of Africa, was very rich in oil. And they thought Somalia had really a lot of it. This explains his strange behavior as president of the United States, to suddenly send troops into Somalia, out of the conviction that he wanted to feed the Somalians. There are about 12 nations in Africa that have had drought and famine for over a decade. He hasn’t done a thing. There’s not a single thing for any of them. So why now? Is he suddenly so moved that he actually sent troops? And how do you feed people with troops? Why do you need troops? In fact, the drought and the famine in Somalia was alleviating. They’ve had a good crop that year. That’s the other irony, not irony, but hypocrisy a bit. Well, once the troops were sent, there wasn’t a single U.S. official or corporate executive who ever once again mentioned oil. The word was dropped. They didn’t tell anybody. And that explains why Clinton is so reluctant to leave.
