[np] An open letter from Alain Badiou to Jean-Luc Nancy

[Michael Bailey]

and from the same gentleman:


HORACE CAMPBELL, hgcampbe at syr.edu, http://www.horacecampbell.net

   Campbell is professor of African American studies and political
science at Syracuse University and is currently working on a book on
AFRICOM (United States Africa Command).

He said today: "U.S. involvement in the Libyan bombing is being turned
into a public relations ploy for AFRICOM. AFRICOM is fundamentally a
front for U.S. military contractors like Dyncorp, MPRI and KBR
operating in Africa. U.S. military planners who benefit from the
revolving door of privatization of warfare are delighted by the
opportunity to give AFRICOM credibility under the facade of the Libyan
intervention. No African country has agreed to let AFRICOM onto the
continent. It has 1,500 people operating out of Stuttgart, Germany. If
Libya is indeed partitioned, that new state could provide a base for
AFRICOM.

   "The U.S. needs to stop bombing Libya and meaningfully work with
the African Union, which (less mailable to Western interests than the
Arab League) has been pushed aside. Note that Egypt and Tunisia are
not among the Arab states participating in the Libya bombing. The
states participating are Saudi Arabia and others that are among the
most repressive Arab countries. The attack on Libya is largely being
used to undermine the revolutionary gains in Egypt and prevent such
changes in other Arabic and African countries." Campbell notes that
the U.S. is continuing to back Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and other
oppressive Arab regimes.

   He added: "An additional problem has been racist attitudes in the
discussion of so-called 'African mercenaries' in the Arab and Western
media."


----- because, after all, Libya is in Africa, isn't it?