Reasons behind US-backed military coup in Guinea? Minerals and China

Ben Norton discusses how the US military trained elite forces that carried out a coup in Guinea, a West African country with many natural resources, including the planet’s largest reserves of bauxite, the main source of aluminum. Western government-funded think tanks boasted that the Guinean coup is a blow to China and its Belt and Road Initiative. Washington’s new cold war has Africa in its crosshairs. … Read More >Reasons behind US-backed military coup in Guinea? Minerals and China