Resource wars rages in eastern Congo, but U.S. capitalism only sees investment opportunity

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Resource wars rages in eastern Congo, but U.S. capitalism only sees investment opportunity

The United States Institute of Peace on Feb. 27 awarded its “Women Building Peace” award to Pétronille Vaweka. She’s a local official in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) Ituri region, known as a peacemaker who’s negotiated ceasefires with powerful militias and saved numerous child soldiers from forced combat. Receiving the honor, she responded: “I weep because at this moment, in…Goma, women and children are dying… [and] thousands of fami…