US sanctions are for the Northern Hemisphere only

According to US foreign policy, sanctions apply to those countries violating human rights, but African countries south of the Equator led by brutal dictators, somehow never came up for review.

Obama and Clinton began calling for sanctions against Russia after the 2009 death of Russian auditor Sergei Magnitsky. Magnitsky, who ran Hermitage Capital Management died in prison. Clinton, the State Department, and the US Treasury Department, then began drawing up a list of Russian officials due for punishment.

Hermitage had been under investigation by the Russian government for tax evasion. Magnitsky, an auditor for the American Firestone Duncan law firm in Moscow, had been retained as a tax advisor and assigned to conduct audits for Hermitage. The US investment firm was co-founded by Bill Browder, the grandson of Earl Browder, the former leader of the Communist Party USA, and a donor to the Clinton Foundation during Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State. The Foundation is currently shrouded in controversy as a pay-to-play influence-peddling scam.

Earl Browder was expelled from the American Communist Party because he was deemed untrustworthy by his comrades. Current Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan admitted that in 1976 he voted for Browder’s successor as general secretary of the Communist Party USA, Gus Hall.

Brennan, like Clinton, is a strong proponent of sanctions being imposed on Russian leaders. The Magnitsky Act, directed against Russian law enforcement officials, prosecutors, and judges, therefore became a handy tool to punish those who were investigating undue American influence.

In 2014, the Euromaidan revolt in Kiev was partly the brainchild of Clinton’s press spokesperson Victoria Nuland. Nuland became Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs under Secretary of State John Kerry in 2012, after she had been recommended by Clinton.

After the retrocession of Crimea back to Russia and the declaration of sovereignty of eastern Ukraine’s republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, more US sanctions, including asset freezes and visa bans, were applied against both Russian officials and officials of Crimea, Lugansk, and Donetsk, as well as former officials of the ousted Ukrainian government of democratically-elected President Viktor Yanukovych.

Mostly Russian energy firms Transneft, Lukoil, Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Surgutneftegas, Rostec and Sberbank were targeted in addition to visa bans previously imposed against officials of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria.

The Obama administration also drew up plans to enact sanctions, including asset freezes and visa bans, against the democratically-elected governments of Macedonia and the Bosnian Serb Republic for daring to resist calls for regime change.

When the Arab Spring set North Africa and the Middle East alight, further sanctions were drawn up against the soon-to-be-ousted leaders of Tunisia and Libya. Perhaps the Qaddafi Foundation should have considered a sizeable donation to the Clinton Foundation, as had Hermitage Capital. After Qaddafi’s murder by US supported jihadist rebels in Sirte, Clinton cackled: “We came, we saw, he died!” Billions of dollars of Libyan assets were then frozen by the Obama administration.

After the start of the Syrian civil war, Washington applied sweeping sanctions on the Syrian leadership, including President Bashar al-Assad and his family and top Syrian officials. Recently, Washington has even called for increased sanctions against Assad and his government ministers and other officials for “human rights abuses”.

While leaders from Russia, the Caucasus, the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa, were being singled out, Obama continued to maintain the warmest relations with some of Africa’s worst human rights offenders.

The African nations that have avoided US sanctions for human rights violations were involved with the Clinton Foundation as donors or recipients. These included Nigeria, Lesotho, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Malawi, Gabon, Burkina Faso, Chad, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Liberia, Zambia, and Tanzania.

When Gambia’s dictator announced the death penalty, declared his country to be an Islamic state, and imposed Islamic sharia law, the Obama administration found nothing amiss.

Nor was there any criticism as Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Rwandan President Paul Kagame continued to oppress the political opposition in their countries and support secessionist rebels in neighboring Congo. In fact, Obama sent US military troops to Uganda to oppress Christians and support Muslim jihadists in the neighboring Central African Republic.

Kleptocratic regimes in Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Ivory Coast, Togo, and Burkina Faso have also continued inhindered.

Mild travel sanctions were imposed on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his government and parastatal institutions only when Mugabe became too friendly with China, and not after 20 000 of his compatriots were wiped out in a Ndebele genocide. And nary a peep about Mugabe’s landgrabs resulting in most whites having to flee the country. Mugabe has thus enjoyed 30 long years of reign, mostly without US scrutiny.

In South Africa, the Clintons quickly turned up to support the black ANC regime after Amy Biehl, a white American graduate of Stanford University and Fulbright scholar was murdered by black Cape Town residents while a black mob shouted anti-white slurs.

The four black men convicted of her murder were released as part of the “reconciliation” process.

And while being a white farmer in South Africa is now officially the most dangerous job in the world according to Genocide Watch, as they are being slaughtered daily by black mobs, a familiar deafening silence on human rights abuses can be heard from across the Atlantic.